Tools & Resources: Selected Web Sites
Selected Web Sites for School Personnel
The web sites listed in this section are ones we’ve found to be helpful for school personnel seeking additional information about OCD. Included are web sites that focus on OCD or related anxiety disorders, general mental health topics, laws that pertain to OCD and OCD in college students. Some sites address ways to manage OCD in the classroom.
After you have visited these web sites, we encourage you to come back to the OCD Education Station web site to find recommended books about these topics.
(We provide these links as a convenience, but OCD Chicago does not endorse any publication or other web site.)
OCD at School
- Teen Mental Health
- Visit this site
- Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates
- Parents who are looking to find a special education advocate for a child with disabilities may look up referrals in the COPAA member directory.
Visit this site - Students with OCD - A Handbook for School Personnel
- Visit this site
- National Association of School Psychologists
- Collection of reproducible handouts for parents from their online book store, including handouts on OCD and anxiety disorders. Select “Helping Children at Home and School III”
Visit this site - School Psychiatry Program & Madi Resource Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
- What OCD looks like in children and adolescents; Interventions at School
Visit this site - WorryWiseKids.Org
- The Children's Center for OCD and Anxiety provides this web site and a free e-newsletter for parents and school teachers of children with excessive fears and anxieties.
Visit this site - SchoolBehavior.com
- Contains information to help educators learn about a number of neurological disorders that may impair a student's functioning and occasionally create chaos in the classroom
Visit this site - Wrightslaw
- Special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities.
Visit this site - IEP4U
- Lists over 4000 goals and objectives (IEP-ITP) each with changeable benchmarks.
Visit this site - Social Competence and the Child with Learning Disabilities
- Help a child develop social skills through a social autopsy.
Visit this site - Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
- IDEA rights and requirements; IEP introduction to functional behavioral assessment and behavior intervention plans
Visit this site - KidSource’s Overview of ADA, IDEA, and Section 504
- Provides an overview of three different laws that require govern services for students with disabilities in the U.S.
Visit this site - Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Visit this site
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Visit this site
- Social Security Benefits
- Visit this site
- Medicaid and Medicare
- Visit this site
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Visit this site
Parents & Children
- OCDChicago.org
- Up-to-date information on OCD for individuals, parents, friends and family, college students, school personnel, clergy and the media.
Visit this site - WorryWiseKids.Org
- The Children's Center for OCD and Anxiety provides this web site and a free e-newsletter for parents and school teachers of children with excessive fears and anxieties.
Visit this site - International OCD Foundation
- OCD in the Classroom kit for presentation to school personnel; also The Touching Tree: A Story of a Child With OCD – award-winning video about a young boy facing his OCD and getting treatment for it. For information, email .
Visit this site - OCD in Kids
- Keys to helping children with OCD; homework and school recommendations
Visit this site - Kids Health
- Great, kid-friendly explanation of OCD.
Visit this site - American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Facts for Families
- Visit this site
- Awareness Foundation for OCD
- “In the Shoes of Christopher” – video tape about a middle school bully and a boy with OCD.
Visit this site - Columbia University's TeenScreen Program
- Builds community-based partnerships to raise awareness of the problem of youth depression and suicide risk, promote mental health screening, and implement screening programs.
Visit this site - Yahoo Health Groups: The OCD and Parenting List
- Very active online support group for parents of children with OCD. Advised by Dan Geller, M.D., Gail B. Adams, Ed.D., and Tamar Chansky, Ph.D.
Visit this site - Answers for Special Kids (A.S.K.)
- Support and education for families of children with special needs or learning differences in the Chicago North Shore area
Visit this site
OCD at College
- Active Minds on Campus
- Visit this site
- Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)
- Article for parents about college students’ anxiety disorders, a category that includes OCD
Visit this site - Half of Us
- Visit this site
- ULifeline
- Visit this site
- Got Anxiety? - sponsored by Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)
- Visit this site
Related Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders Association of America
- Visit this site
- Anxiety Disorders: American Psychiatric Association
- Visit this site
- Attention Deficit Disorders
- Visit this site
- Asperger Syndrome: National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
- Visit this site
- Autism Society
- Visit this site
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Mayo Clinic Mental Health
- Visit this site
- BDD Central (body dysmorphic disorder)
- Visit this site
- Depression: National Institute of Mental Health
- Visit this site
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
- Visit this site
- National Eating Disorders Association
- Visit this site
- Tourette Syndrome Association
- Visit this site
- Tourette Syndrome "Plus"
- Visit this site
- Trichotillomania Learning Center
- Visit this site
General Mental Health
- National Mental Health Information Center
- Visit this site
- Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
- Visit this site
- Mental Health America
- Visit this site
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Visit this site
- SAMHSA’s Resource Center to Address Discrimination & Stigma Associated with Mental Illness (ADS Center)
- Visit this site