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 particular types of OCD or related anxiety disorders. 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
- National Association of School Psychologists
- Collection of reproducible handouts for parents from their online book store, including topics of OCD and anxiety disorders: Select “Helping Children at Home and School II”
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 - Schoolnurse.com
- List of obsessions and compulsions most likely to show up at school.
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 laws that require educational accommodations for children with disabilities.
Visit this site - Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
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- Social Security Benefits
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- Medicaid and Medicare
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- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
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Parents & Children
- OCDChicago.org
- Up-to-date information on OCD for individuals, parents, friends and family, college students, school personnel, clergy and the media. New Ask the Experts blog.
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
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- Awareness Foundation for OCD and Related Disorders
- “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., Tamar Chansky, Ph.D., and Aureen Wagner, 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
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OCD at College
- Active Minds on Campus
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- 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
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- NAMI on Campus
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- ULifeline
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- Got Anxiety? - sponsored by Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)
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Related Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders Association of America
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- Anxiety Disorders: American Psychiatric Association
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- Attention Deficit Disorders
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- Asperger Syndrome: National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
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- Asperger Syndrome: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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- Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Mayo Clinic Mental Health
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- BDD Central (body dysmorphic disorder)
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- Depression: National Institute of Mental Health
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- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
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- National Eating Disorders Association
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- Tourette Syndrome Association
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- Tourette Syndrome "Plus"
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- Trichotillomania Learning Center
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General Mental Health
- National Mental Health Information Center
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- Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
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- Mental Health America
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- National Alliance on Mental Illness
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- SAMHSA’s Resource Center to Address Discrimination & Stigma Associated with Mental Illness (ADS Center)
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