Compiled by Cassie Jewell, M.Ed., LPC, LSATP
The original source for this list is my post, Free Printable PDF Workbooks, Manuals, & Self-Help Guides. However, the “Children, Youth, & Families” section was becoming too lengthy. The purpose of this post is to organize the youth and family resources so you can quickly find what you’re looking for. This post is divided into two sections: one for providers and one for families.
Free Printable PDF Workbooks, Manuals, & Toolkits: Children, Adolescents, & Families
For Providers
Treatment Manuals/CURRICULUMs & Workbooks
Mood & Anxiety Disorders
- ✅ Adolescent Coping with Depression Course: Leader’s Manual for Adolescent Groups (321 pages) | Student Workbook (199 pages) | Leader’s Manual for Parent Groups (139 pages) | Parent Workbook (73 pages) (Source: Kaiser Permanete for Health Research) (Find more information here)
- ✅ The Adolescent Coping with Stress Course: An Eight-Session Curriculum Developed for the Prevention of Unipolar Depression in Adolescents with an Increased Future Risk: Leader Manual (118 pages) | Adolescent Workbook (79 pages) (Source: Kaiser Permanete for Health Research) (Find more information here)
- ✅ The Adolescent Coping with Stress Course: A Fifteen-Session Class Curriculum Developed for the Prevention of Unipolar Depression in Adolescents with an Increased Future Risk: Leader Manual (112 pages) | Adolescent Workbook (82 pages) (Source: Kaiser Permanete for Health Research) (Find more information here)
- ✅ Break Free from Depression: A 4-Session Curriculum Addressing Adolescent Depression (Source: Suicide Prevention Resource Center)
- ✅ Managing Depression: A Facilitator’s Guide for Working with Groups of Women Living with Depression During Pregnancy, After Delivery and Beyond (Source: Best Start, 42 pages)
- ✅ STEADY: Intervention Manual (107 pages) | Adolescent Workbook (87 pages) (Source: Kaiser Permanete for Health Research) (Find more information here)
Substance Use Disorders
- ✅ Matrix Series (Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People with Stimulant Use Disorders): Counselor’s Family Education Manual (Source: SAMHSA, 176 pages)
- ✅ A Modified DBT Group Therapy Manual
- ✅ Partners In Parenting: A DATAR/FIRST CHOICE Treatment Manual (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 294 pages) 2002
Trauma & Related Disorders
- ✅ Dealing With Trauma: A TF-CBT Workbook for Teens (Source: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Medical University of South Carolina, 35 pages) (Link to facilitator training here)
- ✅ The T.O.P. Workbook for Sexual Health: Facilitator’s Manual (Source: Resources for Resolving Violence, Inc., 87 pages) 2010 (Purchase additional workbooks/manuals here)
- ✅ Triad Girls’ Group Treatment Manual (Source: The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 201 pages) (More information on the Triad Project here)
Anger
- ✅ Getting Along and Keeping It Cool: How Anger Works (Therapist Group Manual) (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions with YouthLink, 79 pages)
Self-Esteem
- ✅ On My Own Two Feet Series: Identity and Self-Esteem (76 pages) | Understanding Influences (103 pages) | Assertive Communication (121 pages) | Feelings (83 pages) | Decision Making (113 pages) | Consequences (81 pages) | Work Cards (129 pages) (Source: Department of Education and Skills and Professional Development Services for Teachers) (Find more information here)
LGBTQ Youth
- ✅ Growing Up Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Source: Department of Education and Skills and the Health Service Executive through the Social, Personal and Health Education Support Service, in conjunction with GLEN [Gay and Lesbian Equality Network] and BeLonG To Youth Services; and Professional Development Services for Teachers, 82 pages) (Find more information here) 🏳️🌈
- ✅ It Gets Better: A Group Experience for LGBTQ Youth (Group Curriculum Outline) (Source: Catherine Griffith, Ph.D., 13 pages) 🏳️🌈
Latinix Youth
- ✅ Latino Multifamily Group Program Manual, (Source: Valley Nonprofit Resources, 64 pages)
Health & Wellness
- ✅ Be Real. Be Ready. (A comprehensive relationship and sexuality curriculum for high school students) (Source: Adolescent Health Working Group)
- ✅ Healthy Living, Healthy Minds: A Toolkit for Health Professionals (Promoting Healthy Living in Children and Youth with Mental Health Challenges) (149 pages) | Healthy Living… It’s in Everyone (A Companion Workbook, 82 pages) (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services)
- ✅ TRUST (Talking. Relationships. Understanding Sexuality. Teaching Resource.) Workbook (Source: National Council for Curriculum and Assessment; Department of Education and Science, the Health Service Executive, and Crisis Pregnancy Agency; and Department of Education and Skills and Professional Development Services for Teachers, 126 pages) (Find more information here)
Group Counseling Resources
- ✅ A Collection of Icebreakers and Connection Activities (33 pages)
- ✅ Favorite Therapeutic Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective Interventions (Source: Edited by Liana Lowenstein, MSW, 119 pages)
- ✅ Group Counseling Guide (Group activities for children) (Source: Rita Zniber Foundation, 45 pages)
Toolkits & Guides
- ✅ Alcohol Problems in Intimate Relationships: Identification and Intervention (A Guide for Marriage and Family Therapists) (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 83 pages)
- ✅ Behavioral Health: Adolescent Provider Toolkit (Source: Adolescent Health Working Group)
- ✅ Body Basics: Adolescent Provider Toolkit (Source: Adolescent Health Working Group)
- ✅ Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators (Source: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 21 pages)
- ✅ Community Reinforcement and Family Training Support and Prevention (Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 103 pages)
- ✅ A Practitioner’s Resource Guide: Helping Families to Support Their LBGT Children (Source: SAMHSA, 18 pages) 🏳️🌈
- ✅ Promoting Emotional Resilience: Helping children to find ways to function in a world where bad things happen – A Resource Pack (Source: West Sussex CAMHS and School Attendance Project, 141 pages) 2008
- ✅ Sexual Health: Adolescent Provider Toolkit (Source: Adolescent Health Working Group
- ✅ Stress Lessons Toolkit (Source: Psychology Foundation of Canada in partnership with Pfizer Canada, 52 pages) 2012
- ✅ Trauma & Resilience: Adolescent Provider Toolkit (Source: Adolescent Health Working Group)
- ✅ The Use of a Full Family Assessment to Identify the Needs of Families with Multiple Problems (Source: UK Department for Education, 105 pages)
For Families
Workbooks For Children & Adolescents
- ✅ Anxiety Toolbox: Student Workbook (42 pages)
- ✅ COPE (CAPS COPING SKILLS SEMINAR): Student Workbook (Source: West Carolina University Counseling and Psychological Services, 28 pages)
- ✅ Dealing With Depression: Antidepressant Skills for Teens (Source: Vancouver Psych Safety Consulting Incorporated, 68 pages)
- ✅ Just as I Am Workbook: A Guided Journal to Free Yourself from Self-Criticism and Feelings of Low Self-Worth (Source: Queen’s University, 56 pages)
- ✅ Lemons or Lemonade? An Anger Workbook for Teens (Source: Jane F. Gilgun, PhD, LICSW, Education4Health, 38 pages)
- ✅ Mighty Moe: An Anxiety Workbook for Children (Source: Lacey Woloshyn, 79 pages)
- ✅ Safe Spot Stress Management Series
- ⌑ Safe Spot: Stress Management Workbook 1 – What Is Stress? (45 pages)
- ⌑ Safe Spot: Stress Management Workbook 2 – Behaviour and Stress (27 pages)
- ⌑ Safe Spot: Stress Management Workbook 3 – Thought Patterns and Stress (29 pages)
- ⌑ Safe Spot: Stress Management Workbook 4 – Problem-Solving and Well-Being (27 pages)
- ✅ Your Best You: Improving Your Mood (Source: Queen’s University, 103 pages)
- ✅ Your Best You: Managing Your Anxiety (Source: Queen’s University, 169 pages)
- ✅ Youth Transition Workbook (Source: Pennsylvania Youth Leadership Network/The Rhode Island Transition Council/The Rhode Island Department of Health Youth Advisory Council, 68 pages) 2017
Toolkits & Guides
For Parents & Caregivers
- ✅ ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Information for Families) (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 12 pages)
- ✅ After an Attempt A Guide for Taking Care of Your Family Member after Treatment in the Emergency Department (12 pages) | Spanish Version (14 pages) (Source: SAMHSA)
- ✅ After a Loved One Dies – How Children Grieve and How Parents and Other Adults Can Support Them (Source: New York Life, 24 pages)
- ✅ Bipolar Disorder in Children and Teens: A Parent’s Guide (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 27 pages)
- ✅ Bipolar Disorder: Parents’ Medication Guide for Bipolar Disorder in Children & Adolescents (Source: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 63 pages)
- ✅ Borderline Personality Disorder: An Information Guide for Families (Source: CAMH, 72 pages)
- ✅ Coping with Anxiety During Pregnancy and Following the Birth: A Cognitive Therapy-Based Self-Management Guide for Women and Health Care Providers (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 178 pages)
- ✅ Coping with Depression During Pregnancy and Following the Birth: A Cognitive Therapy-Based Self-Management Guide for Women (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 118 pages)
- ✅ Coping with Separation Anxiety Handbook (Source: BC Legal Services Society, 24 pages)
- ✅ Emotional Intelligence Activities for Teens Ages 13-18 (Source: The Ohio National Guard, 34 pages)
- ✅ Families in Transition: A Resource Guide for Families of Transgender Youth (Source: Central Toronto Youth Services, 56 pages) 🏳️🌈
- ✅ A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders (Source: CAMH, 222 pages)
- ✅ Gaining Control of Your Life After Having a Baby: A Self-Help Workbook for Post-natal Depression (Source: Maternal Mental Health Alliance, 38 pages)
- ✅ Managing Depression: A Self-Help Skills Resource for Women Living with Depression During Pregnancy, After Delivery and Beyond (Source: Best Start, 57 pages)
- ✅ The Mind Body Connection and Somatization: A Family Handbook (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 46 pages)
- ✅ Oppositional Defiant Disorder: A Guide for Families by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (18 pages)
- ✅ Patient & Family Guide to Second-Generation Antipsychotics (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 44 pages)
- ✅ Postnatal Depression and Perinatal Mental Health (Source: Mind UK, 31 pages)
- ✅ Recognizing Resilience: A Workbook for Parents and Caregivers of Teens Involved with Substances (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 104 pages)
- ✅ A Resource Guide for Families Dealing with Mental Illness (Source: Michigan National Alliance on Mental Health, 40 pages)
- ✅ Suicide Prevention for Consumers and Family Members (Source: Montgomery County Emergency Service, Inc., 26 pages)
- ✅ Tools & Resources (Toolkit for Families) (Source: Kelty Mental Health, 25 pages)
- ✅ What Community Members Can Do: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters (For Teachers, Clergy, and Other Adults in the Community) (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 20 pages)
For Youth & Adolescents
- ✅ Healthy Living for Teens (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 23 pages)
- ✅ A Sibling’s Guide to Psychosis: Information, Ideas, and Resources (Source: Canada Mental Health Association, 34 pages)
- ✅ Student Life (Source: Mind UK, 22 pages)
