Do you need straightforward answers to those hard-to-ask questions about relationships, sex, stress, depression, anxiety, and other health concerns? Then check out these resources below.
Find Providers in Your Community
These resources may be helpful if you are looking for mental health providers near you.
- Find a Therapist (use search)
Online Mental Health Screening
Do you think you might be depressed? If so, Penn State Behrend students can use this free online screening tool to find out whether or not professional consultation might be helpful to you.
Mental Wellness Apps (free!)
Self-Help Information
- CAPS Virtual Library
- Go Ask Alice!
- HelpGuide.org (Mental and emotional health topics)
Podcast Recommendations
- College is Fine, Everything's Fine, Sarah Olivo and Liz Seidler
- Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
- She Persisted, teen mental health podcast, Sadie Sutton
- Ten Percent Happier, Dan Harris
- The Happiness Lab Podcast, Laurie Santos
Book Recommendations
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Lindsay Gibson
- The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk
- Codependent No More, Melody Beattie
- I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, Terrence Real
- Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson
- Life Without ED, Jenni Schaefer
- Love's Not Color Blind, Kevin Patterson
- The Resilience Workbook, Glenn Schiraldi
- Sober on a Drunk Planet, Sean Alexander
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Pema Chodron
Other Self-Help Resources
- From Campus to Home
- The Dark Side of Prescription Drugs
- Depression and Online Mental Health Screening
- Eating Disorders
- Final Exams
- Homesickness
- Long Distance Relationships
- Moderation Management
- Obsessive Gaming
- Resilience
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and Winter Blues
- Self-Injury
- For Seniors Only
- Stress