To create forum topics, visit your group page.
Concussion, the most common form of traumatic brain injury, has been linked to an increased risk of depression and suicide in adults. Now new research suggests high school students with a history of sports-related concussions might be at an increased risk for suicide completion.
In 2018,…
Our health unit has recently been experiencing frequent visits to main reception by members of the public seeking acute crisis intervention for their mental health. Our main reception staff is not sure how to handle these situations and so we are developing a plan to support main reception staff…
Bill -
For a glimpse of Canada’s planning and governance in play for Indigenous Peoples – useful right now to take a look at this half hour documentary by the NFB in 1956 – and consider how policy development echoes and more to the point rings out to us today.
The Ontario Association of Social Workers is once again offering our popular online certificate course: Advanced Social Work with Older Adults to OASW members and social workers across Canada.
Rossana -
The implementation of evidence-informed policies and practices across systems is complex and multifaceted. In order to facilitate this process, policymakers, innovation developers and service delivery organizations are increasingly calling upon intermediaries to support implementation, yet…
Does anyone know of an interactive (interpersonal) psychotherapy group in Scarborough or easy to reach from central Scarborough? It could be either a mixed group or a men's group.
Leading the way in mental health training and education
Rossana -
I wanted to share with you our latest Research Snapshot, which looks at a study by Mary Jean Costello and colleagues at Homewood Research Institute and CAMH.
FFakour -
This must have been discussed before but just to gather your input on the best plan of action.
53 years old female with chronic pain and fibromyalgia on codeine contin tablets with no positive UDS s in the past now has cocaine metabolites in her urine. I had just increased her codeine dose…
The Missing Persons Act was recently passed without publicity and apparently without opposition from MLAs. However a close look at the wording of the law raises concerns about possible consequences, especially for the practice of psychotherapy, that seem to have been overlooked.
I have…
