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The Mental Health Commission of Canada's Youth Council is a safe space allowing individuals with lived experience between the ages of 18-30 to provide a youth perspective on mental health and recovery. We are seeking four new members to join the diverse council.
The deadline to…
People who suffered a financial, housing-related, or job-related hardship as a result of the Great Recession (which officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009) were more likely to show increases in symptoms of depression, anxiety, and problematic drug use.
Research has yielded mixed findings about the relationship between hormonal contraceptive use and depression. The largest study to date on this topic — which included over one million women living in Denmark — concluded that women who are using the pill or other hormonal contraceptives…
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Oklahoma delivered a stinging blow to the drug manufacturing firm Johnson & Johnson on Monday, a landmark victory for the state that may help decide more than 2,000 lawsuits targeting opioid makers and distributors around the US. [CNN / Jacqueline Howard and Wayne Drash]
In 2016, the Auditor General of Ontario recommended the development of caseload guidelines to better assess the efficiency, effectiveness and value-for-money of services offered by publicly funded child and youth mental health (CYMH) agencies.
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Check out EENet's new Research Snapshot summarizing the article, “Using Fidelity Measurement to Assess Quality of Early Psychosis Intervention Services in Ontario,” published in Psychiatric Services in 2019. DOI: 10.3138/cjccj.2018-0020.
Here is what we know about mental health and addictions content in the new Health and Physical Education curriculum for Grades 1-8.
Mental health (Grades 1 to 8, in addition to existing learning)The enhanced HPE curriculum takes a comprehensive approach to learning about mental…
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What do you think of California Judge Joseph C. Spero writing in his decision that psychotherapy is meant to help people, not insurance companies and academia?
This article by Enrico Gnaulati PhD expresses ideas that feel close to my heart and my many years of lived experience as an…