concurrent disorders

Course Overview

Families are an immense resource in the care, treatment and recovery of individuals with co-occurring mental health and addiction problems. However, they often have limited access to the resources, information and help that they need to be supportive to the ones they love. This six-week facilitator-led online course for health care providers explores the needs of families affected by concurrent disorders, as well as the strategies that health care providers can use to empower families and ensure that their experiences are positive ones.

Concurrent disorders and youth populations: Understanding and supporting youth who use substances

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

In Canada, one in three people will experience mental illness in their lifetime.

Concurrent disorders are defined as co-occurring substance use disorders with other mental health conditions. For example, up to 40% of people who are diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder will also have a co-occurring substance use disorder. Despite the prevalence of concurrent disorders, people who live with them tend to be under-diagnosed and under-treated. When care is provided, conditions are often treated separately rather than in an integrated way.

You’re invited for EHN Canada’s next educational webinar: Concurrent Treatment: Eating Disorders & Addiction with Cheryl Fiske, MSc(OT), OT Reg., MHSc, CHE, Clinical Director, Bellwood Health Services.

Course overview

Families are an immense resource in the care, treatment and recovery of individuals with co-occurring mental health and addiction problems. However, they often have limited access to the resources, information and help that they need to be supportive to the ones they love. This six-week facilitator-led online course for health care providers explores the needs of families affected by concurrent disorders, as well as the strategies that health care providers can use to empower families and ensure that their experiences are positive ones.

There are numerous challenges that exist in the youth mental health and substance use sector around the knowledge to practice gaps, the current value attributed to certain types of knowledge and evidence over others, and the limited engagement of lived experts in system and service design. Lived expertise is critical to a system that can meet the needs of youth and caregivers adequately.

Concurrent disorders and youth populations: Understanding and supporting youth who use substances

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Live webinar: June 21, 2022 | 1 to 4 p.m. EST
Facilitator: Leora Rich, MSW

Together, we will:

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Ontario Psychiatric Association 2022 Expert Series -- Online CME

KETAMINE FOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS: THE KNOWNS AND UNKNOWNS

Monday, February 7, 2022

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm ET
Speaker: Dr. Venkat Bhat, MD, MSc, FRCPC, DABPN

Registration is now open for the online mini-course "Treating Concurrent Tobacco and Cannabis Use Disorder," offered by the TEACH program at CAMH.

Participants will learn to screen for concurrent use disorders and provide tailored cessation interventions.

For more information or to register, see the attached flyer or visit https://teach.camhx.ca/moodle

Direct Registration Link: https://teach.camhx.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=73

An example of a concurrent disorder is a condition where a person experiences both mental illness and a substance abuse disorder. The Peterborough Community Support Court is a justice and treatment partnership which adopts strategies aimed at reducing crime and enhancing individual and community well being by promoting and facilitating the holistic rehabilitation of criminal defendants experiencing both a mental illness and a substance abuse disorder. Experienced practitioners will explain the mechanics, challenges and successes of this approach.

Speakers:

You’re invited for our next educational webinar:

Medical Management of Eating Disorders

With Dr. Kalam Sutandar, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Consultant Psychiatrist, Bellwood Health Services

And Dr. Lynda Molleken MD, FRCPC, Consultant Psychiatrist, Bellwood Health Services

Substance use and emotion regulation in youth

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute as part of our Summer Sprints Microlearning series

May 5 2021

12-1pm

ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS ALRIGHT: GRIEF IN ACT TEAM WORKERS

Register here for the CPHA webinar Barriers to Legal Cannabis Access: The emergence of Community-Based Cannabis Distribution Programs in Vancouver.