She has a Certificate in Mental Health First Aid, as well as Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training. Her research interests include mental health, stigma, suicide and African-Canadian mental health. She works as a Research Ethics Board Analyst, with over 6 years of research ethics experience...
A new community mental health team based in primary care. A description of the service and its effect on service use in the first year. A new community multidisciplinary team based in primary care is described and the experience of the first year discussed. The effect the team has had on ...
“One of the wonderful things that has happened with people who get the training is that they get a deeper understanding of how their own mental health and wellness impacts their ability to serve others,” Forest said. “They end up focusing on their own self-care and are then better able...
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Preparation, attitudes and behaviour in nonhospital cardiac emergencies: evaluating a community's readiness to act. To determine how people in a moderately sized Ontario city believe they will react if they witness someone colapsing. Telephone survey. The cities of Kitch......
“The initial months atcollegepresented challenges,” Morel says. “Academic pressure, adapting to a new culture and the experience of living alone for the first time – this really took a toll on my mental health.” Some colleges discuss these services before students s...
Health & Safety Credit: Adobe Stock/Oleg. If you experience a minor cut on your leg, you apply a band-aid to protect the wound and help your body heal. In contrast, if you suffer a deep leg wound in an industrial accident, someone trained in first aid will apply pressure and slow th...
Exploring mediators of mental health service use among transgender individuals in Ontario, Canada. Can J Psychiatry. 2023;68(12):933-948. doi:10.1177/07067437231171541PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 6. Meyer IH. Minority stress and mental health in gay men. J Health Soc Beh...
Recent studies56,57 of the Ontario Health Survey suggest that self-reports of mental health service use overestimate administrative treatment records, especially concerning the number of visits and among respondents with more distressing disorders. Unlike the Ontario Health Survey, the NCS-R did attempt...
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