Mental Health Problems
and Disorders
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Canada's
Drug Strategy
Mood Disorders
Depression
and Seniors
A series of information sheets ("Aging Vignettes") from the Division of Aging and
Seniors
"What is depression? Are seniors more depressed than others? What
causes depression? What are some treatments available to seniors with
depression? How can depressed seniors help themselves? What are some symptoms
of depression?"
Physical/Mental Health Interactions
"This
Battle Which I Must Fight: Cancer in Canada's Children and Teenagers"
Features information on psychosocial impact of cancer on families.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia: A Handbook
For Families (1991), Published by Health Canada in cooperation
with the Schizophrenia Society of Canada.
Contributors to this handbook urged that its contents should help families
who are new to the illness to deal with some of the fear, sorrow and bewilderment
that the contributors themselves had endured when little information about
schizophrenia was available. The handbook has been primarily developed,
therefore, as a guide for families when early signs indicate that a relative
may have schizophrenia, and as a resource for these families when a diagnosis
of schizophrenia has been determined.
Best Practices
in Mental Health Reform: Discussion Paper  (1997),
prepared by the Health Systems Research Unit, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry
The Best Practices in Mental Health Reform Project was developed and
funded by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Network on Mental
Health (ANMH), an intergovernmental forum for national collaboration on
identification, critical analysis and researching of mental health issues.
This discussion paper summarizes the first two phases of the project (a
critical review of the evidence base for "best practices" relevant
to mental health reform, with a focus on chronic and severe mental illness,
and a situational analysis of mental health reform policies, practices
and initiatives in Canada which approximate "best practices").
It then addresses the implementation of best practices across entire systems
of care, and offers several recommendations for action.
Quality of Life
Measurement Among Persons with Chronic Mental Illness: A Critique of Measures
and Methods (1996), prepared by Mark Atkinson, PhD and
Sharon Ziblin, M.Sc.
This document is intended to cover the basic issues, methods and instruments,
and to foster an understanding of what is needed to employ Quality of
Life (QoL) measurement in a meaningful way in clinical practice, evaluation
activities or research projects. Issues and methods addressed include
definitions of QoL, instrument reliability and validity, the validity
of measurement methods, evaluation design, and the role of QoL measurement
in mental health planning and policy formulation.
Evaluation of Programs
for the Treatment of Schizophrenia: A Health Economic Perspective (1994),
prepared by Ron Goeree
This document presents a health economic perspective on the evaluation
of treatment programs for schizophrenia, with a focus on quantitative
research. The report touches on the different types of economic evaluations,
describing and assessing in detail an evaluation model that focuses on
outcome measures. The use of basic economic evaluation terms and concepts
is also discussed.
Evaluation of Programs for
the Treatment of Schizophrenia: Part II A Review of Selected Programs
in Canada (1996),
prepared by Ron Goeree
This document presents a review and case study of several model programs
and their evaluation activities, including the instruments used.
Part II is useful in presenting concrete examples to illustrate the principles
espoused in the earlier publication. These examples provide a basis
for suggestions on how to bridge the gap between what is currently being
done and what might ideally be done with respect to the evaluation of
schizophrenia programs.
Suicide
Suicide in Canada:
Update of the Report of the Task Force on Suicide in Canada (1994)
This update of the 1987 report was produced by Health Canada in collaboration
with a working group of experts from several disciplines and regions.
The report reviews current knowledge about the epidemiology of suicide,
provides mortality data from 1950 to 1992, and discusses issues in prevention,
intervention, postvention and data collection.
Violence and Abuse
Mental Illness and
Violence: Proof or Stereotype? Mental
Illness and Violence: Proof or Stereotype? (1996)
Mental health advocates have traditionally stated that persons with mental
illness are no more likely to commit violent acts than are persons who
are not mentally ill. However, there has been growing uncertainty as to
the exact nature of the relationship [between mental illness and violence],
among caregivers, health care providers, and advocacy groups, spawned,
on one hand, by sensational media accounts and television dramas, and
on the other, by conflicting scientific reports. To help shed light on
this issue, this critical review of the literature was undertaken.
National
Clearinghouse on Family Violence (NCFV)
The National Clearinghouse on Family Violence of the Public Health Agency
of Canada is a national resource centre for all Canadians seeking information
and solutions to violence within the family. Professionals, other front-line
workers, researchers and community groups need to know what their colleagues
and counterparts are doing across the country. By sharing the latest research
and information on all aspects of prevention, protection and treatment,
the Clearinghouse is helping Canadian communities reach for solutions.
The
Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens (1996)
Despite the fact that over 300 books and articles on male victims have
been published in the last 25 to 30 years, boys and teen males remain
on the periphery of the discourse on child abuse. Few workshops about
males can be found at most child abuse conferences and there are no specialized
training programs for clinicians. ... The Invisible Boy is intended for
a wide readership. ...[It] it is perhaps most important to see the document,
not as a definitive statement of the male experience (we are too early
in the struggle for that), but rather as a "snapshot in time"
of some of the controversies, challenges, knowledge gaps and unexplored
issues pertaining to the male experience of victimization.
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