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“Unmasking” is the theme for this year’s Mental Health Week – meaning to remove the “mask” that people living with mental health challenges often wear to protect themselves from stigma.
“Unmasking” is the theme for this year’s Mental Health Week – meaning to remove the “mask” that people living with mental health challenges often wear to protect themselves from stigma.
Systems need to hear from those they serve – these advocates and leaders drive policy change and push for cultural awareness and lived experience in decision-making. Meet the Mental Health Commission of Canada Youth Advisory Council Co-Chairs: Em Alexander and Colbi Mike....
The best advice from advocates: talk about the issues and use terms that people use to refer to their own lived experience.
Hard-and-fast rules have eluded the burgeoning field of electronic mental health. Canada’s First E-Mental Health Strategy offers practical tools and recommendations.
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Author and clinical psychologist Jonathan Stea gives people tools to sort truth from twaddle in a wellness wild west.
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Book Club – Mind the Science
Author and clinical psychologist Jonathan Stea gives people tools to sort truth from twaddle in a wellness wild west.
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Designing for Equity
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Four bandmates, four decades of musical discovery. Documenting shifting understandings of temperament and temperance. This isn’t just music; it’s resilience, renewal, and reckoning, woven into a story that could be a song.
When your sibling goes down the rabbit hole, how do you find a loving and healthy way to stay connected?
Explore visionary global initiatives that are reshaping how we access and deliver mental health support
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Book Club – All In Her Head
Misty Pratt’s book, subtitled How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health, argues for broader perspectives and more comprehensive care.
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Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace: Tools You Can Use
A new toolkit offers supports for improving working conditions and practices in health-care operations.
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A Measure of Progress
It starts with learning. A free course on dismantling structural stigma in health care aims for meaningful change for people experiencing mental health and substance ...
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Crushing It
Reducing stigma improves mental health outcomes – so what can be done to promote compassion and systemic change?
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