Mental health services

Presents a model for a comprehensive, integrated mental health service system for older Canadians, as well as service benchmarks to provide concrete reference points for planning purposes. The model and benchmarks are considered within the context of guiding values and principles important to Canadian seniors, as well as key concepts such as mental health prevention, promotion, and recovery.  Intended to support policy makers, service planners, and advocacy organizations working to ensure that older Canadians (both those living with a mental health problem or illness and those at risk of developing one) receive the range of supports they need.

Presents information on general hospital readmissions and their relationship to seven diagnosis categories of mental illness.

Presents a manual to help therapists/counsellors create an environment where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, two-spirit, intersex, and queer (LGBTTTIQ) clients feel comfortable identifying themselves as such.

Reports on the epidemiology of depression among women in Ontario. Identifies those women at highest risk for depression and their barriers to care.

Examines mental health services for women in Canada and provides recommendations to improve Canadian women's mental health.

Examines factors across the lifespan that demonstrate why an examination of sex differences and gender influences is crucial to any policy work in mental health and substance use.

Provides a systematic review of the experimental literature in order to identify better practices in collaborative mental health care in the primary care setting.

Discusses how deinstitutionalization affects men and women differently and what kind of unique needs arise when people are relocated to new communities.

Discusses integrated and women-centred approaches to treatment and support for women who experience mental health, trauma-related and substance use problems.

Examines sex, gender and women's health in relation to mental health and problematic substance use.