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Protection of Privacy or Impediment to Care?
Posted on 21/12/2011 | 0 Comments
“I can’t talk to you because that would be breaking her confidentiality”.
Data Clarifies “Sexting” Panic
Posted on 13/12/2011 | 0 Comments
We need to make sure that we help young people understand that in the age of instant electronic communication that sometimes a private act can become a public spectacle.
Does Anonymity Breed Cruelty?
Posted on 07/12/2011 | 1 Comments
I don't want to comment on the video -- it speaks for itself. What I want to address are some of the comments that the video has received.
Is it Boys or is it ADHD?
Posted on 01/12/2011 | 0 Comments
The lack of understanding about what ADHD is, or what is different about being a boy with ADHD from a boy without ADHD does not seem to give pause to certainty of their opinions.
Even, if that means letting go of our opinions.
Posted on 24/09/2011 | 0 Comments
On the contrary, we accept that all of us come to every consideration with built in biases and perspectives that may or may not be valid – or that may or may be more or less valid.
A Global Opportunity to Advance Mental Health: Can we grasp it?
Posted on 13/07/2011 | 1 Comments
As we are all too familiar, mental disorders are too often not on the list when it comes to health care investment – not only here in Canada but around the world.
Helping Early May Help in Unexpected Ways
Posted on 11/07/2011 | 4 Comments
While the potential mental health benefits of early identification and effective treatment are relatively easy to understand, there are other benefits that may be less evident but also very important. One area of such benefit is found in relation to a number of physical illnesses: diabetes; heart disease and maybe even some forms of cancer!
The Academy in Mental Health for Educators: A new opportunity
Posted on 07/07/2011 | 1 Comments
Our first Academy in Mental Health for Educators will start next week – in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As far as we know, this is the first event of its kind ever in the Atlantic Provinces.
Stigma’s Role in Perpetuating the Cycle
Posted on 30/05/2011 | 1 Comments
Helping Students with ADHD Achieve Success: Tips for Teachers
Posted on 26/05/2011 | 0 Comments
When speaking with a student, it’s best to not assume you know what a young person is going through (unless you yourself have struggled with ADHD) and instead ask them to tell you what it’s like, and what they need from you to help them be successful.
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Thank you, Judith, for an interesting post, rasiing debate about such an important topic.I think more research is needed, but the kind of research that needs to be done is a matter of differing opinions. I think more attention needs to be given to the social conditions which affect people’s mental health. Like The Critical Psychiatry Network, I disagree with the emphasis on biological research. Both here and in the US so much research focuses on neurobiology and genetics. Yet, after many years of research, there is no evidence that brain disease is the basis of what are known as mental illnesses. The Campaign to Abolish Psychiatric Diagnoses (rightly in my view) calls for an end to the years of fruitless research to find biological correlates which continue to deliver nothing clinically useful.‘I would like to see more recognition of the importance of user-led research into issues of concern for the service user, which often professionally-led research has failed to address. I agree, Judith, that drug treatments have debilitating effects on the lives of people who take them. More research is neeeded to look into service users’ experiences of psychiatric drugs and into finding alternatives to drug treatments. The unaceptable adverse effects of drugs tends to be ignored or denied when research is initiated and funded by drugs companies motivated by their profits.I appreciate the good work and intentions of the Time to Change anti-stigma campaign. We do need to fight against stigma, but perhaps we should look first at the stigmatising attitudes coming from within the mental health services and question the validity of stimatising diagnostic labels.
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