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Appendix A – Mental Health Commission of Canada Complementary PTSD related programming
National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (the Standard)
Most adults spend more waking hours in […]
MDSC supports the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s voluntary standard to provide systematic guidelines for Canadian employers that will enable them to develop and continuously improve psychologically safe and healthy work environments for their employees. (PDF). […]
Building Bridges is a joint project of Mood Disorders Society of Canada and the Native Mental Health Association of Canada, which received funding support from the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada. Launched May 2009, Phase 2 builds on the work of the Phase 1 Symposium held November 2007.
MDSC supports the Canadian Medical Association’s call for each province and territory to implement a Patient Charter, within a national framework, to provide accountability to patients. MDSC was involved in stakeholder meetings assisting the CMA develop a Charter for Patient-Centred Care. MDSC supports using this Charter to as a model for enhanced efforts to make […]
Problem and pathological gambling are becoming a major public health issue in Canada. Higher rates of psychiatric co-morbidities, most notably bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder have been reported in populations of problem and pathological gamblers. While it has also been shown that gamblers tend to exhibit negative mood symptoms, the temporal relationship between the […]
