Miscellaneous
The Addiction Research Foundation: A Voyage of Discovery
H. David Archibald, founding Director of the Addiction Research Foundation (now a part of the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health), died in Toronto on July 12, 2009. He played an outstanding role in the addictions field, not only in Canada but internationally,
as an advisor to the World Health Organization, the North American Association of Alcoholism Programs, the United Nations
and the international Council on Alcoholism and Addictions. Read more…
Asking the Right Questions 2
Talking About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Mental Health, Counselling and Addiction Settings
This manual will help counsellors create an environment where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, two-spirited,
intersex and queer (LGBTTTIQ) clients feel comfortable talking about their sexual orientation and gender identity. Read more...
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The CAMH Bill of Client Rights: Understanding the rights of people who use mental health and addiction services (DVD)
See what happens in different scenarios involving a client as she navigates the psychiatric system. Each scene dramatizes
a positive and negative outcome of a woman who is trying to assert a particular client right. Read more...
Guidelines for Managing the Client with Intellectual Disability in the Emergency Room
These guidelines, written for psychiatric residents and for those who work in any hospital with a psychiatric unit, address
issues that care providers experience when attending to the person with developmental disabilities in crisis. Read more...
Challenges & Choices
Finding Mental Health Services in Ontario
Finding your way around the mental health system can be confusing, frustrating, scary – and difficult. Written in easy-to-understand
language, Challenges & Choices gives practical information about mental health services in Ontario and how to find them. Read more...
Travelling Together
A Hands-On Guide for Moving Your Community Group to Action
Travelling Together gives your group the necessary skills to move forward to action. Full of creative exercises and activities,
this manual encourages all group members to participate. Read more...
Everybody’s Business
A How-To Guide for Establishing a Withdrawal Management Service in Your Community
Everybody’s Business is a practical tool to help you implement or develop a cost-effective withdrawal management service tailored to the needs,
resources and services in your community – regardless of your location. Read more...
Motivation and Change
Two Videos
Motivation and Change comprises two videos that show social workers and treatment professionals how to deal with resistance to treatment and motivating
clients to change behaviour. Read more...
Motivational Strategies for Promoting Self-Change
Dealing with Alcohol & Drug Problems (DVD)
This training video identifies strategies to help clients help themselves. This is an important part of every counsellor’s
job. Read more...
A Therapist’s Manual: Secondary Prevention of Alcohol Problems
Case studies illustrate the techniques needed to offer brief intervention to clients dealing with mild to moderate drinking
problems. A Therapist’s Manual includes samples of clinical tools that can help you to assess the severity of a client’s drinking problem, and to pinpoint
particular situations that can trigger excessive drinking. Read more...
Centre for Addiction
