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.
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Guidelines for Managing the Client with Intellectual Disability in the Emergency RoomThese 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.
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Challenges & ChoicesFinding 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.
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Travelling TogetherA 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.
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Everybody’s BusinessA 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.
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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.
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