The Challenges of PTSD for Military Personnel and their Family Caregivers
Franziska Buri, of Ontario, Canada, is a military spouse of a 22-year Canadian Armed Forces Veteran. He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2008 and was severely wounded as a result of an enemy attack. She...
View ArticleLaw and Lore of Autonomy and Mental Health Disabilities
Marni Soupcoff, a lawyer, is a newspaper columnist and Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, and previously served the Institute for Justice. She describes her work and experience...
View ArticleTrauma, Mental Health and Addictions, a Lifelong Healing Journey
Ernest Matton (Little Brown Bear), ernest@look.ca, is a Métis helper and guide who inspires living in today’s hectic world, and bridging culture and professional disciplines to assist people in finding...
View ArticleRadio Archive for the Schizophrenia Community
Dr. Chris Summerville is the CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada (SSC), www.schizophrenia.ca, and the Executive Director of the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society. Doug Race, a Board member of SSC,...
View ArticleData Ethics in Medical Research and Health Care UK-Canada Compared
Micheal Vonn is a lawyer and the Policy Director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, https://bccla.org/. She explains how civil liberties relate to ethical principles, governance, and...
View ArticlePatients Sue Ontario Hospitals for Invasion of Privacy
Michael Crystal, a criminal lawyer, is a partner at the law firm of Spiteri & Ursulak LLP, where he currently leads the class action group, http://crystalcyrlaw.com/lawyers/. He’s currently class...
View ArticleWhat Family Caregivers should know about Pharmacies and Pharmacists
Bill Brown, a registered pharmacist, holds the BSc in Pharmacy. His current focus is methadone maintenance treatment. He talks about his life and career as a pharmacist. He explains the types of...
View ArticleServices for and Needs of FASD Children
Angela Geddes is the Assessment Coordinator at the FASD London Region Assessment Clinic, http://www.fasd-londonregion.com/. Darlene --. is an Early Childhood Educator and Homeschooling Mom of two who’s...
View ArticleEconomic Impact of Type 2 Diabetes on Individuals and their Families
Till Seuring, T.Seuring@uea.ac.uk, holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Bamberg (Germany) in Economics and a Master's degree from the University of Göttingen (Germany) in International...
View ArticleSecrecy for Healthcare Errors and Transparency for Patient Health Records
Tom Blackwell, tblackwell@nationalpost.com, Senior National Reporter at Canada's National Post newspaper. He explains why he became interested in healthcare errors and how he developed his work as a...
View ArticlePrinciples of Personal Health Information Privacy for Persons living with...
Micheal Vonn, lawyer and Policy Director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, https://bccla.org/, describes her work as it relates to HIV/AIDS. She says what privacy means, how privacy...
View ArticleSuccessful Approaches by Individuals, Families and Family Caregivers Living...
Mark Courtepatte is co-chair of the Hamilton and Area Parent and Caregiver FASD Support Group, http://hamiltonfasdsupport.ca/. Savanna Pietrantonio, an adult living with FASD, is a Life Strategy Coach...
View ArticleAdvocating for Access to Medications for Cystic Fibrosis
Chris MacLeod is a Partner in the law firm Cambridge LLP, www.cambridgellp.com. He also has Cystic Fibrosis and chairs the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis treatment Society. He talks about his life as a...
View ArticleMental Health Recovery by Never Giving Up on Doing Things Differently
Craig Lewis, www.betterdaysrecovery.com, is a Certified Peer Specialist living in Massachusetts. He has struggled immensely throughout his life. He has however successfully transformed it into a life...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Radio Archive for the Schizophrenia Community
Dr. Chris Summerville is the CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada (SSC), www.schizophrenia.ca, and the Executive Director of the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society. Doug Race, a Board member of SSC,...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: One-On-One Support for Family Caregiving for...
Sharon Evans graduated as a psychiatric nurse in 1967 and in 2008 completed her Bachelor of Science in Psychiatric Nursing. Irene Friberg has a teaching degree. She and her husband have a daughter...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Listening to Family Caregivers Caring for Psychosis
Lisa Feldstein is the principal lawyer at Lisa Feldstein Law Office, http://familyhealthlaw.ca/. She practices family health law, which includes providing advice in reproductive law, mental health law,...
View ArticleWhether Psychoses should be Decriminalized
On August 18, 2015, the John Howard society of Ontario released the report “Unlocking Change: Decriminalizing Mental Health Issues in Ontario”. It indirectly raises the question of whether psychoses,...
View ArticleCriminal Responsibility when Schizophrenia Harms Others
Dr. Lori Triano-Antidormi, a Registered Psychologist in Ontario, Canada, drtriano@bellnet.ca, holds the PhD from York University. Dr. Chris Summerville is CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada,...
View ArticleMental Health Commission of Canada Guidelines for Family Caregiving applied...
Dr. Ella Amir, Executive Director of AMI-Québec since 1990, http://amiquebec.org/, leads one of Québec’s principal resources for families struggling to cope with mental illness, including...
View ArticleEarly Access to Treatment for Schizophrenia
Dr. Michael Eleff, a senior psychiatrist in the Schizophrenia Treatment and Education Program of the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Growing Up with a Mother with Schizophrenia
Anika Francis was first exposed to schizophrenia at the age of three when her mother, Sakeenah Francis, was diagnosed with it. Sakeenah lived in and out of mental hospitals. For the past fifteen years,...
View ArticleFamily Caregivers for Family Members Living with Schizophrenia
Dr. Penny MacCourt, pennymaccourt@shaw.ca, works with older adults and their families in community, long-term care and acute-care settings. She explains the Mental Health Commission of Canada and the...
View ArticleSchizophrenia, False Memories, and Family Memoirs
Katherine Flannery Dering talks about her life, career, and experience as elder sister of her brother, Paul, as he lived with schizophrenia. She explains her book 'Shot In The Head',...
View ArticleRecovery and Schizophrenia and What it Takes
Dr. Chris Summerville is CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada and Executive Director of the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society. He explains recovery in schizophrenia, and what a caring community is....
View ArticleTowards a National Policy on Autonomy and the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Dr. Chris Summerville is CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada, www.schizophrenia.ca. Marni Soupcoff is Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, http://theccf.ca/, a registered...
View ArticleProviding a Voice Through Advocacy for the Schizophrenia Community
Ryan Clarke, LLB, founded Advocacy Solutions, http://www.advocacysolutions.ca/, a business committed to providing a voice to organizations and individuals through the development and implementation of...
View ArticleTowards a National Policy on Decriminalizing Mental Illness in Canada
Catherine Latimer has been the Executive Director of the John Howard Society of Canada, www.johnhoward.ca, since 2011. Dr. Chris Summerville is CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada,...
View ArticleCaring for Schizophrenia: Questions for the New Government of Canada
Florence Budden is a mental health nurse and nursing instructor at the Centre for Nursing Studies in St. John's Newfoundland. Ryan Clarke, a lawyer, founded Advocacy Solutions, a business providing a...
View ArticleInjectables and their Role in Medical Treatment of Schizophrenia
Dr. Pierre Chue is Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta, Departmental Head for Addictions and Mental Health, Alberta Health Services, and Consulting...
View ArticleListening, Empathizing, Agreeing, and Partnering in Schizophrenia
Dr. Xavier Amador, the Founder of the LEAP Institute, is an internationally renowned clinical psychologist and leader in his field. He describes his research, personal life and professional experience....
View ArticleAutonomy for Persons with Psychosis-related Illnesses and their Family...
Elyn R. Saks is Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University...
View ArticleHealing and Empowerment in Schizophrenia through Creative Endeavour
Ernie Bart is a member of the Board of Artbeat Studio, http://artbeatstudio.ca/. Lucille Bart is Executive Director and co-founder with their son Nigel, diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 19. They...
View ArticleHow Tammy and Sherri Create Hope for People Living with Schizophrenia
Tammy Lambert is diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and is coping with delusional symptoms and mood instability. Sherri Matsumoto, who now lives with schizophrenia, was first diagnosed with mental...
View ArticleEncore: Schizophrenia and Family Caregiving
Chris Summerville is a director of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Debbie Sirota is a single parent of Tamara, aged 24, who lives with schizophrenia. They discuss services for persons with...
View ArticleSerious Mental Illnesses as Challenges for Police and People
Dr. Terry Coleman was a police officer for nearly 40 years including ten years as a chief of police. Subsequently he was a Deputy Minister for the Saskatchewan provincial government with responsibility...
View ArticleTherapeutic Jurisprudence - The Lawyer as Healer?
Michael Crystal is a partner at the law firm of Spiteri & Ursulak LLP, where he currently leads the class action group, http://crystalcyrlaw.com/. He explains difficulties faced by lawyers when...
View ArticleDiscus Dementia Home Model of Care and Social Community
Dr. Éthelle G. Lord, Founding President of the International Caregivers Association, www.icareassoc.com, discusses improvements she wants to see in dementia care, the main features of the Discus...
View ArticleMemory Lane TV Therapeutics for Dementia
lban Maino, who is based in Portland Maine, has 25 years of experience as a film director and producer. He refocused his expertise on dementia when he learned that his grandmother was diagnosed with...
View ArticleChallenges for School Children of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Mark Courtepatte is co-chair of the Hamilton and Area Parent and Caregiver FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders) Support Group, http://www.hamiltonfasdsupport.ca/, and one of the organizing members...
View ArticleUnitedHealthcare Resources for Family Caregivers caring for Aging or Disabled...
Kirk Pion is Vice President of Design & Development for the UnitedHealthcare Innovation Centers of Excellence. Dr. Vidya Raman-Tangella, a physician, heads UnitedHealthcare’s Innovation Center of...
View ArticleAdoption Beyond Infancy
Jane De Pauw lives in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, with her husband and two children who were adopted through the Alberta foster care system. Sylvie Hebert was born in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada....
View ArticleHow Class Action Lawsuits are Organized
Rob Gain, lawyer, joined Koskie Minsky’s Class Actions group, http://kmlaw.ca/lawyers/?practicearea=57, in 2014 after practicing at another leading class-action law firm. He describes his career and...
View ArticleGene Editing for Individuals and their Families and Family Caregivers
Dr. Marcy Darnovsky is Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/. She describes her career and the Center’s work. She explains human gene editing,...
View ArticleDivorce when Children live with Disabilities
Joryn Jenkins is a trial attorney with 36 years of courtroom experience, now in private practice at Open Palm Law, http://openpalmlaw.com/, in Tampa, Florida. She discusses her career and her law firm...
View ArticleBullying of People living with Mental Health Challenges
Craig Lewis is a Certified Peer Specialist living in Massachusetts, http://www.betterdaysrecovery.com/. He’s struggled immensely throughout his life, but he’s successfully transformed it into a life of...
View ArticleA Family Experience of being Bullied
As Chief Advocate at K&A Inc., http://kealeyandassociates.com/, Marc Kealey is a leading voice for transformation in health care. He talks about his family, the experience of being bullied, the...
View ArticleBullying People living with Mental Health Disabilities
Dr. Gordon Atherley, docg@familycaregiversunite.org, holds the British equivalents of the North American MD and PhD degrees, and LLD, Honoris Causa. He highlights his own experience of bullying within...
View ArticleEncore: Law and Lore of Autonomy and Mental Health Disabilities
Marni Soupcoff, a lawyer, is a newspaper columnist and Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, and previously served the Institute for Justice. She describes her work and experience...
View ArticleEncore: Services for and Needs of FASD Children
Angela Geddes is the Assessment Coordinator at the FASD London Region Assessment Clinic, http://www.fasd-londonregion.com/. Darlene --. is an Early Childhood Educator and Homeschooling Mom of two who’s...
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