CAMH provides various helpful resources for clients and families. Here are some highlights:

Supports for Families and Friends lists a variety of services for families of individuals who experience mental health and/or substance use disorders

Guide to CAMH’s Programs and Services, including Care and Treatment Programs.

Education and Booklets:

Access to accurate, reliable and impartial information is critical for clients, their families and friends to be able to make informed decisions around care, treatment and recovery, and to reduce the stigma still associated with addiction and mental health issues.

  

New! 

Hope and Healing after Suicide 
This guide addresses many personal issues related to a death by suicide, including telling others, working through the grief, finding what helps people to heal, and grieving in children and youth. 

 

  

The CAMH Bill of Client Rights DVD
Understanding the rights of people who use mental health and addiction services
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.

Alcohol and Chronic Health Problems

There is a link between alcohol and chronic health problems. Know the facts. Reduce your risks. 

 

 

A public information series from CAMH Publications
Understanding Psychiatric Medications

This series of booklet/brochures provides concrete, balanced information in plain language that can help people better understand and make choices about psychiatric drugs. Titles in this series include: Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, Benzodiazepines and Mood Stabilizers.

 

Please take a few moments to view a short video about our Understanding Psychiatric Medications brochure series.

 

 

A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders
Families need help to deal with the impact of concurrent disorders, but families are also a key to finding effective solutions. To help their relatives on the journey to recovery, families need: information about substance use and mental health problems; a common language with treatment providers; strategies to cope with issues associated with concurrent disorders; and strategies to look after themselves and reduce the impact of their relatives’ problems on their own lives.

What Parents Need to Know about Teens
What Parents Need to Know about Teens addresses the facts and myths of teen life and teens’ relationships with parents. Each section of the booklet is devoted to a different parenting strategy:

1. Be an effective parent: Balance sensitivity and firmness.
2. Place an emphasis on safety, responsibility and obeying rules.
3. Teach—don’t just criticize.
4. Understand your teen’s development—and how it affects your relationship.
5. Understand the pressures—and the risks—your teen faces.

 

Can I Catch it Like a Cold?: Coping with a Parent's Depression

New edition! 

Why is my parent acting this way? Will my parent get better? Is it my fault? Can I catch depression like a cold? These are among the many questions asked by children when a parent has depression.

 

 
Growing Up Resilient: Ways to Build Resilience in Children and Youth
Resilience is an important aspect of mental well-being. Bouncing back from today’s stresses is one of the best life skills children and youth can develop. Growing Up Resilient is a must-read for adults (including parents, teachers and front-line workers) who want to increase resilience in the children and youth in their lives.

 

 

Stigma: Understanding the impact of prejudice and discrimination on people with mental health and substance use problems

 

 

Moving beyond stigma: Information for families of people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems

 

Substance Abuse Treatment for Young People - What you need to know
This pamphlet is for parents/guardians, relatives, teachers, friends and anyone who may be concerned about alcohol or other substance use in a person under 25, and includes services available for young people in the Greater Toronto Area. This pamphlet was developed by the Toronto Youth Addiction Cluster, representing a number of agencies serving youth with substance use issue, including CAMH.

Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Client Handbook
This book should answer many of the questions you may have about methadone treatment, and can help you to know what questions you should ask your doctor, pharmacist, counsellor and others. It’s put together so that you can either dip into it, or read it all at once, as you wish. There’s information here for those thinking about methadone treatment, for the new client and the long-term client, and for families and friends. You can use this information to help you to understand and make decisions about your treatment. You can use it to educate others. You can use it to help you to get well.

Information Guides
These concise, informative and accessible guides are written for people with mental health concerns, their families and friends, and anyone else interested in an introduction to the many aspects of mental health. The information guides help clients in talking with care providers, by educating and empowering everyone involved. The guides have been a source of knowledge and support for many people.

• New! Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
• New edition! Addiction
• New edition! Anxiety Disorders
• Bipolar Disorder
• New! Borderline Personality Disorder
• Concurrent Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
• Couple Therapy
• Depressive Illness
• First Episode Psychosis
• New edition! Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• The Forensic Mental Health System In Ontario
• Women And Psychosis
• Women, Abuse And Trauma Therapy

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Content updated: August 12, 2011 3:21 PM

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