Listen and learn: tween-and-teen podcasts launch on CAMH’s Knowledge Exchange portal

Listen up ... lively discussions with mental health and addictions experts on issues affecting tweens and teens are now available in podcasts on CAMH’s Knowledge Exchange portal.

The Tweens and Teens Series features interviews with experts in adolescent mental health and addictions. The podcasts – short audio interviews posted online – are hosted by Avrum Nadigel, an adolescent and family therapist for over 15 years and currently in private practice in Toronto. He’s also worked in the past with CAMH’s Child, Youth and Family Program.

Avrum’s goal in developing the series was to provide parents, teachers and youth professionals with a one-stop-shop to access information from leaders/experts in mental health and addictions - many of whom would be inaccessible otherwise.

The interview topics were generated by parents, teens and youth professionals and will be useful to parents, youth professionals, family doctors, guidance counsellors and teachers.

Listeners will be able to propose topics for future episodes as well as engage with other listeners on the Knowledge Exchange portal.

Current podcasts include:
Dr. Rex Kay explores adolescence from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Dr. Peter Selby responds to students’ thoughts about smoking.

Watch for upcoming podcasts in the series:

A discussion about use, and abuse, of the internet and gaming with Drs. Bruce Ballon and Joanna Henderson. Dr. Ballon is Head of the Adolescent Clinical Education Service (ACES) for Problem Gambling, Gaming and Internet Use. Dr. Joanna Henderson is a Scientist and Psychologist at CAMH.
A discussion about online bullying with Dr. Faye Mishna, Interim Dean, Professor and Associate Dean of Research, at the Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
A discussion about adolescents and their families with Dr. David Freeman, Professor Emeritus, at the University of British Columbia and family therapist in private practice.
The Teenage brain: Why teens behave the way they do with Dr. Stan Kutcher, Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Exploring the myths and realities of marijuana use with Dr. Karen Leslie, Fellowship Training Program Director Adolescent Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children.
A discussion about eating disorders in adolescence with Dr. Leora Pinhas, Director for the Eating Disorders Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
A discussion about substance-induced psychosis with Dr. Kwame McKenzie & Donna Alexander. Dr. McKenzie is a senior lecturer in transcultural psychiatry at CAMH. Ms Alexander is a therapist in the Substance Abuse Program for African Canadian and Caribbean Youth at CAMH.
A two part series exploring mother and daughter relationships with Dr. Heather Weir, Child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto.
A family reflects on their struggles with adolescent substance misuse with staff from the Youth Addiction and Concurrent Disorders Service (YACDS) at CAMH.