Women

First Stage Trauma Treatment: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals Working with Women
First Stage Trauma Treatment provides a conceptual framework along with practical ideas and strategies for recognizing and addressing complex post-traumatic stress responses in female clients who have a history of early or chronic abuse. Read more...

Postpartum Depression: A Guide for Front-line Health and Social Service Providers
This guide on postpartum depression (PPD) is both practical and evidence-based, and includes the best and most current studies to date on PPD as well as practical experience from the field. Read more...

Bridging Responses: A Front-line Workers’ Guide to Supporting Women who Have Post-traumatic Stress
Bridging Responses is a resource for front-line staff who work with women – in health care, literacy, corrections, housing and other community services. Many of the women who seek help from these services have difficulties that might be associated with responses to complex post traumatic stress. Read more...

Women’s Choices, Women’s Voices: Healthy Drug-Free Ways of Coping
(VHS/DVD)
This inspirational video profiles six women of varying ages, backgrounds and career paths who have chosen healthy alcohol-free and drug-free ways of dealing with the stress they face in their everyday lives. Read more...

Is It Safe For My Baby?
Risks and recommendations for the use of medication, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs during pregnancy and breastfeeding
This guide is for women who want to know how their bodies and their babies (unborn or born) may react to various substances. Set up in an A-Z format, it gives clear information about the effects of using more than 200 different substances, including alcohol and allergy medication. Read more...

Exposure to Psychotropic Medications and Other Substances during Pregnancy and Lactation
A Handbook for Health Care Providers
The handbook details the properties and effects of psychotropic medications and other substances, and provides recommendations on how to advise pregnant or lactating women using these substances. Read more...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Video (DVD)
This video is an excellent resource for prenatal-class teachers, public health nurses and libraries. Read more...

The Hidden Majority: Guidebook on Alcohol and Other Drug Issues for Counsellors Who Work with Women
The Hidden Majority examines alcohol and other drug use issues from the perspective of women’s lives. You will find this guide helpful if you provide services and support directly to women. Read more...

Highs & Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use
Highs & Lows draws on the latest theory and research to offer strategies for improving practice and developing policy to support women with substance use problems. It is a valuable resource for program developers and administrators, researchers and policy makers, therapists and counsellors, and educators and students. It is an ideal choice as a course text on this topic. Read more...

Working with Immigrant Women: Issues and Strategies for Mental Health Professionals
With an interest in changing paradigms in mental health practice, the multidisciplinary group of authors analyzes issues affecting women’s mental health and illnesses within an immigration and settlement context, critically examines literature and current research and suggests practice strategies for mental health professionals working with this population. Read more...

Hear Me, Understand Me, Support Me: What young women want you to know about depression (VALIDITY)
Hear Me, Understand Me, Support Me explores the diverse challenges that young women experience in relation to depression; prevention strategies; healthy helping relationships; the dos and don’ts of working with young women; and referrals and resources that can provide more information. Each section has three key features: “Hear Me,” “Understand Me” and “Support Me.” Read more...

 

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