CrossCurrents Winter 2004/05

CrossCurrents

Only those articles with links (underlined) are available online.

• Focus: Over the Rainbow: Issues in Sexual Orientation and Gende
  • Better dead than queer: Youth suicide and discrimination in a heterosexual world
  • Straight talk: Creating bridges between health care providers and the LGBT community
  • The doctor is in: Sexual minority physicians still serve in silence
  • Double jeopardy: Building strong communities to fight homophobia and racism
  • The woman inside: Gender reassignment surgery follows half a century as an outsider
  • Q&A: Meth, men and myths: Substance use and the gay club scene
• Note from the Editor
• News from CAMH
• Profile
  • Youth treatment system a signature effort in the world of integration
• News
  • Kirby report calls for national mental health and addiction strategy
  • Harnessing the benefits of animal-assisted interventions
  • Substance use decreases medication compliance, increases relapse

• Research Update
  • Amygdala plays role in unlearning fears / Gene linked to depression, alcohol dependence / Maternal conditions affect child's later suicide risk / Needle exchange users take fewer HIV risks / Early puberty linked to substanc abuse / Therapy vs. medication for social anxiety / Emergency room intervention may reduce alcohol use
• Reviews
  • Paradigms of personality assessment: Converging and diverging approaches
  • Roadblocks to cognitive-behavioural therapy: Rethinking the challenges
• The Last Word
  • Banning doping in sport: An impossible dream
• Conferences

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