CrossCurrents back issues to Winter 2002

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CrossCurrents is a unique journal in Canada that explores issues in both addiction and mental health. It informs and educates front-line health professionals, as well as allied professionals, about the latest developments and issues in the addiction and mental health fields through professionally written and first-person stories, research summaries, news and feature articles.

For more information about CrossCurrents or to obtain issues before Winter 2002, please contact:

Hema Zbogar
Editor, CrossCurrents
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
33 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 2S1
Tel: 416 595-6714
Fax: 416 595-6892
hema_zbogar@camh.net

 

 

Spring 2007

• Focus: Gender Matters - Taking action on women and substance use
  • Gender does matter: Coalescing on women and substance use
  • A good place to start: What does women-specific substance use treatment look like?
  • Misconceiving mothers: Women-centred care key to FASD prevention
  • Who cares? Mothers forced to choose between treatment and their kids
  • Lessons from the street: One woman's return from the road to nowhere
  • Surviving the sex trade: Project focuses on reducing HIV-related harms
  • Wasting away: The double danger of eating disorders and substance use
  • Q&A: Common questions about trauma and substance use among women
    
    
• Note from the Editor
• A view from CAMH
  
• Profile
  • Peer-led program asks "What's with Weed?"
    
• News
  • Does psychiatry have a place in palliative care?
  • The courage to laugh: Comedy program fights stigma, boosts self-esteem
    
• Research Update
  
• Downloaded
  
• The Last Word
  • Why do girls smoke?
    
• Conferences
  
  

Winter 2006/07

• Focus: Lifelines: Breaking the silence about suicide 
  • Breaking the silence: A call for a national suicide prevention strategy
  • My suicide attempt: How clinicians can support us on the journey back to life
  • The supportive classroom: Why school-based suicide prevention programs?
  • A life worth living: Clients with borderline personality disorder find hope
  • When suicide comes home: Helping child survivors grieve the loss of a parent
  • Dead reckoning: When therapists lose a client to suicide
  • Q&A: What role do distress centres play in the health care system?
    
    
• Note from the editor
• A View from CAMH
  
• Profile
  • Comic books tackle aboriginal youth health issues
    
• News
  • The healthy workplace: Creating a culture of civility, respect and mental safety
    
  • Adding life to years by tackling HIV and depression
    
• Research Update
  
• Downloaded
  
• The Last Word
  • Confidentiality and the suicidal client
    
• Conferences
  
  

Autumn 2006

• Focus: Healing the spirit - Aboriginal paths to health and wellness
  • Coming full circle - Cultural restoration for First Nations wellness
  • Sacred smoke, silent killer - Spiritual use or tobacco abuse?
  • Western medicine meets traditional healing
  • Longing to return home - From intergenerational trauma to intergenerational healing
  • Arctic pain - Inuit trauma/addiction program tackles massive challenge
  • Doing time to heal - Cultural understanding key to treatment with aboriginal offenders
  • Q&A - Medication overprescription among aboriginal women
• Note from the Editor
• A View from CAMH
• Profile
  • STOP Smoking project makes a good start
• News
  • Sexual minority youth speak out about homelessness
  • International resilience project identifies youth strengths
• Research Update
• Downloaded
• The Last Word
  • Why is progress so slow on supportive housing? A consumer perspective
• Conferences

Summer 2006

• Focus: Housing and Homelessness: Opening the Doors to Better Health
  • A guidepost, a marker, a map: A journey from homelessness to home
  • "Get a job": Eight myths and misconceptions about people who are homeless
  • Homecoming: One woman's quest for a place to call her own
  • Pillars of support: Against all odds, housing workers keep homes steady
  • Searching for home: Addressing the need for culturally appropriate supportive housing
  • Beyond shelter: Youth-work program provides long-term solutions to homelessness
  • Q&A: The challenges of starting a supportive housing program
• Note from the Editor
• A View from CAMH 
• Profile
  • Scratching the surface: Criminalized women express their lives through art
• News
  • Hospital design reflects shifts in attitudes, treatment of mental illness and addiction
• Research Update
• The Last Word
  • Why is progress so slow on supportive housing?

Spring 2006

• Focus: Crime and Punishment - Treating Offenders with More Compassion
  • Breaking out: Why do Canadian prisons still not have needle exchange programs?
  • This is not Wonderland  An odyssey through mental health court
  • Meditation behind bars: Inmates break out of the prison of their minds
  • The forgotten offender: Women in prison have unique substance use treatment needs
  • Care on wheels: Mobile crisis intervention teams partner police with mental health workers
  • Q&A: Common questions about drug court
• Note from the editor
• A View from CAMH
• News
  • First-person narrative: Writing on the road to recovery
  • Driving high: Awareness campaigns target an emerging issue among youth
• Research Update
• The Last Word
  • What treatment do psychopaths need?

Winter 2005/06

• Focus: Working Well - Mental Health and Addiction in the Workplace
  • Betting on the job: Gambling as a workplace issue
  • From awareness to action: Promoting a holistic vision for healthy workplaces
  • Returning to work and staying there: Supportive workplaces promote recovery
  • Bullying in nursing: Building a culture of respect combats lateral violence
  • Too crazy to work: Six myths that have misguided vocational rehabilitation
  • Q&A: Common questions about substance use and the workplace
• Note from the Editor
• A View from CAMH
• News
  • Study emphasizes need for individualized medication plans to treat schizophrenia
  • Validating the voices of young women around depression
  • Afghanistan: Narco-state or the future of pain treatment?
• Research Update
• The Last Word
  • Don't assume we're too sick to work

Autumn 2005

• Focus: In Our Own Voices
  • The bigger your community, the better your chances
  • On delusions: The torment and the euphoria
  • Psycho, patient, person: Perspectives on being labelled mentally ill
  • Between two worlds: My prescription for culturally competent care
  • Me and them: Keeping up appearances on a psychiatric crisis unit
  • A sibling's story: Brothers and sisters need support too
  • What do men want from support groups?
  • Beyond therapeutic models: Do therapists know what clients really want?
  • Q&A: Common questions about intimate relationships and people with mental health issues
• Note from the Editor
• A View from CAMH
• Profile
  • Training partnership sets global health example
• News
  • New study examines risk factors for child sexual offences
  • When caring hurts: Compassion fatigue strikes addiction workers
  • The triple whammy of acquired brain injury and concurrent disorders
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • Homework in Psychotherapy: Strategies, Guides and Forms
• The Last Word
  • Ontario doesn't need a treatment advocate - we already have them

Summer 2005

• Focus: Rural Health - Bridging the Distance
  • A voice from the wilderness: Outpost psychiatry a challenging but rewarding experience
  • My neighbour, my cousin, my client: Dual relationships pose ethical challenges in small communities
  • "Sometimes you have to break your own trail": Preparing students for practice in remote communities
  • Northern lifelines: Aboriginal youth reach out to peers to address suicide
  • Technology goes the distance: Telepsychiatry links underserviced areas with pediatric care
  • Q&A: Common questions about inhalant abuse among Aboriginal youth
• Note from the Editor
• A View from CAMH
• Profile
  • Sketching a portrait of strength and resilience
• News
  • Book helps children whose parents drink too much
  • Addiction treatment workforce takes step forward with groundbreaking survey
  • Better services needed for clients with dual diagnosis
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • Fighting Firewater Fiction: Dispelling myths of Aboriginal alcohol use
• The Last Word
  • Does Ontario need a treatment advocate?

Spring 2005

• Focus: Family Matters
  • All together now: The magic and the mess of families
  • Caring for the caregiver: Concurrent disorders pose unique challenges for families
  • Helping families gain control: Tips from the front lines to the family home
  • The long road home: Families key to caring and recovery in first episode psychosis
  • Advocacy and hope: One mother fights against the odds
  • Diagnosing the Simpsons: North America's favourite family goes to therapy
  • Q&A: Common questions about same-sex families
• Note from the Editor
• News from CAMH
• Profile
  • Community drug diversion program gets youth back on track
• News
  • Beyond the debriefing debate: Providing appropriate care after chaos
  • Breaking the silence of obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • More countries crack down on smoking in public places
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • Helping Adolescents at Risk: Prevention of Multiple Problem Behaviours
• The Last Word
  • Is feeling bad good? The evolutionary benefits of depression

Winter 2004/05

• Focus: Over the Rainbow: Issues in Sexual Orientation and Gender
  • 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
• 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

Autumn 2004

• Focus: Are Schools Making the Grade?
  • Never too late to learn: One student's journey through addiction and recovery
  • Opening the doors to success: Students benefit from school and mental health system collaboration
  • Teaching the tough ones: Special programs create hope for students with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
  • Healthy schools, healthy children: Positive school culture promotes student success and well-being
  • Too scared to learn: ESL teachers play key role in helping newcomers adjust
  • Q&A: Zero tolerance policies: Effective or disruptive?
• Note from the Editor
• News from CAMH
• Letters
• Profile
  • Regent Park Focus keeps budding media mavens on track
• News
  • Nature vs. nurture revisited: Toward a truly integrative psychiatry
  • Brazil's new drug policy emphasizes prevention and community action
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity
• The Last Word
  • Ritalin in schools: A tool to compensate for insufficient educational resources?

Summer 2004

• Focus: Violence and Aggression
  • Bully in the boardroom: Workplace aggression takes its toll on employee health and productivity
  • Putting the rap back into therapy: Music treatment challenges the rap-violence connection
  • When trust is broken: Home-visit staff need strategies to ensure their safety
  • Driven to destruction: Are road rage perpetrators victims of psychiatric distress?
  • Q&A: Women's shelters, substance use and domestic violence
• Note from the Editor
• News from CAMH
• Profile
  • Clients grow through innovative inpatient personality disorders program
• News
  • Interpreters in mental health and addiction settings bridge the language barrier
  • HIV rates in Eastern Europe reflect attitudes toward substance use
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • Beating the blues: Identifying and treating dysthymia
  • Antisocial and violent youth: Highlighting recent research on aggression
• The Last Word
  • News media perpetuate the myth about mental illness and violence

Spring 2004

• Focus: Health in Motion - The Benefits and Risks of Getting Physical
  • If you fall down, just pick yourself back up: Snowboarding teaches at-risk youth to conquer mountains - and life's challenges
  • Active bodies and healthy minds: Physical activity promotes recovery from mental illness
  • Runner's high revisited: Does exercise addiction have a place in the DSM?
  • Working out the pain: Treating eating disorders and unhealthy exercise poses double challenge
  • Q & A:Good sport/bad sport: How to foster positive participation among youth
• News from the Centre
• Note from the Editor
• Profile
  • Nurturing health at the Peace Ranch
• News
  • Ontario youth use fewer drugs but continue to binge drink
  • Canadians experience poor mental health, but few seek help, survey finds
  • Clients on disability support struggle to survive the system
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • Better than Prozac: Creating the next generation of psychiatric drugs
• The Last Word
  • Who do hospitals need: More good doctors or more good lawyers?

Winter 2003/04

• Focus: What's Next? The Future of Mental Health and Addiction
  • What's in store for psychiatry? The future of psychiatry lies in revisiting the past
  • Where is the addiction field heading? The future of treatment in a drug-crazed world requires attitude shift
  • Old treatments for new problems: Medications for pathological gambling show promising future
  • Real therapy... virtually: Simulated experiences promote actual results
  • New hope for double trouble: Dialectical behaviour therapy targets borderline personality and addiction
  • Q & A: Neuroethics: A challenge for a new age
• Note from the Editor
• News from the Centre
• Profile
  • Rural initiative addresses unique needs of concurrent disorders clients
• News
  • A tale of two cities: Lessons in addiction from Vancouver to Toronto
  • Drug report underlines need for attention to gender issues
  • Beyond shame and blame: New approach needed for treating domestically violent men
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • Understanding and treating the pathological gambler
• The Last Word
  • Pay now or pay later: Addressing one of the hidden costs of divestment

Autumn 2003

• Focus: Body and Mind
  • Caring for mind and body: Medical monitoring and lifestyle training key to good health for people with schizophrenia
  • Raising awareness of drinking and disease: Groups push to get alcohol on the cancer prevention agenda
  • Complementary therapies move into the spotlight: Therapists embrace integrative approaches to mental health care
  • Q&A: Physical and mental health in the community
• Note from the Editor
• News from the Centre
• Profile
  • PPAO celebrates two decades of advice and advocacy
• News
  • Family physicians learn to address alcohol use during pregancy
  • Shared experiences enrich peer-support networks for professionals
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • Beyond the crazy house: Going beyond pain
  • Group therapy of substance abuse: A snapshot of the state of the art
• Downloaded
• The Last Word
  • Lessons from 20 years of addiction treatment: Look after individuals and public health improvements follow

Summer 2003

• Focus: Health Promotion
  • A call to action: Health promotion enhances work of mental health and addiction practitioners
  • A matter of degree: Social norming strategy challenges campus drinking culture
  • Is your hospital healthy? Organizational commitment promotes staff well-being
  • Healthy aging: Awareness grows of need to promote mental health among older adults
  • Smoking out psychiatric institutions: Tobacco-free policies support healthier environments
  • Q&A: Common questions about health promotion
• Note from the Editor
• News from the Centre
• Profile
  • New screening protocol promises to uncover often-overlooked abuse
• News
  • Urban Elder brings traditional healing to the twenty-first century
  • Treating the terrorized: Practising on the front line
  • The Sopranos wins praise for portrayal of female therapists
  • Peer assessment process may reduce methadone-related deaths
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • Dual disorders: Counseling clients with chemical dependency and mental illness
  • Beyond crazy: Journeys through mental illness
• The Last Word
  • Is the prognosis for schizophrenia really better in low-income countries than in the West?

Spring 2003

• Focus: Art of the Mind
  • Demons and muses: Debunking the myth of the mad genius
  • Educating through the arts: World festival celebrates the essence of madness and art
  • Sex, drugs and rock 'n roll: Support programs help artists make music without drugs
  • Painting a path to well-being: Art therapy helps children of war mend the wounds
  • Q&A: Art and social activism
• Note from the Editor
• News from the Centre
• Profile
  • Community project addresses ethno-cultural mental health
• News
  • New test can determine newborn's alcohol exposure
  • Alternative milieu empowers clients, boosts staff morale
  • Quitting smoking requires many supports
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • OCD: The war inside
• The Last Word
  • Relational disorders: Disease of the month?

Winter 2002-03

• Focus: Nursing
  • Burning bright: Psychiatric nurses feel burden of care
  • Nurse-client abuse: When care turns to coercion
  • Turning smokers into quitters: Nurses prepare to help clients butt out
  • A nurse is a nurse is a ...? A showcase of nursing skill and accomplishment
  • Leading the way in restraints reform: Nurses strive to provide safe, competent and ethical care
  • Q&A: Common questions about addiction nursing
• Note from the Editor
• News from the Centre
• Profile
  • First Nations develop alcohol harm reduction policies
• News
  • Helping kids understand a parent's depression
  • Resegregating psychiatric wards may protect women
  • Report paves way for smoke-free teens
  • Intravenous drug users face barriers to hepatitis C treatment
• Research Update
• Reviews
  • The Noonday Demon: An atlas of depression
  • Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy
  • The Tao of Sobriety
• The Last Word
  • Why are Jewish men depressed?

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