CrossCurrents back issues (before autumn 2007)

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CrossCurrents is a unique journal in Canada that explores issues in 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. Our online edition also includes discussion forums and blogs, including an Ask the Ethicist blog, to which readers can submit questions. Read more about CrossCurrents.

For more information about CrossCurrents, 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
www.camhcrosscurrents.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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