Current issue of CrossCurrents

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. Read more of the overview about CrossCurrents.

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

In the Summer 2009 issue:

• Focus: Advances in schizophrenia treatment and recovery
  • Hope in recovery: There is life after a diagnosis of mental illness
  • First steps through psychosis: A journey through early intervention to lasting recovery
  • What clients want from treatment: Quality of life issues top list of desired outcomes
  • It's about more than symptoms: Cognitive-behavioural therapy promises to improve functioning
  • Meeting the challenge: Integrated treatment tackles co-occurring schizophrenia and substance use
  • Positive partnerships: Embracing peers as service providers to enhance recovery
  • Q&A: Can cognitive remediation benefit clients with schizophrenia?
    
    
• Note from the Editor
  
  
• A View from CAMH
  
  
• Profile
  
  • Voice hearers' groups inspire new ways to listen
    
    
• Myth Busters
  • Revisiting myths about schizophrenia
    
    
• Issues and Trends
  • Mindfulness meditation paves the road to recovery in addiction
    
    
• Research Update
  • Adjustment disorders among refugees / Case managers and client disengagement / Drugs in sexual assault / Early intervention for first-episode psychosis / Methadone and babies' risk of withdrawal / "Wet" housing reduces health costs / Integrated treatment for substance use and depression
    
    
• Downloaded
  
  
• The Last Word
  • Why work? Disincentives to employment in the benefits system
    
    
• Conferences