College Street site

250 College Street, Toronto M5T 1R8 • 416 535-8501

Staff pocket guide to services for families

On this page:

• Mood and Anxiety Program – Family Support and Education Groups
• Better Behaviours Service (BBS)
• Family Assessment and Therapy
• Dual Diagnosis Resource Service
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Family Initiative
• Early Psychosis Unit (EPU), Schizophrenia Program, Family Support Program

Mood and Anxiety Program – Family Support and Education Groups

Providing psychoeducational / support groups for families and friends of individuals with major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and OCD.

• 8-week groups, with a follow-up group meeting three months later
• topics may include signs and symptoms; medications; coping skills; problem solving, etc.

Contacts:
Claudia Tindall [for depression and bipolar disorders] (ext. 4085)
Naomi Mitchell [for OCD] (ext. 6342)
Karen Fournier [for OCD] (ext. 4937)

Better Behaviours Service (BBS)

Providing service to families, including assessment of child mental health and family functioning, in several formats:

• treatment on an individual basis (i.e., issue-specific, time-limited)
• treatment in group format (i.e., evening psychoeducation groups around parenting, child behaviour and family relationships using the 14-week Incredible Years Parenting Program (IYPP); also a ‘sister’ program for children aged 6–8, called the Dinosaur Social Skills Program (DSSP), which runs for 18 weeks)
• day treatment for children aged 6–8 and their families (this five-month program runs from a community school). BBS runs groups for CAMH clients and co-facilitates/ collaborates to run the IYPP and DSSP in a school setting with the public/non-client group.

Contact:
Louise Doyon, Intake (ext. 4366)

Family Assessment and Therapy

Providing services for families under the Child, Youth and Family Program (i.e., mood and anxiety) including:

• family and marital therapy
• education about mood and anxiety problems
• parent education, behaviour management, parent-child/youth conflict
• CBT groups for children and parents
• referral to, or advocacy with, other agencies.

Contacts:
Maria Carinelli (ext. 4063)
Hanna McDonough (ext. 4999)
Maryanne Shaw (ext. 6248)

Dual Diagnosis Resource Service

This program conducts family assessments and offers short-term interventions (i.e., counselling, support, psychoeducation, information on access to community resources) to families. Agencies can also access community education on the impact of dual diagnosis on families.

Contact:
Kevin Stoddart (ext. 7808)

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Family Initiative

Provides information by phone, e-mail or mail about where to obtain CBT at CAMH, in the community and information about the family support group at CAMH.

Contact:
Carol Garson (ext. 4865)

Early Psychosis Unit (EPU), Schizophrenia Program, Family Support Program

This program provides time-limited psychoeducation and supportive counselling services, on an individual basis, to families and significant others of clients currently on the EPU.

Contact:
Lisa Martens (ext. 4016)

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