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What do client rights have to do with trauma-informed care?

  • Post author By EC Admin
  • Post date June 10, 2024

Chambers, J. (year) “What do client rights have to do with trauma-informed care?” in book title, p.311-3xx

  • Tags Rights, Trauma

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Safewards: Including Service User Voices

  • Post author By Empowerment Council
  • Post date October 20, 2017

This report includes an overview of the Safewards Model of Care and an explanation of how it is being piloted in Ontario forensic mental health facilities in response to the rise of serious incidents and charges under Ontario’s Ministry of Labour. It offers reflections on successes and opportunities for improvements in response to how staff […]

  • Tags CAMH, Our Approach

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More than Paint Colours – Dialogue about Power and Process in Patient Engagement

  • Post author By Lucy Costa
  • Post date July 21, 2017

Engaging patients in health care decision making can mean anything from collaborating on treatment plans, to designing waiting areas, to service users creating core policies for hospitals and medical schools. In the past five years, the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto has begun the early stages of collaborating with service users in […]


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Barriers & facilitators to primary care for people with mental health and/or substance use issues: a qualitative study

  • Post author By Jennifer Chambers
  • Post date January 1, 2017

A qualitative study of the experience of people with mental health or substance use histories when using (or trying to access) primary care – GPs, walk in clinics, and Emergency Departments.

  • Tags Beyond CAMH, Service User Education and Scholarship, Structural Prejudice

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Access to sexual health services for women with psychiatric disabilities

  • Post author By Lucy Costa
  • Post date January 1, 2017

Research suggests that women with psychiatric disabilities may experience particular sexual health vulnerabilities and a need for associated sexual health services. These vulnerabilities include increased risk of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS; lower rates of contraceptive use; unplanned and unwanted pregnancies; and higher rates of gender-based violence, including childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault and rape […]


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