You will find this guide helpful if you provide services and support directly to women. The material will be useful for health and social service providers, such as counsellors, social workers, shelter workers, psychologists, nurses, physicians and pharmacists. You may also find it useful if you work in the substance use field. The Hidden Majority looks at alcohol and other drug use issues from the perspective of women's lives. It addresses topics such as: • substances and how they affect women • how to identify when alcohol or other drug use is a problem • guidelines for appropriate use of alcohol and other legal drugs • how to intervene and make appropriate referrals • enhancing women's health.

The Hidden Majority: Guidebook on Alcohol and Other Drug Issues for Counsellors Who Work with Women

Health, Fitness & Dieting

CAMH

Ontario

Addiction & Recovery

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

First Contact: A Brief Treatment for Young Substance Users helps you integrate the treatment of drug use with co-existing mental health problems. Since so many youth present with concurrent mental health and substance use problems, we have provided you with a brief, first step intervention that focuses on drug use in the context of other mental health problems. It incorporates motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural and harm reduction approaches discussed in the earlier chapters of the resource. It can be implemented in the various settings where youth present-addiction services, mental health services, social services and education programs-as a first step to more extensive treatment or as a stand-alone intervention with youth who do not need or want more treatment. It can also be offered concurrently with treatment for mental health or family issues. First Contact is suitable for youth aged 14 to 25 and is mostly used with groups of youth, but may be used in sessions with individuals.

First Contact: A Brief Treatment for Young Substance Users

Breslin, Curtis

Parenting & Relationships

People who have extreme mood swings may have bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness. Their moods may have nothing to do with things going on in their lives. The symptoms of bipolar disorder affect not only mood, but also how people think, behave and function. This guide discusses: • what bipolar disorder is • the symptoms, patterns and causes • the treatment options • what to expect during recovery from an episode of mania or depression • how partners and family members can be supportive and helpful. The guide will help people with bipolar disorder, along with their families and friends, navigate through the highs and lows toward recovery.

Bipolar Disorder: An Information Guide

Mental Health

Centre for Addiction & Mental

Finding your way around the mental health system can be confusing, frustrating, scary-and difficult. Written in easy-to-understand language, Challenges & Choices gives practical information about mental health services in Ontario and how to find them. You could be looking for services for yourself or for a family member, partner or friend. Or you could be a health care provider who wants to help clients and families find out about different services and how to use them.  Inside you will find the following valuable information: • a description of the most common types of mental health problems • tips that will help you find the services you need • contact information to research a specific problem or treatment in more detail • information about the services available-from community support to hospital treatment • a description of a range of treatment options-from natural healing to medication • the roles and functions of health care and social service providers such as doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and social workers • a summary of mental health laws, so that you will know your rights and how to make the best use of the system.  A health care provider may choose to use this book as a reference guide for clients or to have copies available in the waiting room. The size and format make it easy to photocopy sections for clients and their families.

Challenges & Choices: Finding Mental Health Services in Ontario

Reference

Beyond the Label has been developed to support people working in the fields of mental health and/or addiction by providing them with an interactive framework to discuss, learn, understand and reflect on the impact of stigma on people living with concurrent mental health and substance use problems.  Inside this easy-to- use kit you will find: - ten specially-created group activities - a presentation outline to set the stage for your workshop presentation  - master-sheets, in print and CD format, for use as photocopy handouts or to make transparencies - background information on concurrent disorders and stigma for facilitators - presentation tips and information about how to make efficient use of this material - discussion points for group and individual dialogue - facts and ideas to keep your presentation lively and focused - examples of opportune times to use this kit with a variety of audiences.  Whether you have 15 minutes, three hours or a full day, you can customize the material in Beyond the Label to suit your time frame and objectives. This resource can also be used to supplement knowledge-based training about concurrent disorders.

Beyond the Label: An Educational Kit to Promote Awareness and Understanding of the Impact of Stigma on People Living with Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Problems

Un grand nombre de renseignements erronés circulent au sujet de la consommation de médicaments, de drogues et d'alcool pendant la grossesse et l'allaitement. Les fournisseurs de soins de santé ont le devoir de connaître les véritables risques et avantages, pour la mère et son bébé, de continuer ou de cesser de prendre un médicament ou une autre substance. Or, les fournisseurs de soins ne sont pas toujours outillés pour donner les conseils les plus judicieux aux femmes qui sont enceintes ou allaitent et qui sont exposées à des psychotropes. - Y a-t-il des moments où l'on peut consommer de l'alcool sans danger pendant l'allaitement ? - Quels risques court le bébé d'une femme qui consomme du cannabis pendant la grossesse ou l'allaitement ? - Le tabagisme a-t-il des effets différents pendant la grossesse et l'allaitement ? - Quel est l'effet de la cocaïne sur le foetus ou le nouveau-né ? - Si une femme cesse de prendre un antidépresseur lorsqu'elle tombe enceinte, quelles seront les répercussions sur elle-même et le foetus ? - Une femme peut-elle allaiter sans danger si elle prend de la codéine ? Le document Exposition aux psychotropes et à d'autres substances pendant la grossesse et l'allaitement : Ressource pour les fournisseurs de soins de santé est une source pratique de renseignements et de recommandations fondés sur l'expérience clinique concernant ces questions et beaucoup d'autres. Il est destiné aux médecins de premier recours, aux psychiatres, aux pharmaciens, aux obstétriciens, aux sages femmes, aux infirmières hygiénistes et aux infirmières praticiennes. Cette ressource : - décrit en détail les propriétés et les effets de nombreux psychotropes et autres substances, et recommande des façons de conseiller les femmes qui prennent ces substances ; - dissipe les mythes couramment associés à l'exposition aux drogues pendant la grossesse et l'allaitement ; - aborde les grands principes du travail clinique auprès de femmes enceintes ou qui allaitent et qui font usage de psychotropes ou d'autres substances ; - passe en revue les concepts de toxicomanie, de dépendance et d'abus ; - propose des outils de dépistage et examine les meilleures pratiques dans ce domaine ; - explore le rôle thérapeutique important des professionnels de la santé auprès des femmes qui souhaitent modifier leur style de vie et améliorer leur santé et celle de leur bébé.

Exposition Aux Psychotropes Et D'Autres Substances Pendant La Grossesse Et L'Allaitement: Ressource Pour Les Fournisseurs de Soins de Sant (French Edition)

Motherrisk

Women's Health

A great deal of misinformation exists about women's use of substances during pregnancy and lactation. A health care provider's challenge is to know the true risks and beneﬁts, both to the mother and to her fetus or baby, of taking versus stopping the use of a medication or other substance. Yet the average provider is not well equipped to give the best advice to women who are pregnant or breastfeeding and exposed to psychotropics. - "Is it ever safe to drink alcohol when breastfeeding?" - "What are the risks to the baby if the mother uses cannabis while pregnant or breastfeeding?" - "Are the effects of smoking different during pregnancy versus during breastfeeding?" - "Can a woman safely breastfeed her baby when taking codeine?" Exposure to Psychotropic Medications and Other Substances during Pregnancy and Lactation: A Handbook for Health Care Providers is a convenient source of evidence-based information and recommendations on these and many other questions for primary care physicians, psychiatrists, pharmacists, obstetricians, midwives, public health nurses and nurse practitioners. The handbook: - details the properties and effects of many psychotropic medications and other substances, and provides recommendations for how to advise women using these substances - dispels common myths about drug exposure during pregnancy and lactation - discusses key principles for clinical approaches to working with pregnant or breastfeeding women who use psychotropic medications or other substances - covers screening best practices and provides screening tools - explores the critical therapeutic role that all health professionals can play in helping women move toward better health outcomes for themselves and their babies. The production of this handbook has been made possible through a ﬁnancial contribution from Health Canada.

Exposure to Psychotropic Medications and Other Substances During Pregnancy and Lactation: A Handbook for Health Care Providers

This booklet is designed for people who have someone in their lives who has borderline personality disorder (BPD). The first three sections include information about the symptoms and causes and treatment of BPD. Section four talks about how to support someone who has BPD and the last section discusses self-care for family and friends. Contents: - about personality disorders - about borderline personality disorder - treatment for people with BPD - supporting the family member who has BPD - self-care - recovery and hope - family crisis information sheet.

Borderline Personality Disorder: An Information Guide for Families

Le trouble de la personnalité limite: Guide d'information à l'intention des familles (French Edition)

Ce livret s'adresse aux personnes dont un proche est aux prises avec un trouble de la personnalite limite (TPL). Les trois premieres sections fournissent des renseignements sur les symptomes, les causes et le traitement du TPL. La quatrieme section presente des moyens de soutenir une personne ayant un TPL. La derniere section discute de ce que les membres de la famille et les amis peuvent faire pour prendre soin d'eux-memes. Contenu: - a propos des troubles de la personnalite; - a propos du trouble de la personnalite limite; - traitement des personnes ayant un TPL; - soutenir le membre de la famille qui a un TPL; - prendre soin de soi; - retablissement et espoir; - fiche d'information en cas de crise."

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