Treating Conditions and Disorders

Quick access to mental health information

Learn practical, evidence-based information for supporting patients and treating mental health and addictions.  Topics are organized to help professionals make informed decisions about mental health care.  Resources listed here may be relevant to multiple disciplines.
    

Psychiatry in Primary Care and the Primary Care Addiction Toolkit

These chapters from Psychiatry in Primary Care and the Primary Care Addiction Toolkit provide a comprehensive, practical resource designed to support the work of primary care providers who encounter mental health problems in their everyday practice. 

• Adult ADHD
• Anxiety Disorders
• Dementia
• Depression
• Disability and insurance claims in primary care
• Eating Disorders
• Fundamentals of Addiction
• Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD)
• Mania
• OCD
• Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder - newly updated
• Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders
• Personality Disorders
• Psychosis
• PTSD
• Sleep Disorders
• Smoking Cessation
• Suicide Risk
• The Art of the Brief Psychiatric Interview in Primary Care
    

Virtual Mental Health

Virtual care is any clinical interaction between patients and health providers through communication technologies, including video- and/or audio- modalities for providing care. The aim of virtual care is to provide person-centered, quality of care that is equitable, safe, and effective. Learn more.
  

NAVIGATE

NAVIGATE is a standardized, evidence-based treatment program that focuses on recovery for youth and emerging adults with a first episode of psychosis. NAVIGATE coordinates specialty care provided by a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and service providers offering client and family resources. Learn more. 

Approaches to Care: Patient-Centred Care

Client/patient- and family-centred care is an approach that fosters respectful, compassionate, culturally appropriate and competent care that is responsive to the needs, values, beliefs and preferences of clients, patients and their family members. Learn more.

CAMH Virtual Reality (VR) Suicide risk assessment training

The CAMH Simulation Centre has designed and developed an innovative Virtual Reality (VR) suicide risk assessment training. This VR suicide risk assessment training offers participants the opportunity to complete a suicide risk assessment with two different avatar patients. 
  

Treating Youth Depression

The CARIBOU Pathway by CAMH: An integrated care pathway for the treatment of youth depression
The CARIBOU pathway is an integrated care pathway (ICP) for outpatient youth ages 13 to 24 with depression, an evidence-based approach to treating depression in youth using a measurement-based care framework for assessing and monitoring their progress.
  

Professionals Projects

The Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Project (IRMHP)

The Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Project (IRMHP) - New on camh.ca. IRMHP offers online training, tools and resources to settlement, social and health service professionals working with immigrants and refugees. By participating, you’ll gain new knowledge, skills, tools and strategies to apply to your work. You’ll have the opportunity to connect and exchange ideas and experiences with hundreds of service providers across Canada and obtain advice from experts in the field. All activities are self-paced, so take your time and explore all the elements of the project. 
  

Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA)

HEIA is a practical tool for identifying and improving the health equity impacts of your initiatives. Learn more.
  

Health Care Access Research and Developmental Disabilities (HCARDD)

HCARDD works on improving the health and health care of adults with developmental disabilities. They have been studying the health and health care of over 66,000 adults with developmental disabilities in Ontario since 2010. Learn more.
  

Opioid Use in Primary Care Virtual annual conference

Designed for anyone involved in the care and support of people who use opioids, this one-day event will provide the opportunity to learn about and discuss topics related to opioid use practices, policies, treatments and harm reduction. Learn more.

Other initiatives for professionals

Coping with COVID-19 ECHO

ECHO Coping with COVID is designed for Healthcare Providers and Health Professions Students responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more.
  

ECHO Ontario Mental Health

ECHO Ontario Mental Health is a virtual training and capacity building model that supports healthcare providers in delivering high quality, evidence-based mental health and addictions care in their local communities. Learn more.
   

Ontario Psychiatric Outreach Program (OPOP)

The Ontario Psychiatric Outreach Program (OPOP), formed in 1999, is a collaborative and dynamic network of dedicated academics and practitioners in the mental health field, sharing expertise and resources to deliver clinical services and education to Ontario's rural, remote and under-serviced areas.  Includes the Northern Psychiatric Outreach Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (NPOP-C) program. Learn more.
  

Supporting a Family Member With Schizophrenia

Supporting a family member with schizophrenia offers tools and resources that help people with schizophrenia and their families develop customized strategies that support an independent and fulfilling life in the community. Learn more.