2010-05-28

19th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) and 6th Congress of Asian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (ASCAPAP)
Beijing, China, 2 to 6 June 2-6, 2010


Johanne Renaud, MD, Medical Chief of the youth section of the Depressive disorders Program at the Douglas, will be presenting a poster and participating in a symposium. Her poster is titled Unmet needs and trajectories of services in youth suicide attempters and suicide completers: towards a better mental health services organization. She will also participate in a symposium, Severe disorder of mood regulation in children and adolescents, where she will talk about suicidal behavior in the context of severe mood disorder. She will be accompanied by David Cohen, Jean-Jacques Breton and Jean-Marc Guile as the other participants.

The International Association of Forensic and Mental Health Practice annual conference
Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 25-27, 2010


On May 25, Anne Crocker, PhD., Director of the Services, policy and population health Research Theme and Assistant Director of the Mental Health Policies and Knowledge Transfer, gave a presentation with her colleagues Michael Seto and Tonia Nicholls, about the National Trajectory Project. The National Trajectory project is examining the changing face of the forensic mental health population and services in Canada. The project, funded through the Mental Health Commission of Canada, is based on an ongoing study in Québec funded by the Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ). It will examine the operation of current criminal justice provisions for individuals declared not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder (NCRMD) and under the authority of a provincial or territorial review board.

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