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The Urgent Need for Expanded Mental Health Benefits in Canada Before and during the pandemic, many Canadians faced mental health challenges, and now additional stressors like economic and social pressures are exacerbating the situation. According to the Commonwealth Fund's 2023 survey, over 25 percent of Canadian adults experienced mental health issues last year, up from 20 percent in 2016. However, accessing mental health care remains difficult, primarily due to cost. In Canada, much of menta...

Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders (2014) Though they haven't been updated in a long time, the 2014 guidelines published in BMC are still the only ones I know of that are Canada specific. As the guideline makes much of the content difficult to read by stowing it in tables, I've made this short version that is as true as possible to the original. Drug treatments had tables with clear recommendations, but ...

Twelve Tests and Treatments to Question by Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry Canadian Psychiatric Association Last updated: September 2023 Original text with references can be found here. Don’t use SSRIs as the first-line intervention for mild to moderately depressed teens. Evidence clearly indicates that antidepressant medication is less effective in children and adolescents up to the age of 17 years when compared to treatment in a...