Mental Health

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All Our Relations

Finding the Path Forward

 In this urgent and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern … 290 View

Conflict Management in Law Enforcement

 Conflict Management in Law Enforcement, 4th Edition exposes readers to situations that they will encounter in their law enforcement careers and provides the legislative and procedural knowledge … 427 View

Fighting For Space

How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction

 North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of … 408 View

Mental Disorder and the Law 2/e

A Primer for Legal and Mental Health Professionals

 Canada’s criminal courts have struggled to deal effectively with the increase in mentally disordered accused. In 2017, we mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the proclamation of Bill C-30, … ; 425 View

Out Loud

Essays on Mental Illness, Stigma & Recovery

 Out Loud is a collection of more than fifty essays by people affected by mental illness. There are essays by those who have experienced mental illness themselves, by family and friends, by … 240 View

The Death of a Butterfly

Mental Health Court Diaries

 Canada has seen a dramatic increase in the numbers of mentally ill people entering the criminal justice system. In Canada and the United States, mental health courts were introduced in the late … 252 View
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Basic Psychiatric Terms and Concepts

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 This chapter introduces basic terms and concepts within the discipline of psychiatry as they arise in the course of dealing with mentally disordered accused. ; 44 $4.40 Add
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Chapter One: We Were Always Here

From: All Our Relations

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 In this reading, Tanya Talaga discusses the epidemic of suidicides among Indigenous youth in Canada. The reading includes personal recollections of the author, historical and political context … 41 $4.10 Add
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Contents

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Forward

From: Out Loud

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Introduction

From: Fighting For Space

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 In America today, overdose deaths are the highest they have ever been. Heroin has reached the middle class and suburban America. At the same time, public opinion has turned against the war on … 18 $0.18 Add
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Introduction

From: The Death of a Butterfly

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 The introduction discusses the mental health court, and its relationship with the mentally disordered accused from the perspective of Ontario Court Justice Richard D. Schneider. 7 $0.70 Add
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Chapter Two: Big Brother’s Hunger

From: All Our Relations

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 In this reading, Tanya Talaga discusses the epidemic of suidicides among Indigenous youth in Canada. The reading includes personal recollections of the author, historical and political context … 62 $6.20 Add
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History

From: The Death of a Butterfly

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 Chapter 1 provides a history of the mental health court, and how the mental health court in Toronto came to be. This chapter also looks into the increase in the numbers of mentally ill people … 38 $3.80 Add
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Introduction

From: Out Loud

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Preface

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