CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from June 2005

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from June 2005

Note from the editor.
June 22, 2005... Rural Canada is a diverse economy and society, from its rugged coasts to its agrarian heartland. It inspires a proud cultural identity for the country as celebrated by our artists and writers. It's easy to romanticize Canada's remote lands, but...

A view from CAMH.
June 22, 2005... "Insanity. "Does not the word bring to the recollection of almost every reader some face--a friend, a relative perhaps--of one who, though living, is counted among the dead? "What sad chapters in many a family history have been written...

Sketching a portrait of strength and resilience.(profile)(Phyllis Novak)
June 22, 2005... Walking up the stairs of Sketch you hear the beat of bongo drums. It's coming from the corner of a bright studio along with the sounds of a xylophone played by a young man with dreadlocks. A few steps away a punk dressed in black stares...

Book helps children whose parents drink too much.(news)
June 22, 2005... Little Maggie has heaps of wishes and worries. She wishes her father wouldn't drink so much. She worries about her father drinking too much. She wishes her family wasn't so different from other families. She worries about her family being so...

Addiction treatment workforce takes step forward with grounbreaking survey.(news)
June 22, 2005... A Pioneering study of Canada's addiction treatment workforce is shedding light on this neglected health care sector and laying the groundwork to improve services to Canadians with substance use issues. Conducted by the Canadian Centre on...

Children do fine when moms work.(research update)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Children whose mothers spend less time with them because they work outside the home display no differences in social and intellectual development during the first three years of life than children whose mothers spend a lot of time with them,...

Brains may recover after methamphetamine use.(research update)
June 22, 2005... Changes in chemical activity in certain regions of the brains of former methamphetamine users who have not used the drug for a year or more suggest some recovery of neuronal structure and function, according to researchers at the University of...

Breathing disorders linked with anxiety and depression.(research update)
June 22, 2005... There appears to be a high prevalence of anxiety and depression among patients with chronic breathing disorders, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Researchers conducted a cross-sectional analysis in which...

Client, counsellor characteristics predict therapeutic alliance.(research update)
June 22, 2005... Client and counsellor characteristics may predict the quality of therapeutic alliances, according to researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University. The study recruited 187 clients aged 18-52 starting residential rehabilitation treatment in...

Seniors' physical health improves as depression lifts.(research update)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Effectively treating depression in older adults improves physical function, according to researchers at the Indiana University Center for Aging Research. In their randomized control trial, researchers assigned 1,801 participants at least 60...

People with mental health issues turn to friends and family first.(research update)
June 22, 2005... People with mental health issues are more likely to seek help from friends and family than health professionals, according to researchers at the Health Protection Agency South West in the United Kingdom. Researchers mailed the 12-item General...

Not all smoking withdrawal symptoms due to nicotine.(research update)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Smoking nicotine-free cigarettes may be sufficient for suppressing some tobacco withdrawal symptoms such as a desire for sweets, hunger and the urge to smoke, suggesting that the withdrawal smokers feel when trying to quit may not all be due to...

College students drink and drive more than non-students.(research update)
June 22, 2005... College students are more likely to binge drink and drive drunk than their peers who are not in school, according to researchers at Boston University. To determine whether more college students are putting themselves at risk by drinking,...

Better services needed for clients with dual diagnosis.(news)
June 22, 2005... Developmental disability is more common than any other disability in Ontario's psychiatric hospital population, affecting approximately 19 per cent of inpatients, but reaching as high as 36 per cent at some sites. Yet the needs of this unique...

A voice from the wilderness: outpost psychiatry a challenging but rewarding experience.(focus)
June 22, 2005... IMAGINE AN AREA OF CANADA THE SAME SIZE AS FRANCE, with the total population of a small town (15,600). Scatter 31 small First Nations communities over that area, communities that mostly have no road access except for "winter roads" through bush...

My neighbour, my cousin, my client: dual relationships pose ethical challenges in small communities.(focus)
June 22, 2005... YOU'RE THE ONLY SOCIAL WORKER IN A SMALL RURAL COMmunity and your supervisor has just ordered you to immediately remove two children from an abusive home. The catch? The children happen to be your niece and nephew. Or you're the only...

"Sometimes you have to break your own trail": unique program prepares students for practice in remote communities.(focus)
June 22, 2005... AS A SOCIAL WORK STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH Columbia (UBC), Krista Sigurdson was working in Port McNeill on North Vancouver Island with an Aboriginal client in an alcohol withdrawal program. A few weeks later, Sigurdson visited Rivers...

Northern lifelines: aboriginal youth reach out to peers to address suicide.(focus)
June 22, 2005... ADVICE IS MOST POWERFUL WHEN IT COMES FROM SOMEone who's been there. Darlene Noreen Gazayou has been there. First she was raped by a cousin. Then, at 15, her best friend committed suicide. When Gazayou's stepfather told her the news, she rushed...

Technology goes the distance: telepsychiatry links underserviced areas with pediatric care.(focus)
June 22, 2005... WHEN PEDIATRIC PSYCHIATRIST DR. TONY PIGNATIELLO begins a session, he makes the usual introductions, chats about the weather and laughs about the long winter. The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly and people are connecting. No small feat given...

Common questions about solvent use among Aboriginal youth: this Q&A is based on an interview with Carol Hopkins, chairperson of Canada's Youth Solvent Addiction Committee, which was established through Health Canada's National Native Youth Solvent Addiction Program.(q&a)(Interview)
June 22, 2005... Is solvent abuse a growing issue in Canada, and if so, who are the users? Solvent abuse has been on the Canadian radar since the early 70s. "It has been around for a long time" says Carol Hopkins, chairperson of the Youth Solvent Addiction...

Fighting Firewater Fiction: dispelling myths of Aboriginal alcohol use.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... In Fighting Firewater Fiction: Moving Beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations, Richard W. Thatcher identifies how First Nations community members and Canadian politicians have accepted a myth as the substantive basis for program...

Gateway to Canada's North.(downloaded)(Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... CCSA has launched a web resource, Canada's Northern Territories, www.ccsa.ca. See Partnerships--Territories. It provides a gateway to free resources and a virtual forum to help isolated communities network and share promising strategies to deal...

Gateway to rural Canada.(downloaded)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... For access to an extensive range of organizations and programs, visit Rural and Remote Canada Online, www.rural-canada.ca. Browse by topics to find resources on topics such as health, Aboriginal peoples and youth. For exam pie, selecting...

Rural health in Australia.(downloaded)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Like Canada, Australia faces challenges serving its remote northern communities. Now in its second edition, the two-volume Public Health Bush Book is a simply written health promotion tool supporting those who work with remote Aboriginal...

Does Ontario need a treatment advocate?(the last word)(schizophrenia treatment)
June 22, 2005... David is 27 and has schizophrenia. He has had several past admissions to hospital when distressed by voices and delusions. On Saturday night, David is brought to the emergency room of his local hospital by staff from the hostel where he is...

Conferences.(Calendar)
June 22, 2005... CANADA 4th National Conference on Tobacco or Health June 19-22, Ottawa, Ontario Contact: 4th National Conference on Tobacco or Health, Canadian Council for Tobacco Control, 75 Albert St., Ste. 508, Ottawa, ON K1 P 5E7 tel 613 567-3050...

Editorial.
June 22, 2005... Ever since Moral Man and Immoral Society, American religious thought has, consciously or not, lived in the shadow of Reinhold Niebuhr's pessimistic assessment of the transformative impact of religious life on secular culture. No doubt there are...

Healing religion: aesthetics and analysis in the work of Kristeva and Clement.( Julia Kristeva and Catherine Clement)
June 22, 2005... "The Psychoanalyst is called upon to heal: the social command that justifies his existence is expressed in this way." (1) Two of the most influential continental thinkers of recent years are Julia Kristeva and Catherine Clement. They...

It takes at least two to reproduce (1).(theologians are trained in patristics concerned themselves about human reproductive technology)
June 22, 2005... Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness... So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be...

Can the University and the Church save each other?
June 22, 2005... At least at present, the Church and the University need each other in order to regain their right minds. A Church which, in a phrase popular in the UK at the moment, is 'mission-shaped' (1) is drawn to an instrumental vision, in which all its...

A monk, a rabbi, and the 'Meaning of this Hour': war and nonviolence in Abraham Joshua Heschel and Thomas Merton*.
June 22, 2005... "Do you know, Fontanes, what astonishes me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit." Napoleon Bonaparte "That which distinguishes us...

Raising Cain: the problem of evil and the question of responsibility.
June 22, 2005... [E]vil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it--the quality of temptation. Many Germans and many Nazis... must have been tempted not to murder, not to rob, not to let their neighbors go off to their doom,...

Now that John Paul II is no longer with us.
June 22, 2005... Forty years ago, I was a rabbi in one of the affluent suburbs of New York. I was not a beginner. My father, may he rest in peace, had been a prominent Conservative rabbi, and I had been trained in the best department of oriental studies in the...

Cultivating theology: overcoming America's skepticism about religious rationality.
June 22, 2005... It was John Locke who, in his famous "A Letter Concerning Religious Toleration" said, "every church is orthodox to itself; to others, erroneous or heretical. For whatsoever any church believes, it believes to be true and the contrary unto those...

A place for religion in science?
June 22, 2005... As Director of the Columbia Center for the Study of Science and Religion I am often asked, what is "Science and Religion?" Is it, or can it become, a real field? Or is it just a phrase, no more than a trivial coupling, clever but sterile?...

On transforming our world: critical pedagogy for interfaith education.
June 22, 2005... We live in difficult times. We are confronted with daily media images and news of violence and turmoil. We face a struggling economy and growing stratifications of wealth. We live in a divided society, polarized by issues of war, healthcare,...

Hobson-Jobson clarified-more or less.(No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam)(In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Reza Aslan No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam Random House, 2005. 310pp. $25.95 (cloth) Christopher de Bellaigue In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran Harper Collins, 2005. 283 pp....

American Christianity and the re-election of George W. Bush.(What's the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America)(Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Thomas Frank What's the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America Metropolitan Books, 2004. 306 pp. $24.00 George Lakoff Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate Chelsea...