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This fall, we are delighted to introduce a new group program for parents of children ages 3 to 11 years. 

Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) is an effective, evidence-based behavioural parenting intervention developed in Australia and now implemented in more than 24 countries. The program gives parents simple and practical skills and strategies that they can use to raise confident, healthy children and to build stronger family relationships. It also helps parents manage challenging behaviours.

An interesting article in Science News by Christine Purdon and Brenda Chiang.

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On June 1, 2017 Bill 89 (“Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act”) passed third reading and received Royal Assent in the Ontario legislature.

What is the purpose of this Act?

This Act is intended to replace the Child & Family Services Act (1990), which will be repealed in the next few years. A number of regulations will be finalized and implemented over the next two years.

The purpose of the new Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act (2017) is:

We were delighted to welcome Dr. Marjory Phillips as our new CMHR Director on January 2, 2018. Dr. Phillips is an alumnus of the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ Doctoral Training Program in Clinical Psychology (1993). She has held a variety of senior management and clinical service positions during her 24-year professional career, during which she has developed a stellar reputation both here in Ontario and across the country for her professional and clinical leadership within the field of psychology. Prior to taking up her new position at the CMHR, Dr. Phillips served as a senior Director at the Child Development Institute in Toronto, where she was responsible for mental health intervention services, program development, implementation, and research and evaluation of innovative evidence-informed programs for children and youth, with particular interests and expertise in the areas of learning disabilities and models of clinical supervision. Previously, Dr. Phillips was the founder and Director of the psychology training clinic for graduate students at Queen’s University.

The students and faculty gathered in the Centre for Mental Health Research on September 29, 2017 to bid farewell to our CMHR Director, Dr. Ian Nicholson. We are grateful to Ian for his dedicated service to CMHR training and education, clinical services, and research.

The Centre for Mental Health Research was pleased to host Dr. Carole Sinclair for a workshop on “Revisions to the Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists, Fourth Edition (CPA, 2017)". Dr. Sinclair, chair for the last several years of the Canadian Psychological Association Ethics Committee, walked through the history of the code and how it has developed to meet the needs of our profession in Canada.

The Centre for Mental Health Research is proud that the important service with refugee mental health provided by one of the Department of Psychology's doctoral student's, Brenda Chiang, and one of our adjunct faculty, Dr. Nicole Ethier, is highlighted in the current issue of the Faculty of Arts' publication for its alumni and friends, Arts & Letters.