The Douglas Greenhouse: 25 years of horticultural therapy

In January 2003, the Quebec government adopted Bill 90, which redefined, among other things, the clinical evaluations performed by nurses. Amendments to the Nurses Act introduced the concept of the Therapeutic Nursing Plan (TNP), a document that makes

Last spring, Mike Santoro gave a conference at the Douglas as part of the activities of Social Work Week organized by Joan Simand, MSW, Professional Chief of Social Services, and her team. Social work aims to restore or improve social functioning of i

Mental health experts from around the world go from "on-line" to "in person" in Montreal!

The following press release was produced by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Westchester, Ill. — A study in the March 1st issue of the journal SLEEP suggests the presence of an intrinsic sleep problem specific to attent

McGill, MUHC and Douglas researchers, among them Alain Brunet, get top marks from Québec Science

Imagine if:  A patient’s file indicates that he has been receiving treatment and a team is handling his follow-up care – fourteen months after he died. You see patients’ names on a waiting list when, in fact, they a

Forensic mental health researcher Anne Crocker, PhD, is tackling some of today's most challenging mental health policy questions.

2008 season of the Douglas Institute's Mini-Psych School

When Douglas researcher Ellen Corin, PhD, moved from Belgium to Montréal in 1978, she was impressed with Montréalers' tolerance towards marginalized people.