For some 10 years, the Réseau Québécois de Télésanté (RQT) has held an annual symposium. In 2009, it will be hosted, for the first time, by the RUIS McGill. Renowned and distinguished national and internat

Une citoyenne de Ville Lasalle a publié une lettre ouverte dans les pages de La Presse le 11 août dernier. Touché par les propos de l’auteur de la lettre, Jacques Hendlisz, le directeur général de l’Instit

For Ellen Corin, PhD, the past 27 years in Montreal have spanned psychology and anthropology, the West and the developing world. There is one unifying element through her career, it is that it was not her own, but other people's stories that were impo

The Douglas Greenhouse: 25 years of horticultural therapy

Douglas Auxiliary: 50 Years of Success and Struggle

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

A study conducted at Hôpital Louis-H Lafontaine's Fernand-Seguin Research Centre and at the McGill University Health Centre has revealed that 14% of Dawson College students and staff turned to the Internet for psychological support following the

The Internet and research on anxiety: An excellent combination.

The Douglas Mental Health University Institute will be hosting an international conference on the use of Internet in mental health care, May 14 to 16 2009.