In lead up to the federal government’s 2024 Budget, the CPA submitted its Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance which contains four financial asks which focus on improved access to care across the public and private sectors, creating more training positions for psychology, and increasing research funding to the Tri-Councils and funding for students and post-doctoral Fellows. The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH), of which the CPA is a founding member, also submitted a Brief.
Month: August 2023
New Position Statement: Promotion of Gender Diversity and Expression and Prevention of Gender-Related Hate and Harm
The Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) through its Code of Ethics and policy statements, has long held a commitment to human rights, social justice, and the dignity of persons. Despite this commitment, echoed in amendments to Canada’s Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code, and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, gender-based stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination continue to persist across social systems and services (e.g., education, health, justice).
With the rise of gender minority hate and violence worldwide, this policy statement outlines the discrimination that people of gender minority face, as well as the changes that need to be made to redress it. The CPA commits to helping to bring about these changes and calls on legislators, policy makers, and agencies and individuals who deliver health and social services to assert their commitments to join us.
View the full Position Statement here (PDF).
View all of the CPA’s Position and Policy Statements here
Making connections: Shanique Victoria and Black Mental Health Canada
For many Black Canadians, their first contact with the mental health system is through the criminal justice system. Both systems that have historically marginalized and victimized minority communities, and in many ways are still doing so. Black Mental Health Canada (BMHC) is one of the organizations trying to change this paradigm. Shanique Victoria, Research Project Lead at BMHC, joins Mind Full to tell us more.
Authoritative, authoritarian and everything in between: Parenting Styles with Dr. Christina Rinaldi
How do psychologists look at parenting and parenting styles? And is there one style that tends to work better than others? We invited Dr. Christina Rinaldi to Mind Full to help answer some of the burning questions parents might have.