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CPA Submits Brief to Develop Canada’s First Men & Boys Health Strategy (May 2026)

CPA Webmaster — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:38:31 +0000

The CPA submitted a Brief in response to the federal government's call for a national conversation that will lead to Canada's first men and boys health strategy.

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CPA Provides Perspective to Special Joint Parliamentary Committee on MAiD (May 2026)

CPA Webmaster — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:36:25 +0000

With access to MAiD when a mental disorder is the sole underlying medical condition (MD-SUMC) postponed to March 17, 2027, the CPA sent a letter to the co-Chairs of the Special Joint Parliamentary Committee on MAiD that focused on the expert assessment role of psychologists.

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CPA Outlines Asks as part of Federal Government’s 2026/27 Pre-Budget Consultation Process (May 2026)

CPA Webmaster — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:49:54 +0000

With the federal budget now being tabled in the Fall (as opposed to the Spring of each year), the CPA has submitted its Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance outlining its four priorities/asks of the federal government for Budget 2026/27.

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Asian Heritage Month: Gina Ko

CPA Webmaster — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:01:34 +0000

We spoke with Dr. Gina Ko on the CPA podcast Mind Full when she launched her podcast Against The Tides Of Racism in 2021. It's still going strong, and we caught up with Gina to discuss the impact of the podcast and the progress that has occurred, including the founding of an Asian Psychology Section at the CPA.

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New “Psychology Works” Fact Sheet

CPA Webmaster — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:59:51 +0000

The CPA has created new "Psychology Works" Fact Sheets on Developmental Trauma.

Developmental Trauma- PDF | HTML 04/2026

You can find all of our "Psychology Works" Fact Sheets here

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PSYCHOLOGY WORKS Fact Sheet: Developmental Trauma

CPA Webmaster — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:05:10 +0000

This fact sheet focuses on children and adolescents who have experienced trauma. Trauma is a word that we often hear but may be unsure about its meaning. We can think about trauma as including 3 Es: Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual […]

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CPA Releases Roadmap to Increase Psychologists in Health Services (May 2026)

CPA Webmaster — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:23:11 +0000

As Canadians continue to struggle with high rates of mental illness and shortages of specialists such as psychologists, the CPA released a report Increasing Access, Reducing Costs and Improving Outcomes: maximizing psychologists' contributions to Canada's publicly funded health care systems. The report outlines five key strategies to help close critical gaps in access and ensure that those in need receive timely, cost-effective, evidence-based psychological care. See our news release, executive summary and the full report.

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Asian Heritage Month: Stanley Sue

CPA Webmaster — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:01:51 +0000

Known widely as a trailblazer in the field of ethnic minority psychology, Stanley Sue was a Distinguished Professor at UC Davis and Palo Alto University. His article in American Psychologist, “Science, Ethnicity and Bias: Where Have We Gone Wrong” is one of the most widely-cited publications in psychology. The article highlighted the importance of lived experience among People of Colour, and challenged much of the Western-centric science that had gone before.

Sue was a big proponent of cultural competence, the idea that psychologists and other mental health professionals must account for the cultural background of their client in order to provide effective services. In research conducted with his colleague Herman McKinney, Sue tracked more than 14,000 people accessing mental health services in Washington state. His 2001 publication, In Defense of Cultural Competency in Psychotherapy and Treatment, he pointed out many gaps in psychology when it came to the treatment of ethnic minorities, and declared cultural competence to be both a scientific and an ethical responsibility.

He co-founded the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA), along with his brother and fellow psychology professor Derald Wing Sue, in 1972. This was one of the first official organizations dedicated to exploring the mental health of Asian-Americans, and it is still enhancing cultural understanding and psychological science today.

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Asian Heritage Month: Dr. Ben C.H. Kuo

CPA Webmaster — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:01:06 +0000

In 2020, the CPA's podcast Mind Full spoke to Dr. Ben C.H. Kuo at the University of Windsor about the dual pandemic being faced by communities at the time - COVID and racism. Much of what he had to say remains relevant today, as we observe Asian Heritage Month here in Canada.

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Asian Heritage Month: Kwok Leung

CPA Webmaster — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:40:46 +0000

Kwok Leung was an influential social psychologist whose work changed the field of cross-cultural psychology. Kwok did his bachelor’s in biology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, then chose psychology for his graduate studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Drawing on Chinese culture, he sought to understand both cultural-specific and overarching trends.

Kwok was instrumental in advancing the notion that the ways people physically distribute their resources, time, and effort is heavily influenced by their culture. He also did groundbreaking work on social axioms – suggesting that it was beliefs, moreso than values, that shaped the way cultures are formed and expressed.

Kwok was an important player in the creation of the Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP), the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and the Academy of International Business. He organized the inaugural AASP conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995, and the impact of the work he and his colleagues did around that time is still being felt in both the field of psychology and in global culture itself.

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