Veterans Affairs committee  We can't give you an exact number. We didn't know you were going to ask that question.

Veterans Affairs committee  Over the last three years, and we're about to go to the fourth year, we have gone to the annual conferences that are held here, mostly in the United States. But we try to stay up to date with what's going on with people in the research and the practice end as best we can. Every y

Veterans Affairs committee  Screening is an important issue. Knowing how to screen and when to screen is really an important issue. “Adjustment disorder” is the catch-all phrase for people during the period when they first come out. The proper diagnosis for people when they first have a problem is “adjust

Veterans Affairs committee  As for the case management, basically there is a knowledge gap, at least in the Atlantic region. There's a very broad knowledge gap about PTSD and especially anybody with a comorbid disorder of PTSD and addiction. Most of the people who would encounter these individuals would hav

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, that's exactly what it is. I worked a little bit with the valley hospital in some of those collaborative relationships, me as a federal employee with provincial counterparts, psychologists inside mental health, to gain access to services for, in that case, offenders, but it

Veterans Affairs committee  My name's Steve Cann. As well as working at Whelan Psychological, I'm also a contracted clinical supervisor at the addiction treatment program in Stadacona, Halifax. Prior to this, I was a district psychologist, and prior to that I was a case management officer for Correctional S