Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'd very much like to thank the member for his question. I will try to answer as much of that as I can.
There is certainly a complex relationship between psychopharmacology and psychotherapy. I believe that, in fact, there is a role for both. I do believe that we do not have enough research at this point to definitively speak to when and how we might engage one versus the other. We do have research, though, and several recent reviews and meta-analyses that indicate that psychotherapy is as effective or marginally more effective than pharmacotherapy for several different disorders.
If there are difficulties associated with side effects, certainly having broader, more readily available access to evidence-based psychotherapy might help us to reduce the pressure on psychiatry and physicians to provide psychopharmaceutical support when, in many cases, they don't have someone they can refer a patient to otherwise.
As for the question you asked about identifying the variables and engaging in prevention, you're right that we don't yet have the definitive results available to say that a certain variable needs to be changed or that we need to engage in a certain specific process. What we're hoping to do, starting very soon, is to engage in long-term prospective research, for example working with cadets before they engage in stressful and potentially traumatic events, measuring them before, measuring them during, and measuring them after these events. We can use that data to inform real solutions so that going forward, we can then help new eras of cadets by reducing their risk and increasing their resiliency.
As for the diagnostic differences, there are differences of opinion, of course, that go along with diagnoses. I think one of the best things we can do is to continue to support the education and increasing credentialling of persons involved with mental health. We need more legislation and restrictions on diagnoses, rather than providing more people with the capacity to diagnose, necessarily. We need to ensure that people are sufficiently educated and sufficiently experienced to make sure they're correct.