Justice committee  Exactly. The point of our recommendation was that any regulated health provider should be able to assess whether in fact the condition is present. I think the more complex assessment is going to be whether that condition would impact the person's capacity to give consent. There m

Justice committee  Thank you. Good evening. Thank you, honourable members of the committee, for giving the Canadian Psychological Association the opportunity to speak to you this evening about Bill C-14. The CPA has two specific concerns with the bill. The first concerns the role of health prov

Finance committee  Thank you. Good morning. My name is Dr. Karen Cohen. I'm the chief executive officer of the Canadian Psychological Association. CPA is the national association of Canada's psychologists. The federal government has an important role to play in Canada's mental health. We're pleas

Health committee  I think one of the really significant next steps for the Mental Health Commission would be around implementation. They came out with a number of guidelines. You mentioned, of course, the strategy, and the psychological safety in the workplace guidelines. The great challenge that

Health committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and committee members. My name is Dr. Karen Cohen. I'm the chief executive officer of the Canadian Psychological Association or CPA. CPA is the national association of Canada's scientists and practitioners of psychology. Approximately 18,00

Health committee  Not to see psychologists.... If it is a requirement at all, it's either a requirement of a tertiary care institution that requires that the triage be done by medicine, or it's a requirement of the insurer that has a gatekeeping requirement, but it's not by licensure.

Health committee  The barriers in the public system for psychologists are probably similar. There are bottlenecks in terms of the public system, how referrals have to go. In some institutions you can see a psychologist directly; in other institutions it has to go through medicine. In the private

Health committee  The investment in the Mental Health Commission was terrific. The strategy is excellent. The challenges for the strategy are implementation, I think, because there are so many authorities of implementation in health, as you know. Care is delivered provincially and territorially. S

Health committee  Psychologists are employed by many public institutions. CSC is the largest employer of psychologists. They do risk assessments and they deliver treatment, depending on venue, provincial and territorial. They work in schools. They work in hospitals. One of the challenges, though,

Health committee  I think you raise an excellent point. Health happens in a lot of places, not just in hospitals and not just in doctors' offices and schools. One of the things we've often suggested in terms of the best deployment of psychologists' skills...and, like psychiatrists, we're only on

Health committee  Can I say something?

Health committee  If that was the Mental Health Initiative, there was another one around EICP, which was primary care across health, not just in mental health, so perhaps the chiropractors were involved in the latter one as opposed to the mental health one. In terms of your point about collaborat

Health committee  Post-traumatic stress disorder certainly is a condition for which there are some very robust interventions. We have a section within our membership of 7,000 that specializes in traumatic stress, in terms of research as well as practice delivery. One of the challenges, I think, w

Health committee  I'm going to answer you in English. I could try in French, but I'm going to answer you in English because I think that's actually a really tough question. There are of course jurisdictions where psychologists are salaried by public institutions, and in fact, in essence, there i

Health committee  Absolutely. There is no reason by regulation. Psychologists are regulated in our jurisdictions to deliver care. They can accept self-referrals. It is a requirement of some insurance programs and not others. It's a gatekeeping requirement. It's not a requirement that's at all tied