Canada is experiencing a crisis in child + youth health. Measurable decline in the health and wellbeing of children has implications at the individual, family, society, and systems levels.

It's time to move beyond band-aid solutions towards transformative systems change.

More evidence on the positive benefit of exercise on youth mental health.

⁦Kwadwo Kyeremanteng⁩, I thought you’d appreciate this ☺️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

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In the latest episode of MMM, Louise Perry & DrTracyVaillancourt discuss aggression among teenage girls, how boys and girls differ in their aggressive tactics, why women dislike overt sexiness in other women, and more. youtu.be/bh6q-QVf5-U

Patient is adamant that she does not feel fine…

Doctor: I think you are just anxious.

The prescribing of psychotropic meds for children and adolescents ⬆️ in France after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Study: Lengthy School Closures Were Especially Hard on High-Achieving Students The 74 the74million.org/article/study-…

Stonewalling is abuse. 🤬 Glad you wrote this Brooke Baldwin!

Our team is so amazing :) Heather Brittain Ann Farrell Dr. Irene Vitoroulis and Dr. Krygsman

🧵Here we go again, another anti- #MAID activist in academe spouting the usual intellectually dishonest misread of Canada’s assisted dying laws, trying to convince the lay public there’s something grievously wrong.
There isn’t.
Here, the The Globe and Mail’s learned contributor
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MAiD opinion pieces always cause me angst. My sister and father used MAiD. They died with dignity and were incredibly thankful it existed. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

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I have been an advocate for safe sports for a very long time (example below). We absolutely need to protect athletes. But we also need to consider that *coaches* can also be bullied and harassed. This too needs to be addressed.

Recommended reading for revival.care.

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Canadian health care is the envy of no one, and our fierce loyalty to the mirage of a functioning system is literally killing people.

We can’t even get the basics right, and we’re adding new programs on top. This is insane.
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Coach Maggie

Looking forward to working with these amazing athletes!

A reviewer just stated that bullying and cyberbullying are NOT “overlapping constructs” and emphasized this point with an exclamation mark.

They ARE overlapping constructs (see Haltigan & Vaillancourt, 2018). That is, bullying is defined by degree and not by type.

I am reminded daily that there are really amazing people in education. Smart, kind, and dedicated. 💫

🚨 Social media exerts unprecedented pressure on young people by promoting unrealistic body standards. Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, now affect over a million Canadians. DrTracyVaillancourt Recherche et innovation uOttawa The Conversation Canada
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