WHAT: Multicultural Health and Wellness Network, MHWN 5th Annual Multicultural Health and Wellness Fair
WHO: For immigrants and newcomers
Over 45 Service Providers in HRM will be participating
WHEN: Friday, March 23, 2012
9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: St. Andrews Centre,
3380 Barnstead Lane (off Bayers Road )
Halifax, NS, B3L 4S4
The Fair provides newcomers to Canada and service providers with an opportunity to share information through booths, workshops and demonstrations. Over 45 organizations and 400 newcomers are expected to participate this year. Workshops will be on topics such as Women’s Health, Men’s Health and Children’s Health to name a few. To encourage interaction, volunteer interpreters (trained by ISIS’S interpretation program) will be on hand to provide simultaneous translation in several languages.
Contact:
Hanaa Rashid
Event Coordinator
Direct phone: 902.406.8638
Email: hrashid@isisns.ca
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Promoting Mental Health: Challenges for Psychiatry and Neuroscience
7:00 pm Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Weldon Law Building, Room 104
6061 University Avenue
Novel Tech Ethics and CIHR presents:
Jacqueline Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Many scientists now believe that mental health disorders are simply brain-based problems. Effectively treating persons with mental health disorders, then, just requires the use of pharmaceuticals to eliminate these problems. However, many scientists also acknowledge that pharmaceuticals currently on the market are not effective in enabling persons with mental health disorders to lead “normal” lives—to hold down jobs and establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships. These same scientists assume that if they can locate those brain areas that underlie those learning and memory processes relevant for leading a “normal” life, they will be able to develop pharmaceuticals that selectively restore normal function in these brain areas and thus enable persons with mental health disorders to lead “normal” lives. Professor Sullivan will challenge these assumptions and offer alternative approaches to improving the quality of life of persons with mental disorders.
Website link: http://www.noveltechethics.ca/page.php?page=6&id=52
Weldon Law Building, Room 104
6061 University Avenue
Novel Tech Ethics and CIHR presents:
Jacqueline Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Many scientists now believe that mental health disorders are simply brain-based problems. Effectively treating persons with mental health disorders, then, just requires the use of pharmaceuticals to eliminate these problems. However, many scientists also acknowledge that pharmaceuticals currently on the market are not effective in enabling persons with mental health disorders to lead “normal” lives—to hold down jobs and establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships. These same scientists assume that if they can locate those brain areas that underlie those learning and memory processes relevant for leading a “normal” life, they will be able to develop pharmaceuticals that selectively restore normal function in these brain areas and thus enable persons with mental health disorders to lead “normal” lives. Professor Sullivan will challenge these assumptions and offer alternative approaches to improving the quality of life of persons with mental disorders.
Website link: http://www.noveltechethics.ca/page.php?page=6&id=52
Raising Resilient, Relating & Responding Children
Dr. Sid S. Sodhi, Registered Psychologist,
Retired Professor of counselling Psychology
In this Workshop Dr. Sodhi will use various paradigms of child/youth development (Neuroscience/Psychodynamic/Social Learning/Existential/Spiritual) to engage parents/grandparents/teachers to develop strategies of humanistic child growth.
The following topics will be addressed:
1) What is RESILIENCE?
2) Resilient Parenting Models
3) Brain Development (Children/Teens and Resilience)
4) Mindset of Parents a) active listening
b) two way communication
5) "Failure is a Feedback", when Children acquire distance from Parents
6) Teaching Self-Discipline, Empathy, Moral-Spiritual values through Parental Modeling
7) When all you know how to use is a hammer, you keep looking for nails
8) Negative Script Parenting
9) Some Parenting Strategies for Producing Resilience in children/teens
10) Characteristics of Difficult, Unhappy troubled parents & their children
When: Saturday, March 17th from 9:30-12pm
Admission: $12 each; $10 for Canada Games Centre Members
Community Room - Space will be Limited.
Pre-Register through LifeMark Sport Medicine & Health Centre at 404-3888 or e-mail info.cgc@lifemark.ca
Retired Professor of counselling Psychology
In this Workshop Dr. Sodhi will use various paradigms of child/youth development (Neuroscience/Psychodynamic/Social Learning/Existential/Spiritual) to engage parents/grandparents/teachers to develop strategies of humanistic child growth.
The following topics will be addressed:
1) What is RESILIENCE?
2) Resilient Parenting Models
3) Brain Development (Children/Teens and Resilience)
4) Mindset of Parents a) active listening
b) two way communication
5) "Failure is a Feedback", when Children acquire distance from Parents
6) Teaching Self-Discipline, Empathy, Moral-Spiritual values through Parental Modeling
7) When all you know how to use is a hammer, you keep looking for nails
8) Negative Script Parenting
9) Some Parenting Strategies for Producing Resilience in children/teens
10) Characteristics of Difficult, Unhappy troubled parents & their children
When: Saturday, March 17th from 9:30-12pm
Admission: $12 each; $10 for Canada Games Centre Members
Community Room - Space will be Limited.
Pre-Register through LifeMark Sport Medicine & Health Centre at 404-3888 or e-mail info.cgc@lifemark.ca
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