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Publishing date: Feb 12, 2021 • February 12, 2021 • 3 minute read • In the spring, Dreamcatchers Catchers Association in Ardrossan began offering free family visits to its 40-acre ranch to help people escape the stress of COVID-19. The association has experienced a more than 80 per cent increase in demand for its counselling services. Along with EPIC members, it s advocating the province to provide provincially-funded mental health supports. Lindsay Morey/News Staff/File
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As mental stress impacts during the pandemic worsen, psychologists across Alberta are promoting the importance of supporting those who are stressed out.
The Expert Psychologists Interagency Clinical Network (EPIC), which consists of four psychological agencies and more than 60 psychologists, continues to advocate the province to provide provincially-funded mental health supports. A change.org petition in 2019 was launched with the hope
Quebec urged to list burnout as an occupational disease in update to workplace safety laws
Labour groups and medical specialists want burnout categorized as an occupational disease, meaning it would be considered the same way lung cancer is for construction workers exposed to asbestos.
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Doctors call for systemic change to tackle burnout among health-care workers
As health-care workers feel the exhaustion of the pandemic setting in, some doctors say medical organizations must do more to prevent burnout among front-line employees.
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In the Canadian Medical Association s 2017 National Physician Health Survey, 30 per cent of physicians and medical residents reported high levels of burnout. But one doctor who focuses on burnout and resilience estimates that number is even higher, especially because of the pandemic.(Massimo Pinca/Reuters)
A Quebec doctor’s death by suicide shocked the Canadian medical community and raised concerns about the mental health of health-care professionals during the pandemic.