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The University of Waterloo is extending an invitation to the free GRADflix showcase, tomorrow, Thursday, January 10 from 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm. GRADflix is a competition for graduate students that involves explaining your research in a 1-minute video. One of our Clinical graduate students, Siobhan Sutherland, has been selected as a finalist and her video will be shown tomorrow with 14 others at the viewing event (wine and cheese to follow!). At the showcase, judges will select 4 winners and the audience will vote for one People's Choice Award winner using their smartphones.

The University of Waterloo was one of the first in Canada to have its own in-house training facility for their clinical psychology PhD program. Today, the Centre for Mental Health Research and Treatment celebrates 10 years of excellence in research, practice and treatment services on campus and in the regional community.

Dr. Dillon Browne, from the University of Waterloo's Psychology Department, wrote an article for Psychology Today concerning why families should be involved in a child's therapy. You can read Dr. Browne's article here.

This fall, we are delighted to introduce a new group program for parents of children ages 3 to 11 years. 

Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) is an effective, evidence-based behavioural parenting intervention developed in Australia and now implemented in more than 24 countries. The program gives parents simple and practical skills and strategies that they can use to raise confident, healthy children and to build stronger family relationships. It also helps parents manage challenging behaviours.

An interesting article in Science News by Christine Purdon and Brenda Chiang.

Understanding fear of guilt key in better treating OCD.

On June 1, 2017 Bill 89 (“Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act”) passed third reading and received Royal Assent in the Ontario legislature.

What is the purpose of this Act?

This Act is intended to replace the Child & Family Services Act (1990), which will be repealed in the next few years. A number of regulations will be finalized and implemented over the next two years.

The purpose of the new Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act (2017) is:

We were delighted to welcome Dr. Marjory Phillips as our new CMHR Director on January 2, 2018. Dr. Phillips is an alumnus of the University of Waterloo Doctoral Training Program in Clinical Psychology (1993). She has held a variety of senior management and clinical service positions during her 24-year professional career, during which she has developed a stellar reputation both here in Ontario and across the country for her professional and clinical leadership within the field of psychology. Prior to taking up her new position at the CMHR, Dr. Phillips served as a senior Director at the Child Development Institute in Toronto, where she was responsible for mental health intervention services, program development, implementation, and research and evaluation of innovative evidence-informed programs for children and youth, with particular interests and expertise in the areas of learning disabilities and models of clinical supervision. Previously, Dr. Phillips was the founder and Director of the psychology training clinic for graduate students at Queen’s University.