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Health Care Assistant

This guide will help students in the Health Care Assistant program complete requirements for their courses.

Addictive Disorders

Addictions: Elements, History, Treatments, and Research
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2019

Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's: Insights and Discoveries
Call Number: STREAMING VIDEO
Publication Date: 2015

Dementia: Communication
CINAHL Nursing Guide - Evidence Based Care Sheet

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety Disorders - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - Canada
Anxiety Disorders
National Institute of Mental Health - USA

Anxiety Disorders in Adults
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2008
Unnerved: Anxiety, Social Change and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2021

Attention Deficit Disorder

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Canadian Mental Health Association

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Call Number: EBOOK Chapter
Publication Date: 2020
Deconstructing ADHD: Mental Disorder or Social Construct
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2022

Behavioural Variant FTD (formerly called Pick's disease) a type of Frontotemporal Dementia

Behavioral Variant FTD
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration
Identifying and Addressing Functional Communication Challenges in Patients With Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
Meade, G., Machulda, M. M., Clark, H. M., Duffy, J. R., Botha, H., Whitwell, J. L., Josephs, K. A., & Utianski, and R. L. (2024). Identifying and Addressing Functional Communication Challenges in Patients With Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 33(4), 1573–1589. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00013
What is known about the subjective needs of people with behaviouralvariant frontotemporal dementia? A scoping review
Dinand, C., Nover, S. U., Holle, D., Zischka, M., & Halek, M. (2016). What is known about the subjective needs of people with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia? A scoping review. Health & Social Care in the Community, 24(4), 375–385. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12225

Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)
Alzheimer's Society of Canada
What Are Frontotemporal Disorders? Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
National Institute on Aging - American

Primary Progressive Aphasia and Other Frontotemporal Dementias
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2019

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health - 2024
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
National Institute of Mental Health - USA
PTSD Association of Canada

Handbook of PTSD, Second Edition
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2014

Vascular Dementia

Dementia - Canada
Vascular Dementia
John Hopkins Medicine

The Common Sense Guide to Dementia for Clinicians and Caregivers
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2012
Vascular Dementia
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2011

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