Mental health medication information in Chinese (Med Ed)

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in this Cantonese video, Dr. Kenneth Fung discusses the Chinese version of Med Ed, a booklet which helps teenagers with mental health issues to understand their medication and its side effects and to help them track their side effects, symptoms and changing dosage.

The first of its kind, Med Ed is for people who are thinking about or are already taking medications for mental illness or related symptoms. It includes answers to common and less common questions about these medications as well as checklists and other tools to make tracking symptoms, activities, and side effects easy. Brief information is provided about medications known as antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti-anxiety and sleep medications, stimulants, and mood stabilizers. There are tools to help keep track of the medications, by name, dose, and directions, and a glossary to help understand the many different terms.

It was originally developed, in English and French, by Drs. Murphy, Gardner, and Kutcher of Dalhousie University in collaboration with the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO. In collaboration with the Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre at McGill University, versions of Med Ed have been developed in Arabic and Chinese.

Med Ed is available on this website in English, French, Arabic and Simplified Chinese.

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