Mind Full: The Canadian Psychological Association podcast

Embodiment is a recognition of the way your mind and body are connected - paying attention to the signals your body sends you can help a great deal. Dr. Julie Beaulac, Casey Berglund, and Courtney Amo have written a book on the subject, specifically for leaders and bringing embodiment to a leadership role. Dr. Beaulac and Casey sit down with Mind Full to tell us about it. The Mind-Body Way book: h...

PeerScholar is a tool used by universities and schools around the world to assist students in working collaboratively - reviewing papers and projects for one another, and getting feedback outside of the direct student-to-teacher system of handing in assignments. We spoke to Dr. Steve Joordens, one of the creators of PeerScholar, about how it works and the needs it is meeting. PeerScholar videos: h...

It's Be A Donor month in April, and we wanted to explore the factors that either encourage or discourage people from becoming organ donors. The vast majority of Canadians say they are in favour of organ donation, yet most are not organ donors. Why is this? And why doesn't an 'opt-out' option solve the problem? We spoke with Dr. Jake Crawshaw about this and more. Reach out to Dr. Crawshaw directly...

As Dr. Karen Cohen prepares to retire as CPA CEO, we reflect on her remarkable career - the highs, the lows, the many accomplishments and the work that is still to be done.

Dr. Anastasia Jane Gibson is a transgender psychologist and musician in Brandon, Manitoba. We discuss the fear-mongering that is endangering the gender diverse community in the leadup to Transgender Day of Visibility March 31st. We also talk music and performing in semi-rural Manitoba. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1hMStRpS1oRMiYQPTkmWx8 Webpage www.anastasiajane.com Apple music page ht...

Dr. Ravin Alaei joins Mind Full to explain 'attachment style' in relationships, and to tell us about his study linking attachment style to musical taste. Yes, it's just another excuse for Eric to talk to someone about music. Some of what we talked about is here: Individuals' favorite songs' lyrics reflect their attachment style Study published in the journal Personal Relationships https://onlineli...

Ontario Health’s Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence is looking to create a more integrated, higher quality, and more accessible mental health and addictions system in Ontario. To that end, they have recruited five Provincial Clinical Leads to champion different areas of focus. Two of those Clinical Leads, Dr. Caitlin Davey and Dr. Randi McCabe join Mind Full to talk about this progr...

Dr. Helen Ofosu returns to the Mind Full podcast on the occasion of the publication of her new book, How To Be Resilient In Your Career: Facing Up To Barriers At Work. An Industrial/Organizational psychologist, Dr. Ofosu helps employees navigate difficult career choices, and discusses some of the themes of her new book with us. Did you know books have trailers now? Check out Dr. Ofosu's trailer he...

Les étudiantes en psychologie de Montréal Marjolaine Rivest-Beauregard et Justine Fortin ont créé le balado Sors de ma tête au début de la pandémie de COVID-19 pour contrer la désinformation et rendre la science accessible aux non-scientifiques. Elles ont par la suite diversifié les thèmes de leur émission et s’apprêtent à lancer leur troisième saison. Podcast : https://baladoquebec.ca/covid-19-so...

Our Psychology Month series continues today with Nardeen Yalda and her professor at the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Leora Swartzman. Dr. Swartzman has created a program to pair students with community organizations to implement change on the ground. That program led Nardeen to working with organizations helping the homeless.

Our Psychology Month series continues with Canada Confesses, an online project amplifying the voices of individuals affected by social inequalities and racism in Canada. We spoke with the project's founders, Nancy Tangon and Priscilla Ojomu, about how it came to be and how others can get involved. https://www.canadaconfesses.ca/

As we celebrate Psychology Month in February, we're highlighting some of the terrific efforts psychology students are making outside the classroom. Today, we're speaking with Thilini Dissanayake and Kevin Prada at the University of Manitoba about their initiative A Listening Ear, where they set up in public places to have conversations with strangers.

Dr. Maya Yampolsky's research introduces the concept of 'intimate racism' - that being racism that comes from those closest to us, particularly in intercultural relationships. Dr. Yampolsky has shown that this kind of racism is far more prevalent than we might otherwise think, and shares some personal examples that illustrate the issue in vivid context. Research article 'Intimate racism from one's...

We invited Dr. Lindsay McCunn on to the Mind Full podcast to talk about a chapter she co-wrote with CPA CEO Dr. Karen Cohen in the recent book 'Climate Action and Global Psychology', and psychology's role in protecting our world. We ended up talking about what environmental psychologists do (it's not all about climate change!) and, eventually, got to the book chapter which you can find here: https...

For years, it has been conventional wisdom that depression can be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Conventional wisdom in the general public - but not among psychiatrists who have long known this is not necessarily the case. We speak to Dr. Joel Paris about the persistence of this myth, and the value of increasing funding for therapy in addition to - and on occasion in place of - medic...

Dr. Lori Brotto is the author of the 2018 book 'Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire'. This year she published a companion piece, a workbook that provides strategies that women (and men!) can use. Kathryn and Eric speak with Dr. Brotto about the new workbook, sex in relationships, and how the stigma around sex research has changed over the past few decades. For links to b...

This is a discussion we had earlier this year with Dr. Andrew Kim and Dr. Nassim Tabri about the psychology of addiction. It was part of our Psychology Month campaign, highlighting the work of the CPA's Addiction Psychology section. To read the profile of Dr. Tabri and Dr. Kim: https://cpa.ca/psychology-month-profile-dr-andrew-hyounsoo-kim-and-dr-nassim-tabri-addiction-psychology-section/

A huge international study of heterosexual male-female couples looked at whether one partner or the other had a better sense of where their relationship was headed. There was no difference between men and women when it came to measuring relationship satisfaction, busting the myth of the well-worn cliché 'happy wife happy life'. Dr. Cheryl Harasymchuk joins us to talk about the study and the articl...

At the CPA Convention in Calgary we sold orange T-shirts to our members. The proceeds from those shirts went to the Legacy of Hope Foundation, an Indigenous-run national organization dedicated to educating Canadians about the legacy of residential schools, the sixties scoop, and the real history of Canada. To mark September 30th, the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation 2022, we spoke to Adam...

For this special standalone episode, we revisit vulvodynia with Dr. Caroline Pukall of Queen's University. Dr. Pukall and a team of researchers in Sweden are conducting a huge study to learn more about peoples' experiences with provoked vestubulodynia, a subset of vulvodynia. Join the study: https://www.sbu.se/en/ongoing-projects/development-of-a-core-outcome-set-for-treatment-of-provoked-vestibul...

I interviewed Dr. Karen Blair, Dr. Rhea Ashley Hoskin, and Bre O'Handley for a Psychology Month profile back in December. During the discussion, a word I'd never heard before came up - Femmephobia. How common is it? Who experiences it? It turns out the answers are - common enough to be literally everywhere, and everyone experiences it! Dr. Blair, Dr. Hoskin, and Bre represent the Sexual Orientatio...

Dr. Steve Joordens gave his first-year psychology class a group project - bust some myths around homelessness by collaborating with a local organization. Zaynab Azeem was inspired to work with Blankets for TO, and has turned that inspiration into a podcast of her own! Blankets for TO: https://blanketsforto.ca/ Beyond the Blankets podcast: https://anchor.fm/blankets-for-to/episodes/Introducing-Beyo...

Dr. Meghan McMurtry joins Mind Full to talk about needle fears, needle pain, and coping strategies for all of us who experience one or the other. This includes advice about vaccinating infants and very young children. Some resources mentioned in the episode: CARD framework: https://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/card New CARD video game https://immunize.ca/card-game-kids High needle fear resources: 2-page...

Dr. Houyuan Luo joins Mind Full to talk about his own struggles during the pandemic, and how he tries to avoid burnout. We also discuss options for people who are able to access therapy, and for those who can not. Some resources Dr. Luo mentions in today's episode: How to Choose the Right Psychologist? https://drhouyuan.com/2020/08/23/choosingpsychologists/ The Difference Between Psychologists, Ps...

Dr. Stryker Calvez and Dr. David Danto talk Truth, Reconciliation, and the role of Psychology from the perspective of an Indigenous psychologist and an ally. We discuss Indigenous ways of knowing and how the apply to psychology, as well as the genocide perpetrated by Canadians against our Indigenous people.