Mental Health Treatment

Provides individuals experiencing a mental health, addiction, or substance use crisis with streamlined, 24/7 access to a multi-disciplinary team of trained staff in an environment designed to meet emergency/urgent care needs.

Crisis conditions include:

• A serious, immediate mental health, addictions or substance use concern
  
• Risk of self-harm or harm to others
  
• Psychosis
  
• Emotional trauma, agitation, severe depression or anxiety suicidal thoughts

Epekwitk / PEI has seven hospitals offering varying levels of care.

The two main referral hospitals providing inpatient, emergency, urgent psychiatric care, outpatient, community and specialty services are:

• Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown
• Prince County Hospital, Summerside

Individuals in need of urgent psychiatric care can go to the Emergency Room at Queen Elizabeth and Prince County Hospitals. They will be triaged and then see trained mental health staff.
Four community hospitals offer a variety of services that may include emergency, acute care, extended care, and community based services:

• Souris Hospital, Souris
• Kings County Memorial Hospital, Montague
• Community Hospital, O'Leary
• Western Hospital, Alberton

One inpatient psychiatric hospital for specialized acute and long-term treatment and rehabilitation:

• Hillsborough Hospital, Charlottetown

Online list of registered psychological professionals in Epekwitk / PEI. Includes psychologists, psychological candidates, psychological associates, psychological associate candidates, and professional psychology corporations.

Provides free and confidential counselling services to farmers, fishers, and their families. By calling, they will first be connected with a professional counsellor, share the issues or concerns they are facing, and then schedule a face-to-face appointment for a counselling session.

Note: Counselling sessions are held in private, independent offices, not affiliated with any agricultural or fisheries organizations.

Counselling services offered to all Canadian Forces families.

A trained social worker can offer counselling in areas such as:

• Marriage/couple
• Depression/anxiety disorder treatment and recovery
• Adjustment to life transitions
• Self-Esteem and communication skills for successful relationships
• Childhood anxieties and attention difficulties
• Blended families, divorce/separation, and support for children

• What is anger
• The effect of anger on the body and mind
• The link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour
• Anger and underlying emotions
• Stuffing, escalating or directing feelings
• Ways to decrease anger
• Communication styles and their impacts
• Managing stress
• Problem solving

Trained peer support workers provide individualized plans to help clients to go through their mental health journey. Includes:

• Crisis intervention
• Hospital to Home program
• One-on-one session
• Peer support groups

• Psychosocial Rehabilitation through Work Order Day
• Prevocational training
• Employment services
• Housing and supports
• Wellness program
• Social and recreational activities

Helps parents and children explore what anxiety is, practice techniques to help ease anxiety, use their imagination and learn how to take control of anxiety by creating a plan to defeat worry. Includes:

• Weekly calls with one's assigned coach
• Weekly exercises
• Filling out daily worry tracker
• Review the material on the phone