Organizational factors and public safety personnel mental health

Session details

Date:

Time:

12:00pm - 1:30pm (Toronto time)

Location:

Zoom videoconferencing

Didactic presentation by:

Megan Edgelow

Session objectives

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe organizational factors and their impact on PSP mental health
  2. Recognize which organizational factors can be modified

Session resources

Didactic presentation: Organizational factors and public safety personnel mental health
In this presentation, Dr. Megan Edgelow describes organizational factors and their impact on PSP mental health and how to recognize which organizational factors can be modified.
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About presenter

Dr. Megan Edgelow is an occupational therapist who works as a clinician, researcher, and educator. She is an Assistant Professor at Queen's University in the Faculty of Health Sciences, where she teaches and supervises students in the Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation and Health Leadership, and Health Professions Education Programs.

She has two decades of clinical experience in mental health practice and maintains a small private practice in the Kingston, ON region. She also has research expertise with occupational therapy mental health interventions. In her current research, she focuses on return to work for populations with work-related psychological injuries, including first responders and public safety personnel.

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