mediatherapy - using media to help elicit healthy change

What is mediatherapy?

There is pharmacotherapy (medications), psychotherapy (counselling), physiotherapy, etc. for treating and preventing medical illness.

The next natural progression is mediatherapy. The use of media in the form of audio (i.e. music), visual (i.e. video), web-based and printed materials as powerful therapeutic tools to help elicit healthy change.

There is a plethora of media available at this time. It is difficult to determine which materials may be helpful.

It will be a mandate of mediatherapy.ca to help review some of these materials using a 4 E approach:

Is the media Educational?
Is it novel or Entertaining?
Does it use Evidenced-based medicine and
Is it Effective?

With these criteria, mediatherpy.ca will recommend and feature these forms of media on this website. We encourage you to share and send any material which you may feel would be helpful and satisfies the 4 E approach.

Dr.P’s mediatherapy blog will be a place to share and discuss ideas about this exciting new therapy.

Smoking Cessation


Part 1	Part 2

Part 3	Part 4
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Quit Quitting Exercises

Central Island Smoking Intervention Clinic
(CISIC) website

Obesity: treatment and prevention

Coming Soon

Depression: treatment and prevention

Coming Soon

Childhood behaviour / ADHD

Coming Soon

Chronic pain treatment

Coming Soon

Dr. P's blog

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Youtube mediatherapy Channel

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Contact Us

We want to hear from you! If you have created or are aware of helpful resources for this exciting and ever-expanding field then please let us know.

Dr.P’s mediatherapy blog is a great place to discuss and share ideas about this emerging therapeutic tool.

Stay tuned to the mediatherapy.ca site for upcoming upgrades and additions!

Disclaimer

Disclaimer / Limit of Liability:

Making a healthy behaviour change, like quitting smoking, can be one of the best decisions you will ever make, but for some it can be a challenging experience. Longstanding success can sometimes need a multimodal approach (counselling from a health care professional (psychotherapy) and/or pharmacotherapy). This website is not intended to be a substitute for a health care professional’s advice, but it can help complement and strengthen recovery from unhealthy behaviours, like tobacco addiction.

We have used our best efforts in preparing this website. The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for every person who wants to make these healthy behaviour changes, like quitting smoking. This website shall not be liable for any health damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential or other damages. Please consult with a doctor or other qualified health care provider with regards to specific advice on your mental and physical health with these behaviour changes.

Thank you