The UBC Reducing Male Suicide Research Excellence Cluster presents, Challenging transitions: Impacts on men's mental health and suicidality which took place on December 8 from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST (Vancouver).

This virtual event featured a panel of experts in the field of men’s mental health with the discussion focused on how challenging transitions impact men’s lives. Specifically, the panel explored how major life changes, such as fatherhood, retirement, divorce and COVID-19 can both challenge men’s mental health but also muster strategies for promoting men’s well-being.

Virtual expert panel
Dr. Simon Rice, PhD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychologist and Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne

Dr. Genevieve Creighton
Manager, Knowledge Translation, Michael Smith Foundation

Dr. Marv Westwood, PhD
Emertis College, Senior Advisor to the Institute for Veterans Education and Transition (IVET), University of British Columbia

Referenced works
Interested in checking out the panel's work? Below are some referenced papers you can check out:

Dr. Simon Rice, PhD works
- Olive, L. S., **Rice, S.**, Butterworth, M., Clements, M., & Purcell, R. (2021). Do Rates of Mental Health Symptoms in Currently Competing Elite Athletes in Paralympic Sports Differ from Non-Para-Athletes?. *Sports Medicine-Open*, *7*(1), 1-9. https://www.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-02...
- Oliffe, J. L., Kelly, M. T., Gonzalez Montaner, G., Seidler, Z. E., Maher, B., & *Rice, S. M.* (2021). Men building better relationships: A scoping review. *Health Promotion Journal of Australia*. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.463

Dr. Genevieve Creighton works
- Oliffe, J. L., Broom, A., Kelly, M. T., Bottorff, J. L., **Creighton, G. M.**, & Ferlatte, O. (2018). Men on Losing a Male to Suicide: A Gender Analysis. Qualitative Health Research. Vol 28(9), 1383-1394. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...
- **Creighton, GM**, Oliffe, JL, Matthews, J., Saewyc, E. (2015) “Dulling the edges”: Young Men’s use of alcohol to deal with grief following the death of a male friend. Health Behaviour and Education Vol 41(1) 54-60. http://heb.sagepub.com/content/43/1/54

Dr. Marv Westwood, PhD work
Veteran Transition Network: https://vtncanada.org/

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