About My tools

My Tools

My Tools is an initiative brought to you by the Association québécoise de prévention du suicide (AQPS) with the collaboration of CETI-SMDI and the financial support of the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services. 
 

My Tools is a complementary platform to suicide.ca, offering mental health self-management tools to improve well-being and prevent suicidal thoughts. It was created for people aged 14 and over with suicidal thoughts, as well as anyone living with a common mental health disorder such as depression or anxiety. 
 

The development of My Tools is part of the mandate given to the AQPS by the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services to develop a provincial digital strategy for suicide prevention. 

 

My tools design team 
 

  • Françoise Roy, Clinical Manager, Digital Intervention, AQPS 

  •  Louis-Philippe Côté, associated researcher, Center for Research and Intervention on Suicide,  Ethical Issues and End-of-Life Practices (CRISE)
  •  Rock-André Blondin, Psychologist, Hôpital Montfort

  • Valéry Loranger-Lefebvre, Product Owner, AQPS 

  • Myriam Laplante, Digital Content Advisor, AQPS 

  • Véronique Landry, Digital Content Advisor, AQPS 

  • The Wepoint team

 

Translation and linguistic revision 
 

  • Lydia Jones, Training Consultant, AQPS
  • Ariane Magny, Digital Clinical Advisor, AQPS 
  • Véronique Leblanc, Digital Clinical Advisor, AQPS 
  • Jennifer Chisholm, Intervention worker for suicide.ca, AQPS 
     

With the contribution of  
 

  • Jennifer Dahak, M.Sc., Ph.D(c), Assistant to the General Director of the CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Co-director of the CETI-SMDI  

  • Audrey Fournier Gauthier, Ps. Ed., M.Sc., Planning, Programming and Research Officer – Digital Mental Health, CETI-SMDI

  • Josée Laganière, Assistant to the Director, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Programs, CIUSSS NIM 

 

Acknowledgements 
 

We would like to thank our technology partner Wepoint, as well as the Vitality Health Research Laboratory, under the direction of Janie Houle, for their tool Getting better… my way, which inspired the ideas for small steps. 

Self-assessment

The suicide.ca self-assessment tool is designed to help users reflect on their mental health. It includes several scientifically validated screening questionnaires for common mental disorders, available in French and English.

The suicide.ca self-assessment was designed by:

 
  • Cécile Bardon, Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Associate Director of the Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide, Ethical Issues and End-of-Life Practices (CRISE)
  • Geoffrey Gauvin, Professor in the Department of Psychology at Université Paris 8 and Affiliated researcher at the Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide, Ethical Issues and End-of-Life Practices (CRISE)
  • Louis-Philippe Côté, Affiliated researcher at the Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide, Ethical Issues and End-of-Life Practices (CRISE)


Authors of the various questionnaires included in the self-assessment (English version):

Cooper, Z., & Fairburn, C.G. (1987). The Eating Disorder Examination: A semistructured interview for the assessment of the specific psychopathology of eating disorders". International Journal of Eating Disorders. 6(1), 1–8. doi:10.1002/1098-108x(198701)6:1<1::aid-eat2260060102>3.0.co;2-9.

Cutrona, C. E., & Russell, D. W. (1987). The provisions of social relationships and adaptation to stress. Advances in personal relationships, 1(1), 37-67.

Dufour, M., Tremblay, J., Blanchette-Martin, N., Ferland, F., Goyette, M., Turcotte, S., Khazaal, Y., Brunelle, N., Gagnon, S. R., Tétrault-Beaudoin, C.S., Genois, R. et Légaré, A.-A. (2019). Dépistage/Évaluation du Besoin d’Aide – Internet (DÉBA-Internet). Québec.

Hirschfeld, R. M., Williams, J. B., Spitzer, R. L., Calabrese, J. R., Flynn, L., Keck, P. E., Jr., . . . Zajecka, J. (2000). Development and validation of a screening instrument for bipolar spectrum disorder: the Mood Disorder Questionnaire. Am J Psychiatry, 157(11), 1873-1875. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.157.11.1873

Kessler, R. C., Barker, P. R., Colpe, L. J., Epstein, J. F., Gfroerer, J. C., Hiripi, E., . . . Zaslavsky, A. M. (2003). Screening for serious mental illness in the general population. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 60(2), 184-189. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.60.2.184 Copyright © World Health Organization 2003

Keyes, C. L. M. (2009). Atlanta: Brief description of the mental health continuum short form (MHC-SF). Available: https://www.aacu.org/sites/default/files/MHC-SFEnglish.pdf. [On–line, retrieved 2020-08-01]

Kroenke, K., Spitzer, R. L., & Williams, J. B. Instruction manual instructions for Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) and GAD-7 measures: Pfizer Copyrights ©

Liebowitz,M.R. (1987). Social Phobia. In Anxiety (ed.D. F. Klein). pp. 141-173. Basel: Karger.

Linehan, M. M., Goodstein, J. L., Nielsen, S. L., & Chiles, J. A. (1983). Reasons for staying alive when you are thinking of killing yourself: the reasons for living inventory. J Consult Clin Psychol, 51(2), 276-286. doi:10.1037//0022-006x.51.2.276

Meyer, T. J., Miller, M. L., Metzger, R. L., & Borkovec, T. D. (1990). Development and validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Behav Res Ther, 28(6), 487-495. doi:10.1016/0005-7967(90)90135-6

Tremblay, J., Blanchette-Martin, N. (2016). Manuel d'utilisation DÉBA Alchool/Drogues/jeu-8 ; Version Adaptée pour la formation de la première ligne en dépendance, Version 2.0, Québec service de recherche en dépendance du CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale et du CISSS Chaudière-Appalache en collaboration avec le centre de réadaptation en dépendance de Montréal- Institut universitaire CIUSSS du Centre sud de l’Île de Montréal.

Tremblay, J., Blanchette-Martin, N., Ferland, F., Ménard, J.-M., et Berthelot, F. (2015). DÉBA-Jeu-8 : Détection et besoin d'aide en regard du jeu excessif, Québec, Service de recherche en Dépendance du CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale et du CISSS de Chaudière-Appalaches, www.risqtoxico.ca

Tremblay, J., Rouillard, P., et Sirois, M. (2001, rev. 2016). Dépistage/évaluation du besoin d’aide - Alcool/Drogues, Québec, Service de recherche en Dépendance du CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale et du CISSS de Chaudière-Appalaches, www.risqtoxico.ca

van Spijker, B. A., Batterham, P. J., Calear, A. L., Farrer, L., Christensen, H., Reynolds, J., & Kerkhof, A. J. (2014). The suicidal ideation attributes scale (SIDAS): Community-based validation study of a new scale for the measurement of suicidal ideation. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 44(4), 408-419. doi:10.1111/sltb.12084

Weathers, F.W., Litz, B.T., Keane, T.M., Palmieri, P.A., Marx, B.P., & Schnurr, P.P. (2013). The PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5). Scale available from the National Center for PTSD at www.ptsd.va.gov.

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