This episode of The Heart of It covers many of the mental health supports provided by Fraser Health.
If you visit an emergency department or mental health centre in your community, contact our virtual health service or receive a referral, our teams are here to help you.
Host Dr. Victoria Lee is joined by Dr. Anson Koo, Fraser Health’s program medical director and regional department head for Psychiatry and Mental Health. They discuss our community-based and digital services, why we’re seeing more mental health concerns over time, and how we decide to keep someone in the hospital against their will because we’re concerned about their mental health.
Chapters
- How to start getting help for your mental health – 3:56
- Virtual services – 9:38
- Stigma is reducing, but still exists – 13:51
- Coming to an emergency department with a mental health concern – 15:09
- Children and youth mental health – 20:21
- Involuntary admissions and the Mental Health Act – 29:09
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Guest bios
Dr. Anson Koo provides operational and medical leadership for the Mental Health and Psychiatry clinical programs in Fraser Health. His clinical focus lies in adult psychiatry and inpatient psychiatry, and his broader areas of interest include medical education and medical administration.
Learn more
- Mental health services
- Emergency help for mental health concerns
- Community mental health centres
- Virtual psychiatry unit
- Mental Health Act
About The Heart of It
Every episode, Dr. Victoria Lee, president and CEO of Fraser Health, takes listeners to the heart of health care, where passion, dedication and innovation drive individual, community and planetary health.
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This episode of The Heart of It was recorded on the traditional, ancestral and unceded shared territories of the q̓ ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), kʷikʷəƛ̓ əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt and Semiahmoo First Nations, treaty lands of the sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen) First Nation, and on the home of the Surrey-Delta Métis Association.