January 2022. A Cohort-Based Case Report: The Impact of Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Embedded in a Community of Practice Framework for Healthcare Providers With PTSD and Depression. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.803279
December 2021. Psilocybin and ketamine-assisted group therapy workshops with Dr. Shannon Dames. The Daily Mushroom.
November 2021. Roots to Thrive celebrates first legal Psilocybin Mushroom group therapy treatment for nine end-of life-patients: A therapeutic first in North America. Therapsil
November 2021. First legal Psilocybin Mushroom group therapy treatment for nine end-of life-patients. Microdose Buzz.
November 2021. Canada Reaches Psychedelic Milestone with First Legal Group Psilocybin Therapy Session. Psychedelic Spotlight: The Psychedelic News Source.
November 2021: Press Release from Canadian Psychedelic Association. First legal Psilocybin Mushroom group therapy treatment for nine end-of life-patients
October 2021. How COVID-19 Opened the Door to a New Era in Psychedelic Medicine: https://time.com/6106152/psychedelic-medicine-health-care-workers/
October 2021. Vancouver Island University: Research and Creative Activity Highlights. Publication.
June, 2021. Podcast: Routine Checkup: Ketamine Assisted Therapy w/ Dr. Shannon Dames. CBC: Sickboy
May, 2021. News Release. Combining Psychedelics With Therapy To Manage Mental Health. Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
May, 2021. Webinar: Growing from our Roots: Psychedelics, Resiliency and the Roots to Thrive Model. BC Psychosocial Rehabilitation Advanced Practice
February, 2021. Radio: We look at a ketamine-assisted therapy study out of Vancouver Island University. CBC: The Current
February, 2021. Print: Growing interest in psychedelic treatments for mental illness, but expert warns more robust research needed. CBC: The Current
February, 2021. Psychedelics-Assisted Therapy Could be the Future of Mental Health Support: The Navigator
January 2021. Provincial Funding to Support RTT-Research. Education News Canada
December 2020. Webinar hosted by the Canadian Psychedelic Association: Revolutionizing Mental Health: Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
December 2020. Webinar by Benny Bloomfield. Hosted by BCCSU: BC Centre on Substance Abuse: What’s New in Addiction Nursing
December 2020. Experts favour use of magic mushroom derivatives for research into mental health treatment: Nanaimo News Bulletin
November 2020. Roots to Thrive Docu-video. By Peg Peters.
November 2020. New psychedelic treatment being used to treat PTSD in health-care workers CTV News
September 2020. Psychedelic Psychotherapy Forum. Ketamine-assisted Psychotherapy (KAP): Mechanisms and Merits: https://www.psychedelicpsychotherapy.ca/ketamine-assisted-psychotherapy-kap-mechanisms-and-merits-article
June 2020 Supporting Health-Care Professionals Suffering From Emotional Distress: Education News Canada
June 2020 Supporting Health-Care Professionals Suffering From Emotional Distress: Vancouver Island University News
June 2020 Roots to Thrive and Psychedelic-assisted Therapy: CBC Live Radio
June 2020 VIU Professor-Researches New PTSD Treatment- or Frontline Healthcare Workers: Print – My Cowichan Valley Now
June 2020 VIU Nursing Professor Receives $50,000 to Develop Psychedelic Therapies: CHLY Daily News
January 2020. Psychedelic Psychotherapy Forum: January Newsletter. Plants and Psychedelics 2020: Trail Blazing through Western Medicine: https://www.psychedelicpsychotherapy.ca/trail-blazing-through-western-medicine-article-by-shannon-dames-phd
2019 Exploring Compassion with Phil Dames: The Unshakable Man Podcast
2019 Men’s Group Facilitation Tips with Chris Wilson and Phil Dames: The Unshakable Man Podcast
2019 Making Emotions Allies and Not Enemies with Phil Dames: The Unshakable Man Podcast
2019 MSFHR: Inaugural KT Blog: Dr. Shannon Dames Encourages others to find their Roots to Thrive.
2019 MSFHR: Spark Magazine: Growing Roots to Thrive: Building Caregiver Resilience.
2018 Island Health Authority Newsletter
2018 VIU NURSING PROFESSOR RECEIVES $10,000 REACH AWARD: VIU News
2018-19 Research and Creative Activity Highlights. Nursing Professor Receives $10,000 Reach Award.
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Dames, S., Kryskow, P., Watler, C. (2022). A Cohort-Based Case Report: The Impact of Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Embedded in a Community of Practice Framework for Healthcare Providers with PTSD and Depression. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.803279 Dames, S. (2020). Why are you thriving when I’m barely surviving?: An exploration of personal resiliency factors that enable novice nurses to thrive. Emerging Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research in Education and Psychology, 4(2), 16-35. doi: 10.25316/IR-15199 Dames, S. (2020). Root Strength: A Health and Care Professionals’ Guide to Minimizing Stress and Maximizing Thriving. Elsevier Textbook. Contract signed November 2019. Projected to be published late 2020. Dames, S. (2020). Roots to Thrive: Activating our innate, individual & collective human capacity for healing and resilience. An Evolving Participant Guide. Last Edition June 1st, 2020. Dames, S. (2019). Understanding and resolving conflict, Chapter 24 in Yoder-Wise, P.S. Leading and Managing in Canadian Nursing (2nd Ed.), Lyle G. Grant, Canadian Editor, Elsevier. Dames, S. (2019). Managing personal/personnel problems, Chapter 26 in Yoder-Wise, P.S. Leading and Managing in Canadian Nursing (2nd Ed.), Janice Wadell Nancy Walton-Ryerson, Canadian Editors, Elsevier. Dames, S. (2018). Stacking the Deck to Promote Thriving as Student Nurses Prepare to Enter Professional Practice: A Qualitative Study of Interplaying Factors that Enable Novices Nurses to Thrive. Nurse Education in Practice. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2019.02.013. Impact factor: 1.313. Dames, S. (2018). THRIVEable Work Environments: A study of interplaying factors that enable novice nurses to thrive. The Journal of Nursing Management, (26)6. doi:10.1111/jonm.12712. Impact factor: 1.912. Dames, S. (2018). The Impact of Interplaying and Compounding Factors in the Novice Nurse Journey: A Basic Qualitative Research Study. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research. doi:10.1177/0844562118817079. Dames, S. & Javorski, S. (2018). Sense of Coherence, a Worthy Factor toward Nursing Student and New Graduate Satisfaction with Nursing, Goal Setting Affinities, and Coping Tendencies. Quality Advancement in Nursing Education. LINK: Sense of Coherence toward Novice Nurse Satisfaction |
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