Short Glossary

CAD PPP — purchasing power in Canadian dollars at Ukrainian prices. A notional CAD amount that, after conversion at the fixed NBU exchange rate, would buy in Ukraine as much as the original amount buys in its own country. Canadian amounts are multiplied by 0.29845487; Ukrainian amounts in comparisons are divided by 31.5383. The price basis is the World Bank's national consumption purchasing-power parities for 2025.

ACT — Assertive Community Treatment. Intensive multidisciplinary community care: outreach, treatment, and support for everyday functioning with complex, longstanding disorders.

CANMAT — Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments. A Canadian professional and scientific network developing clinical guidelines for mood disorders.

CLBC — Community Living British Columbia. A provincial organization funding support for adults with intellectual disability and certain other groups under defined eligibility criteria.

Consultation-liaison psychiatry. Psychiatric consultation and collaboration with other medical specialties, principally in general hospitals.

CRCL — Crisis Response, Community Led. Community mental health crisis-response teams, formerly called PACT.

CYMH — Child and Youth Mental Health. Child and adolescent services of the Ministry of Children and Family Development, MCFD.

DDMHS — Developmental Disabilities Mental Health Services. Specialized care for people with intellectual disability and mental health or complex behavioural problems.

ECT — Electroconvulsive Therapy. Treatment inducing a controlled seizure under general anaesthesia and muscle relaxation.

EPI — Early Psychosis Intervention. Specialized treatment, family work, and support for education and employment early in psychosis.

FNHA — First Nations Health Authority. The First Nations health organization in British Columbia, supporting clinical services, community programs, and culturally appropriate care.

Housing First. Providing stable housing with support as an early step in care for people experiencing homelessness.

ICM — Intensive Case Management. Intensive community care coordination, including for addiction and housing instability.

IRAS — Independent Rights Advice Service. Independent explanation of rights for people hospitalized under British Columbia's Mental Health Act.

LFP — Longitudinal Family Physician. A payment model for continuing family physician care, incorporating time, contacts, and attached patients.

MAID — Medical Assistance in Dying. Medical assistance in voluntarily ending life under federally established eligibility criteria.

mhGAP — Mental Health Gap Action Programme. WHO's program for developing care for mental, neurological, and substance use disorders in non-specialist services.

MHSU — Mental Health and Substance Use. A common designation for BC services.

MSP — Medical Services Plan. British Columbia's provincial program funding specified health services, including medically necessary physician care.

NCRMD — Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder. A Canadian legal finding of absence of criminal responsibility because of mental disorder; subsequent dispositions are made by a court or Review Board.

OAT — Opioid Agonist Treatment. Treatment of opioid dependence with agonists such as methadone or buprenorphine; the corresponding organized Ukrainian program is maintenance substitution therapy, known by the Ukrainian abbreviation ZPT.

OUD — Opioid Use Disorder. A diagnostic category encompassing loss of control, craving, and clinically significant consequences of opioid use.

RCC — Registered Clinical Counsellor. A professional designation of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors.

Recovery. Personal recovery: meaningful life, relationships, activity, and the ability to influence one's future while receiving treatment for a longstanding disorder.

RPN — Registered Psychiatric Nurse. A nurse whose entry-level professional education is in psychiatric nursing.

eHealth; medical information system. Ukraine's electronic health care system and the information system through which a facility works with electronic records.

NPM — National Preventive Mechanism. Independent monitoring of places of detention within the human rights protection system.

NHSU — National Health Service of Ukraine. The national purchaser of health services under the Medical Guarantees Program.

Supported living. A social service combining community accommodation with help in daily living, self-care, and participation in society.

Rehabilitation. Assistance in restoring or maintaining functioning, independence, and participation in life.