Faculty members: Delphine Collin-Vézina - Director; Bree Akesson; Cindy Blackstock; Alicia Boatswain-Kyte; Sharon Bond; Angela Campbell; Franco Carnevale; Régine Debrosse, Myriam Denov; Lorraine Derocher; Sydney Duder; Stephen Ellenbogen; Tonino Esposito; Barbara Fallon; Elizabeth Fast; Kara Fletcher; Nicole Ives; Andreas Jud; Julia Krane; Lucyna Lach; Rachel Langevin; Mary Ellen Macdonald; Heather B. MacIntosh; Michael J. MacKenzie; Zack Marshall; Katherine Maurer; Lise Milne; Tina Montreuil; Jennifer Nutton; Anne-Marie Piché; Marjorie Rabiau; David Rothwell; Mónica Ruiz-Casares; Mireille De La Sablonnière-Griffin; Vandna Sinha; Wendy Thomson; Nico Trocmé; Argerie Tsimicalis; Luna Vives
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Delphine Collin-Vézina (Director) |
Child welfare and child maltreatment; Child and family health and wellbeing; Trauma and resilience; Sexual Abuse |
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Bree Akesson |
Child and Family Health and Well-being; Trauma and Resilience; International Child Protection; Children and Families affected by Political Violence |
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Cindy Blackstock |
Indigenous theory; Indigenous rights advocacy; Identification & remediation of structural inequalities affecting First Nations children, youth & families; Culturally based & evidence informed solutions for Indigenous children, youth & families |
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Alicia Boatswain-Kyte |
Child maltreatment; Community-based child welfare |
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Sharon Bond |
Couple and Family therapy outcome research; Couple and Family therapy process research - Therapeutic Alliance; Attachment Styles and Couple Conflict; Supervisory Alliance and Student Self-Efficacy |
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Angela Campbell | Family law, health law, criminal law, wills and estates, children and the law |
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Franco Carnevale | Ethical dilemmas in nursing and in pediatric critical care, the experience of critically ill children and their families, pediatric home ventilation, pain and suffering in children, cultural competence training in pediatric residents, stress in nursing, and epistemological foundations of clinical reasoning |
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Régine Debrosse |
Self/identity; motivation/engagement; adolescence/youth; youth intervention programs; strength-based approaches; immigration/acculturation; race/ethnicity; stigma/marginalization; child education |
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Myriam Denov | Child and family health and wellbeing; trauma and resilience |
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Child welfare and child maltreatment; Child and family health and wellbeing |
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Sydney Duder | Child welfare and child maltreatment; Poverty; Social justice; Prevention; Community risk factors |
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Stephen Ellenbogen |
Child welfare and child maltreatment; Child and family health and wellbeing; Child education; Trauma and resilience; Adolescence |
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Tonino Esposito |
Child welfare and child maltreatment; Poverty |
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Barbara Fallon | Child welfare and child maltreatment; Child and family health and wellbeing; Early childhood development |
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Elizabeth Fast | Indigenous youth; youth engagement; youth leaving care; urban Indigenous identities; Métis identities; child welfare policy; decolonization; community-based prevention; intergenerational traumas; Indigenous methodologies |
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Kara Fletcher |
Family Therapy |
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Nicole Ives | poverty; Child and family health and wellbeing |
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Andreas Jud | Child welfare and child maltreatment |
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Julia Krane |
Child protection and child welfare practice; Intimate partner abuse and child protection practice; Mothering and child protection practice
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Lucyna Lach | Childhood Disability |
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Rachel Langevin | Child welfare and child maltreatment; Child and family health and wellbeing; Trauma and resilience; Intergenerational transmission of violence |
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Mary Ellen Macdonald | Child and family health and wellbeing, oral health, indigenous health |
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Heather B. MacIntosh | Child and family health and wellbeing; trauma and resilience |
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Transactional Processes in Child Development; Child Well-Being; Child Welfare Policy & Practice; Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Cumulative Risk, & Trauma; Foster Care Placement Trajectories & Models of Group Care; Etiology and Outcomes of Child Maltreatment |
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Zack Marshall |
LGBTQ2S+ youth mental health; Community support for trans youth and families; Public engagement and interaction with research; Science policy and information literacy |
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Katherine Maurer |
Child welfare and child maltreatment; Child and family health and wellbeing;Trauma and resilience; Adolescent mental and behavioral health; Poverty and social capital theory; Stress physiology and self-regulation capacities |
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Lise Milne |
Child and adolescent trauma; Neurobiological impacts of trauma; Trauma-informed practices within child welfare organizations; Responses to children exposed to interpersonal violence; Knowledge mobilization; Program implementation evaluation; Social work field/practicum experiences |
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Tina Montreuil | Child and family well-being; Parental emotion socialization; Intergenerational transmission of psychopathology; Child emotion regulation and resilience; Program development and intervention |
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Jennifer Nutton | Child welfare and child maltreatment; Child and family health and wellbeing; Indigenous child welfare; Cross-cultural child welfare practice |
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Anne-Marie Piché |
Intercountry and domestic adoption; Child and family health and wellbeing |
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Child and Family health and well-being; Family therapy; Family functioning; Parent-child relationship; Parenting |
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David Rothwell | Child and family health and wellbeing; Poverty; Social development; Social policy and families |
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Mónica Ruiz-Casares | Child welfare and child maltreatment; Child and family health and wellbeing; Children rights |
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Mireille De La Sablonnière-Griffin | Indigenous child welfare; Disclosure; Sexual abuse |
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Vandna Sinha |
Child welfare and child maltreatment; Child and family health and wellbeing; Communal efforts to support families and children; Social policy; Service disparities; Indigenous child welfare; Mixed methods research; Participatory/community engaged research |
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Wendy Thomson | Developing policies; Aboriginal communities; Child and family health and wellbeing |
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Nico Trocmé | Child welfare and child maltreatment |
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Argerie Tsimicalis |
Child and family health and wellbeing; Childhood Disability; Costs and Benefits of Childhood Illness in the Family |
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Luna Vives |
Child and family health and wellbeing; Child disability; Indigenous populations; Jordan's Principle |
