Dr. Faye Mishna

University of Toronto - Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

Faye Mishna is Dean and Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto and is cross-appointed to the Department of Psychiatry. Faye holds the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Chair in Child and Family. Faye worked in children’s mental health for over 20 years and prior to joining the Faculty, she was Clinical Director of Integra, a children’s mental health centre serving children and youth with learning disabilities and psychosocial problems. Faye is a graduate of the Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and maintains a small private practice in psychotherapy and consultation. Faye has conducted research on bullying, cyber bullying, cyber counseling and the impact of cyber technology in traditional face-to-face counseling and interventions with vulnerable children and youth. Her scholarly publications have focused on bullying and cyber bullying, clinical practice and social work education and more recently on cyber technology in social work clinical practice. Faye is the author of a book on bullying published by Oxford University Press in 2012 and is co-author of a book on bullying in Canada, published by Oxford University Press in 2015.