INVITED LECTURE BY Syndie David -  Existing Outside the Norm: Approaches to Family Therapy

Syndie David is currently a PhD candidate at Université du Québec à Montréal. Having always wanted to work with racialized youth, she decided to do her first undergraduate degree in psychology. Quickly realizing that racialized and marginalized communities were not accessing psychological services, she used her studies in psychology to prepare for her admission to the McGill Special BSW program and has now been a frontline social worker for nearly 15 years.

Syndie’s lecture entitled “Existing Outside the Norm: Critical Approaches to Family Therapy” will explore how our history of colonialism has established and maintained Whiteness as the normative experience and how this socially constructed standard is systemically embedded in couple and family therapy training. It will also discuss how including critical approaches and emphasizing the need for critical consciousness in family therapy are necessary steps towards making a real attempt at decolonizing the profession.

Fri, Apr 1st, 2022 @ 12:30-1:45 pm

In person: Room#189, 550 Sherbrooke