Hiba Zafran
Occupational Therapist - Psychotherapist
Assistant Professor [Teaching] - School of Physical and Occupational Therapy
Curriculum Developer - Indigenous Health Professions Program.
A just and responsible academia must be both a bridge to, and a mirror for, societies we each and everyone have a right to.
Coordinator, OT Program Indigenous-focused curriculum thread
OCC 443: Constructing Mental Health (Coordinator)
OCC 618: (Professional Reasoning and) Psychosocial Theories in Occupational Therapy
OCC 622: Community-Based Occupational Therapy (Coordinator)
Culturally safer / anti-colonial rehabilitation practices with/in Indigenous communities
Anti-oppressive classrooms, equitable curricula, socially accountable education
Keywords
Methodologies: queer/narrative phenomenology, critical hermeneutics, anti-colonial/oppressive
Domains of inquiry: reflexivity, cultural safety, power-sharing, professional (ethical/narrative/political) reasoning, mental health, transformative learning, structural violence
Clinician and administrator in youth mental health 2002-2016: Addressing academic reintegration and intersectional effects related to immigration, racism, and gender questioning overlapping with early psychosis, trauma, mood and personality disorders.
Current QTBIPOC-centred therapeutic practice:
2021-present: Co-Chair - Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in OT, CAOT Practice Network
2020-present: National Occupational Therapy Joint Position Statement on Equity & Justice -Workgroup
2020-present. Developer and Topic Editor -Critical OT: Occupational Consciousness and Rights. Occupational Therapy Now, CAOT
2020-present. Chair -Subcommittee on Queer People - Joint Board-Senate Committee on Equity
2019-present. Advisory Group on Indigenous Engagement, CORECOM - One Canadian Competency Document
2017-2020. Member, Faculty of Medicine Equity Committee -Social Accountability and Community Engagement
2016-2017. Associate Professor. Institute d'ergothérapie, Université Saint Joseph, Beyrouth, Lebanon.
Scientific and Conceptual Publications
Zafran, H. (2021). Lost in translation: The languages of a critical occupational therapy. Occupational Therapy Now, 23(6).
Anand, H., Mahipaul, S., Montour, E., Sangrar, R., & Zafran, H. (2021). What do we have to say about centering equity & justice in our professional lives? A Conversation that Matters. Occupational Therapy Now, 23(5).
Zafran, H. (2021-Advance Online). Echopoetics and unbelonging: Making sense of reconciliation in academia. Transcultural Psychiatry [Special Issue: Cultural poetics of healing]. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615211015091
Zafran, H., Park, M., Rouleau, S., Lenchuca, R., Everitt, S & Clement, M-A. (2021). “Just 8 minutes”: The experience of occupational therapy educators designing and teaching virtual occupation-based groups for psychosocial issues. Occupational Therapy Now, 23(4), 28-30. [Special Issue: Virtual care and OT]
Grenier, M-L., Zafran, H., & Roy, L. (2020). The current landscape of teaching diversity in occupational therapy education: A scoping review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 74(6). https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2020.044214
Zafran, H. (2020). Occupational gifts in the time of a pandemic. Occupational Therapy Now, 22(4), 5-6.
Zafran, H. (2020). Hermeneutic mixed methods research: Inquiry into arts-based assessments in early psychosis. Sage Research Methods Cases - Medicine & Health.
Zafran, H. (2020). A narrative phenomenological approach to transformative learning: Lessons from occupational therapy reasoning in educational practice. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 74(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2020.033100
Barudin, J. & Zafran. H. (2019). Introduction to trauma-informed rehabilitation with Indigenous communities. Physiotherapy Practice, 9(5), 18-21. [Special issue: Indigenous Health].
Zafran, H. (2019). Knowing from where I respond. Occupational Therapy Now, 21(4), 18-19 [Special Issue: Time for action: Occupational therapy responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission].
Zafran, H. Barudin, J., Saunders, S., & Kasperski, J. (2019). An Occupational Therapy Program Lays a Foundation for Indigenous Partnerships and Topics. Occupational Therapy Now, 21(4), 28-29 [Special Issue: Time for action: Occupational therapy responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission].
Park, M. & Zafran, H. (2018). View from the Penthouse: Epistemological bumps and emergent metaphors as method for team reflexivity. Qualitative Health Research, 28(3), 408-417 [Special Issue: Methods].
Zafran, H., Tallant, B., Gelinas, I., & Jordan, S. (2018). The phenomenology of early psychosis elicited in an occupational therapy expressive evaluation. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 34(1), 3-31.
Zafran, H., Mazer, B., Tallant, B., Chilingaryan, G., & Gelinas, I. (2017). Detecting incipient schizophrenia: A validation of the Azima Battery in first episode psychosis. Psychiatric Quarterly, 88(3), 585-602. [open access link]
Solomon, G. & Zafran, H. (2016). An occupational therapy student’s reflections on recovery as seeing, and being seen. Occupational Therapy Now, 18(5), 13-14 [Special issue: Recovery-oriented psychosocial rehabilitation practice].
Zafran, H. (2016).A mixed methods inquiry into the clinical utility of an expressive projective assessment with individuals experiencing early psychosis. (Doctoral Thesis). McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Zafran, H. (2015). Health care professional’s opinions on culture and rehabilitation services for youth experiencing early psychosis. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 19(2), 75-82.
Park, M.M., Lencucha, R., Mattingly, C., Zafran, H. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2015). A qualitative study on the ethics of transforming care: examining the development and implementation of Canada's first mental health strategy. Implementation Science, 10, 121-130.
Zafran, H. & Tallant, B. (2015). “It would be a shame to lose them”: A critical historical, scoping and expert review of the use of projective assessments in occupational therapy. Part II. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 31(4), 328-365.
Zafran, H. & Tallant, B. (2015). “It would be a shame to lose them”: A critical historical, scoping and expert review of the use of projective assessments in occupational therapy. Part I. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 31(3), 187-210.
Park, M.M., Zafran, H., Stewart, J., Salsberg, J., Ells, C., Rouleau, S., Estein, O., & Valente, T.W. (2014). Transforming mental health services: A participatory mixed methods study to promote and evaluate the implementation of recovery-oriented care. Implementation Science, 9, 119-130.
Zafran, H., Tallant, B., & Gelinas, I. (2012). The experience of academic reintegration after a first episode of psychosis - A first-person exploration. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 16(1), 27-43.
Community Engagement Projects and Reports
Byrne, H ., Cirillo, A ., Murphy- Gelderman, W., Petrucci, D., Gamondele, N . & Zafran, H . (2020). Stories of Paediatric Rehabilitation Practitioners with/in Indigenous Communities. A Guide to Becoming Culturally Safer. Occupational Therapy Program, McGill University, Montréal, QC. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28446.56641
Brett, M.(2019). Communities discuss Indigenizing McGill health care curricula. Includes access to a thematic summary.
Zafran, H., Barudin, J., Saunders, S., & Kasperski, J. (2018). Responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action: Laying a Foundation for Indigenous Partnerships and Topics. Occupational Therapy Program, McGill University, Montréal, QC.
Ash-Maheux, R., Bartczak, M., Monteferrante, J., Nurse, A., Persad, S., Zafran, H., & Lambert, H. (2018). Spotting PTSD: A PTSD Toolkit for First Responders.
[Publicly available]
Poetry and Literary Prose
"Finally home" Tiferet. Fostering Peace Through Literature and Art. 1rst December, 2018.
"Preamble ~ Coming to here" 41.2 Changing Language. Room - Literature, Art, and Feminism since 1975, 2018, pp.13-22.
"Ève, d’ou venez-vous?" Van Grimde Corps Secrets. Collaborative transdisciplinary dance project outlining a vision of the body of the future.
"Oneiric Projectiles" Feminine Collective. 25th August, 2017.
"Bought in Berlin" Mothers Always Write. 10th May, 2017. [Honourable mention in Spring micro-essay contest].
"Ontology of Empty" The Muse. Spring, 2017 -Issue 5, 33.
Recent Scientific Presentations and Workshops
Zafran, H. (2021) Becoming culturally safer: Stories of paediatric practitioners with/in Indigenous communities [Paper]
Redressing the null curriculum in occupational therapy education [Workshop]
“Off the side of my desk”: Equity-as-occupation in academia [Workshop]
Conversations that Matter [Consultative workshop]
Canadian Association Occupational Therapists Virual Conference, May 2021.
Grenier, M-L & Zafran, H. (2020). Questioning white supremacy in occupational therapy practice and education. [Workshop-Open Access] CAOT Virtual 2020 Conference.
Roy, L. & Zafran, H. (2018). Doing occupational justice in the classroom: Teaching for resistance. [Panel & discussion]. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for Occupational Science, Montréal, QC
Reviews and Letters
Zafran, H. (2019). [Review of the Book: Group Dynamics in Occupational Therapy. The Theoretical Basis and Application of Group Intervention. 5th edition, by M.B. Cole]. Occupational Therapy Now.
Zafran, H. (2018). [Review of the Book: Licit, Illicit, Prescribed: Substance Use and Occupational Therapy, by N.Kiepek]. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 85(3), 262.
Zafran, H. (2016). By not publishing good qualitative research The BMJ is not fulfilling its values. British Medical Journal, 352:i1478. [Letter to the Editor].
Zafran, H. (2013). Client Centred Reasoning: A Reply to “Quantifying Function”. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 67(1). [Letter to the Editor].
