Ghayda Hassan (Ph.D.)Director and Founder
Dr. Ghayda Hassan is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at UQÀM. She has several research, clinical, and community-based national and international affiliations. She is the director of the Canada Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Extremist Violence (CPN-PREV, funded by Public Safety Canada). She also is a UNESCO co-chair on Prevention of Violence Radicalization, as well as a researcher and clinical consultant at the SHERPA-RAPS team and the CIUSSS-COIM. She is a researcher, clinician, as well as a policy consultant in matters of interventions in the context of violence (radicalization, family violence, and war). Her systematic reviews, research, and clinical activities are centered around four main areas of clinical cultural psychology: 1) Social suffering, inter-community relations, radicalization, and extremist violence; 2) Intervention in family violence and cultural diversity; 3) Identity, belonging, and mental health of children and adolescents from ethnic/religious minorities; and 4) Working with vulnerable immigrants and refugees.
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