Speaker
Dr. Ghayda Hassan is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at UQAM university in Montreal and has several research, clinical and community based national and international affiliations. She is the director of the Canadian Practioner Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (RPC-PREV; funded by PS Canada; https://cpnprev.ca). She is also a UNESCO co-chair in Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (UNESCO-PREV; http://chaireunesco-prev.ca/fr/acceuil/). She currently sits as the Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) or the GIFCT (Global Internet Forum for Countering Terrorism; https://gifct.org ). She is a member of the RCMP Management Advisory Board and was a member of the expert advisory group on online safety at the ministry of Canadian Heritage (https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/harmful-online-content.html). She is a researchers and senior clinical consultant at the SHERPA-RAPS (SHERPA subteam RAPS for Research and Action on Radicalisation and Social Suffering ; (http://www.sherpa-recherche.com/fr/recherche-pratiques/souffrancesocialeetradicalisation/) at the CIUSSS Center-West of the island of Montreal.
Her systematic reviews, research and clinical activities are centred around four main areas of clinical cultural psychology: 1) Social suffering, intercommunity relations, hate, racism and extremist violence ; 2) Intervention in family violence & cultural diversity ; 2) Identity, belonging and mental health of children and adolescents from ethnic/religious minorities ; 3) working with vulnerable immigrants and refugees.