Dr. C茅cile Rousseau, MD is professor at McGill University Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry and holds a Canada Research Chair in the prevention of violent radicalization. She has worked extensively with immigrant and refugee communities, developing specific school based interventions and leading policy oriented research. Presently her research focuses on intervention and prevention programs to address social polarization and violent radicalization.
Tel.: (514) 273-3800 ext. 6452 or 6588
cecile.rousseau [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Selected Articles
Rousseau, C. (2022). 1.4 The social determinants of migrant and refugee children鈥檚 mental health: Grounding advocacy and care. Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 61(10), S124. doi:
Rousseau, C., Gomez-Carrillo, A., & C茅nat, J. M. (2022). Safe enough? Rethinking the concept of cultural safety in healthcare and training. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 221(4), 587-588. doi:
Rousseau, C., Quach, C., Dub茅, 脠., Vanier-Cl茅ment, A., Santavicca, T., & Monnais-Rousselots, L. (2022). Vaccination des enfants dans les quartiers marginalis茅s: d茅fis li茅s 脿 l鈥櫭﹒uit茅 et 脿 la diversit茅 dans le cadre des campagnes de vaccination contre la COVID-19. 脡quit茅, diversit茅 et inclusion en sant茅 publique, 48(10), 464. doi:
Rousseau, C., Frounfelker, L. R., Ngov, C., & Crocker, A. (2022). Clinical services addressing violent extremism: the Quebec Model. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health.
Rousseau, C., Rummens, J. A. F., Rochelle L., Ruiz-Casares Yebenes, M., & Cleveland, J. (2022). Canadian health personnel attitudes towards refugee claimants鈥� entitlement to health care. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 23, 1341-1356. doi:
Beauregard, C., Rousseau, C., Benoit, M., & Papazian-Zohrabian, G. (2022). Creating a safe space during classroom-based sandplay workshops for immigrant and refugee preschool children. Journal of Creativity in Mental Health. Retrieved from doi:
Bourgeois-Gu茅rin, 脡., Aldebert, J., & Rousseau, C. (2022). L鈥檃rt et la violence: quels frayages? R茅flexions inspir茅es d鈥檜n projet pilote en pr茅vention de la radicalisation violente chez les jeunes. Sciences et actions sociales (18).
C茅nat, J. M., Farahi, S. M. M. M., Dalexis, R. D., Darius, W. P., Bukaka, J., Balayulu-Makila, O., . . . Rousseau, C. (2022). Mental Distress before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study among Communities Affected by Ebola Virus Disease in the DR Congo. Psychiatry Research, 314, 114654. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114654
C茅nat, J. M., Noorishad, P.-G., Dalexis, R. D., Rousseau, C., Derivois, D., Kokou-Kpolou, C. K., . . . Guerrier, M. (2022). Prevalence and risk factors of depression symptoms among rural and urban populations affected by Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a representative cross-sectional study. BMJ open, 12(1), e053375.
de Smet, S., Rousseau, C., Deruddere, N., Kevers, R., Spaas, C., Missotten, L., . . . De Haene, L. (2022). A contextualized perspective on research participation in collaborative refugee research: A multi-site exploration of relational dynamics in collaborative research. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28(3), 325. doi:
Frounfelker, R., Rahman, S., Cleveland, J., & Rousseau, C. (2022). A latent class analysis of attitudes towards asylum seeker access to health care. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 24(2), 412-419. doi:
Frounfelker, R. L., Li, Z. Y., Santavicca, T., Miconi, D., & Rousseau, C. (2022). Latent class analysis of COVID-19 experiences, social distancing, and mental health. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 92(1), 121-132. doi:
Johnson-Lafleur, J., Nadeau, L., & Rousseau, C. (2022 - ONLINE). Families' and Practitioners' Use of Culture in Youth Mental Health Services: A Double-Edged Sword. Child & Youth Care forum. doi:10.1007/s10566-022-09688-8
Johnson-Lafleur, J., Nadeau, L., & Rousseau, C. (2022). Intercultural Training in Tense Times: Cultural Identities and Lived Experiences Within a Community of Practice of Youth Mental Health Care in Montr茅al. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 46(2), 391-413.
Knight, S., Jarvis, G. E., Ryder, A., Lashley, M., & Rousseau, C. (2022). Ethnoracial Differences in Coercive Referral and Intervention Among Patients with First-Episode Psychosis. Psychiatric Services, 73(1), 2-8. doi:
Knight, S., Jarvis, G. E., Ryder, A. G., Lashley, M., & Rousseau, C. (2022). 鈥業t Just Feels Like an Invasion鈥�: Black FirstEpisode Psychosis Patients鈥� Experiences With Coercive Intervention and Its Influence on HelpSeeking Behaviours. Journal of Black Psychology. doi:
Kokou-Kpolou, C. K., Derivois, D., Rousseau, C., Balayulu-Makila, O., Hajizadeh, S., Birangui, J.-P., . . . C茅nat, J. M. (2022). Enacted Ebola Stigma and Health-related Quality of Life in Post Ebola Epidemic: A Psychosocial Mediation Framework Through Social Support, Self-Efficacy, and Coping. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 17(5), 2809-2832. doi:
Levinsson, A., Frounfelker, R.L., Miconi, D., & Rousseau C. (2022). Violent radicalization during the COVID-19 pandemic: at the intersection of gender, conspiracy theories and psychological distress. (document soumis pour publication). PlosOne.
Miconi, D., Geenen, G., Frounfelker, R. L., Levinsson, A., & Rousseau, C. (2022). Meaning in Life, Future Orientation and Support for Violent Radicalization Among Canadian College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.765908
Miconi, D., Frounfelker, R., & Rousseau, C. (2022). Cumulative and independent effects of experiences of social adversity on support for violent radicalization during COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of depression. Social Psychiatry Psychiatric Epidemiology, 261:113235. doi:
Moscardino, U., Musso, P., Inguglia, C., Ceccon, C., Miconi, D., & Rousseau, C. (2022). Sociodemographic and psychological correlates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in the young adult population in Italy. Vaccine, 40(16), 2379-2387. doi:
Passos-Castilho, A. M., Labb茅, A.-C., Barkati, S., Luong, M.-L., Dagher, O., Maynard, N., . . .Rousseau, C. Benedetti, A. Outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 in Canada: impact of ethnicity, migration status, and country of birth. Journal of Travel Medicine.
Santavicca, T., Ngov, C., Frounfelker, R., Miconi, D., Levinsson, A., & Rousseau, C. (2022). COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Young Adults in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health - Revue Canadienne de sant茅 publique. doi:10.17269/s41997-022-00693-x
Santavicca, T., Vanier-Cl茅ment, A., & Rousseau, C. (2022). Preventing and Appeasing COVID-19 Vaccine Tension in Schools to Protect the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents in Quebec, Canada. International Journal of child and adolescent resilience, 9(1). doi:
Schinazi, J., Santavicca, T., Ngov, C., Vanier-Cl茅ment, A., Gamdo Tour茅, A., Bolduc, E., & Rousseau, C. (2022). The CoVivre Program: Community Development and Empowerment to address the Inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Greater Montr茅al Area, Canada. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. doi:
2021
Rousseau, C. (2021). Mental Health Intervention for Violent Radicalization: The Quebec Model. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Proceedings, 77(1), 11. doi:
Rousseau C (2021) Le complotisme dans l'espace clinique. Le journal de l'AMPQ.
Rousseau, C., Aggarwal, N. K., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2021). Radicalization to Violence: A View from Cultural Psychiatry. Transcultural psychiatry, 58(5), 603-615. doi:10.1177/13634615211048010
Rousseau, C., Oulhote, Y., Lecompte, V., Mekki-Berrada, A., Hassan, G., & El Hage, H. (2021). Collective identity, social adversity and college student sympathy for violent radicalization. Transcultural psychiatry, 58(5), 654-668.
Audet, G., Miconi, D., Rousseau-Rizzi, A., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Pr茅vention de la radicalisation violente: impact de la pi猫ce de th茅芒tre "qui a tu茅 Freebird?" sur les perceptions et les attitudes des 茅l猫ves et du personnel scolaire. McGill Journal of Education/Revue des sciences de l'茅ducation de McGill, 56(2/3).
Bourgeois-Gu茅rin, 脡., Miconi, D., Rousseau-Rizzi, A., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Evaluation of a training program on the prevention of violent radicalization for health and education professionals. Transcultural psychiatry, 58(5), 712-728.
Bourgeois-Gu茅rin, 脡., Lyke, C., Lacha卯ne, A., & Rousseau, C. (2021). R茅flexions sur un projet de danse interg茅n茅rationnel. Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie, 32(2), 189-198.
C茅nat, J. M., Kokou-Kpolou, C. K., Mukunzi, J. N., Dalexis, R. D., Noorishad, P.-G., Rousseau, C., . . . Guerrier, M. (2021). Ebola virus disease, stigmatization, peritraumatic distress, and posttraumatic stress disorder in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A moderated mediation model. Journal of affective disorders, 293, 214-221.
C茅nat, J. M., Dalexis, R. D., Guerrier, M., Noorishad, P.-G., Derivois, D., Bukaka, J., . . . Rousseau, C. (2021). Frequency and correlates of anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in low-and middle-income countries: A multinational study. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 132, 13-17. doi:
C茅nat, J. M., Dalexis, R. D., Derivois, D., H茅bert, M., Hajizadeh, S., Kokou-Kpolou, C. K., . . . Rousseau, C. (2021). The Transcultural Community Resilience Scale: Psychometric Properties and Multinational Validity in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713477
Ellis, B. H., Miller, A. B., Sideridis, G., Frounfelker, R. L., Miconi, D., Abdi, S., . . . Rousseau, C. (2021). Risk and Protective Factors Associated With Support of Violent Radicalization: Variations by Geographic Location. International Journal of Public Health, 66, 20.
* El-Majzoub, S., Narasiah, L., Adrien, A., Kaiser, D., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Negotiating Safety and Wellbeing: The Collaboration Between Faith-Based Communities and Public Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Religion and Health, 60(6), 4564-4578. doi:
*Frounfelker, R., Frissen, T., Miconi, D., Lawson, J., Brennan, R. T., d'Haenens, L., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Transnational evaluation of the Sympathy for Violent Radicalization Scale: Mesuring population attitudes toward violent radicalization in two countries.
Transcultural psychiatry, 0 (0)(Special Issue: ASI 2017 Radicalization), 1-14.
*Frounfelker, R., Santavicca, T., Li, Z. Y., Miconi, D., Venkatesh, V., & Rousseau, C. (2021 - OnLine). COVID-19 Experiences and Social Distancing: Insights from the Theory of Planned Behavior. American Journal of Health Promotion, 1-10. doi:
Lachal, J., El Husseini, M., Rousse
au, C., & Moro, M. R. (2021). Editorial: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents. Frontiers in psychiatry, 12, 5-7.
Levinsson, A., Miconi, D., Li, Z., Frounfelker, R. L., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Conspiracy theories, psychological distress, and sympathy for violent radicalization in young adults during the CoViD-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(15), 7846. doi:file:///C:/Users/ldes2623/Downloads/ijerph-18-07846.pdf
*Miconi, D., Frounfelker, R. L., Whiteley, T., Mekki-Berrada, A., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Discrimination and Sympathy for Violent Radicalization Among College Students in Quebec (Canada): The Protective Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religiosity. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 209(10), 773-776.
*Miconi, D., Dervishi, E., Wiium, N., Johnson鈥怢afleur, J., Ibrahimi, S., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Egyptian and Roma Adolescents鈥� Perspectives on Their Developmental Assets in Albania During the COVID鈥�19 Pandemic. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(3), 576-594. doi:
*Miconi, D., Papazian-Zohrabian, G., Daxhelet, M.-L., & Rousseau, C. (2021). La pr茅vention du soutien 脿 la radicalisation violente en milieu scolaire. Psychologie Qu茅bec, Septembre 2021
*Miconi, D., Li, Z., Frounfelker, R., Santavicca, T., C茅nat, J. M., Venkatesh, V., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Ethno-cultural disparities in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study on the impact of exposure to the virus and COVID-related discrimination and stigma on mental health across ethno-cultural groups in Quebec (Canada). BJPsych Open, 7(e14), 1-10. doi:10.1192/bjo.2020.146
*Miconi, D., Li, Z. Y., Frounfelker, R. L., Venkatesh, V., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Socio-cultural correlates of self-reported experiences of discrimination related to COVID-19 in a culturally diverse sample of Canadian adults. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 81, 176-192. doi:
Miconi, D., Calcagn矛, A., Mekki鈥怋errada, A., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Are there local differences in support for violent radicalization? a study on college students in the province of Quebec, Canada. Political Psychology, 42(4), 637-658.
Moro, M. R., Lachal, J., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents. Lausanne: Frontiers in Psychiatry - Special Edition.
*Roy, M., Moreau, N., Rousseau, C., Mercier, A., Wilson, A., Dozon, J.-P., . . . Society. (2021). Constructing Ebola martyrs, warriors, and saviours: online heroisation in a context of risk and unease. 23(1-2), 73-91.
Venkatesh, V., Rousseau, C., Morin, D., & Hassan, G. (2021). Violence as collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conversation, .
*Zoldan Y, Rambeaud-Collin D & Rousseau C (2021) Les sexualit茅s dans l鈥檃pr猫s trauma: enjeux clinique et politique. Sexologies 30:88-93.
2020
Rousseau, C., & Miconi, D. (2020). Protecting Youth Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Challenging Engagement and Learning Process. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 59(11), 1203-1207.
Rousseau, C., Jonhson-Lafleur, J., Papazian-Zohrabian, G., & Measham, T. (2020). Interdisciplinary Case Discussions as a Training Modality to Teach Cultural Formulation in Child Mental health. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57(4), 581-593.
Rousseau, C., Jaimes, A., & El-Majzoub, S. (2020). Pand茅mie et communaut茅s minoritaires marginalis茅es: vers une approche inclusive en sant茅 publique? Canadian Journal of Public Health, 111(6), 963-966. doi:10.17269/s41997-020-00422-2
Rousseau, C., Miconi, D., Frounfelker, R., Hassan, G., & Oulhote, Y. (2020 - On Line). A repeated cross-sectional study of sympathy for violent radicalization in Canadian college students. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. doi:
Rousseau, C., & Miconi, D. (2020). Vivere insieme in contesti di polarizzazione sociale: fattori di rischio e di protezione in un campione di giovani studenti canadesi. Educational Reflective Practices, 19, 55-73.
Beauregard, C., Tremblay, J., Pomerleau, J., Simard, M., Bourgeois-Gu茅rin, 脡., Lyke, C., & Rousseau, C. (2020). Building Communities in Tense Times : Fostering Connectedness Between Cultures and Generations through Community Arts. American Journal of Community Psychology, 65(3-4), 437-454.
Ben-Cheikh, I., Rach茅di, L., & Rousseau, C. (2020). Deuil compliqu茅 selon les cultures: d茅fis diagnostiques et limites des classifications internationales. 贵谤辞苍迟颈猫谤别蝉, 32(1).
C茅nat, J. M., Mukunzi, J. N., Noorishad, P.-G., Rousseau, C., Derivois, D., & Bukaka, J. (2020). A systematic review of mental health programs among populations affected by the Ebola virus disease. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 131, 109966.
C茅nat, J. M., Felix, N., Blais-Rochette, C., Rousseau, C., Bukaka, J., Derivois, D., . . . Birangui, J.-P. (2020 - ON LINE). Prevalence of mental health problems in populations affected by Ebola virus disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychiatry Research. doi:
C茅nat, J. M., McIntee, S. E., Guerrier, M., Derivois, D., Rousseau, C., Dalexis, R. D., . . . Makila-Balayulu, O. (2020). Psychological distress among adults from the urban and rural areas affected by the Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 1-6.
C茅nat, J. M., Dalexis, R. D., Kokou-Kpolou, C. K., Mukunzi, J. N., & Rousseau, C. (2020). Social inequalities and collateral damages of the COVID-19 pandemic: when basic needs challenge mental health care. International journal of public health, 65(6), 717-718.
de Freitas Girardi, J., Miconi, D., Lyke, C., & Rousseau, C. (2020). Creative expression workshops as Psychological First Aid (PFA) for asylum-seeking children: An exploratory study in temporary shelters in Montreal. Clinical child psychology and psychiatry, 25(2), 483-493.
de Smet, S., Rousseau, C., Stalpaert, C., & De Haene, L. (2020). 鈥淚 Look at You and See You Looking at Me鈥�: Role Boundaries in a Dynamic Research Relationship in Qualitative Health Research With Refugees. Qualitative Health Research, 30(7), 1083-1100.
* Frounfelker, R. L., Miconi, D., Farrar, J., Brooks, M. A., Rousseau, C., & Betancourt, T. S. (2020 - ON LINE). Mental Health of Refugee Children and Youth: Epidemiology, Interventions, and Future Directions. Annual Review of Public Health, 41, 159-176.
Hanley, J., Larios, L., Ricard-Guay, A., Meloni, F., & Rousseau, C. (2020). Pregnant and undocumented: taking work into account as a social determinant of health. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care.
Kirmayer, L. J., Fernando, S., Guzder, J., Lashley, M., Rousseau, C., Schouler-Ocak, M., . . . Jarvis, G. E. (2020 - ONLINE). A Call to Action on Racism and Social Justice in Mental Health: Un appel 脿 l鈥檃ction en mati猫re de racisme et de justice sociale en sant茅 mentale. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. doi:
Miconi, D., & Rousseau, C. (2020). Vivere insieme in contesti di polarizzazione sociale: fattori di rischio e di protezione in un campione di giovani studenti canadesi [Living together in socially polarized contexts: Risk and protective factors among Canadian students]. Educational reflective practices.
Miconi, D., Oulhote, Y., Hassan, G., & Rousseau, C. (2020). Sympathy for violent radicalisation among college students in Quebec (Canada): The protective role of a positive future orientation. Psychology of violence, 10(American Psychological Association (APA)), 344-354. doi:10.1037/vio0000278
Roy, M., Moreau, N., Rousseau, C., Mercier, A., Wilson, A., & Atlani-Duault, L. (2020). Ebola and localized blame on social media: analysis of Twitter and Facebook conversations during the 2014鈥�2015 Ebola epidemic. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 44(1), 56-79.
Zoldan, Y., & Rousseau, C. (2020). A la crois茅e des chemins. Entre routes de pouvoir et sentiers cliniques. L'autre, 21, 307-317. doi:
2019
Rousseau, C., & Frounfelker, R. (2019). Mental health needs and services for migrants: An overview for primary care providers. Journal of Travel Medicine, 26(2), 1-8.
Rousseau, C., Hassan, G., & Frounfelker, R. (2019). The role of physicians in the violence epidemic. CMAJ, 191(23). doi:
Rousseau, C., & Hassan, G. (2019). Current Challenges in Addressing Youth Mental in the Context of Violent Radicalization. JAACAP, 58(8), 747-750.
Rousseau, C., Hassan, G., Miconi, D., Lecompte, V., Mekki-Berrada, A., El Hage, H., & Oulhote, Y. (2019). From social adversity to sympathy for violent radicalization: the role of depression, religiosity and social support. Archives of public health, 77(1), 45.
Rousseau, C. (2019). La radicalisation violente au Qu茅bec: comprendre, pr茅venir et intervenir. Le Genre humain (2), 135-145.
*Bourgeois-Gu茅rin, 脡., Rousseau, C., Hassan, G., & Michalon-Brodeur, V. (2019). Sur la corde raide : penser les modalit茅s de formation en pr茅vention de la radicalisation violente. . L'Autre, 20(2), 184-192.
*C茅nat, J. M., Balayulu-Makila, O., Derivois, D., Felis, N., Mukunzi, J., Bukaka J, . . . Rousseau, C. (2019). The mental health professional at the feet of the Ebola virus: individual treatment and global mental challenges. Retrieved from doi:10.1192/bjp.2019.122
*de Smet, S., Rousseau, C., Stalpaert, C., & De Haene, L. (2019). A qualitative analysis of coping with trauma and exile in applied theatre with Syrian refugees: the role of within-group interactions. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 101587.
*Frounfelker, R. L., Frissen, T., Vanorio, I., Rousseau, C., & d'Haenens, L. (2019). Exploring the discrimination鈥搑adicalization nexus: empirical evidence from youth and young adults in Belgium. Retrieved from doi:
Hassan, G., Mekki-Berrada, A., Rousseau, C., Lyonnais-Lafond, G., Jamil, U., & Cleveland, J. (2019). Impact of the "Charter of Quebec values" on psychological wellbeing of francophone university students. Transcultural psychiatry, 56(6), 1139-1154. doi:10.1177/1363461516656972
*Jaimes, Annie, Ghayda Hassan, and C茅cile Rousseau. 2019. Hurtful Gifts? Trauma and Growth Transmission Among Local Clinicians in Postearthquake Haiti. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
*Johnson-Lafleur, J., Rousseau, C., Papazian-Zohrabian, G. (2019 - ON LINE). Learning from partnership tensions in collaborative youth mental health care: An analysis of interdisciplinary and interorganizational case discussion seminars. Social Science & Medicine,
Iyer, S. N., Shah, J., Boksa, P., Lal, S., Joober, R., Andersson, N., Rousseau, C.,. . . Reaume-Zimmer, P. (2019). A minimum evaluation protocol and stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial of ACCESS Open Minds, a large Canadian youth mental health services transformation project. BMC psychiatry, 19(1), 273.
Jaimes A, Hassan G & Rousseau C (2019) Hurtful Gifts? Trauma and Growth Transmission Among Local Clinicians in Postearthquake Haiti. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
Malla, A., Iyer, S., Shah, J., Joober, R., Boksa, P., Lal, S., . . . Rousseau, C. (2018). Canadian response to need for transformation of youth mental health services: ACCESS Open Minds (Esprits ouverts). Early Intervention in Psychiatry. Retrieved from doi:10.1111/eip.12772
*Neto, A., Costa, A. G., Machado, A. G., Concei莽茫o, D., Coutinho, C., & Rousseau, C. (2019). Refugee Resettlement I: Challenges for Mental Healthcare Services in Portugal. Acta medica portuguesa, 32(1), 14-16.
*Pond茅, M. P., Bassi Arcand, F. M. N., Cunha, L. A., & Rousseau, C. (2019). Enacting autism: Immigrant family negotiations with nosology in practice. Transcultural Psychiatry, 56(2), 327-344
*Roy, M., Moreau, N., Rousseau, C., Mercier, A., Wilson, A., & Atlani-Duault, L. (2019). Ebola and Localized Blame on Social Media: Analysis of Twitter and Facebook Conversations During the 2014鈥�2015 Ebola Epidemic. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 1-24.
2018
Rousseau, C. (2018). Addressing Mental Health Needs of Refugees. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 0706743717746664.
Rousseau, C., Hassan, G., Rousseau-Rizzi, A., Michalon-Brodeur, V., Oulhote, Y., Mekki-Berrada, A., & El-Hage, H. (2018). Adversit茅 psychosociale, d茅tresse psychologique et sympathie pour la radicalisation violente chez les coll茅giens du Qu茅bec. Cahiers de la s茅curit茅 et de la justice, 43(158-166).
Rousseau, C., & Miconi, D. (2018). Welcoming refugee children: The role of psychological first aid interventions. Psynopsis, 40(4), 8-9.
*Abdel鈥怋aki, A., Ouellet鈥怭lamondon, C., Medrano, S., Nicole, L., & Rousseau, C. (2018). Immigrants' outcome after a first鈥恊pisode psychosis. Early intervention in psychiatry, 12(2), 193-201.
*Beauregard, C., Papazian-Zohrabian, G., & Rousseau, C. (2018). Mouvement des fronti猫res identitaires dans les dessins d'茅l猫ves immigrants. Alterstice-Revue Internationale de la Recherche Interculturelle, 7(2), 105-116.
*Ben-Cheikh, I., Rousseau, C., Hassan, G., Brami, M., Hernandez, S., & Rivest, M.-H. (2018). Intervention en contexte de radicalisation menant 脿 la violence: une approche clinique multidisciplinaire. Sant茅 mentale au Qu茅bec, 43(1), 85-99.
*Bourgeois-Gu茅rin, 脡., Brami, M., & Rousseau, c. (2018). Penser la haine apr猫s le trauma. Rhizome - Bulletin national sant茅 mentale et pr茅carit茅, 69-70, 34-35.
*Chase, L. E., & Rousseau, C. (2018). Ethnographic Case Study of a Community Day Center for Asylum Seekers as Early Stage Mental Health Intervention. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 88(1), 48-58. doi:
Cleveland, J., Kronick, R., Gros, H., & Rousseau, C. (2018). Symbolic violence and disempowerment as factors in the adverse impact of immigration detention on adult asylum seekers鈥� mental health. International journal of public health, 1-8
*Daxhelet, M.-L., Johnson-Lafleur, J., Papazian-Zohrabian, G., & Rousseau, C. (2018). Impuissance et contre-transfert culturel. L'Autre, 19(1), 21-31.
*De Haene, L., Rousseau, C., Kevers, R., Deruddere, N., & Rober, P. (2018). Stories of trauma in family therapy with refugees: Supporting safe relational spaces of narration and silence. Clinical child psychology and psychiatry, 23(2), 258-278.
*de Smet, S., De Haene, L., Rousseau, C., & Stalpaert, C. (2018). Behind every stone awaits and Alexander': unravelling the limits of participation within micro and macro dramaturgy of participatory refugee theatre. Research and Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 23(2), 242-258
*Hassan, G., Brouillette-Alarie, S., Alava, S., Frau-Meigs, D., Lavoie, L., Fetiu, A., . . . Rousseau, C. (2018). Exposure to extremist online content could lead to violent radicalization: A systematic review of empirical evidence. International Journal of Developmental Science (Preprint), 1-18.
*Hassan, G., Rousseau, C., Ben Cheik, I., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2018). Radicalisation violente : Quel r么le pour la psychiatrie鈥�? Le Journal de l'AMPQ, Juillet 2018.
Kirmayer, L. J., Kronick, R., & Rousseau, C. (2018). Advocacy as Key to Structural Competency in Psychiatry. JAMA psychiatry, 75(2), 119-120.
Kohrt, B. A., Lu, F. G., Wu, E. Y., Hinton, D. E., Aggarwal, N. K., Parekh, R., . . . Lewis-Fernandez, R. (2018). Caring for Families Separated by Changing Immigration Policies and Enforcement: A Cultural Psychiatry Perspective. Psychiatric Services. doi:
*Lecompte, V., Miconi, D., & Rousseau, C. (2018). Challenges related to migration and child attachment: A pilot study with South Asian immigrant mother-child dyads. Attachment & Human Development, 20(2), 208-222. doi:
Malla, A., Iyer, S., Rousseau, C., Joober, R., Boksa, P., Lal, S., . . . Hutt鈥怣acLeod, D. (2019). Canadian response to need for transformation of youth mental health services: ACCESS Open Minds (Esprits ouverts). Early Intervention in Psychiatry,, 13(3), 697-706.
Michalon-Brodeur, V., Bourgeois-Gu茅rin, 脡., C茅nat, J., & Rousseau, C. (2018). Le r么le de l鈥櫭ヽole face 脿 la radicalisation violente: risques et b茅n茅fices d鈥檜ne approche s茅curitaire. 脡ducation et francophonie, 46(2), 230-248. doi:
Papazian-Zohrabian, G., Mamprin, C., Lemire, V., Turpin-Samson, A., Hassan, G., Rousseau, C., & Aoun, R. (2018). Le milieu scolaire qu茅b茅cois face aux d茅fis de l鈥檃ccueil des 茅l猫ves r茅fugi茅s: quels enjeux pour la gouvernance scolaire et la formation des intervenants scolaires? 脡ducation et francophonie, 46(2), 208-229.
2017
Rousseau, C., Ellis, H., & Lantos, J. (2017). The dilemna of predicting violent radicalization. Pediatrics, 140(4).
Rousseau, C., Hassan, G., & Oulhote, Y. (2017). And if there were other way out? Questioning the prevalent radicalization models. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 108(5-6).
Rousseau, C., Oulhote, Y., Ruiz-Casares, M., Cleveland, J., & Greenaway, C. (2017). Encouraging understanding or increasing prejudices: a cross-sectional survey of institutional influence on health personnel attitudes about refugee claimant' access to health care. PLOS One 12(2). doi:
Rousseau, C., Pontbriand, A., Nadeau, L., & Johnson-Lafleur, J. (2017). Perception of interprofessional collaboration and co-location of specialists and primary care teams in youth mental health Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 26(3), 198-204.
Beauregard, C., Papazian-Zohrabian, G., & Rousseau, C. (2017). Connecting identities through drawing: Relationships between identities in images drawn by immigrant students. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 56, 83-92.
Beauregard, C., Papazian-Zohrabian, G., & Rousseau, C. (2017). Making sense of collective identity and trauma through drawing: The case study of a Palestinian refugee students. Intercultural Education, 28(2), 113-130. Retrieved from doi:10.1080/14675986.2017.1294851
Brewin C, Cloitre M, Hyland P, Shevlin M, Maercker a, Bryant RA, . . . G, R. (2017). A Review of Current Evidence Regarding the ICD-11 Proposals for Diagnosing PTSD and Complex PTSD. Clinical Psychology Review. doi:
Caldairou-Bessette, P., Johnson-Lafleur, J., Nadeau, L., Vachon, M., & Rousseau, C. (2017). 脡couter les enfants dans la recherche en sant茅 mentale jeunesse (SMJ): une cr茅ativit茅 茅thique inspir茅e de la clinique. Approches inductives: Travail intellectuel et construction des connaissances, 4(2), 79-108.
Caldairou-Bessette, P., Vachon, M., B茅langer-Dumontier, G., & Rousseau, C. J. R. q. (2017). La r茅flexivit茅 n茅cessaire 脿 l鈥櫭﹖hique en recherche: l鈥檈xp茅rience d鈥檜n projet qualitatif en sant茅 mentale jeunesse aupr猫s de r茅fugi茅s. 36(2), 29-51.
Chase, L. E., Cleveland, J., Beatson, J., & Rousseau, C. (2017). The gap between entitlement and access to healthcare: An analysis of 鈥渃andidacy鈥� in the help-seeking trajectories of asylum seekers in Montreal. Social science & medicine, 182, 52-59.
Gagnon, M. M., & Rousseau, C. (2017). Enfants r茅fugi茅s et trauma: regards sur la sant茅 mentale et perspectives d'intervention. Ordre des psychologues du Qu茅bec. Retrieved from
Kirmayer, L. J., Kronick, R., & Rousseau, C. (2017). Advocacy as a Key to Structural Competence in Psychiatry. JAMA, Online. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.3897
Kronick, R., Rousseau, C., & Cleveland, J. (2017). International solidarity to end immigration detention. The Lancet, 389, 501-502.
Kronick, R., Rousseau, C., & Cleveland, J. (2017 - Online). Refugee children's sandplay narratives in immigration detention in Canada. European child & adolescent psychiatry, . doi: DOI 10.1007/s00787-017-1012-0
Lecompte, V., Richard-Fortier, Z., & Rousseau, C. (2017). Portrait psychologique et social de m猫res indiennes r茅fugi茅es : les enjeux li茅s 脿 l鈥檃ttachement de l鈥檈nfant. Revue qu茅b茅coise de psychologie, 38(3), 61-78.
Lecompte, V., Richard-Fortier, Z., & Rousseau, C. (2017). Adverse effect of high migration stress on mental health during pregnancy: a case report. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 20(1), 233-235. doi:
Lecompte, V., & Rousseau, C. (2017). Determinants of child attachment in the years postpartum in a high-risk sample of immigrant women. Journal of Immigrant and minority Health, Online 07 October 2017, 1-7. doi: DOI 10.1007/s10903-017-0662-9
Matlin, S. A., Gemenne, F., Munoz-Bertrand, M., Rousseau, C., Spiegel, P., Depoux, A., . . . Flahault, A. (2017). Migrants' Health - Responding to a changing landscape. In C. V.-V. Corinne Kowalski (Ed.), World Health Summit Regional Meeting. North America, Montreal: Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva.
Meloni, F., Rousseau, C., Ricard-Guay, A., Hanley, J., & (2017). Invisible students: institutional invisibility and access to education for undocumented children. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 13(1), 15-25.
Nadeau, L., Jaimes, A., Jonhson-Lafleur, J., & Rousseau, C. (2017). Perspectives of Migrant Youth, Parents and Clinicians on Community-Based Mental Health Services: Negotiating Safe Pathways. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26, 1936-1948.
Rink, N., Muttalib, F., Morantz, G., Chase, L., Cleveland, J., Rousseau, C., & Li, P. (2017). The gap between coverage and care鈥攚hat can Canadian paediatricians do about access to health services for refugee claimant children? . Paediatrics & Child Health, 22(8), 430-437. doi:
Touhami, F., Mansouri, M., Rousseau, C., & Moro, M. R. (2017). De l'effroi 脿 la mise en ab卯me des identit茅s. L'autre, 18(2), 244-251.
Vachon, M., Caldairou-Bessette, P., & Rousseau, C. (2017). Pratiques soignantes en sant茅 mentale jeunesse aupr猫s des familles r茅fugi茅es: R茅p茅tition traumatique et reconstruction du lien social. Revue qu茅b茅coise de psychologie, 38(3), 33-59.
Selected Books and Book Chapters
Book
De Haene, L., & Rousseau, C. (2020). Working with Refugee Families: Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships (Lucia De Haene & C茅cile Rousseau Ed.). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Book Chapters
2022
Lecompte, V., Rousseau, C., & Cognard-Bessette, S. (2022). Immigration, diversit茅 culturelle et risque de maltraitance. In Presse de l'Universit茅 du Qu茅bec (Ed.), La maltraitance: Perspective d茅veloppementale et 茅cologique (pp. 93-116). Canada: Karine Dubois-Comtois et Chantal Cyr
2021
Rousseau, C., Savard, C., Bonnel, A., Horme, R., Machouf, A., & Rivest-Marie-H茅l猫ne. (2021). Clinical Intervention to Address Violent Radicalization: the Quebec Model. In Kamaldeep Bhui & Dinesh Bhugra (Ed.), Terrorism, Violent Radicalization and Mental Health. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press (March 4 2021).
Rousseau, C. (2021). Des temps troubl茅s: de la question du politique en clinique 脿 l'agir politique des cliniciens. In Y. M. M. R. Moro (Ed.), Pratiques transculturelles : les nouveaux champs de la clinique (pp. 63-76). Paris: 脡ditions in Press.
Bourgeois鈥怗u茅rin, E., Rousseau, C., & Lyke, C. (2021). Partitions pour l'exil: la musique comme espace habitacle. In Luis Velasco-Pufleau et La毛titia Atlani-Duault (Ed.), Des sons pour survivre, des sons pour tuer (pp. 255-271). Paris: Luis Velasco-Pufleau et La毛titia Atlani-Duault,.
Hassan, G., Rousseau, C., Bourgeois鈥怗u茅rin, E., Daxhelet, M.-L., & Brouillette-Alarie, S. (2021). Le secteur de la sant茅 mentale et des services sociaux et la pr茅vention de la radicalisation violente au Qu茅bec. In D. M. e. S. Aoun (Ed.), Le nouvel 芒ge des extr锚mes ? Les d茅mocraties occidentales, la radicalisation et l'extr茅misme violent (pp. 453-466). Montr茅al (Qc): Les Presses de l'Universit茅 de Montr茅al.
Miconi, D., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Children and vulnerable groups services. In D. Bhugra (Ed.), Oxford Textbook of Migrant Psychiatry (Dinesh Bhugra ed., pp. 413-430). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Miconi, D., Frounfelker, L. R., Zoldan, Y., & Rousseau, C. (2021 - On line). Rethinking Radicalization Leading to Violence as a Global Health Issue. In Okpaku (Ed.), Innovations in Global Mental Health. New York, USA.
Miconi, D., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Another way out: A positive youth development approach to the study of violent radicalization in Qu茅bec, Canada. In R. Dimitrova (Ed.), Handbook of Positive Youth Development (pp. 415-429): Springer.
2020
Rousseau, C. (2020). Interrogating Legality and Legitimacy in the Post-migratory Context: Working around Traumatic Repetition and Reenactment with Refugee Families. In L. De Haene & C. Rousseau (Eds.), Working with Refugee Families: Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships (pp. 309-321). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108602105.021
Rousseau, C., & De Haene, L. (2020). Amplifying Our Engagement with Refugee Families Beyond the Therapeutic Space. Working with Refugee Families: Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships, 322.
Rousseau, C., & Gagnon, M. M. (2020). Intervening to Address the Impact of Stress and Trauma on Refugee Children and Adolescents Resettled in High-Income Countries. In Suzan J. Song & Peter Ventevogel (Ed.), Child, Adolescent and Family Refugee Mental Health (pp. 151-163).
2019
Measham, T., Guzder, J., Jarvis, G. E., Elias, R., Rousseau, C., Nadeau, L., & Hassan, G. (2019). Transcultural Mental Health Services for Refugees Two Service Models from montreal, Canada. In S. Megan Berthold and Kathryn R. Libal (Ed.), Refugees and Asylum Seekers (pp. 261-287). California: ABC-CLIO, LLC.
2018
Johnson-Lafleur, J., Nadeau, L., Jaimes, A., Rousseau, C., & Pluye, P. (2018). Les m茅thodes mixtes comme avenue d鈥檃m茅lioration de la rigueur scientifique et de l鈥櫭﹖hique en recherche aupr猫s de populations minoritaires et marginalis茅es : 茅tude de cas en sant茅 mentale jeunesse transculturelle. In Q. N. H. M. Bujold, V. Ridde, C. J. Bourque, M. J. Dogba, I. Vedel & P. Pluye (Eds.), (Ed.), Oser les d茅fis des m茅thodes mixtes en sciences sociales et sciences de la sant茅 (pp. 194-207). Montr茅al: ACFAS.
Koukoui, S., & Rousseau, C. (2018). The Poetics of a boy N the Hood. In Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia (Ed.), Legitimidades da loucura. Sofrimento, luta, criatividade e pertenca, (pp. 157-177). Salvador, Bahia.
2017
Rousseau, C. (2017). Un mur, plusieurs communaut茅s et l'odeur des 茅pices - Travailler en sant茅 mentale jeunesse 脿 Parc-Extension. In V. A. e. J.-A. B. Annick Germain (Ed.), Vivre ensemble 脿 Montr茅al - 脡preuves et convivialit茅s (pp. 20-23). Montr茅al (Qc): Atelier 10.
Rousseau, C., Beauregard, C., & Michalon-Brodeur, V. (2017). Penser la pr茅vention pour les enfants r茅fugi茅s et immigrants: quand alt茅rit茅 et souffrance sociale se conjuguent. In M. Dorais (Ed.), 笔谤茅惫别苍颈谤 (pp. 105-168). Laval: Les Presses de l'Universit茅 Laval.
Reports
Rousseau, C., Miconi, D., Guenat, C., Morin, D., Venkatesh, V., Mekki-Berrada, A., . . . Hirsch, S. (2022). Vivre ensemble dans des contextes de polarisation sociale : vuln茅rabilit茅 et r茅silience dans la communaut茅 universitaire. Recherche et Action sur les Polarisations Sociales. Retrieved from