Dr. Myrna Lashley is an Associate聽Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University as well as an adjunct researcher at the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit of the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. She was an Associate Dean at John Abbott College. She holds a doctorate in counseling psychology from McGill University and serves as a psychological consultant to institutions, including the juvenile justice system. She has worked both as a consultant to First Nations and the Jewish communities, and as the Cross Cultural Trainer for the Grievance Committee Office of the Secretariat for McGill University. She has also conducted training workshops locally, nationally, and internationally and has acted as a consultant to the Brazilian health care system. She was a director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and has also served on the Comit茅 consultatif sur les relations Interculturelles et Interraciales de la Communaut茅 Urbaine de Montr茅al. Currently, she is the Chair of the Cross Cultural Roundtable on Security, as well as Vice-chair of the board of the 脡cole Nationale de Police du Qu茅bec. She has also been appointed to the Comit茅 expert en mati猫re de profilage racial of the Service de police de la Ville de Montr茅al. She has authored two training manuals on intercultural issues in the workplace and has received several awards including the 2006 Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Award for Holocaust studies; the 2004 Martin Luther King legacy award; as well as the 1995 Merit Award for the Kahnawake Native survival school. She is currently Honorary Consul of Barbados to Montreal. Her current research interests are in cultural aspects of youth mental health, and cultural aspects of radicalization leading to violence.
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Selected Articles
Rousseau, C., Hassan, G., Measham, T., Moreau, N., Lashley, M., Castro, T., Blake, C., & McKenzie, G.聽(2009).聽From the Family Universe to the Outside World: Famiy Relations, School Attitude and Perception of Racism in Caribbean and Filipino Adolescents.聽Health and Place, 15, pp.721-730.
Rousseau C., Hassan G., Measham T., &聽Lashley M. (2008).听Prevalence and correlates of conduct disorder and聽problem behavior in West Indian and Filipino immigrant adolescents.聽European ChildAdolescent Psychiatry.
Hassan G., Rousseau C., Measham T., & Lashley M. (2008).听Caribbean and Filipino adolescents鈥� and聽parents鈥� perceptions of parental authority, physical punishment and cultural values and their relation to聽migratory characteristics.聽Canadian Ethnic Studies.
Lashley, M. (2008).听Pour ou contre les 茅coles afrocentriques au Canada?聽L鈥檃utre, cliniques, cultures et soci茅t茅s,聽9(3), 427-432.
Kirmayer, L., Rousseau, C., & Lashley, M. (2007).聽The Place of Culture in Forensic Psychiatry.聽The Journal of聽the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law,聽35,聽pp.98-102.
Greenfield, B., Rousseau, R., Slatkoff, J., Lewkowski, M., Davis, M., Dub茅, S., Lashley, M.E., Morin, I., Dray,P,聽Harden, B. (2005).聽Profile of a Metrepolitan North American IImmigrant Suicidal Adolescent Population.聽The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.聽51,聽pp. 155-159.
Lashley, M., Blake, C., Hussain, M., MacLean, R.,Measham., Rousseau, C. (2005).聽Student Success: The聽identification of strategies used by Black Caribbean youth to achieve academic success.
Lashley, M. (2000).听听Caribbean families 鈥� the unrecognized social stressors of migration and reunification.聽Journal of Transcultural Psychiatry, 37, pp. 201-215.
Lashley, M., Talley, W., Lands L.C., & Keyserlingk, E.W. (2000).聽Informed Proxy Consent: Communication聽between Surgeons and Surrogates about Pediatric Surgery.聽Pediatrics,聽105, pp. 591-596.
Stelling, J., Waller, M., de Broin, M., & Lashley, M. (1988).听Employee Assistance Programme: Piloting and聽Evaluating a model for the health care setting.聽Conseil qu茅b茅cois de la recherche sociale.
Selected Books
Lashley, M.聽(1995). Child abuse within the West Indian Community.聽聽In M. Meyer & A. Estable (Ed.),聽颁丑颈濒诲听Abuse in Minority Ethnocultural Communities: An Exploratory Study聽(pp. 9-13). Ottawa:聽Multiculturalism Program, Department of Canadian Heritage and Family Violence Prevention Division,聽Health Canada.