Comprendre les mécanismes minimisant les risques associés au travail des intervenant.es qui encadrent des enfants et des jeunes en établissement

Biography

Denise Michelle Brend, MSW, PhD is passionate about identifying and mitigating the ways in which exposure to potentially traumatic experiences can impact helping relationships, individuals, and communities. Denise has over twenty years of experience as a psychotherapist, social worker, clinical supervisor, clinical trainer, and facilitator of learning. Currently an Assistant Professor at Université Laval and a Canadian Consortium on Child and Youth Trauma co-researcher, Denise’s research is focussing on the potentially harmful impacts of human services work in systems of care and control, workplace social support, and the implementation of effective social responses to trauma through social innovation.