Connecting with Migrant Children and their Families: What children in conflict and disasters have taught me
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Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital
AMPHITHEATRE: 4333 Cote Sainte-Catherine Road
Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E4
(Presentations will be in English)
Invited Speaker:
Lynne Jones, OBE, FRCPsych, PhD
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Dr. Lynne Jones is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, writer, researcher, and relief worker. Jones has been engaged in assessing mental health needs and establishing and running mental health services in disaster, conflict, and post-conflict settings since 1990 around the world. Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry, her latest book, published by Wiedenfeld and Nicolson (US publication June 2018), explores her experience as a practicing psychiatrist in war and disaster zones for 25 years, along with the changing world of international relief. With her colleague in international development, Luke Pye, Jones has co-created Migrant Child Storytelling, a website where migrant children can tell their stories through their own drawings, videos, and writing.
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Until August of 2011, she was the senior technical advisor in mental health for International Medical Corps. She is a course director for the program on Mental Health in Complex Emergencies at the International Institute for Humanitarian Affairs, Fordham University, and consults to the World Health Organization. She was a member of ICD 11 stress disorders working group, and is a technical consultant in the development of the mhGAP curriculums by WHO and UNHCR. In October 2013 the new edition of her book, Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become, was published by Bellevue Literary Press.
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She has a PhD in social psychology and political science; she has also been a Radcliffe Fellow. In 2001, she was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for her mental health work in conflict-affected areas of Central Europe. She is an honorary consultant at the Maudsley hospital, London, and Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation trust; and is a visiting scientist at the Fran莽ois-Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University. She is currently living and working in Belize.
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For questions, please contact Anita Perrone by Email:aperrone [at] jgh.mcgill.ca
Department of Child Psychiatry (514) 340-8222 Ext. 25638