Rachel Kronick is a clinician-scientist (FRSQ Chercheur-boursier clinicien, Junior 1) based at the Sherpa and Lady Davis Research Institutes. She is an assistant professor affiliated with the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry of 平特五不中. Her clinical work as a child and psychiatrist is based at the Centre for Child Development and Mental Health at the Jewish General Hospital where she provides outpatient care. She completed her residency at 平特五不中 and a clinical and research fellowship at the University of Toronto at the Hincks Dellcrest Institute focusing on homeless and refugeed populations. She has a Master's of Psychiatry from 平特五不中. Her research has looked at immigration policy and its consequences for children and families, with a specific focus on immigration detention. Currently her research interest is participatory-action research with asylum seeking communities to develop and implement ecosocial mental health interventions.
rachel.kronick [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Selected Articles
Kronick, R., Rousseau, C., & Cleveland, J. (2015). Asylum-seeking children鈥檚 experiences of detention in Canada: A qualitative study.听American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 85(3), 287-294.
Kronick, R., & Rousseau, C. (2015). Rights, Compassion and Invisible Children: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Parliamentary Debates on the Mandatory Detention of Migrant Children in Canada.听Journal of Refugee Studies, 28(4), 544-569.
Kronick, R., Rousseau, C., & Cleveland, J. (2011). Mandatory detention of refugee children: a public health issue?听Paediatrics & Child Health, 16(8).
Kronick, R. (2007). Medically speaking.听Canadian Medical Association Journal, 176(1), 73-74.听
Selected Book Chapter
Kronick, R., Rousseau, C., & Cleveland, J. (2016). 鈥淭hey cut your wings over here . . . you can鈥檛 do nothing鈥�: Voices of children and parents held in immigration detention in Canada. In R. Furman, D. Epps, & G. Lamphear (Eds.), Detaining the immigrant other: global and transnational issues (pp. 195-207): Oxford University Press.
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