Manal Guirguis-Younger, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist
Programme Director + Professor
Clinical Psychology
Vancouver
The faculty at Adler is highly committed to their professions, to social justice, and to the common good in and outside of the University. It is an absolute honour working with each one of them. Our faculty at Adler are student-centered and uphold the highest standards for teaching and training in the profession.
OVERVIEW
Manal Guirguis-Younger, Ph.D., is director of the Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology program at Adler University in Vancouver.
Dr. Guirguis-Younger’s research focuses on homelessness and poverty, palliative care, and alternative models of health care delivery for marginalized groups.
She is also interested in leadership theory and research, particularly in academic training and community mental health, as well as questions related to professional and personal development, civic participation, and leadership.
Throughout her career, Dr. Guirguis-Younger has served in leadership roles at multiple levels, including program director, graduate studies director, and dean of faculty.
MEMBERSHIPS + ASSOCIATIONS
- Member of the Canadian Psychological Association
- Licensed by the College of Health and Care Professionals in BC.
Publications + Presentations
Publications
Getting into Graduate School.
Mentoring Junior academics with focus on BIPOC needs.
Adjustment to Vision Loss Group Outcomes: a mixed Method Study.
Early Career Psychologists.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for depression: A meta-analysis and systematic review.
Journal Articles
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for depression: A meta-analysis and systematic review.
Impact of supervised drug consumption services on access to and engagement with care at a palliative and supportive care facility for people living with HIV/AIDS: A qualitative study.
Recommendations for improving the end-of-life care system for homeless populations: A qualitative study of the views of Canadian health and social services professionals.
Harm reduction services as a point-of-entry to and source of end-of-life care and support for homeless and marginally housed persons who use alcohol and/or illicit drugs: A qualitative analysis.
Illicit drug use as a challenge to the delivery of end-of-life care services to homeless persons.
Harm reduction and palliative care: Is there a role for supervised drug consumption services?
Être bénévoles en milieu palliatif.
Spirituality and religiousness: A diversity of definitions.
Lien entre la personnalité professionnelle, le style d’apprentissage, et deux domaines d’études: Les arts et les sciences.
It takes a community: The contributions of rural hospice volunteers to whole person care.
Learning and knowledge integration strategies of nurses and client-care workers serving homeless persons.
The trajectory of religious coping across time in response to the diagnosis of breast cancer.
Development of the volunteer peer educator role in a community cardiovascular health awareness program (CHAP): A process evaluation in two communities.
A community-based intervention for treating depression in seniors.
Narrative accounts of volunteers in palliative care settings.
How children describe their shy, withdrawn peers.
So no-one dies alone: A study of hospice volunteering with rural seniors.
Carrying out a social autopsy on persons who are homeless.
Professionalization of hospice volunteer practices: What are the implications?
Optimizing research on end-of-life care for seniors.
A behaviour-based peer nomination measure of social withdrawal in children.
One step further in assessing how interpretations influence the process of psychotherapy.
Une combinaison des interventions auto-administrée et para-professionnelle: Un modèle alternatif pour le traitement de la dépression des personnes âgées ayant une capacité fonctionnelle.
Cross-validated factor structures and factor-based subscales for PASS and PASSING.
Asymmetrical hemispheric activation and behavioral persistence: Effects of unilateral muscle contraction.
Assessing intellectual functioning in persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders using a seven-subtest short from of the WAIS-R.
Relations entre certaines caractéristiques des sujets et la réponse à la thérapie cognitive de la dépression avec des personnes agées.
A priming methodology for studying self-representation in major depressive disorder.
LEADERSHIP + ENGAGEMENT
- Member of the Black Psychology section (CPA)
- Member of the Indigenous Psychology Section (CPA)