Janique Johnson-Lafleur received her PhD in transcultural psychiatry from Ď㽶ĘÓƵ and did her postdoctoral and undergraduate training in anthropology at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, and at UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al and UniversitĂ© Laval, respectively. She holds a researcher position at Sherpa University Institute, CIUSSS West-Montreal, a community-based research center dedicated to the study of primary healthcare and social services in intercultural contexts.
Her research program focuses on the perception and lived experiences of the different actors involved in the field of mental health and social services in Quebec, and on the practitioners’ needs in terms of intercultural resources and training. She is also interested in art-based methods and the role of images and imagistic ways of knowing in transformative practices – both in clinical interventions and training initiatives. Her current work also investigates communities of practice as a training modality, the prevention of violent radicalization in socially polarized times, and Indigenous mental health and wellness. Her work relies on qualitative and mixed methods research designs and is inspired by participatory research principles and intersectional, anti-oppressive and decolonial approaches.
Dr. Johnson-Lafleur is available for research supervision of students in the fields of social science, psychology, social work, psychiatry, and public health.
Selected Articles
Johnson-Lafleur, J., Zoldan, Y., Frounfelker, R., Rousseau. C. (2023). Collective case formulation on radicalization: A critical perspective in training. Transcultural Psychiatry.
Johnson-Lafleur, J. (2022). Looking Again and Beyond: The Power of Images in Intercultural Training in Youth Mental Health Care. Ethos, 50(2): 272-291.
Johnson-Lafleur, J., Nadeau, L., Rousseau, C. (2022). Families’ and Practitioners’ Use of Culture in Youth Mental Health Services: A Double-Edged Sword. Child & Youth Care Forum.
Nadeau, L., Gaulin, D., Johnson-Lafleur, J., Levesque, C., Fraser, S. (2022). The Challenges of Decolonizing Participatory Research in Indigenous Contexts: The Atautsikut Community of Practice Experience in Nunavik. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 81(1), 2087846
Johnson-Lafleur, J., Nadeau, L., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Intercultural Training in Tense Times: Cultural Identities and Lived Experiences Within a Community of Practice of Youth Mental Health Care in Montréal. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. 1-23.
Miconi, D., Dervishi, E., Wiium, N., Johnson-Lafleur, J., Ibrahimi, S., & Rousseau, C. (2021). Egyptian and Roma Adolescents’ Perspectives on Their Developmental Assets in Albania During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 31(3): 576-594.
Nadeau, L., Johnson-Lafleur, J., Jaimes, A., & Bolduc, E. (2020). L’engagement dans les soins en collaboration en santé mentale jeunesse pour les familles migrantes: des lieux cliniques ancrés dans leurs contextes institutionnel et sociopolitique. Santé mentale au Québec. 45(2): 19-38.
Rousseau C, Johnson-Lafleur J, Papazian-Zohrabian G, MeashamT. (2020). Interdisciplinary Case Discussions as a Training Modality to Teach Cultural Formulation in Child Mental Health. Transcultural Psychiatry. 57(4): 581-593.
Johnson-Lafleur, J., Papazian-Zohrabian, G., & Rousseau, C. (2019). Learning from partnership tensions in transcultural interdisciplinary case discussion seminars: A qualitative study of collaborative youth mental health care informed by game theory. Social Science & Medicine, 237.
Daxhelet, M.-L., Johnson-Lafleur, J., Papazian-Zohrabian, G., Rousseau, C. (2018). Les dimensions collectives du contre-transfert dans le cadre des séminaires de discussion de cas transculturels et interinstitutionnels. L’Autre, 1 (19) : 21-31.
Johnson-Lafleur, J., Nadeau, L., Jaimes, A., Rousseau, C., Pluye, P. (2018). « Chapitre 11 : Les méthodes mixtes comme avenue d’amélioration de la rigueur scientifique et de l’éthique en recherche auprès de populations minoritaires et marginalisées : étude de cas en santé mentale jeunesse transculturelle », dans M. Bujold, Q. N. Hong, V. Ridde, C. J. Bourque, M. J. Dogba, I. Vedel et P. Pluye, Oser les défis des méthodes mixtes en sciences sociales et sciences de la santé, Montréal, ACFAS, p. 65-85.
Caldairou-Bessette, P., Johnson-Lafleur, J., Nadeau, L., Vachon, M. & Rousseau, C. (2017). Écouter les enfants dans la recherche en santé mentale jeunesse (SMJ) : une créativité éthique inspirée de la clinique. Approches inductives, 4(2), 79-108.
Rousseau C, Pontbriand A, Nadeau L, Johnson-Lafleur J (2017) Perception of interprofessional collaboration and co-location of specialists and primary care teams in youth mental health. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 26(3).
Nadeau L, Jaimes A, Johnson-Lafleur J, Rousseau C (2017). Perspectives of migrant youth, parents and clinicians on community-based mental health services: negotiating safe pathways. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Johnson-Lafleur, J., Rousseau, C., Papazian-Zohrabian, G., Boulanger, C., Boubnan, H., Lynch, A. & Richard, A. (2016). L’espace québécois du vivre-ensemble mis à l’épreuve par le débat sur la Charte des valeurs : Expériences et perceptions d’intervenants du domaine de la santé et des services sociaux œuvrant en contexte de pluriethnicité. Nouvelles pratiques sociales, 28(1), 175–194.
Nadeau L, Lecomte V, Rousseau C, Pontbriand A, Johnson-Lafleur J (2016). Collaborative youth mental health service users, immigration, poverty and family environment. Child and Adolescent Mental Health.