Danielle Groleau
Biographic Data
| ID | 86287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle Groleau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Groleau |
| SIGNATURE | GROLEAU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2421-9069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Exploring Qualitative Evidence Through a School-Based Intervention
Background: The mental health crisis among youth, exemplified by the 1.2 million affected in Canada, underscores the urgent need for effective interventions. Research indicates that in-school programs are more successful in addressing common mental health issues and promoting well-being. This evaluation study was performed on the Kids Write Network, an expressive writing intervention that aims to facilitate emotional expression and processing by …
Help-seeking for moderate to severe perinatal depression in Nigeria
Perinatal depression is a major public health problem that is under-treated in low- and middle-income countries, with negative community attitudes often cited as a major barrier to help-seeking and treatment. In this paper, we investigate help-seeking for perinatal depression, some of whom may have experienced psychosis in the context of perinatal depression, and its cultural shaping in Nigeria. Our approach was informed by cultural constructivis…
Beyond the Sociocultural Rhetoric
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is justified by sociocultural arguments, including that it guarantees girls'/women's appropriate sexual behavior, thus preserving family honor. We explored the perspectives of Guineans who do not practice FGM ("positive deviants"), as well as of Guineans who still practice FGM but who are supportive of abandoning the practice ("reluctant adherents"). We conducted a "focused ethnographic" study in Conakry, Guinea wi…
Mapping the body, voicing the margins
The study explores how children in an inner‐city community of Jamaica deal with everyday violence. Using an art‐based method called body mapping , we explored the ways children made sense of issues related to power, vulnerability, risk and resilience. The findings show how children's narratives and memories of their bodies merged with broader social and cultural structures governing their lives. Expressing their embodied experiences through the b…
Help-Seeking to Cope With Experiences of Violence Among Women Living With HIV in Canada
Using baseline data from a community-collaborative cohort of women living with HIV in Canada, we assessed the prevalence and correlates of help-seeking among 1,057 women who reported experiencing violence in adulthood (≥16 years). After violence, 447 (42%) sought help, while 610 (58%) did not. Frequently accessed supports included health care providers ( n = 313, 70%), family/friends ( n = 244, 55%), and non-HIV community organizations ( n = 235,…
Perceptions of the psychological experiences surrounding female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) among the Izzi in Southeast Nigeria
Evidence about psychological experiences surrounding female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) remains weak and inconclusive. This article is the first of a series that deploys qualitative methods to ascertain the psychological experiences associated with FGM/C through the lifecycle of women. Using the free listing method, 103 girls and women, aged 12 to 68 years from rural and urban Izzi communities in Southeastern Nigeria, produced narratives t…
Recovery from severe mental illness in Québec
Envisioning Women-Centered HIV Care
Empowering women to breastfeed
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFI) is currently presented worldwide as the gold standard model of care for promoting and supporting breastfeeding. However, there is a lack of understanding about the ways in which health services, including the BFI, address the cultural change from a disembodied practice (formula feeding) to an embodied one (breastfeeding) in contexts where formula feeding is the norm. We used a qualitative case study met…
McGill Entrevista Narrativa de Adoecimento - Mini
Este artigo apresenta o processo de tradução e adaptação cultural para o português da McGill Illness Narrative Interview – MINI, um modelo de entrevista para a pesquisa dos sentidos e dos modos de narrar a experiência do adoecimento, testada, no contexto brasileiro, para os problemas psiquiátricos e os relacionados ao câncer. Foram realizadas duas traduções e respectivas retraduções, avaliada a equivalência semântica, elaboradas versões síntese e…
Clinician Reasoning in the Use of Cultural Formulation to Resolve Uncertainty in the Diagnosis of Psychosis
Cultural Aspects of Healthy BRCA Carriers From Two Ethnocultural Groups
We explored the experiences of Ashkenazi Jewish and French Canadian women and meanings attributed to their hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) risk. We purposively sampled 40 BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA) mutation carriers and conducted theoretically driven semistructured interviews. According to content analysis, participants from these two ethnocultural groups held divergent meanings associated with being a BRCA carrier and different views pert…
Power to negotiate spatial barriers to breastfeeding in a western context
Influence of the DSM‐IV Outline for Cultural Formulation on multidisciplinary case conferences in mental health
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV-TR) includes an Outline for Cultural Formulation (CF) that identifies cultural information that can be used to modify diagnosis, clinical assessment and treatment plan. This study examined the use of the CF by a Cultural Consultation Service in the psychiatric assessment of patients referred by primary care providers. The study uses conversat…
The Experience of Emotional Distress Among Women With Scleroderma
Emotional distress is common among patients with chronic medical illnesses, but the nature of the distress is not well understood. Our objective was to understand patients' experiences of emotional distress by conducting in-depth interviews using the McGill Illness Narrative Interview with women affected by scleroderma ( N = 16). We sought to determine how participants described their distress, what they believed caused it, and how they coped. We…
Therapeutic Processes and Perceived Helpfulness of Dang-Ki (Chinese Shamanism) from the Symbolic Healing Perspective
Spiritual reconfigurations of self after a myocardial infarction
Enhancing Generalizability
Weak external validity of qualitative data has been a subject of debate outside and within the field of qualitative health research. Though some narratives have the power to reveal universal existential issues and inform theoretical development, each story remains unique and cannot be generalized. If the goal of qualitative researchers is to have narrative knowledge effect social change, we are faced with a pervasive problem. Our main objective w…
Traumatic Amputation
Reconfiguring insufficient breast milk as a sociosomatic problem
This study focuses on Brazilian mothers who gave birth to premature babies who were discharged from hospital using the Kangaroo Mother Care Method. While mothers left the hospital breastfeeding exclusively, once back at home, they abandoned exclusive breastfeeding because of insufficient breast milk (IBM). In this project we explored how IBM was interpreted by mothers within their social context. Participatory research using the Creative Sensitiv…
The McGill Illness Narrative Interview (Mini)
This article summarizes the rationale, development and application of the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI), a theoretically driven, semistructured, qualitative interview protocol designed to elicit illness narratives in health research. The MINI is sequentially structured with three main sections that obtain: (1) A basic temporal narrative of symptom and illness experience, organized in terms of the contiguity of events; (2) salient prot…
Public Pressure, Private Protest
Some evidence suggests that West Indian immigrants in Canada are a marginalized and over-burdened group. However, little attention has been given to examining health status and beliefs. We partly redress this gap by investigating health beliefs of West Indian immigrants in Montreal with somatic, emotional, or medically unexplained symptoms. The overall aim was to elicit and explore illness narratives, explanatory models, symptom-attribution and h…
Breastfeeding and the cultural configuration of social space among Vietnamese immigrant woman
Sociosomatic theory in Vietnamese immigrants' narratives of distress
We examined the symptom experience and illness explanations of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada through narratives collected during a study of pathways and barriers to mental health care. The narratives presented two culture-related explanatory models: phong thâp and uâ't u'ć. Common elements in the narratives of those who suffered from uâ't u'ć were experiences of injustice and indignation, along with the persistent inability to denounce these in…
The McGill Illness Narrative Interview (Mini)
This article summarizes the rationale, development and application of the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI), a theoretically driven, semistructured, qualitative interview protocol designed to elicit illness narratives in health research. The MINI is sequentially structured with three main sections that obtain: (1) A basic temporal narrative of symptom and illness experience, organized in terms of the contiguity of events; (2) salient prot…
Sociosomatic theory in Vietnamese immigrants' narratives of distress
We examined the symptom experience and illness explanations of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada through narratives collected during a study of pathways and barriers to mental health care. The narratives presented two culture-related explanatory models: phong thâp and uâ't u'ć. Common elements in the narratives of those who suffered from uâ't u'ć were experiences of injustice and indignation, along with the persistent inability to denounce these in…
Breastfeeding and the cultural configuration of social space among Vietnamese immigrant woman
Enhancing Generalizability
Weak external validity of qualitative data has been a subject of debate outside and within the field of qualitative health research. Though some narratives have the power to reveal universal existential issues and inform theoretical development, each story remains unique and cannot be generalized. If the goal of qualitative researchers is to have narrative knowledge effect social change, we are faced with a pervasive problem. Our main objective w…
Spiritual reconfigurations of self after a myocardial infarction
Power to negotiate spatial barriers to breastfeeding in a western context
Public Pressure, Private Protest
Some evidence suggests that West Indian immigrants in Canada are a marginalized and over-burdened group. However, little attention has been given to examining health status and beliefs. We partly redress this gap by investigating health beliefs of West Indian immigrants in Montreal with somatic, emotional, or medically unexplained symptoms. The overall aim was to elicit and explore illness narratives, explanatory models, symptom-attribution and h…
Recovery from severe mental illness in Québec
Cultural Aspects of Healthy BRCA Carriers From Two Ethnocultural Groups
We explored the experiences of Ashkenazi Jewish and French Canadian women and meanings attributed to their hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) risk. We purposively sampled 40 BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA) mutation carriers and conducted theoretically driven semistructured interviews. According to content analysis, participants from these two ethnocultural groups held divergent meanings associated with being a BRCA carrier and different views pert…
Influence of the DSM‐IV Outline for Cultural Formulation on multidisciplinary case conferences in mental health
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV-TR) includes an Outline for Cultural Formulation (CF) that identifies cultural information that can be used to modify diagnosis, clinical assessment and treatment plan. This study examined the use of the CF by a Cultural Consultation Service in the psychiatric assessment of patients referred by primary care providers. The study uses conversat…
Beyond the Sociocultural Rhetoric
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is justified by sociocultural arguments, including that it guarantees girls'/women's appropriate sexual behavior, thus preserving family honor. We explored the perspectives of Guineans who do not practice FGM ("positive deviants"), as well as of Guineans who still practice FGM but who are supportive of abandoning the practice ("reluctant adherents"). We conducted a "focused ethnographic" study in Conakry, Guinea wi…
Perceptions of the psychological experiences surrounding female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) among the Izzi in Southeast Nigeria
Evidence about psychological experiences surrounding female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) remains weak and inconclusive. This article is the first of a series that deploys qualitative methods to ascertain the psychological experiences associated with FGM/C through the lifecycle of women. Using the free listing method, 103 girls and women, aged 12 to 68 years from rural and urban Izzi communities in Southeastern Nigeria, produced narratives t…
Sociosomatic theory in Vietnamese immigrants' narratives of distress
We examined the symptom experience and illness explanations of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada through narratives collected during a study of pathways and barriers to mental health care. The narratives presented two culture-related explanatory models: phong thâp and uâ't u'ć. Common elements in the narratives of those who suffered from uâ't u'ć were experiences of injustice and indignation, along with the persistent inability to denounce these in…
Breastfeeding and the cultural configuration of social space among Vietnamese immigrant woman
The McGill Illness Narrative Interview (Mini)
This article summarizes the rationale, development and application of the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI), a theoretically driven, semistructured, qualitative interview protocol designed to elicit illness narratives in health research. The MINI is sequentially structured with three main sections that obtain: (1) A basic temporal narrative of symptom and illness experience, organized in terms of the contiguity of events; (2) salient prot…
Public Pressure, Private Protest
Some evidence suggests that West Indian immigrants in Canada are a marginalized and over-burdened group. However, little attention has been given to examining health status and beliefs. We partly redress this gap by investigating health beliefs of West Indian immigrants in Montreal with somatic, emotional, or medically unexplained symptoms. The overall aim was to elicit and explore illness narratives, explanatory models, symptom-attribution and h…
Traumatic Amputation
Reconfiguring insufficient breast milk as a sociosomatic problem
This study focuses on Brazilian mothers who gave birth to premature babies who were discharged from hospital using the Kangaroo Mother Care Method. While mothers left the hospital breastfeeding exclusively, once back at home, they abandoned exclusive breastfeeding because of insufficient breast milk (IBM). In this project we explored how IBM was interpreted by mothers within their social context. Participatory research using the Creative Sensitiv…
Enhancing Generalizability
Weak external validity of qualitative data has been a subject of debate outside and within the field of qualitative health research. Though some narratives have the power to reveal universal existential issues and inform theoretical development, each story remains unique and cannot be generalized. If the goal of qualitative researchers is to have narrative knowledge effect social change, we are faced with a pervasive problem. Our main objective w…
Therapeutic Processes and Perceived Helpfulness of Dang-Ki (Chinese Shamanism) from the Symbolic Healing Perspective
Spiritual reconfigurations of self after a myocardial infarction
Influence of the DSM‐IV Outline for Cultural Formulation on multidisciplinary case conferences in mental health
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV-TR) includes an Outline for Cultural Formulation (CF) that identifies cultural information that can be used to modify diagnosis, clinical assessment and treatment plan. This study examined the use of the CF by a Cultural Consultation Service in the psychiatric assessment of patients referred by primary care providers. The study uses conversat…
The Experience of Emotional Distress Among Women With Scleroderma
Emotional distress is common among patients with chronic medical illnesses, but the nature of the distress is not well understood. Our objective was to understand patients' experiences of emotional distress by conducting in-depth interviews using the McGill Illness Narrative Interview with women affected by scleroderma ( N = 16). We sought to determine how participants described their distress, what they believed caused it, and how they coped. We…
Power to negotiate spatial barriers to breastfeeding in a western context
Clinician Reasoning in the Use of Cultural Formulation to Resolve Uncertainty in the Diagnosis of Psychosis
Cultural Aspects of Healthy BRCA Carriers From Two Ethnocultural Groups
We explored the experiences of Ashkenazi Jewish and French Canadian women and meanings attributed to their hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) risk. We purposively sampled 40 BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA) mutation carriers and conducted theoretically driven semistructured interviews. According to content analysis, participants from these two ethnocultural groups held divergent meanings associated with being a BRCA carrier and different views pert…
Empowering women to breastfeed
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFI) is currently presented worldwide as the gold standard model of care for promoting and supporting breastfeeding. However, there is a lack of understanding about the ways in which health services, including the BFI, address the cultural change from a disembodied practice (formula feeding) to an embodied one (breastfeeding) in contexts where formula feeding is the norm. We used a qualitative case study met…
McGill Entrevista Narrativa de Adoecimento - Mini
Este artigo apresenta o processo de tradução e adaptação cultural para o português da McGill Illness Narrative Interview – MINI, um modelo de entrevista para a pesquisa dos sentidos e dos modos de narrar a experiência do adoecimento, testada, no contexto brasileiro, para os problemas psiquiátricos e os relacionados ao câncer. Foram realizadas duas traduções e respectivas retraduções, avaliada a equivalência semântica, elaboradas versões síntese e…
Envisioning Women-Centered HIV Care
Recovery from severe mental illness in Québec
Perceptions of the psychological experiences surrounding female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) among the Izzi in Southeast Nigeria
Evidence about psychological experiences surrounding female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) remains weak and inconclusive. This article is the first of a series that deploys qualitative methods to ascertain the psychological experiences associated with FGM/C through the lifecycle of women. Using the free listing method, 103 girls and women, aged 12 to 68 years from rural and urban Izzi communities in Southeastern Nigeria, produced narratives t…
Mapping the body, voicing the margins
The study explores how children in an inner‐city community of Jamaica deal with everyday violence. Using an art‐based method called body mapping , we explored the ways children made sense of issues related to power, vulnerability, risk and resilience. The findings show how children's narratives and memories of their bodies merged with broader social and cultural structures governing their lives. Expressing their embodied experiences through the b…
Help-Seeking to Cope With Experiences of Violence Among Women Living With HIV in Canada
Using baseline data from a community-collaborative cohort of women living with HIV in Canada, we assessed the prevalence and correlates of help-seeking among 1,057 women who reported experiencing violence in adulthood (≥16 years). After violence, 447 (42%) sought help, while 610 (58%) did not. Frequently accessed supports included health care providers ( n = 313, 70%), family/friends ( n = 244, 55%), and non-HIV community organizations ( n = 235,…
Beyond the Sociocultural Rhetoric
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is justified by sociocultural arguments, including that it guarantees girls'/women's appropriate sexual behavior, thus preserving family honor. We explored the perspectives of Guineans who do not practice FGM ("positive deviants"), as well as of Guineans who still practice FGM but who are supportive of abandoning the practice ("reluctant adherents"). We conducted a "focused ethnographic" study in Conakry, Guinea wi…
Help-seeking for moderate to severe perinatal depression in Nigeria
Perinatal depression is a major public health problem that is under-treated in low- and middle-income countries, with negative community attitudes often cited as a major barrier to help-seeking and treatment. In this paper, we investigate help-seeking for perinatal depression, some of whom may have experienced psychosis in the context of perinatal depression, and its cultural shaping in Nigeria. Our approach was informed by cultural constructivis…
Exploring Qualitative Evidence Through a School-Based Intervention
Background: The mental health crisis among youth, exemplified by the 1.2 million affected in Canada, underscores the urgent need for effective interventions. Research indicates that in-school programs are more successful in addressing common mental health issues and promoting well-being. This evaluation study was performed on the Kids Write Network, an expressive writing intervention that aims to facilitate emotional expression and processing by …
Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Narrative (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Qualitative research (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works)