Jude Mary Cénat
Biographic Data
| ID | 242379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jude Mary Cénat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jude Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Cénat |
| SIGNATURE | CÉNAT J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3628-6904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Antiracist mental healthcare training and development of multicultural awareness, knowledge and skills among school mental health providers in Canada
In Canada, mental health disparities persist among racialized populations, including Black, Indigenous and other people of color. A major barrier to equitable care is the lack of adequate training of mental health professionals on racial issues. To address this unmet need, Cénat and colleagues introduced the Providing Antiracist Mental Health Care online training course. This contains five modules addressing: (a) awareness of racial issues, (b) a…
Racial Disparities in the Prevalence and Associated Factors of Childhood Depression in Canada
Determinants of Covid-19 related traumatic stress among black individuals in Canada: The role of health literacy, racial discrimination, and history of Covid-19 infection
Prevalence and Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Among Women and Men in Mexico: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
This article presents the first systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence and correlates of different forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) among women and men in Mexico. To identify studies, a comprehensive search strategy was developed and executed across 11 databases (Academic Search Complete, APA PsycInfo, CINAHL, Cochrane CENTRAL, Embase, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, LILACS, MEDLINE, SciELO, Sociological …
Mental Health Perception in Black Communities in Canada: The Intergenerational Differences Between Youth and Parents
Mental health remains a critical concern within the Black communities in Canada, influenced by systemic racism, stigma, and cultural beliefs. Despite the importance and influence of intergenerational perspectives in seeking and use of care, research in this area is scarce. This study identifies mental health perceptions among Black youth and parents and examines how stigma, cultural beliefs, and experiences of racism influence these perceptions. …
Sexual Victimization and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among a Nationally Representative Sample of Adolescents and Young Adults in Haiti
Racial discrimination in healthcare services among Black individuals in Canada as a major threat for public health: Its association with Covid-19 vaccine mistrust and uptake, conspiracy beliefs, depre…
Racial discrimination experienced by Black individuals in health services is a major public health concern and threat to population health in Canada. Federal, provincial, and municipal public health agencies should adapt their programs, strategies, tools, and campaigns to address the mistrust created by racial discrimination
Maladi Nanm, Maladi Zonbi, & Maladi Lalin: A Qualitative Study Of Cultural Concepts Of Distress In Northern Haiti
Cultural Concepts of Distress (CCDs) are culturally constructed diagnostic categories that exist within a specific society or culture. While several studies have assessed CCDs around the world, few studies have examined them in Haiti. This qualitative study examines manifestations of anxiety and depression via 'sent spirits' in the form of maladi nanm ('Soul disorder') and maladi zonbi ('Zombie disorder'), and bipolar disorder in the form of mala…
Adverse childhood experiences: A meta‐analysis of prevalence and moderators among half a million adults in 206 studies
Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including maltreatment and family dysfunction, is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and disability. With a large body of international literature on ACEs having emerged over the past 25 years, it is timely to now synthetize the available evidence to estimate the global prevalence of ACEs and, through a series of moderator analyses, determine which populations are at higher risk. …
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
Racial trauma refers to experiences related to threats, prejudices, harm, shame, humiliation, and guilt associated with various types of racial discrimination, either for direct victims or witnesses. In North American, European, and colonial zeitgeist societies, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) experience racial microaggressions and interpersonal, institutional, and systemic racism on a repetitive, constant, inevitable, and cumulati…
The Seven Reasons Why Black Children Are Overrepresented in the Child Welfare System in Ontario (Canada): A Qualitative Study from the Perspectives of Caseworkers and Community Facilitators
Racism as a vehicle for the overrepresentation of Black youth in child protection services in Ontario, Canada: Caseworkers’ and community facilitators’ perspectives
The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale–Revised (Cesd-20-R): Factorial validity and gender invariance among Nigerian young adults
Severe Anxiety and PTSD Symptoms Among Ebola Virus Disease Survivors and Healthcare Workers in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Eastern DR Congo
Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors and healthcare workers (HCWs) face stress, fear, and stigma during the COVID-19 pandemic that can induce severe symptoms of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We examined the prevalence and factors related to severe PTSD and anxiety symptoms, using a representative sample of survivors of the 2018-2020 EVD epidemic in DR Congo in comparison HCWs. Five hundred sixty-three participants (55.25% wome…
Perceived racial discrimination, internalized racism, social support, and self-esteem among Black individuals in Canada: A moderated mediation model
Results indicate a strong association between racial discrimination and low self-esteem. These findings provide a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the development of self-esteem problems among Black individuals in Canada. They also have important relevance for the development of educational and clinical programs for prevention and intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, posttraumatic stress disorder, and psychological distress among populations affected by the Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-ana…
Overrepresentation of Black children in the child welfare system: A systematic review to understand and better act
Prolonged grief and posttraumatic growth among middle-aged and older widowed persons: A latent class analysis and testing for the role of social support
Evidence has shown that symptoms of grief co-occur with posttraumatic growth following loss. Using latent class analysis among a Togolese sample of middle-aged/older widowed persons, we identified three classes along their experiences of grief-growth interaction (combined grief/growth, predominantly growth, and low-medium growth classes). The combined grief/growth class members were more likely to have lost their spouses recently and to report gr…
Prevalence and Effects of Daily and Major Experiences of Racial Discrimination and Microaggressions among Black Individuals in Canada
The prevalence and correlates of different forms of racial discrimination among Black Canadians are unknown. This article aims to examine the prevalence of different forms of racial discrimination (daily, major and microaggressions) and their association with self-esteem and satisfaction with life among Black Canadians. A convenience sample of 845 Black Canadians aged 15-40 was recruited. We assessed frequencies of everyday and major racial discr…
Differential Associations of Coping Strategies With Grief and Depression in Young Adults: The Role of Cause of Death and Relationship to the Deceased
Introduction: The impact of loss by death in young adults has been underinvestigated, although higher rates of traumatic deaths are reported at this developmental stage. This study examined the relative differential consequences of bereavement-related factors for Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD) and depression. In addition, coping strategies predicting the study outcomes were examined as a function of bereavement-related factors. Me…
A Mixed Methods Approach of End-of-Life Care, Social Rites, and Bereavement Outcomes: A Transnational Perspective
Prolonged grief related to Covid-19 deaths: Do we have to fear a steep rise in traumatic and disenfranchised griefs
The circumstances of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related deaths embed multiple traumatic characteristics, alongside several external factors that can disenfranchise individual grief. In this context, severe forms of traumatic distress, guilt, somatization, regret, anger, and unspecific symptoms not yet included in prolonged grief disorder (PGD) criteria could emerge. This article (a) analyzes factors related to bereavement in the context of th…
Le rôle de l’école face à la radicalisation violente: Risques Et Bénéfices D’une Approche Sécuritaire
La radicalisation violente est un phénomène social aux contours imprécis et au fort investissement politique, qui concerne principalement les jeunes en ce qui a trait au passage à l’acte. Plusieurs pays occidentaux composent avec ce phénomène en optant pour une réponse sécuritaire, dans laquelle une étroite collaboration entre le champ de l’éducation et les forces de l’ordre est encouragée. Cet article explore les enjeux liés au resserrement des …
Traumas et résilience. Leçons du tremblement de terre de 2010 en Haïti
Le syndrome de l'Aquarius
Prevalence and Effects of Daily and Major Experiences of Racial Discrimination and Microaggressions among Black Individuals in Canada
The prevalence and correlates of different forms of racial discrimination among Black Canadians are unknown. This article aims to examine the prevalence of different forms of racial discrimination (daily, major and microaggressions) and their association with self-esteem and satisfaction with life among Black Canadians. A convenience sample of 845 Black Canadians aged 15-40 was recruited. We assessed frequencies of everyday and major racial discr…
Perceived racial discrimination, internalized racism, social support, and self-esteem among Black individuals in Canada: A moderated mediation model
Results indicate a strong association between racial discrimination and low self-esteem. These findings provide a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the development of self-esteem problems among Black individuals in Canada. They also have important relevance for the development of educational and clinical programs for prevention and intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Le rôle de l’école face à la radicalisation violente: Risques Et Bénéfices D’une Approche Sécuritaire
La radicalisation violente est un phénomène social aux contours imprécis et au fort investissement politique, qui concerne principalement les jeunes en ce qui a trait au passage à l’acte. Plusieurs pays occidentaux composent avec ce phénomène en optant pour une réponse sécuritaire, dans laquelle une étroite collaboration entre le champ de l’éducation et les forces de l’ordre est encouragée. Cet article explore les enjeux liés au resserrement des …
Racial discrimination in healthcare services among Black individuals in Canada as a major threat for public health: Its association with Covid-19 vaccine mistrust and uptake, conspiracy beliefs, depre…
Racial discrimination experienced by Black individuals in health services is a major public health concern and threat to population health in Canada. Federal, provincial, and municipal public health agencies should adapt their programs, strategies, tools, and campaigns to address the mistrust created by racial discrimination
Racism as a vehicle for the overrepresentation of Black youth in child protection services in Ontario, Canada: Caseworkers’ and community facilitators’ perspectives
Prolonged grief and posttraumatic growth among middle-aged and older widowed persons: A latent class analysis and testing for the role of social support
Evidence has shown that symptoms of grief co-occur with posttraumatic growth following loss. Using latent class analysis among a Togolese sample of middle-aged/older widowed persons, we identified three classes along their experiences of grief-growth interaction (combined grief/growth, predominantly growth, and low-medium growth classes). The combined grief/growth class members were more likely to have lost their spouses recently and to report gr…
Traumas et résilience. Leçons du tremblement de terre de 2010 en Haïti
Le syndrome de l'Aquarius
Le rôle de l’école face à la radicalisation violente: Risques Et Bénéfices D’une Approche Sécuritaire
La radicalisation violente est un phénomène social aux contours imprécis et au fort investissement politique, qui concerne principalement les jeunes en ce qui a trait au passage à l’acte. Plusieurs pays occidentaux composent avec ce phénomène en optant pour une réponse sécuritaire, dans laquelle une étroite collaboration entre le champ de l’éducation et les forces de l’ordre est encouragée. Cet article explore les enjeux liés au resserrement des …
Differential Associations of Coping Strategies With Grief and Depression in Young Adults: The Role of Cause of Death and Relationship to the Deceased
Introduction: The impact of loss by death in young adults has been underinvestigated, although higher rates of traumatic deaths are reported at this developmental stage. This study examined the relative differential consequences of bereavement-related factors for Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD) and depression. In addition, coping strategies predicting the study outcomes were examined as a function of bereavement-related factors. Me…
A Mixed Methods Approach of End-of-Life Care, Social Rites, and Bereavement Outcomes: A Transnational Perspective
Prolonged grief related to Covid-19 deaths: Do we have to fear a steep rise in traumatic and disenfranchised griefs
The circumstances of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related deaths embed multiple traumatic characteristics, alongside several external factors that can disenfranchise individual grief. In this context, severe forms of traumatic distress, guilt, somatization, regret, anger, and unspecific symptoms not yet included in prolonged grief disorder (PGD) criteria could emerge. This article (a) analyzes factors related to bereavement in the context of th…
Prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, posttraumatic stress disorder, and psychological distress among populations affected by the Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-ana…
Overrepresentation of Black children in the child welfare system: A systematic review to understand and better act
Prolonged grief and posttraumatic growth among middle-aged and older widowed persons: A latent class analysis and testing for the role of social support
Evidence has shown that symptoms of grief co-occur with posttraumatic growth following loss. Using latent class analysis among a Togolese sample of middle-aged/older widowed persons, we identified three classes along their experiences of grief-growth interaction (combined grief/growth, predominantly growth, and low-medium growth classes). The combined grief/growth class members were more likely to have lost their spouses recently and to report gr…
Prevalence and Effects of Daily and Major Experiences of Racial Discrimination and Microaggressions among Black Individuals in Canada
The prevalence and correlates of different forms of racial discrimination among Black Canadians are unknown. This article aims to examine the prevalence of different forms of racial discrimination (daily, major and microaggressions) and their association with self-esteem and satisfaction with life among Black Canadians. A convenience sample of 845 Black Canadians aged 15-40 was recruited. We assessed frequencies of everyday and major racial discr…
The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale–Revised (Cesd-20-R): Factorial validity and gender invariance among Nigerian young adults
Severe Anxiety and PTSD Symptoms Among Ebola Virus Disease Survivors and Healthcare Workers in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Eastern DR Congo
Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors and healthcare workers (HCWs) face stress, fear, and stigma during the COVID-19 pandemic that can induce severe symptoms of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We examined the prevalence and factors related to severe PTSD and anxiety symptoms, using a representative sample of survivors of the 2018-2020 EVD epidemic in DR Congo in comparison HCWs. Five hundred sixty-three participants (55.25% wome…
Perceived racial discrimination, internalized racism, social support, and self-esteem among Black individuals in Canada: A moderated mediation model
Results indicate a strong association between racial discrimination and low self-esteem. These findings provide a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the development of self-esteem problems among Black individuals in Canada. They also have important relevance for the development of educational and clinical programs for prevention and intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Adverse childhood experiences: A meta‐analysis of prevalence and moderators among half a million adults in 206 studies
Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including maltreatment and family dysfunction, is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and disability. With a large body of international literature on ACEs having emerged over the past 25 years, it is timely to now synthetize the available evidence to estimate the global prevalence of ACEs and, through a series of moderator analyses, determine which populations are at higher risk. …
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
Racial trauma refers to experiences related to threats, prejudices, harm, shame, humiliation, and guilt associated with various types of racial discrimination, either for direct victims or witnesses. In North American, European, and colonial zeitgeist societies, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) experience racial microaggressions and interpersonal, institutional, and systemic racism on a repetitive, constant, inevitable, and cumulati…
The Seven Reasons Why Black Children Are Overrepresented in the Child Welfare System in Ontario (Canada): A Qualitative Study from the Perspectives of Caseworkers and Community Facilitators
Racism as a vehicle for the overrepresentation of Black youth in child protection services in Ontario, Canada: Caseworkers’ and community facilitators’ perspectives
Sexual Victimization and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among a Nationally Representative Sample of Adolescents and Young Adults in Haiti
Racial discrimination in healthcare services among Black individuals in Canada as a major threat for public health: Its association with Covid-19 vaccine mistrust and uptake, conspiracy beliefs, depre…
Racial discrimination experienced by Black individuals in health services is a major public health concern and threat to population health in Canada. Federal, provincial, and municipal public health agencies should adapt their programs, strategies, tools, and campaigns to address the mistrust created by racial discrimination
Maladi Nanm, Maladi Zonbi, & Maladi Lalin: A Qualitative Study Of Cultural Concepts Of Distress In Northern Haiti
Cultural Concepts of Distress (CCDs) are culturally constructed diagnostic categories that exist within a specific society or culture. While several studies have assessed CCDs around the world, few studies have examined them in Haiti. This qualitative study examines manifestations of anxiety and depression via 'sent spirits' in the form of maladi nanm ('Soul disorder') and maladi zonbi ('Zombie disorder'), and bipolar disorder in the form of mala…
Determinants of Covid-19 related traumatic stress among black individuals in Canada: The role of health literacy, racial discrimination, and history of Covid-19 infection
Prevalence and Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Among Women and Men in Mexico: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
This article presents the first systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence and correlates of different forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) among women and men in Mexico. To identify studies, a comprehensive search strategy was developed and executed across 11 databases (Academic Search Complete, APA PsycInfo, CINAHL, Cochrane CENTRAL, Embase, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, LILACS, MEDLINE, SciELO, Sociological …
Mental Health Perception in Black Communities in Canada: The Intergenerational Differences Between Youth and Parents
Mental health remains a critical concern within the Black communities in Canada, influenced by systemic racism, stigma, and cultural beliefs. Despite the importance and influence of intergenerational perspectives in seeking and use of care, research in this area is scarce. This study identifies mental health perceptions among Black youth and parents and examines how stigma, cultural beliefs, and experiences of racism influence these perceptions. …
Antiracist mental healthcare training and development of multicultural awareness, knowledge and skills among school mental health providers in Canada
In Canada, mental health disparities persist among racialized populations, including Black, Indigenous and other people of color. A major barrier to equitable care is the lack of adequate training of mental health professionals on racial issues. To address this unmet need, Cénat and colleagues introduced the Providing Antiracist Mental Health Care online training course. This contains five modules addressing: (a) awareness of racial issues, (b) a…
Racial Disparities in the Prevalence and Associated Factors of Childhood Depression in Canada
Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (7 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Mental health (5 works)