Teaching Personnel

Guirguis-Younger, Manal Full Professor Program: Counselling and Spirituality Office : GIG 327B Phone: 613-236-1393, ext.: 2390 Email: myounger@ustpaul.ca

Research Activities:

Palliative care and homelessness

Education:

Ph.D. ( Clinical Psychology ) University of Ottawa
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Courses taught:

IPA5131Empirical Research Methods
ESC5120 Marginalization, Violence and Conflict Resolution
IPA 6156 Research Seminar
IPA 7108 Integrative Seminar
IPA 6211 Practicum in Individual Counselling
IPA 6556 Séminaire de recherche

Publications:

Guirguis-Younger, M., McNeil, R, & Hwang, S. (Eds.). Homelessness and Health in Canada. University of Ottawa Press (in preparation). Publication date: Jan 2011.

Gall, T., Malette, J. & Guirguis-Younger, M. (In press). Spirituality and Religiousness: A diversity of definitions. Journal of Spirituality and Mental Health.

McKee, M., Kelley, M. L., & Guirguis-Younger, M. (In press). It takes a community: The contributions of rural hospice volunteers to whole person care. Journal of Palliative Care.

Fortin, G., Malette, J., Chevrier, R., LeBlanc, R, Peters, M., & Guirguis-Younger, M. (In press). Lien entre la personnalité professionnelle, le style d'apprentissage, et deux domaines d'études: Les arts et les sciences. Carriérologie.

Guirguis-Younger, M., McNeil, R, Runnels, V. (2009). Learning and knowledge integration strategies of nurses and client care workers serving homeless persons. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 41, 20-23.

Gall, T., Guirguis-Younger, M., Charbonneau, C., & Florack, P. (2009). The trajectory of religious coping across time in response to the diagnosis of breast cancer. PsychoOncology, 18, 1165-1178.

Karwalajtys, T., McDonough, B., Hall, H., Guirguis-Younger, M., Chambers, L.Kaczorowski, J., Lohfeld, L, & Hutchison, B. (2009). Development of the volunteer peer educator role in a community cardiovascular health awareness program (CHAP): A process evaluation in two communities. Journal of Community Health, 34, 336–345.

Guirguis-Younger, M., Cappeliez, P., & Younger, A. (2008). A community-based intervention for treating depression in seniors. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 40, 60-79.

Guirguis-Younger, M. & Grafanaki, S. (2008). Narrative accounts of volunteers in palliative care settings. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 25, 16-23.

Younger, A., Schneider, B., & Guirguis-Younger, M. (2008). How children describe their shy, withdrawn peers. Infant and Child Development, 17, 447-456

McKee, M., Kelley, M. L., & Guirguis-Younger, M. (2007). So no-one dies alone: A study of hospice volunteering with rural seniors. Journal of Palliative Care, 23, 163-172.

Guirguis-Younger, M, Runnels, V., Aubry, T., & Turnbull, J. (2006). Carrying out a social autopsy on persons who are homeless. Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning, 29, 44-54.

Guirguis-Younger, M., Kelley, M. L., & McKee, M. (2005) Professionalization of hospice volunteer practices: What are the implications? Palliative and Supportive Care, 3, 1-2.

Allard, P., Brajtman, S., Brazil, K., Guirguis-Younger, M., Legault, F., McPherson, C., Kelley, M., Wilson, K., Bond, J., Chambers, L., Kozak, J., MacLean, M., Ross, M., & Gagnon, P. (2003). Optimizing research on end-of-life care for seniors. Geriatrics Today: Journal of the Canadian Geriatric Society, 6, 173-176.

Younger, A., Schneider, B., Wadeson, R., Guirguis, M., & Bergeron, N. (2000). A behaviour-based peer nomination measure of social withdrawal in children. Social Development, 9, 544-564.

Caspar, F., Pessier, J., Stuart, J., Safran, J., Wallner-Samstag, L., & Guirguis, M. (2000). One step further in assessing how interpretations influence the process of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 10, 309-320.

Guirguis, M. & Cappeliez, P. (1999). 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. Gérontologie et Société, 88, 109-120.

Flynn, R.J., Guirguis, M., Wolfensberger, W., & Cocks, E. (1999). Cross-validated factor structures and factor-based subscales for PASS and PASSING. Mental Retardation, 37, 281-296.

Ledingham, J. & Guirguis, M. (1999). Review of A. Ellis and E. Velten. “Optimal aging: Get over getting older.” Canadian Journal on Aging, 18, 117-119.

Schiff, B.B., Guirguis, M., Kenwood, C., & Herman, C.P. (1998). Asymmetrical hemispheric activation and behavioral persistence: Effects of unilateral muscle contraction. Neuropsychology, 12, 526-532.

Iverson, G., Green, P., Guirguis, M. (1998). Assessing intellectual functioning in persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders using a seven-subtest short from of the WAIS-R. Schizophrenia Research, 30, 165-168.

Cappeliez, P., Latour, D., & Guirguis, M. (1997). Relations entre certaines caractéristiques des sujets et la réponse à la thérapie cognitive de la dépression avec des personnes agées. La revue Canadienne du vieillissement/Canadian Journal on aging, 16, 70-83.

Segal, Z.V., Gemar, M., Truchon, C., Guirguis, M., & Horowitz, L.M. (1995). A priming methodology for studying self-representation in major depressive disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104, 205-213.