Director

Stéphane Dandeneau, PhD

Stéphane Dandeneau, is currently assistant professor of psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. After completing his PhD in social psychology at McGill University, Stéphane worked on the Roots of Resilience Project at the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital during his postdoc. Stéphane has broad interests in social psychology and social-cultural psychology and the underlying social cognitive processes of social resilience. His first line of research investigates the links between self-esteem, social stress, and attentional processes involved in perpetuating psychological insecurities. His research examines ways of teaching people with low self-esteem some "high self-esteem-like skills" such as inhibiting social rejection, which is shown to buffer against social and performance threats (www.selfesteemgames.mcgill.ca and www.mindhabits.com). His research also investigates sources of resilience and definitions of resilience from an Aboriginal perspective using a community-based approach with the Roots of Resilience Project (www.mcgill.ca/resilience). The current hegemony of individualistic conceptualisations of resilience in today's literature overshadows other, more eco-centric, conceptualisations. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, the project aims to develop a more culturally appropriate model of resilience as well as showcase the many different facets of Aboriginal people's strengths.