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Dr. Bren LeFrancois

Professor 

School of Social Work
St. John's College
Room: J-3018
糖心视频 University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1C 5S7

Phone: 709-864-2555
Email: blefrancois@mun.ca

Dr. LeFran莽ois (they/them) holds a BA (psychology) from McGill University an inter-professional MA (social work & nursing) from Anglia Ruskin University (UK), and an interdisciplinary PhD from the Tizard Centre, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK).

Prior to taking on the position at 糖心视频 University in 2010, Dr. LeFran莽ois taught social work as a tenured faculty member at Laurentian University, and taught part-time both in the undergraduate programme in Community Care at the University of Kent at Canterbury as well as in the post-graduate programme in Mental Health at Anglia Ruskin University.

Their doctoral research was on the topic of children鈥檚 psychiatrization and power relations within child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric services. In addition to specializing in psychiatrized children, Mad Studies and critical children鈥檚 rights, Dr. LeFran莽ois鈥 varied research interests include social justice focused issues relating to: the intersections between the sociology of childhood, critical childhood studies and Mad Studies; sanism, queerness and subversion; transdisciplinairty and in/disciplinarity; (mad) social movements, social activism and (mad) social anarchist practices; autoethnography, critical ethnography and participarty research; critical disability studies; and, critical whiteness studies.

Dr. LeFran莽ois鈥 main teaching experience has included courses at the BSW, MSW and PhD levels in social work theory and critical mental health. In addition, they have taught child abuse and neglect, social work with children and youth, community development and social activism, law and ethics, group work as well as qualitative research.

Dr. LeFran莽ois will consider supervising new PhD students and MSW thesis students with interests in the areas of childhood studies, mad studies, critical disability studies, critical mental health, critical whiteness studies and/or social activism.

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Recent publications (since 2013)

Books and Guest-Edited Journal Issues:
  • Burstow, B., LeFran莽ois, B.A and Diamond, S. (2014). Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution. Montr茅al: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. and Coppock, V. (2014).
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A., Menzies, R. and Reaume, G. (2013). (Eds.). Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Inc.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2020). Psychiatrising children. In V. Cooper & N. Holford (Eds.). Exploring Childhood and Youth. London: Routledge.
  • van Daalen-Smith, C., LeFran莽ois, B.A. & MacPherson-Mayor, D. (2020). Promising policies, ambiguous practices: An exploration of the status of children in Canadian health care settings. In T. Waldock (Ed.). A Question of Commitment: The Status of Children in Canada, Second Edition, (Chapter 4, pp55-85). Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

  • Gorman, R. & LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2018). Mad studies. In B.M.Z. Cohen (Ed.). Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health. London: Routledge.

  • LeFranc抬ois, B.A (2018). Psychiatryzacja naszych dzieci, albo autoetnograficzna opowies虂c虂 o tym, jak instytucje 鈥瀘piekun虂cze鈥 kontynuowa艂y ludobo虂jstwo na rdzennej ludnos虂ci Kanady. In Witeska-M艂ynarczyk, A. (Ed.), Antropologia psychiatrii dzieci i m艂odziez虈y. Teksty wybrane (pp. 229-249). Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa.

  • Mills, C. & LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2018). Child as metaphor: Colonialism, psy-governance and epistemicide, World Futures, 74, 503-524.

  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2016). Preface. In J. Russo and A. Sweeney (Eds.). Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies. Wayastone Leys, England: PCCS Books.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2016). Why New Brunswick Should Not Legislate Community Treatment Orders: A Fact Sheet. Report prepared for the New Brunswick Department of Health, May 25, 2016, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2016). La raison pourquoi le Nouveau-Brunswick ne devrait pas l茅gif茅rer sur les ordonnances de traitment en milieu communautaire: Fiche Discriptive. Rapport compil茅 pour le department de sant茅 en Nouveau-Brunswick, le 25 mai, 2016, Fr茅dericton, Nouveau-Brunswick.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2015). The meaning of excellence in the psychiatrization of our children, Our Voice Notre Voix, 61, 36-40.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2015). Acknowledging the past and challenging the present, in contemplation of the future: Some (un)doings of mad studies, Making Sense of Mad Studies, keynote address, Durham University, United Kingdom.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. and Diamond, S. (2014). Queering the sociology of diagnosis: Children and the constituting of 鈥榤entally ill鈥 subjects. CAOS: The Journal of Critical Anti-Oppressive Social Inquiry, 1, 39-61.
  • Burstow, B. and LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2014). Impassioned praxis: An introduction to theorizing resistance to psychiatry. In B. Burstow, B.A. LeFran莽ois and S. Diamond (2014). Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution. Montr茅al: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A . and Coppock, V. (2014). Psychiatrised children and their rights: Starting the conversation. Children & Society, 28, 3, 165-171.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A.(2014). Voluntary commitment. In A. Scull (Ed.). Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
  • van Daalen-Smith, C., Adam, S., Breggin, P. and LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2014). The utmost discretion: How presumed prudence leaves children susceptible to electroshock. Children & Society, 28, 3, 205-217.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A, (2013). The psychiatrization of our children, or, an auto-ethnographic narrative of perpetuating First Nations genocide through 'benevolent' institutions. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2, 1, 108-123.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2013). Adultism. In T. Teo (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology: SpringerReference. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/SpringerReference_304657
  • Menzies, R., LeFran莽ois, B.A. and Reaume, G. (2013). Introducing Mad Studies. In LeFran莽ois, B.A., Menzies, R. and Reaume, G. (Eds.). Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Inc.
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2013). Ethnography. In T. Teo (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology: SpringerReference. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/SpringerReference_304748
  • LeFran莽ois, B.A. (2013). Queering Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: The subversion of heternormativity in practice. Children & Society, 27, 1, 1-12.