Speaker
Description
Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and Violence Prevention at the University of Ottawa where she is cross-appointed as a full professor in Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education and the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences. Dr. Vaillancourt is also a member of the Brain and Mind Institute, Faculty of Medicine and the Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, Faculty of Law, Ottawa.
Bullying victimization is common childhood experience that causes profound harm to young people. Although bullying interferes with all aspects of functioning, it has a notable negative impact on mental health. In fact, longitudinal studies point to a causal relation between exposure to bullying and subsequent adjustment problems.
In this keynote address, the neurobiology of bullying victimization will be examined, with a specific focus on how exposure to bullying gets under the skin to confer a risk for mental health problems in children and adolescents.
