Laurence Roy erg. PhD

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Aggregate Professor

Contact details (Research)
Centre de recherche de l’Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel (INPLPP)

Centre de recherche de Montréal sur les inégalités sociales, les discriminations et les pratiques alternatives de citoyenneté (CREMIS)

Contact details (School of Rehabilitation)
laurence.roy@umontreal.ca

Program
Occupational Therapy

Education

  • B. Sc. Ergothérapie, Université de Montréal (2005)
  • PhD Sciences biomédicales (option Réadaptation), Université de Montréal (2012)
  • Post-doctorat Psychiatrie, Université McGill (2014)

Current research projects

  • Projet AMONT : Prevention of homelessness and monitoring the residential situation of new users of mental health services
  • Preventing and reducing homelessness among individuals with acquired brain injury: Collaborative synthesis of knowledge
  • Meaningful activities in secure forensic mental health care settings: A participatory mapping study
  • Projet Lotus : Supporting the post-shelter transition of women through participatory research

Selected publications

  • Roy, L., Leclair, M., Crocker, A. G., Abdel-Baki, A., de Benedictis, L., Bérubé, F.-A., Thibeault, E., Latimer, E., Roy, M.-A. (2024). Risk factors for homelessness and housing instability in the first episode of mental illness: Initial findings from the AMONT study. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.13495
  • Jacobsen, K., Roy, L., Seto, V., Marshall, C. A., & Perreault, M. (2024). “I Always Have my Key in my Hand”: A Photovoice Exploration with Women in Post-Shelter Transition. International Journal on Homelessness, 4(2), 256-280. doi: 10.5206/ijoh.2023.3.17310
  • Jubinville, W., Ducharme, R., Hendryckx, C., Roy, L., & Bottari, C. (2025). Barriers, facilitators and solutions to the care of people experiencing homelessness with traumatic brain injury in Quebec, Canada: clinicians’ and concerned parties’ perspectives. Disability and Rehabilitation, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2025.2496359
  • Marshall, C. A., Gewurtz, R., Barbic, S., Roy, L., Lysaght, R., Ross, C., . . . Kirsh, B. (2023). Bridging the transition from homeless to housed: A social justice framework to guide the practice of occupational therapists – 2nd edition: hpps://www.sjmhlab.cim/publications.
  • Roy, L., Campbell, A., Gervais, I., Crocker, A.G. (2023). La prévention de l’itinérance liée aux processus judiciaires et correctionnels : proposition de recommandations. Collectif québécois pour la prévention de l’itinérance (CQPI) : https://www.cqpi.ca/processus-judiciaires-et-correctionnels

Research interests

  • Occupational Therapy and Mental Health
  • Mental health and Forensic Services
  • Health and Rehabilitation Needs of Populations experiencing Homelessness and Residential instability
  • Homelessness Prevention
  • Health Inequities
  • Participatory, Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research