Lana Stermac

Biography

Professor Stermac is a clinical psychologist and received her PhD from the University of Toronto.

Research Interest

Professor Stermac's research is in the broad area of posttraumatic health and health promotion and focuses largely on the effects of traumatic and adverse events on mental health and education. Professor Stermac works with a number of populations including sexual assault and sexual victimization survivors as well as immigrants and refugees from war-zone areas across the globe. She has had several projects focusing on issues around school age violence, sexual violence against women, and posttraumatic mental health. Her most recent project entitled, Sexually Coercive Behaviours on Campus, examines the effects of unwanted sexual behaviours on the educational experiences and academic performance of culturally diverse women undergraduates in Canada. Another recently completed project entitled, Traumatic Stress and Learning, examined the educational components of successful academic environments for war-zone immigrant and refugee students with histories of adverse events or trauma. Professor Stermac has consulted on these topics to various agencies and is currently collaborating with scholars across Canada and internationally. She is also involved in training programs in evidence-based interventions in cognitive-behaviour therapies and is the current Academic Director of the Certificate in Cognitive Behavior Therapy at OISE. She is a senior editor of an international journal in counselling psychology. Professor Stermac's research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).