Professor Karine Croteau

Profile

Karine is a registered social worker (RSW)* and a Professor at the University of Ottawa where she teaches Indigenous issues, child-family issues and social work intervention methods. Karine's research focuses on the decolonization of social work training, teaching and practice; cultural safety in social services; Indigenous child and family welfare; and Indigenous knowledge and epistemologies. Her current research focuses on the parenting experience of Innu mothers living in community (whose child has been the subject of a protective measure); the decolonization of the University of Ottawa's School of Social Work; and biopsychosocial distress among members of Indigenous communities. She has been invited to international conferences to present her work (University of Veracruz and Milan). She has published her findings and results in various scientific journals (Intervention; Canadian Journal of Social Work; New social practices; Reflections). Karine has also published editorial texts in Le Devoir, Le Droit and Le Huffington Post. The professor is a member of various research teams: the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child (LRIDE) of the Faculty of Civil Law of the University of Ottawa. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Centre interuniversitaire d'études et de recherche autochtones (CIÉRA-UQO). She also co-directs the Kinistòtàdimin Circle, which has developed close partnerships with members of the Anishinabé-Alqonquine community, and aims to reflect on how to implement the School of Social Work's decolonization action plan.

* Since 2007, Karine has been a member of the Ordre professionnel des travailleurs sociaux et thérapeutes conjugaux et familiales du Québec (OTSTCFQ), which allows her to maintain an up-to-date clinical vision of the constant evolution of social, community and family realities.

Research

Publications

Dorval, A., Croteau, K., et Noël, J. (sous presse, automne 2021). Des parents d’enfants suivis en protection de la jeunesse se racontent : analyse du recours au récit de vie par le prisme de trois études en service social, Revue service social, 67(1), p. 1-12.

Kauffman, H., Croteau, K. et Sullivan, C. (2021). L’approche autobiographique en intervention de groupe auprès d’aînés : quelle place tient le rapport entre l’intervenant et le sujet qui se raconte ? Nouvelles pratiques sociales, (33)1, printemps 2021.

Croteau, K., Molgat, M., et coll. (2021). Cercle Kinistòtàdimin : décolonisation de l’École de service social de l’Université d’Ottawa, Revue canadienne de service social, 38(2), p. 5-32.

Croteau, K. (2017). État des connaissances sur les enjeux relatifs à l’exercice de la parentalité de mères autochtones en situation de protection de la jeunesse. 145, Intervention, p. 53-62.

Croteau, K. (2019). Parentalité du point de vue de mères innues et sécurisation culturelle en protection de la jeunesse : nin, nishutshisshiun, nitinniun mak nitauassimat, [Thèse de doctorat], Université de Montréal.

Croteau, K. (2021). Voici pourquoi les travailleuses sociales et les infirmières désertent massivement leurs professions. La Conversation, Québec.

Croteau, K. (17 décembre, 2020). Pleins feux sur le travail social en temps de pandémie. (sous la direction). Édition spéciale COVID-19, Revue Intervention, OTSTCFQ.

Expertise