Angelique Jenney

Dr. Angelique Jenney

MSW, RSW, PhD.
Pronouns: she/her

Positions

Associate Professor

Faculty of Social Work, Calgary Campus

Wood's Homes Research Chair in Children's Mental Health

Faculty of Social Work, Calgary Campus

Affiliations

Full Member

Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education

Full Member

Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education

Contact information

Email

Web presence

ORCID Public Profile

Wood's Homes Research Chair Website

Phone number

Office : +1 (403) 220-7123

Location

Office : MT440

Preferred method of communication

Email

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Social Work, University of Toronto, 2011

Master of Social Work Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1998

Bachelor of Arts Psychology Co-op Program with Family and Social Relations Minor, University of Guelph, 1995

Biography

Angelique Jenney, MSW, PhD, RSW is an Associate Professor and the Wood’s Homes Research Chair in Children’s Mental Health in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary.   Dr. Jenney has 25+ years of experience in intervention and prevention services within the gender-based violence (GBV), child protection and children’s mental health sectors. Her community-based research, simulation research and practice interests focus on trauma-informed approaches to working with young people and their families, in addition to the use of reflective, simulation-based learning approaches to training both students and practitioners in the field.  

Research

Areas of Research

Child mental health, Gender-Based Violence; Trauma across the lifespan, Simulation-Based Learning

Dr. Jenney has over 25 years of experience in intervention and prevention services within the violence against women, child protection and children’s mental health sectors. Her community-based, research and practice interests focus on the impact of trauma on children and families on children including: family-based interventions for trauma in children/youth; child protection responses to gender-based violence cases; and the use of reflective, simulation-based learning approaches to training both social work students and practitioners in the field.

Simulation-based Experiential Learning

Dr. Jenney has been using experiential, simulation-based learning approaches in her teaching, practice and research work for more than 15 years and is particularly interested in how this learning can be applied to the identification and development of skill-based clinical competencies.

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Child health and wellness

Human dynamics in a changing world

Digital Worlds

Health and Life

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
SOWK 55119 SEC 03 S03 SelTop: Soc Work Interventions 2020
SOWK 612/613 Trauma Impacts and Interventions Across the Life Span Fall 2018, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Fall 2024, Winter 2025
SOWK 551/524 Intimate Partner Violence Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2024
SOWK 721 Integrative Research Colloquia Winter 2019, Winter 2023

Projects

Exploring the use of virtual simulations to promote cross-disciplinary teaching and learning in inter-professional education in addressing childhood exposure to intimate partner violence (CEIPV).
Using standardized client simulation to identify procedural competencies for CEIPV professionals.
Collaborative development and assessment of Canadian core competencies for GBV specialists: Synthesis of academic findings, expert practice-based knowledge and survivor experience to enhance services.
Simulation in social work education.
Using Standardized Client Simulation to Identify Reflective Practice Competencies for Child and Youth Care Work

This SSHRC Insight Grant is focused on using simulation (both live and in virtual gaming formats) to identify and develop reflective practice competencies for child and youth care work in therapeutic campus-based care settings.  

Awards

  • Faculty Publication Award, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary. 2022
  • Faculty Publication Award, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary. 2021
  • Faculty Publication Award, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary. 2020
  • Faculty Publication Award, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary. 2018
  • Faculty Publication Award, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary. 2017
  • Faculty of Social Work Early Career Researcher Award, University of Calgary. 2021
  • Faculty Publication Award, 2021
  • Teaching Experiential Learning Initiatives Teaching Award, University of Calgary. 2023

Publications

  • The impact of exposure to IPV on children and youth: Considering strategies for cultivating resilience. W. DeKeseredy; Ramona Alaggia; Angelique Jenney; C. Rennison; K., A.. London, Taylor and Francis Ltd.. (2018)
  • “More than just Ghosts in the Nursery: Understanding How the Presence of Violence and Trauma in the Lives of Infants and Young Children Impact on Parenting and Child Development.. Angelique Jenney; Chaya Kulkarni. Wilfrid Laurier Press. (2019)
  • Children’s exposure to domestic violence: Integrating policy, research and practice to address children’s mental health.. R. Alaggia; Ramona Alaggia; Angelique Jenney; C. Vine. Wilfrid Laurier Press. 303-336. (2012)
  • Keeping the Child in Mind when Thinking about Violence in Families. Sarah Jones; Angelique Jenney; Wendy Bunston. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. (2019)
  • The Role of Maternalism in Shaping the focus on Mothering in Child Protection Practice with Abused Women and Children. Angelique Jenney. (2019)
  • Safe and Understood: Collaborating to Provide Domestic Violence Parenting Interventions within Child Protection Services. Barbara Fallon; Angelique Jenney; Kathleen Kufeldt; Katreena Scott; Barbara McKenzie. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. (2019)
  • Children’s exposure to domestic violence.. Nico Trocme; Cathy Vine; Jasmine Hayes; Angelique Jenney; Ramona Alaggia. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. (2006)

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