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The Manulife Centre for Healthy Living

The Manulife Centre for Healthy Living (MCHL) promotes and conducts interprofessional research and education in the field of health and well-being. While housed in the Faculty of Social Work, the MCHL strives to be community-based by reaching beyond the faculty and the discipline of social work to community partner organizations and individual community stakeholders as well as other faculties and disciplines.


Stress and Growth Over Time: Caregiving and Bereaved Parents of Children with Life-Limiting Illnesses Receives CIHR Funding

Stress and Growth Over Time: Caregiving and Bereaved Parents of Children with Life-Limiting Illnesses Receives CIHR Funding

Dr. Cadell and her research team receive CIHR funding for 3 years.
(Headline - Feb 17)

Dr. Susan Cadell, Director

Dr. Cadell's research concerns positive aspects of stress and coping, particularly posttraumatic growth. Her current research includes parents caring for a child with a life-limiting illness, couples coping with caregiving together as well as undertaking an exploration of family bereavement over time when a child dies.

She is also a co-investigator of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded Team in pediatric palliative care called PedPalNET, Transitions in pediatric palliative and end of life care.