Credentials and Qualifications

  • King's University College of UWO / Bachelor of Social Work Degree

                Certificate Date: 2014

  • Kings University College of UWO/Masters of Social Work Degree

                Certificate Date: 2016

  • Memorial University of Newfoundland/PhD of Social Work

                Certificate: 2023

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy Basic Training Certificate

    Dr. Amanda Bell & Associates

  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Level 1: Fundamentals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Social Work

  • An Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

    Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Social Work

  • DBT Skills Training Part 1

    Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Social Work

  • DBT Skills Training Part 2

    Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Social Work

  • DBT Assessment and Case Conceptualization

    Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Social Work

  • DBT Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

    Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Social Work

  • Circle of Security Parenting Program Facilitator Training

    Circle of Security International, Montreal

  • Safe Talk: Suicide Alertness for Everyone

    Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

    Canadian Mental Health Association, London

Academic Work

  • Elkassem, S. (2023). Muslim Youth Experience in a Viseral Islamophobia and anti-Muslim Racism Context. Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Dissertation. https://research.library.mun.ca/16144/

  • Elkassem, S. & Murray-Lichtman, A. (2023). Afterword: Examining Research Through a Critical Lens and a Theorization of Academic Voyeurism. In Csiernik, R. & Birnbaum, R. (Eds). Practicing social work research: Case studies for learning, third edition. University of Toronto Press.

  • Elkassem, S. (2023). Research as Response: Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Approaches. In Csernik, R. & Birnbaum, R. (Eds.). Practicing social work research: Case studies for learning, third edition. University of Toronto Press.

  • Elkassem, S. & El-Saadi, L. (2023). A House with Many Rooms: A Snapshot of Substance Use across Muslim Populations. In Csiernik, R., Rowe, W. S., & Novotna, G. (Eds.). Responding to the oppression of addiction, fourth edition pp. 295-312. Canadian Scholars Press.

  • Elkassem, S. & Murray-Lichtman, A. (2022). Road mapping an Integrative Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Approach in Social Work Practice. Advances in Social Work. 22(2), 628-646. https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/24952

  • Elkassem, S. & Shaikh, S. S. (2022). Re-storying “Hardship” and “Ease”: Towards a Spiritual Social Work Praxis. In Shaikh, S. S., LeFrançois, B. A., and Macías, T. (Eds.). Critical Social Work Praxis pp. 382-393. Fernwood Publishing.

  • Murray-Lichtman, A. & Elkassem, S. (2021). Academic Voyeurism: The White Gaze in the Social Work Academy. Canadian Social Work Review / Revue canadienne de service social, 38(2), 179-205.

    https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/cswr/1900-v1-n1-cswr06746/1086125ar/abstract/

  • Elkassem, S. & Csernik, R. (2020). Listening to Innocence: The Effects of Islamophobia on Muslim Children. In Bharati, S., Guruge, S. & Csernik, R. (Eds), In The Refugee Experience in the Canadian Context.

  • Elkassem, S. (2020). The London Islamic School. In Tam, D, Green, S., Paz, E. & Lavigne, B. (Eds). In Building community: Case book for mobilizing Community Practice in Canada (2nd ed).

  • Elkassem, S., & Csiernik, R. (2019). The development of a social work program for an Islamic day school in Southwestern Ontario. International Journal of School Social Work.

  • Elkassem, S., & Csiernik, R. (2019). Gatekeeper perspectives on substance misuse among a Muslim community in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions