Dr. Steven R. Shaw

Steven Shaw is an associate professor at McGill’s Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and is director of the Resilience, Pediatric Psychology and Neurogenetic Connections Lab. He earned a Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of Florida in 1991.

Before entering academia, he had 16 years of experience as a school psychologist in school, university, hospital, medical school, and independent practice. He served as the lead psychologist, licensed school psychologist, and associate professor of pediatrics at The Children's Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina and Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Shaw is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist.

In 2000, the South Carolina Association of School Psychologists recognized him for "Outstanding Contributions to Education" for his work on addressing the over-representation of minority groups in special education and developing of teaching techniques for children with borderline intelligence. He is a recipient of McGill Education’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2010). In 2012 he received the president’s award from the National Association of School Psychologists for his innovative research-to-practice efforts.

His clinical and research interests include pediatric school psychology, improving education for children with rare genetic disorders, improving implementation of innovation and clinical research in education and psychology, and developing resilience skills in children at risk for academic failure. He has over 210 scholarly publications and presentations, has edited five books, and authored two others. He is on the editorial board of seven international scholarly journals, past editor of School Psychology Forum, and current editor of the Canadian Journal of School Psychology.