Bio
Dr. Toupey Luft (PhD, R.Psych) is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Department of Counsellor Education, at the University of Lethbridge. Dr. Luft became interested in how mentoring can support the needs of adolescent youth, specifically girls and young women, in graduate school. Her doctoral work on how adult women influence the psychological development of girls earned her a SSHRC national doctoral fellowship for her research.
After pursuing clinically focused psychologist roles in youth mental health and private practice, she was inspired to return to academia to take a wider view and be more involved with research and training clinicians. She is currently working on projects examining the mental health needs of newcomers to Canada, as well as how mentorship plays a role in the clinical supervision of helping professionals.
Research Interests
Training Clinicians, Youth Development, Newcomers to Canada, Mental Health and Well-Being, Trauma, Clinical Supervision, Compassion Fatigue and Satisfaction, Mentoring
Publications
Luft, T.M., & LaRocque, K. (2023). Enhancing clinical supervisors’ compassion
satisfaction by mentoring mental health clinicians. The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching, 7(s16), 382-387. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376353221_Enhancing_clinical_supervisors'_compassion_satisfaction_through_mentoring_mental_health_clinicians
Luft, T., Sheldon, M., & Rees, C. (2023). Identity development of international graduate
students in Canada: Findings from an interpretative phenomenological approach. Trends in Psychology, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43076-023-00298-4
Cameron, C.A., Luft, T.M., Leger, P., Dmytro, D., Kubiliene, N., & Chou, W. (2017).
Adolescents negotiating romantic relationships in a culturally diverse, urban community. International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, 8(1), 1-19.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs81201716739
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