Jillian Roberts
Canadian child psychologist and author
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Jillian Roberts is a Canadian child psychologist, author, and Professor at the University of Victoria.[1][2] She splits her time between Vancouver Island and Prince Edward Island.
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| Occupation | Child psychologist |
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| Education | University of Waterloo Dalhousie University University of Calgary University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Canadian families with HIV/AIDS: quality of life experiences in public schools (1998) |
Born in British Columbia, Roberts obtained degrees from the University of Waterloo (1991), Dalhousie University (1992), the University of Toronto (1995), and the University of Calgary (1998).[3] Her doctoral work was about children with HIV/AIDS.[4] In 1999, she assumed a faculty position in educational psychology at the University of Victoria.[5] Roberts' Just Enough series of children's books was released in 2016.[6][7][8][9] She followed this with the series World Around Us.[10][11]
Roberts works and writes in both English and French.[12] The first book On Our Streets: Our First Talk About Poverty was co-written with Google's Jaime Casap and a finalist for the 2018 Bolen Books Children's Book Prize, given by the Victoria Book Prize Society.[13][14] In 2022, Roberts published "Calm" and "My Promise" for the youngest of readers.,[15][16] as well as a book for parents with babies.[17] In 2022, she began writing regular parenting articles for Today's Parent.[18] In 2023, the mental health clinics that were founded under her name were rebranded as MindKey Health.[19] In 2024, she began writing for the Globe and Mail.[20][21]