Psychologist and Clinical Director
McMaster Children's Hospital, Canada
Dr Jennifer McTaggart is a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Director of the Acute Mental Health Services in the Child and Youth Mental Health Program at McMaster Children’s Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Guelph in 2009. Clinically, Dr McTaggart is interested in suicide risk assessment, youth suicide risk, and evidence-based interventions for suicidal youth and their families. She co-created and co-chairs the Youth with Complex Suicide Needs protocol – a community protocol to coordinate care for youth at high-risk for suicide.