Jeannine Guindon

After her death in 2002, she was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.

In 1976, Guindon co-founded the Mariebourg Center and the Montreal Training and Rehabilitation Institute, which she directed until 1984. Guindon continued to work as a professor of psychology at the Université de Montréal until 1984 and was a member of the university's board of directors from 1977 to 1985. In 1992, the training institute became the Institut de formation humaine intégrale de Montréal (transl. Montreal Institute for Integral Human Training and received people from around the world.

After obtaining her doctorate in psychology in 1969 from the Université de Montréal, Jeannine Guidon and Gilles Gendreau [fr] presided over the creation of the university's School of Psychoeducation in 1971. She was its director from 1972 to 1976. Guindon, Gendreau, and Euchariste Paulhus were the three main founders of psychoeducation, a discipline serving young people in difficulty. Guindon particularly chose to train caregivers for people who have intellectual disabilities or disabilities, children with emotional problems, delinquent persons, or those who were socially maladjusted.

Jeannine Guindon completed Bachelor of Arts degree and a diploma in pedagogy from the University of Ottawa in 1939, then taught in Cornwall and Mountain, Ontario. She received a master of arts degree in psychology from the Université de Montréal in 1945. Guidon helped found the Montreal Counselling and Rehabilitation Centre and was its director from 1947 to 1977. She also founded the Quebec Psycho-Education Centre which she directed from 1953 to 1969 while teaching psychology at the Université de Montréal.

Jeannine Guindon CM CQ QC (3 September 1919, in Montreal – 15 May 2002) was a professor of psychology in Quebec, Canada.