Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin

Publications (4)2.59 Total impact

• Article: [In Process Citation].

  Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin
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  ABSTRACT: Among the older population in Canada, the majority of whom are women, incurable cancer is rampant. Having incurable cancer often implies suffering. Studies reveal that communication with one's circle is therefore often arduous, leading us to believe that it can cause suffering. To our knowledge, there has been no research that specifically explores the suffering related to communication among older women with incurable cancer: this will be the objective of our article.This exploratory qualitative research is in humanistic psychology. It is based on a phenomenological analysis of the conceptual categories that emerged from 19 semi-structured interviews among 10 women aged 65 years and over with incurable cancer.The results reveal both the dynamic of silence, desired in order to prevent increased suffering, and sometimes imposed and a source of further suffering. They also reveal that the absence of listening, the imposition of silence, and the minimization of what these women say, also cause suffering. The consequences of disclosing one's illness and its suffering are also explored.
  Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement 12/2010; 29(4):529-41. · 0.92 Impact Factor
• Article: How do mothers and fathers who have a child with a disability describe their adaptation/ transformation process?

  Diane Pelchat, Marie-Josée Levert, Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin
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  ABSTRACT: This qualitative study explored the adaptation/transformation process in mothers and fathers at the individual, parental, marital and extrafamilial levels, and the similarities and differences in their experience of living with a child with cerebral palsy. Interviews were conducted with 13 mothers and 13 fathers of children with cerebral palsy. The results show that mothers and fathers are more likely to view the situation differently than similarly. For both parents, the situation offers the potential for transformation. Complementarity between mothers and fathers is an important factor in each of the adaptation or transformation subsystems. Both parents embark on a journey that changes their beliefs about difference, apply their new knowledge to every aspect of their life, and endeavour to normalize their situation.
  Journal of Child Health Care 10/2009; 13(3):239-59. · 0.75 Impact Factor
• Article: [The experience of uncertainty of fathers and mothers in the process of the announcement of cerebral palsy of their children].

  Diane Pelchat, Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin
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  ABSTRACT: This qualitative research shows differences and similarities between mother and father's experience of incertitude in the process of the announcement of the cerebral palsy and the adaptation strategies used. Interviews have been conducted with 17 parents (10 mothers and 7 fathers). Results of the research reveals three main triggering factors of incertitude: incertitude in regards with the survival of the child, the unpredictability of the evolution of the child and the ambiguity of the information regarding the cerebral palsy Triggering factors of the incertitude are the same for both parents but their reactions towards the these factors and their way of coping with the situation vary.
  Recherche en soins infirmiers 04/2009;
• Article: [Between family and formal caregivers, the desire of the elderly on their desire to receive assistance].

  Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin, Nancy Guberman, Jean-Pierre Lavoie, Et Eric Gagnon
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  ABSTRACT: In response to the contradictions appearing between, on the one hand, government promotion of family caregiving for elderly parents and, on the other, the rise of autonomist values (as documented in the literature), we surveyed a number of elderly people living with disabilities about the kind of assistance they would like to receive. The present qualitative, thematic analysis is based on the accounts given by 19 elderly people who receive assistance. The findings show that the position of elderly people with respect to their desire to receive (or not receive) substantial assistance from their family rests on a set of values, wishes, and/or fears - including, particularly, adherence to the value of autonomy, the desire to respect freedom (one's own as well as that of others), adherence to norms of familial duty, attachment to one's home, the value placed on solitude and privacy, and the degree of emotional closeness between the elderly and their children. Access to quality formal services also stands out as a factor enabling elderly people to actualize the desire for care which they elicited within the framework of this analysis.
  Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement 02/2008; 27(3):241-52. · 0.92 Impact Factor