Chantal Lavergne

• Université de Montréal

La violence conjugale lors de la période périnatale (VCPP) est une préoccupation sociale et de santé importante. Afin de documenter les pratiques de repérage et d’intervention en VCPP au Québec, 29 intervenant·es de différents milieux ont participé à des groupes de discussion focalisés réalisés entre les mois de décembre 2019 et mars 2020. Trois th...

Cet article vise à décrire les schèmes d’interprétation communs (pivots de l’action) que les professionnels en protection de la jeunesse actualisent pour prendre une décision autour du projet de vie alternatif à la réunification. Ces pivots structurent la pratique des acteurs et leur discours. Ils permettent la légitimation des actions, des positio...

Background When a child needs to be placed in substitute care by child protection services, social workers are encouraged to use kinship care (KC), mainly because of the greater stability associated with it. However, current state of knowledge on reunification and placement stability is essentially based on studies that combined children in KC and...

Cette recherche qualitative explore les points de vue de mères, de pères et d’adolescents (n = 43) quant aux services reçus pour les problèmes cooccurrents de violence conjugale, de santé mentale et de consommation chez les parents. Les données ont été recueillies par des entrevues semi-dirigées, soutenues d’un outil de cartographie des services ut...

This qualitative study examines the perceptions of mothers, fathers, and adolescents on the relations they see between intimate partner violence, mental health and substances use parental problems that co-occur in their family, and the mothers’ and fathers’ associated parenting challenges. The sample was composed of 43 people (15 mothers, 16 father...

Since 2007, the Quebec Youth Protection Act has included psychological maltreatment (PM) as a valid reason for reporting. In the three years following this inclusion, a first Quebec national study shows that the vast majority of MTP situations selected for assessment involve exposure of the child to domestic violence or to what is defined as severe...

Child protection intervention is already complex, and it is further complicated when it concerns families from cultural diversity. Information on the cases of 48 visible minority children receiving protective services underwent qualitative content analysis. The caseworkers’ interviews brought to light 2 issues central to the relationship between pa...

Objectives: Study results on child maltreatment based on general population samples cannot be extrapolated with confidence to vulnerable immigrant or refugee families because of the specific characteristics and needs of these families. The aims of this paper are 1) to conduct an evidence review of the prevalence, risk factors and protective factor...

Objectives: The Main dans la main initiative relies on collaboration between child protection and hospital-based social workers to help substance-abusing expectant mothers maximize their chances of caring for their newborn. The article describes the positive outcomes of this initiative for the women, based on the experiences and perception of the...

Cet article presente les resultats issus de la premiere phase d’une recherche qualitative et participative qui vise a mieux comprendre l’experience et le point de vue d’enfants et d’adolescents quebecois et franco-ontariens vivant dans un contexte de violence conjugale. L’objectif de cette premiere phase de l’etude n'etait pas de documenter l’exper...

Objectives: Over the past twenty years, numerous community social pediatrics centres (CSPCs) have been established in Quebec. Because the needs of the children followed are so complex, collaboration with organizations in social services and public and community health networks is paramount. The purpose of this study is to document CSPCs’level of i...

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to 1) map the geographic distribution of rates of children reported to Montreal child protective services by ethnocultural group (Black, other visible minorities, not from visible minorities) and 2) estimate the relative contribution of different territorial characteristics to the rates for those group...

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to 1) map the geographic distribution of rates of children reported to Montreal child protective services by ethnocultural group (Black, other visible minorities, not from visible minorities) and 2) estimate the relative contribution of different territorial characteristics to the rates for those groups...

OBJECTIVES: The Main dans la main initiative relies on collaboration between child protection and hospital-based social workers to help substance-abusing expectant mothers maximize their chances of caring for their newborn. The article describes the positive outcomes of this initiative for the women, based on the experiences and perception of the p...

OBJECTIVES: Over the past twenty years, numerous community social pediatrics centres (CSPCs) have been established in Quebec. Because the needs of the children followed are so complex, collaboration with organizations in social services and public and community health networks is paramount. The purpose of this study is to document CSPCs' level of i...

La présente étude porte sur le profil des enfants exposés à la violence conjugale signalés aux services de protection de la jeunesse du Québec ainsi que sur la réponse aux besoins d’aide des familles. Elle vise à apporter un éclairage nouveau en distinguant l’exposition à la violence conjugale physique et psychologique de même qu’en incluant des fo...

La présente recherche visait à documenter des particularités, arrimage et portée des interventions des centres de pédiatrie sociale en communauté (CPSC) implantés dans cinq régions du Québec (Montréal, Gatineau, Lévis, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu et Trois-Rivières). Plus particulièrement, la recherche permet de rendre compte : (axe 1) de l’intégration...

Alors que l’existence de la disproportion des enfants de certains groupes racialisés dans le système de la protection de la jeunesse est maintenant connue, les raisons précises à l’origine de ce phénomène demeurent encore incertaines. La présente étude fait appel à l’approche qualitative pour comprendre de manière approfondie les facteurs menant à...

Les recherches canadiennes et internationales s’entendent sur la surrepresentation des enfants autochtones en protection de l’enfance. La presente etude ajoute aux connaissances sur les mauvais traitements et la reponse des services de protection de la jeunesse aux enfants autochtones quebecois. Elle poursuit d’abord l’objectif d’analyser la surrep...

Co-occurrence of domestic violence and child abuse : associated individual and family factors Child protection services (CPSs) are increasingly called on to work with families in which domestic violence and child abuse co-occur, yet little is known about the profiles of such families. The aim of this study is to document the characteristics of chil...

This paper looks at the response of the child protection services (CPS) system in cases where exposure to domestic violence occurs alone or together with abuse or neglect, focusing on the factors involved in decisions to maintain the case open for ongoing services or remove children from the home. The study is based on an analysis of clinical and a...

Le présent article fait état des résultats d’une recherche qui visait à documenter les expériences de la maternité des femmes vivant dans un contexte de concomitance de violence conjugale et de mauvais traitements envers les enfants. Les résultats présentent le point de vue de ces femmes, notamment en ce qui a trait à l’intervention des services de...

This paper draws upon the findings of a study that looked at women's experiences of mothering in the context of co-occurrence of domestic violence and child abuse, and considers the issue of women's violence towards children – while acknowledging the fact that men are the main perpetrators of violence towards women and children in these families. T...

Le présent article fait état des résultats d’une recherche qui visait à documenter les expériences de la maternité des femmes vivant dans un contexte de concomitance de violence conjugale et de mauvais traitements envers les enfants. Les résultats présentent le point de vue de ces femmes, notamment en ce qui a trait à l’intervention des services de...

Il est rare de retrouver des recherches qui nous renseignent sur le phénomène des mauvais traitements multiples. Or, ce phénomène serait relativement fréquent parmi les enfants maltraités. La présente recherche vise à préciser le profil des cas d’abus physique signalés aux services de protection canadiens, selon qu’ils se présentent seuls ou qu’ils...

Résumé Cet article rend compte des résultats d’une étude exploratoire portant sur les pratiques d’intervention dans le domaine de la protection de la jeunesse concernant les situations où il y a violence conjugale et maltraitance envers les enfants. Plus précisément, l’étude permet de documenter les éléments pris en considération dans le dépistage...

This paper reports the findings of an exploratory and qualitative study of child welfare workers' practice in cases involving domestic violence. The research aimed to focus on child welfare workers' interventions with families experiencing domestic violence, elements influencing the child welfare workers' decisions, and the factors facilitating and...

Feminist scholars have been engaged in an ongoing debate to determine which theoretical perspective offers the best framework for understanding domestic violence, and this debate has been crystallized around two pole positions: radical and postmodern feminism. This article presents a journey throughout the development of a theoretical perspective f...

Studies about fathers and child neglect are scarce. Current research, which tends to focus on mothers, does not allow to fully understand the influence of all parental figures on child protection. This research aims to compare socio-demographic characteristics and personal problems of mothers to those of fathers in 1266 neglecting families. The dat...

The aim of this descriptive study was to compare the report profiles of Caucasian, Aboriginal, and other visible minority children whose cases were assessed by child protective services in Canada. The results show that children of Aboriginal ancestry and from visible minority groups are selected for investigation by child protective services 1.77 t...

Les données dont on dispose actuellement font ressortir que la présence de violence conjugale est relativement fréquente dans les situations familiales où les enfants sont victimes de mauvais traitements, et que ces situations sont en général plus graves et complexes. Bien que la violence au sein de la famille soit considérée depuis plusieurs année...

Although studies indicate that domestic violence and child abuse often coexist in the same household, little research has been done on child welfare workers' social representation of the phenomenon. This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study of child welfare workers' awareness of the co-occurrence of interparental violence and child ab...

This article presents the results of a qualitative analysis on strategies to encourage innovative collaborative practices, and the difficulties these pose, among various groups of practitioners involved with families experiencing domestic violence and child maltreatment simultaneously. The sociology of innovation provides the theoretical framework...

Le rôle des pères dans les situations de négligence envers les enfants est peu étudié. La propension des recherches à se centrer sur les mères ne permet pas de saisir de façon adéquate le rôle et les caractéristiques de toutes les figures parentales (biologiques ou non, cohabitant ou non) gravitant autour de l’enfant. La présente étude vise à décri...

Whereas the negative consequences of the psychological maltreatment of children are now acknowledged, the extent of this phenomenon remains largely unknown. This study presents information collected from child welfare practitioners working in the Province of Quebec on all cases retained for investigation during a three-month period (N= 4775). The s...

The mistreatment of children has become a major social concern. The suffering of children occurs in a variety of forms: sexual, physical or emotional abuse, and negligence. Studies that examine the incidence of child mistreatment have become an indispensable tool in documenting its extent, as well as its diverse forms, the characteristics of its vi...

Thèse (M. Sc.)--Université de Montréal, 1989. "Mémoire présenté à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maître ès sciences (M. Sc.) en criminologie." Microfilm du manuscrit.