Genevieve Paquette

Université de Sherbrooke | UdeS · Department of Psychoeducation

Despite social awareness of the problem of slut-shaming for adolescent girls, no existing measure captures this construct. Using data from a sample of 202 girls from Québec, Canada (ages 14-17; 68% White), preliminary validation is provided for the Slut-Shaming Instrument, a seven-item measure of negative peer experiences related to being perceived...

Addressing the higher rates of sexual violence experienced by gender and sexual minority students in university contexts requires an understanding of responses to disclosures of sexual violence. Using data from a large-scale study of sexual violence in university contexts, the current study examined (1) whether gender and sexual minority status was...

This study assesses whether children with intellectual disability (ID) are more at risk of sexual abuse and whether they have similar consultation rates for physical and mental health disorders than children without ID. The matched-cohort design study uses administrative databases of children who had a sexual abuse report corroborated by a child pr...

Campus sexual violence (CSV) is a pervasive problem across universities. This study identified distinct patterns of CSV based on its forms (sexual harassment, unwanted sexual behaviors, and sexual coercion) and its associated consequences (mental health, physical health, personal/social life, and academic/professional life). Additionally, it invest...

ABSTRACT Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) may have devastating effects, yet, there is considerable heterogeneity among adolescent girls who have experienced it. Addressing this heterogeneity could help to tailor practices to their particular needs. The objective was to identify profiles among adolescent girls who have been sexually abused to determine...

Sexual harassment (SH) is an important public health problem among adolescents and is associated with negative outcomes. Using a theory‐based, developmentally‐informed approach, this scoping review focuses on SH victimization among adolescents (number of studies included = 20) and aims to (1) examine how the extant literature on correlates of SH de...

Gender and sexual minority university students experience higher rates of sexual violence than their cisgender heterosexual peers. The objectives of this study were to use a qualitative thematic analysis to understand how gender and sexual minority students discuss (a) gender and sexuality in describing their sexual violence experiences and (b) the...

Previous research showed that children who experience maltreatment are at-risk of developing externalizing and internalizing behavior problems (Cicchetti & Toth, 2016; Debowska et al., 2017; Romano et al., 2018). Although these associations are well established, their underlying mechanisms, including mediating effects, are less well understood. Ind...

Past studies of adolescent girls aging out of care have shown that being able to imagine themselves in a positive future may make them more resilient now and motivate them to take steps to achieve their goals. In the present study, to learn more about how such girls picture their futures, we conducted interviews and analyses guided by possible-selv...

L’enquête sur l’utilisation et les besoins à l’Université de Sherbrooke de services de santé mentale (UBUSSSM) avait pour objectifs (1) d’établir quels services en santé mentale sont utilisés par les personnes étudiantes et pour quels types de problèmes, (2) d’identifier les caractéristiques des personnes étudiantes qui utilisent ou non les service...

University-based sexual violence prevalence is worryingly high and leads to many serious consequences for health and academic achievement. Although previous work has documented greater risk for sexual violence among Indigenous Peoples, little is known about university-based sexual violence experienced by Indigenous students. Using a large-scale stu...

Background Children with intellectual disabilities (ID) are more vulnerable to maltreatment than children without ID. Few studies focused on understanding the experiences of maltreatment of children with ID, limiting our capacity to adequately care for them. Objective /Hypothesis. This study examined the types of maltreatment with which ID is asso...

Young women who had contact with child protective services (CPS) are two to three times more likely to become young mothers than their peers in the general population. Adverse life events, such as maltreatment and placement instability, are associated with an increased risk of early motherhood. Adverse events may lead to trauma symptoms, which coul...

Depuis la rentrée 2018-2019, l’éducation a la sexualité est obligatoire pour tous les élèves, du début du primaire jusqu’à la fin du secondaire (MEES, 2017). Notamment, le personnel enseignait du primaire doit maintenant aborder la thématique des agressions sexuelles et de la violence sexuelle à plusieurs moments du parcours scolaire de l’enfant (M...

Adolescents who have been maltreated are at greater risk of developing both internalizing and externalizing behavior problems (e.g., Gardnet et al., 2019; VanZomeren-Dohm et al., 2016). However, not all maltreated adolescents show high levels of problems (Yoon, 2018), suggesting that some variables might moderate these relations. The aim of this st...

The objectives of this presentation are to estimate the risk of experiencing sexual violence (SV) according to different groups of sexual and gender minorities among undergraduate university students, to identify the specific context of SV and to estimate the risk of presenting symptoms of trauma associated with the violence experienced. Results sh...

Experiencing sexual violence is an important risk factor for trauma symptoms, and these symptoms significantly impair psychosocial functioning. Sexual and gender minority university students are more likely than their heterosexual and cisgender peers to experience sexual violence (e.g., sexual harassment, unwanted sexual contact, or sexual coercion...

Adolescent girls who have passed through child protection centers (CPC) are 2 to 3 times more likely to become young mothers. Approximately 60% of adolescent girls in CPC have experienced sexual, physical, or psychological abuse or neglect (Collin-Vézina et al., 2011, Connoly et al., 2012, van Vugt et al., 2014). As a result, by the time of adolesc...

Rapport ESSIMU pour l'UdeS

Les problèmes de comportement et les problèmes dépressifs surviennent fréquemment en cooccurrence à l’adolescence et entraînent leur lot de conséquences. En se basant sur le modèle de Patterson et Capaldi (1990), la présente étude a pour but de valider le rôle des variables de rejet social (rejet par les pairs, insertion sociale) et des difficultés...

Children with intellectual disabilities (ID) are at least four times more at risk of maltreatment than other children; consequently, they are often overrepresented in the population of maltreated children. Only a few studies so far have examined the characteristics of this specific population. Furthermore, very few have taken an ecological approach...

This study aims to compare, among a representative sample of substantiated child maltreatment cases, the characteristics of those with intellectual disability (ID) from those without ID. Using the 2008 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, 5,797 cases of substantiated maltreatment that involved children aged between 0 and 14...

Purpose: Sexual violence is a pervasive problem on university campuses. Although previous work has documented greater vulnerability for sexual violence among sexual and gender minority students, little is known about contextual variation in vulnerability to this kind of violence. The goals of the current study were (1) to identify vulnerability am...

L’approche systémique fait partie des principales approches théoriques utilisées en psychoéducation. Cet ouvrage, s’adressant aux étudiantes et aux étudiants en psychoéducation, a pour objectif de soutenir le développement des compétences d’évaluation et d’intervention selon une approche systémique. Ces compétences se déploient ainsi à travers une...

En protection de l’enfance, les enfants ayant des comportements sexuels problématiques (CSP) suscitent parfois des malaises chez les intervenants et provoquent de l’inquiétude en raison des torts qu’ils peuvent causer. Prenant appui sur un modèle explicatif adapté par Boisvert et ses collaborateurs, la présente étude visait à cerner les facteurs qu...

Cet article présente une étude décrivant la fidélité d’implantation d’un programme probant et son évolution sur 10 ans. À partir des résultats de cette étude, les auteurs tissent des liens entre l’implantation des programmes, leurs effets et leur pérennité et discutent de certains enjeux entourant la mesure de la fi délité d’implantation. La discus...

Objective The study aims to estimate the specific contribution of various forms of child maltreatment on the mental health among a Quebeckers’ women representative sample. Method A telephone survey was conducted with a representative sample of 1001 women from the province of Quebec (Canada). Different demographic variables, all four child maltreatm...

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BERGERON, M., HÉBERT, M., RICCI, S., GOYER, M.-F., DUHAMEL, N., KURTZMAN, L., AUCLAIR, I., CLENNETT-SIROIS, L., DAIGNEAULT, I., DAMANT, D., DEMERS, S., DION, J., LAVOIE, F., PAQUETTE, G. et S. PARENT (2016). Violences sexuelles en milieu universitaire au Québec : Rapport de recherche de l’enquête ESSIMU. Montréal : Université du Québec à Montréal.

The risk of being sexually abused is 4.6 times greater among children with intellectual disabilities than among typically developing children, while the global prevalence of intellectual disabilities is only 1%. No study has yet included a representative sample of sexually abused children with intellectual disabilities reported to child protection...

Sexologue en déficience intellectuelle et troubles du spectre de l'autisme Enfants et adolescents victimes d'agression sexuelle présentant une déficience intellectuelle Interventions et illustration clinique Malgré que les enfants et les adolescents ayant une déficience intellectuelle soient plus à risque d'agression sexuelle, les intervenants qui...

Objectif: 1- Établir des sous-groupes d’adolescentes en regard de leur niveau d’implication dans trois types d’activités sexuelles à risque (non-utilisation du condom et d’autres contraceptifs et nombre élevé de partenaires sexuels) et vérifier s’ils se distinguent sur la fréquence des troubles de comportement (consommation de psychotropes, violenc...

Objectifs: 1- Comparer l’ampleur de la consommation de psychotropes, des vols et des conduites violentes des adolescentes, selon leur niveau d’implication pour trois indices d’ASR (non-utilisation du condom, d’autres contraceptifs et nombre de partenaires sexuels) 2- Établir comment ces relations évoluent durant l’adolescence.

The Conduct Problems in Adolescence Index (van Vugta et al., 2014) was developed within the context of a study of child maltreatment and trauma-related symptoms among girls in residential care. The 35-item index is used to assess the frequency of aggressive behaviors, substance use, affiliation with gang members, and prostitution during adolescence...

The current study examined the association between child maltreatment and trauma-related symptoms in emerging adulthood - over and above the incidence of such symptoms and conduct problems during adolescence - among a sample of female adolescents in residential care. This study used data from a longitudinal study. The sample was composed of 89 adol...

Intellectual disability (ID) is a condition characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, which affects various everyday social and practical skills This disability manifests itself before the age of 18 (American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities [AAIDD], 2010). While the global...

Group intervention is a modality very frequently implemented with the adolescent girls who have been sexually abused. These kinds of interventions lead to positive global statistical effects among girls. On the other hand, from an individual clinical point of view, they have a variable effectiveness. The purpose of the study is to verify if some ch...

Reported here is a first study of the implementation fidelity group intervention program for sexually abused adolescent girls, consisting of 18 sessions centered on 9 themes. Through systematic observation of the intervention protocol used with two groups of adolescents, the case study describes implementation fidelity and its evolution. Results sh...

L es effets d’un programme de thérapie de groupe sur les distorsions cognitives, les stratégies d’adaptation et les problèmes comportementaux d’adolescentes agressées sexuellement (n=35, âge moyen=14.3 ans) ont été évalués à partir d’un devis quasi-expérimental de type mesure avant et mesure après avec un groupe témoin non équivalent. À raison d’un...

This article systematically compiles studies evaluating group intervention programs aiming to reduce after-effects of sexual abuse among adolescent girls. This research reveals that the description of the theoretical model on which the different programs are based, and of the implementation procedures, are incomplete. Furthermore, the majority of t...

Résumé Cette étude vise à identifier les caractéristiques sociofamiliales et personnelles qui permettent de discriminer les filles des garçons présentant un trouble des conduites. L'échantillon est composé de 47 filles et 134 garçons âgés de 12 à 17 ans, présentant un diagnostic de trouble des conduites et référés au service de l'application des me...

In context of protection of youth, in several situations, it happens that the development of a bond of attachment cannot be established following rejection, abandonment or because of the incapacity of the parents to recognize or meet the needs for the child. In such situations, in Quebec, one plans more and more an approach « projet de vie « for th...