Guadalupe Puentes-Neuman

• Professor at Université de Sherbrooke

To this day, parent-child intervention has been guided by attachment theory, addressing issues of sensitivity and parenting competence from the standpoint of the mother-child relationship. The absence of a theory-driven model of fathering hindered the development of specific interventions addressing the father-child relationship. Since 2004, the ac...

Cadre de la recherche : Au cours des dernières décennies, le rôle paternel a connu des changements majeurs. Les pères sont plus impliqués dans l’éducation et les soins de leurs enfants. Il importe d’identifier comment les rôles paternels influencent les comportements des pères dans leur quotidien. Cependant, il n’existe actuellement pas d’outil pou...

L’abus sexuel intrafamilial peut affecter la matrice relationnelle d’un individu et ses relations subséquentes tout au long de sa vie. La portée de ces conséquences négatives se fait également sentir dans l’exercice du rôle maternel chez les femmes ayant vécu des abus sexuels intrafamiliaux durant leur enfance. La présente étude vise à explorer les...

Les pères se trouvant dans un contexte de vulnérabilité (p. ex., statut socio-économique précaire, séparation, stress financier ou familial) vivent une expérience parentale plus complexe et souffrante (Dubeau et al., 2013; Lacharité, Pierce, Baker, & Calille, 2016). Pourtant, ils sont sous-représentés dans les études sur la paternité (Cabrera, 2020...

La crise socio-sanitaire actuelle de la Covid-19 met à risque le bien-être des enfants, augmentant notamment leur niveau d’anxiété (p. ex., peur du virus, perte de repère, incertitude, isolement). Elle arrive tout de suite après un automne marqué, en 2019, par les manifestations en défense du climat. Des résultats suggèrent que les préoccupations e...

The activation relationship refers to the emotional bond a child develops with a parent that helps ensure the regulation of risk-taking during child exploration of the surrounding environment. As a complement to Bowlby’s attachment theory, activation relationship theory provides a greater understanding of the impact of fathering on child developmen...

The present pilot study focuses on the adaptive processes of babies who are placed during their first months of life. It used an ethological approach to explore the behavioural adjustment of 19 infants from their arrival in placement through their first 6 weeks in Residential Care (RC; France), a Foster Family (FF; Québec) or an Infant-Mother Centr...

This study used an ethological approach to explore the baby-caregiver dyadic exchanges (Attempted interactions, Triggers, Interactions) of nineteen infants during their first weeks in Residential Care (RC), or a Foster Family (FF) or an Infant-Mother Centre (IMC). Direct observations were conducted at feeding time. Observed behaviours were: baby gl...

This study used an ethological approach to explore the behavioural adaptation of nineteen infants during their first six weeks in Residential Care (RC), or a Foster Family (FF) or an Infant-Mother Centre (IMC). Direct observations were conducted once a week at bath time. Observed behaviours were: sleep-wake states, visual exploration, motor activit...

Cette étude vise à décrire le fonctionnement psychologique de trois enfants portant le diagnostic de trouble réactionnel de l’attachement et tenter un rapprochement entre ce diagnostic, leur fonctionnement et les atteintes neurocognitives pouvant être liées. Les difficultés émotionnelles et comportementales, les représentations d’attachement et les...

Le nombre d’élèves immigrants et réfugiés augmente considérablement dans les écoles québécoises. En raison du parcours migratoire, ces élèves cumulent des facteurs de risque qui menacent ainsi leur développement. En utilisant le modèle écologique de Bronfenbrenner, cette étude qualitative dresse un portrait de la perception des enseignants sur la r...

Le nombre d’enfants immigrants et réfugiés dans les écoles québécoises est en constante augmentation. Ces élèves cumulent des facteurs de risque (deuils, stress d’acculturation, détresse psychologique) qui menacent à la fois leur réussite scolaire, leur adaptation sociale et, pour bon nombre, leur santé mentale. Malgré ce risque accru, certains de...

Attachment and its influence on relational problems remains a vast field of inquiry in developmental research. The emergent area of the neurosciences opens new perspectives into the understanding of the impact of attachment disorders in general, and more specifically, of Reactive Attachment Disorder, on the young child's brain structures. Current r...

Current data on placed children rarely concerned newborns and were mainly realised with a retrospective approach. The present study uses an ethological method to explore the behavioural adjustment of 0-5 weeks old babies placed for maltreatment or adoption. Previous analyses showed that babies placed in infant-mother center presented more optimal d...

The Watch, Wait and Wonder approach and the evolution of parental reflective functioning in high-risk mothers The goal of this exploratory study is to document the changes on high-risk mothers’ reflexive functioning (RF) as they participate in a dyadic psychotherapeutic process based on the Watch, Wait, and Wonder (3W) approach. Three mother-child...

Theoretical perspectives on parental reflexive functioning and Watch, Wait, and Wonder approach Parental reflexive functioning (PRF) is described as the parent’s capacity for understanding his child’s and his own behavior in terms of mental states (thoughts, desires, beliefs, feelings and intentions). PRF has recently been identified as a key varia...

This article presents a brief history of the Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) since its introduction as a diagnostic category. Authors discuss its ties to attachment theory and expose controversies raised by its definition and by the validity of its diagnostic criteria. Authors propose different strategies to assess children with RAD. First, they...

Two clinical cases are used to introduce and illustrate the value of mentalization in understanding Reactive Attachment Disorder. Considering the recent developments in the field, the authors propose a novel way of looking at RAD as well as future directions for research.

Résumé L’objectif de l’étude était de comprendre pourquoi les pères sont absents des services de stimulation précoce, alors qu’on reconnaît leurs contributions spécifiques au développement de l’enfant. Des groupes de discussion avec des pères et des intervenants ont été organisés au Québec. L’analyse qualitative des verbatim révèle que les pères ne...

Résumé Cette étude exploratoire avait pour but de décrire l’adaptation scolaire et sociale d’élèves dits à risque en raison de leur exposition soutenue à un niveau élevé de stress familial lorsque l’enfant était âgé de 4 et 7 ans. Parmi les 12 familles les plus stressées, deux groupes distincts d’enfants ont été identifiés sur la base d’indices de...

This article deals with the various conceptual approaches in the study of risk and protective factors in young children. We also consider the contribution of the resilience construct from the perspective of reconceptualizing our understanding of the problems of adaptation. We present a brief but critical description of current concepts, and some ec...

The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) is one of the most frequently used screening questionnaires for anorexia and bulimia nervosa for use with clinical and general populations. Although the psychometric qualities of the instrument have been reported for the English version, little has been done to date to validate a French version. A french version o...

Presents results of a validation of a French version of the EAT-26 developed by D. M. Garner et al (1982) to identify symptoms of anorexia nervosa and bulimia in clinical and nonclinical populations. The instrument was administered to several clinical (eating disorders) and nonclinical samples of French-speaking and English-speaking male and female...

The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) is one of the most frequently used screening questionnaires for anorexia and bulimia nervosa for use with clinical and general populations. Although the psychometric qualities of the instrument have been reported for the English version, little has been done to date to validate a French version. A french version o...

This study compared psychological and family features of adolescents with varying degrees of eating and mood symptoms. Questionnaires (administered to 715 high school girls) assessed maladaptive eating, mood disturbances, body-image concerns, traits of perfectionism, impulsivity, self-criticism, and reported family in cohesion. Canonical correlatio...

Conflicting evidence exists concerning a "restricter/binger" dichotomy aligned with personality traits of obsessionality versus impulsivity, and family traits of enmeshment versus incohesion. The present study explored relationships among reported personality and family traits, on the one hand, and subtypes of eating symptoms, on the other, in a sa...

Thèse (M.A.)--Université du Québec à Montréal, 1988. Comprend des références bibliographiques.