Johanna Despax

• Doctor of Psychology
• Research Associate at Université Paris Cité

Background Supportive care needs (SCN) need to be better identified in childhood, adolescent, and young adult (CAYA) cancer survivors. Objective This review aims to provide an overview of the available literature on the SCN of CAYA cancer survivors following treatment and to explore the influence of survivors’ age and time since cancer. Intervent...

Teachers working with autistic children are at a great risk of stress and burnout, particularly in mainstream classrooms. To identify the general relationship between including a child with a mental disability and teachers' burnout and stress, as well as to discern any autism spectrum disorder (ASD)‐specific associations, this study compared teache...

Adoptees' use of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) is known to raise bothethical and emotional issues, and it can also challenge their identity. The objective ofthe present study was to describe the experiences of DTC-GT use among adopteesliving in Quebec and to better understand the benefits and disadvantages of use. Weadopted a mixed me...

Adoptees' use of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) is known to raise both ethical and emotional issues, and it can also challenge their identity. The objective of the present study was to describe the experiences of DTC-GT use among adoptees living in Quebec and to better understand the benefits and disadvantages of use. We adopted a mixe...

Purpose The integration of palliative care (PC) into oncological management is recommended well before the end of life. It improves quality of life and symptom control and reduces the aggressiveness of end-of-life care. However, its appropriate timing is still debated. Entry into an early-phase clinical trial (ECT) represents hopes for the patient...

Adopted adults are presented in the psychological literature as being highly vulnerable to mental health issues. It is probable, therefore, that this vulnerability will affect many aspects of their lives. One such area is their romantic relationships but, to our knowledge, research on this is noticeably sparse, especially with regard to the signifi...

Introduction: A few studies have highlighted the potential synergy between early palliative care and inclusion in an early-phase clinical trial that may improve quality of life, reduce symptoms of exhaustion related to the side effects of treatment and allow patients to complete their treatment protocol. The primary objective of this qualitative s...

Adopted adults are presented in the literature as being particularly vulnerable from a mental health and attachment perspective. This could affect their experience of romantic relationships. To our knowledge, however, no data directly concerning adoptees’ partners are currently available. We then explored their conjugal and coparenting experiences...

Adopted adults are presented in the literature as having a more insecure attachment than the general population. They are also less likely to want to have children of their own, which is significant in that studies have shown that attachment is an important determinant of the desire for parenthood. The aim of the present study was to link these two...

Adoptees are studied more as children than as adults. While there is nevertheless a large body of research on adopted adults, little of this has focused on the families they build. Adoptees’ parenthood has been particularly neglected. The few studies conducted on this subject up to now all had serious methodological flaws, and were not interested i...

The aim of the study was to compare adoptees and nonadoptees regarding their romantic relationship experiences and model the factors that predict these experiences (psychological characteristics and characteristics of their adoption pathway). Attachment, resilience, mental health, dyadic adjustment and commitment were assessed in 220 adopted adults...

As most adoption studies have focused on adopted children and their vulnerability, with scant research on adult adoptees’ outcomes, the aim of the present study was to compare adult adoptees and nonadoptees on their experiences as parents and to explore more deeply the question of the role among adoptees of the conjugal relationship in the context...

In a context described as a challenge in parenting (having an autistic child), we sought to highlight the emotional skills that mothers gain as a result of interacting with their child, and how they then use these skills. Mothers of autistic children (n = 136) and mothers of non-autistic children (n = 139) responded to emotional intelligence, resil...

Parenthood is a stage in life with significant psychological issues especially for a population presented as "at risk" such as adopted adults. This systematic literature review aims to synthesize results already published concerning adoptees’ parenthood. Inclusion and exclusion criteria led to the collection of 10 publications on the subject, almos...