Luc Touchette

Université de Sherbrooke | UdeS · Department of Psychoeducation

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...

The Boxall Profile provides a framework for the structured observation of children in nurture groups. It is a detailed and rigorously trialled normative diagnostic instrument developed for teachers and teaching assistants to measure children’s levels of emotional and behavioural functioning. Moreover, it highlights specific targets for intervention...

Introduction Intensive family intervention programs intended for families in a crisis situation aim at preventing the emergency placement of adolescents with emotional or behavior problems. However, few studies have focused on intervention tailoring to the clinical profiles of families, although this is a key principle in these programs. Objective...

Objectives. To identify the presence of distinct family profiles in anorexia nervosa and to assess the association between the severity of the families’ dysfunction and the severity of the adolescents’ clinical profiles. Methods. One hundred and eighty-one adolescents (12–18 years old) with anorexia nervosa were recruited in specialized eating diso...

Validation of French version of FACES IV for a population of adolescents from populational and clinical samples FACES IV (Olson, Gorall and Tiesel, 2006) is a measure of family functioning used in many research and clinical settings in Quebec. This study aims to validate the factorial structure of the French version of the FACES IV and to examine i...

Introduction and objectiveThe present study examines the construct validity and reliability of a group climate measure (QCGCR), associated to real life intervention, in a sample of 153 girls (M age = 15.2 years) placed in Canadian residential care centers.Method Confirmatory factor analysis have been performed on three distinctive factors of group...

Introduction and objective. – The present study examines the construct validity and reliability of a group climate measure (QCGCR), associated to real life intervention, in a sample of 153 girls (M age = 15.2 years) placed in Canadian residential care centers. Method. – Confirmatory factor analysis have been performed on three distinctive factors o...

Research development among clinicians : questioning clinical practice first This article aims at answering three questions. Which factors may have contributed in creating a gap between research and clinic in the family therapy movement ? Which arguments favor research development among family therapists ? Can one research when working only in a cli...

This article aims at answering three questions. Which factors may have contributed in creating a gap between research and clinic in the family therapy movement? Which arguments favor research development among family therapists? Can one research when working only in a clinic? This article ultimately aims at raising family therapists' interest in cl...

Intensive crisis programs have been the object of numerous evaluations and evaluative inquiries. Nevertheless, experts and researchers are unable to make clear statements about the effectiveness of these programs in helping families and children in crisis. Methodological bias and confusion in the definition and implementation of these programs may...

Evolution of the families involved in crisis-ado-family program The following article is dedicated to the presentation of a brief and intensive intervention program designed to help families with adolescents. It also presents research data on the evolution profile of the families involved in the program. First it discusses the objectives of the pro...

This article aims to identify different family profiles among children who present with behavioural problems and receive specialized educational services for them during elementary school (N = 324). The profiles were determined using cluster analysis. The choice of variables included in the analysis (socioeconomic, parental, and relational characte...

Thèse (Ph.D.)--Université de Sherbrooke, 2005. Comprend des réf. bibliogr.