
Marie-Hélène GagnéUniversité Laval | ULAVAL · School of Psychology
Marie-Hélène Gagné
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La pandémie de COVID-19 pourrait avoir exacerbé les difficultés des adolescents en protection de la jeunesse (PJ), une population déjà vulnérable. Les mesures sanitaires limitant la propagation du virus pourraient avoir affecté les services en PJ et modifié le nombre de signalements. Cette étude vise à identifier si des changements ont été observés...
The first goal of this longitudinal study was to examine the strength and direction of the relations between post-separation parental conflict (PSPC) and father-child physical contact, as reported by the mother, at the time of separation (Time 1) and in the following 2 years (Time 2). A cross-lagged panel model was conducted with a sample of 198 pa...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, several experts have raised concerns over an increased risk of family violence. The proximity between confined family members and social isolation fostered tensions, making families more vulnerable. The first objective of this study was to describe the evolution of family violence against children (psychological aggressi...
Les modérateurs à long terme de programmes de soutien à la parentalité basés sur des données probantes sont encore peu connus. Le but de la présente étude est d’examiner si, deux à quatre ans plus tard, le maintien des acquis de Triple P quant à divers aspects de la parentalité est affecté par deux modérateurs pouvant survenir chez les familles, so...
This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Triple P (Primary Care and/or Group) parenting support program on various aspects of the parenting experience through a quasi-experimental pretest – post-test protocol with an active comparison group (Care as usual). A sample of 384 parents assigned to two groups (n Triple P = 291; n Care as usual = 93)...
Background:
The Triple P - Positive Parenting Program was rolled-out in two communities in Quebec, Canada, in order to prevent child maltreatment.
Objectives:
(1) Evaluate the effects of Triple P versus care as usual on positive parenting practices, dysfunctional disciplinary practices, and family violence towards the child; (2) verify whether t...
This study evaluates the impact of the Triple P parenting support program (Primary Care and Group) on 0 to 12 year-old Quebec children's behavior. A quasi-experimental pretest – post-test design with an active care-as-usual comparison group was used examine program effects. A sample of 384 parents divided into two groups (n Triple P = 291; n compar...
Background
In Canada, more than one in four children are considered vulnerable in at least one domain of development when they enter kindergarten. Recent studies have suggested that this ratio is higher among those who were previously maltreated. However, little is known about this associations at the neighborhood level, although it may be an inter...
Introduction:
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictive measures have caused important disruptions in economies and labour markets, changed the way we work and socialise, forced schools to close and healthcare and social services to reorganise. This unprecedented crisis forces individuals to make considerable efforts to adapt and will have...
This study examines the evolution of collaboration between various organizations involved in the joint implementation of an evidence-based program to support parenting: the Triple P - Positive Parenting Practices - Programme. This evolution is studied over a period of two years in two Quebec health catchment areas. The sample is made up of managers...
Au Québec, plus d’un enfant sur quatre est considéré vulnérable dans au moins une sphère de développement dès son entrée à la maternelle. En raison des conséquences sur le développement, les enfants qui ont été maltraités durant la petite enfance sont plus susceptibles d'éprouver des difficultés à leur entrée à la maternelle. La présente étude s’in...
The appearance of COVID-19 and consequent containment measures, including the closure of schools and daycare services (decreed on March 13, 2020, in Quebec, Canada), has hit families hard. Overnight, parents had to reconcile their professional activities, including teleworking, with the need to keep or even educate their children at home. Others fo...
Background
Evidence-based family support programs such as the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program have the potential to enhance the well-being of children and families. However, they cannot achieve their expected outcomes if insufficient attention is paid to the implementation process. It has been demonstrated that practitioners’ attitudes toward...
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation measures taken to control it has caused important disruptions in economies and labour markets, changed the way we work and socialize, forced schools to close and healthcare and social services to reorganize in order to redirect resources on the pandemic response. This unprecedented crisis forces in...
Background
To date, there have been few studies pertaining to the knowledge and attitudes regarding the use of corporal punishment (CP) among professionals working with parents and children. Yet, many parents turn to these professionals for advice on child discipline.
Objective
This study aimed to describe professionals’ legal knowledge about pare...
In this paper, we address the assessment of community readiness (CR) for the prevention of child maltreatment in the context of a community survey. A mail survey was administered to 222 service providers and 54 supervisors and managers from 35 different organizations serving children and their families in four Canadian communities. Eleven items fro...
Parenting support programs are an effective means of preventing child maltreatment. However, these programs are often criticized for their limited ability to enroll and engage the parents who need them most. The present study aimed to determine which risk factors associated with child maltreatment predicted mothers’ enrollment in the Triple P—Posit...
In the province of Quebec, more than one in four children is considered vulnerable in at least one area of development as they enter kindergarten. Because of the developmental consequences, children who have been maltreated in early childhood are more likely to experience difficulties entering kindergarten, which is an important milestone in their...
We present preliminary multimethod, multi-informant data on a new measure of adherence (Practitioner Session Reflection Tool) that invited practitioners to report on their adherence and content modifications to an evidence-based parenting program. Fifty-two practitioners from 12 community agencies submitted 361 self-reports; a subset of 23 practiti...
Evidence‐based programs (EBPs) have the potential to improve the well‐being of families and children, but do not necessarily produce the expected outcomes when implemented in real‐world settings. It thus appears essential to consider the factors that can impact the implementation process, especially those related to the practitioners who deliver th...
Le recrutement des parents dans les programmes d’éducation parentale (PEP) peut représenter un défi important pour les intervenants et les organisations qui offrent des services de soutien à la parentalité. Cet article recense les stratégies et les facteurs qui sont susceptibles de nuire au recrutement des parents dans des PEP ou de le favoriser à...
Les programmes de soutien à la parentalité sont un moyen efficace pour prévenir la maltraitance envers les enfants, mais il peut être difficile d’amener les parents plus vulnérables à s’y engager. La présente étude vise à vérifier jusqu’à quel point le profil de mères québécoises entrant dans le programme Triple P – Positive Parenting Program corre...
Background: Evidence-based family support programs such as the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program have the potential to enhance the well-being of children and families. However, they cannot achieve their expected outcomes if insufficient attention is paid to the implementation process. It has been demonstrated that practitioners’ attitudes towar...
Background: Evidence-based family support programs such as the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program have the potential to enhance the well-being of children and families. However, they cannot achieve their expected outcomes if insufficient attention is paid to the implementation process. It has been demonstrated that practitioners’ attitudes towar...
Background: Evidence-based family support programs such as the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program have the potential to enhance the well-being of children and families. However, they cannot achieve their expected outcomes if insufficient attention is paid to the implementation process. It has been demonstrated that practitioners’ attitudes towar...
Background: Evidence-based family support programs such as the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program have the potential to enhance the well-being of children and families. However, they cannot achieve their expected outcomes if insufficient attention is paid to the implementation process. It has been demonstrated that practitioners’ attitudes towar...
This study is part of a two-year demonstration project to implement an evidence-based parenting program called Triple P. It examines service providers' initial stance toward the adoption of Triple P. It also examines the association between initial stance and subsequent program use, using three self-reported indicators: whether or not the provider...
This study addressed the predictors of service providers' use of a multi-level evidence-based program (EBP). Of the 92 trained providers participating in the study, 67 (72.8%) used the EBP at least once. A multidimensional index of the amount of usage (MUI) was created using three indicators. Providers' self-efficacy and the amount of training they...
Contexte de l’étude
Les médecins sont parmi les professionnels les plus sollicités par les parents pour obtenir des conseils sur l’exercice du rôle parental. Pourtant, ils sont rarement formés pour informer les parents, et particulièrement en ce qui concerne la légitimité des pratiques disciplinaires comme la punition corporelle (PC).
Objectifs
Ce...
Based on a populational survey conducted among 1400 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years old, the aim of this study is to assess the relationships between their community violence experiences and their psychological health (anger, depressive symptoms, and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms). One MANOVA confirms that both boys and girls who...
Evidence-based parenting support programs are among effective strategies for preventing child maltreatment. The launch of mass media campaigns accompanying the implementation of such programs has been recommended to optimize reach and parent enrollment. This paper focuses on a communication campaign developed to support the implementation of the Tr...
Les services de supervision des droits d’accès (SDA) permettent de maintenir le lien parent-enfant dans un contexte neutre et sécuritaire. Les familles qui se retrouvent dans ces services ont généralement un point en commun : elles ont besoin d’être épaulées, écoutées et protégées, notamment par des intervenants formés qui assurent le bon dérouleme...
Introduction. – The Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (Straus et al., 1998) is the most commonly used instrumentto document violence against children in the general population. It was translated into French and adapted to be used in several population-based surveys over the past 15 years.
Objective – This study aims at verifying the internal cons...
The use of so-called “multilevel” strategies to prevent child maltreatment and behavior and emotional problems in children is increasingly being promoted by experts in the early childhood education and intervention field. These approaches aim to cover the needs of an entire population with different levels of interventions addressing specific needs...
Malgré l’efficacité reconnue de certains programmes de soutien à la parentalité, la participation des parents est souvent faible et variable d’un programme à l’autre. Dans ce contexte, cette étude vise à explorer les facteurs qui sont liés à l’intention des mères à participer à un programme de soutien à la parentalité. Des analyses secondaires des...
Introduction:
This article discusses the development and pretesting of key visual imagery in a promotional campaign developed in Quebec, Canada. This campaign is the media-based component of a broader prevention strategy involving the use of the Triple P program (Sanders, 1999).
Objectives:
The purpose was to pretest with parents the preliminary...
Peu d'études ont porté sur la recherche de soutien professionnel de la part de parents, ou sur les facteurs liés à la consultation par secteurs d'intervention (santé, santé mentale, éducation). En réponse à ces lacunes, cette étude vise à documenter qui sont les professionnels consultés au cours d'une année en lien avec l'éducation ou les comportem...
This study documents lifetime experiences of victimizations, polyvictimization, and trauma symptoms among 1,400 adolescents from the province of Québec. The vast majority (81%) of adolescents were victimized during their lifetime, with most victims (82%) being the target of more than one form of victimization. Polyvictimization accounted for most v...
Malgré l’efficacité reconnue de certains programmes de soutien à la parentalité, la participation des parents est souvent faible et variable d’un programme à l’autre. Dans ce contexte, cette étude vise à explorer les facteurs qui sont liés à l’intention des mères à participer à un programme de soutien à la parentalité. Des analyses secondaires des...
This study documents lifetime experiences of victimizations, polyvictimization, and trauma symptoms among 1,400 adolescents from the province of Québec. The vast majority (81%) of adolescents were victimized during their lifetime, with most victims (82%) being the target of more than one form of victimization. Polyvictimization accounted for most v...
Change in the use of psychologically violent parental practices towards preadolescents
The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with a change in the frequency of psychologically violent parental practices (PVPP) towards preadolescents. The sample consisted of 143 parent-child dyads, each of which was met twice. Each parent compl...
Social marketing (SM) is an important strategy for use in universal prevention efforts. SM has been shown to be effective in reducing the impact of a number of public health problems, including smoking and the consumption of sugary foods, thereby contributing to the prevention of disease. The present article provides an overview of this approach fo...
Le marketing social (MS) constitue une stratégie intéressante en matière de prévention universelle. Il s'est avéré efficace pour réduire l'incidence de divers problèmes de santé publique comme le tabagisme ou la consommation d'aliments sucrés, contribuant à la prévention de plusieurs maladies. Le présent article s'adresse aux chercheurs, décideurs...
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...
This article presents results of a survey investigating parents’ needs for parenting services, their access to and preferences for parenting programs. Canadian parents (N = 2,340) completed the International Parenting Survey (Morawska, Heinrichs, & Sanders, 2011) with respect to the youngest of their children who was in the 2–12 year age range. In...
Dating violence in adolescence represents a major societal problem and a health issue. It is therefore important to understand the context and factors associated with this problem. The experience of victimisation during childhood can lead to psychological consequences that increase in turn the risk of future victimisations, among others within coup...
Violence among children and adolescents is a highly important subject, especially because of the associated physical and psychological consequences. The present study focuses on community violence and aims to address the shortcomings of previous studies on the subject. Using on a population-based survey, this study provides a statistical portrait o...
La présente étude qualitative vise à documenter l’expérience d’intervenants de la protection de la jeunesse qui appliquent une approche de médiation. Cette approche repose sur l’identification des besoins de tous les acteurs concernés par une situation et sur le choix d’options susceptibles de mener à un projet d’entente satisfaisant pour toutes le...
This transversal study examines factors associated with a high degree of involvement in sexualized social
activities (SESA) among a non-clinical sample of 815 adolescents (M = 15.86 years) attending secondary
school. SESA include wet t-shirt contests, stripteases, sexualized dancing, same sex kissing, imitation of
fellatio, dances miming sexual pos...
Post-separation coparenting trajectories : a qualitative exploratory study
The objective of this qualitative study is to better understand how parents describe their coparenting and its evolution through two family transitions : separation and remarriage. Participants (n = 25) are parents (23 mothers and 2 fathers) who have been separated for an av...
Several studies have shown a link between internalizing and externalizing behaviours in youth and psychological violence in their family. However, the nature of this link has not been extensively addressed in the literature. The objective of this study was to verify the strength and direction of the links between the manifestations of young people’...
The role of coping strategies (approach and avoidance) as a mediating factor between parental psychological violence and adolescent behavior problems, both internalized and externalized, as well as the protective role of social support were examined separately for boys and girls. A group of 278 adolescents (mean age: 14.2) were recruited in three h...
Objective: To document extrafamily victimization, exposure to community violence and polyvictimization in a child welfare sample of children and youths. Method: Telephone interviews were conducted among 138 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years and 82 caregivers of children aged 2 to 11 years followed by child welfare agencies in Quebec to document the v...
This study aimed to understand the nature of the relationships between three forms of past victimizations (exposure to interparental violence in childhood, sexual harassment by peers since beginning high school, prior experience of dating violence), physical dating violence perpetration by adolescents, and anger-hostility and emotional distress. Th...
The purpose of this study was to develop the Psychologically Violent Adolescent Practices Inventory (PVAPI), designed to measure psychological violence inflicted on parents by adolescents, an issue for which there are few reliable, valid and complete measures available. The development instrument, PVAPI, is a self-report questionnaire directed at y...
Les jeunes exposés à la violence, tant dans leur milieu intrafamilial que dans leur communauté, présentent un risque élevé de développer divers problèmes d’adaptation. Les jeunes recevant des services de protection de la jeunesse constituent une population particulièrement vulnérable, considérant leur prévalence élevée d’exposition à la violence. C...
Second marriages are known to be more fragile than first marriages. To better understand the factors that contribute to this fragility, this qualitative study compared stepfamilies that stayed together with those that separated by collecting interview data from one adult in each of the former (n = 31) and latter (n = 26) stepfamilies. Data were ana...
L’ampleur du phénomène de la violence dans les relations amoureuses et la sévérité des conséquences qu’elle engendre, justifient le besoin de mieux documenter les mécanismes et les facteurs de risque associés à la victimisation. L’objectif de la présente étude est d’explorer les facteurs de risque liés à la victimisation psychologique, sexuelle et...
This study consists of an in-depth content analysis of 345 help requests made by 9- to 17-year-old youths to an anonymous hot line service, disclosing various manifestations of parental psychological violence. It provides an overall picture of the universe of psychological violence as reported by young victims, on the basis of the 5 following theme...
This study consists of an in-depth content analysis of 345 help requests made by 9- to 17-year-old youths to an anonymous hot line service, disclosing various manifestations of parental psychological violence. It provides an overall picture of the universe of psychological violence as reported by young victims, on the basis of the 5 following theme...
Maternal and paternal psychological violence were examined as potential risk factors for internalized and externalized behavior problems displayed by adolescents. Childhood family violence (physical and psychological parental violence), current extrafamily violence (bullying and dating violence), and family structure were taken into account. A samp...
This study examined the exchange of sexual services for compensation (e.g., money, drugs, alcohol) in high school students. The sale of sex in young people from nonclinical samples has been the subject of recent studies, but buying such services has received far less attention. This study described these two phenomena and associated factors within...
Cette etude examine les besoins et les defis en matiere de soutien social de repondants francophones albertains, repartis en cinq sous-groupes selon leur lieu d’origine. La langue et l’heterogeneite culturelle dans un contexte minoritaire sont prises en compte sous l’angle des processus d’acculturation. Une methode mixte (quantitative et qualitativ...
Although previous studies have shown that parental separation and parental conflict contribute independently to the adaptation difficulties of young people, there is, as of yet, no precise portrait of how post-separation conflicts evolve. Indeed, some fundamental questions remain unanswered: (1) Do parents who experience few conflicts during their...
This qualitative study explores the point of view of psychosocial practitioners regarding parental alienation (PA), which pertains to situations where a child rejects one of his or her parents under the influence of the other parent. Participants were practitioners from community organizations and social service agencies, working with women, men, c...
Life-trajectories diversity in the implementation of stepfamilies. A Quebec outlook.
The article outlines the results of a qualitative study using the life-cycle theory with the intention of indicating the diversity of trajectories in the formation of stepfamilies Three criteria were applied to develop a classification of trajectories of the indivi...
In a sample of 143 parent-child dyads from two-parent and separated families, this investigation documented the links between parental psychological violence and separation or divorce, severity of parental conflict, triangulation of the child in this conflict, and polarized parent-child alliances. The unique and combined contributions of all these...
This study identifies predictors of favorable attitudes toward spanking. Analyses were performed with survey data collected from a representative sample of 1,000 adults from Quebec, Canada. According to this survey, a majority of respondents endorsed spanking, despite their recognition of potential harm associated with corporal punishment (CP) of c...
This paper reports the translation and preliminary validation process of the Psychologically Violent Parental Practices Inventory (PVPPI). The original Francophone inventory was previously tested with 306 Francophone students recruited in fifth to ninth grade classes. Findings of the original study had suggested a coherent two-factor structure, goo...
This article presents a content analysis of articles published in the Canadian Journal of Commu- nity Mental Health (CJCMH) between 1982 and 2006. The analysis aims to provide an overall description of the articles, identify the major trends over time, and suggest future directions for CJCMH issues. The article highlights the development over time...
This study focuses on the impacts of serial transitions on externalized and internalized behavior disorders, anxiety, and depression among children in child protection services. The research was carried out with a sample of 741 children. The findings demonstrate that the number of times a family is blended is a stronger predictive factor for childr...
Objective
To date, the phenomenon of concurrent forms of violence against children has received little consideration from research. This study sought to determine the prevalence and cooccurrence of various forms of violence (physical, sexual and psychological).
Method
A telephone survey was conducted with a representative sample of 822 Quebec adul...
Objective: To date, the phenomenon of concurrent forms of violence against children has received little consideration from research. This study sought to determine the prevalence and co-occurrence of various forms of violence (physical, sexual and psychological). Method: A telephone survey was conducted with a representative sample of 822 Quebec ad...