Patrick Gosselin

Université de Sherbrooke | UdeS · Department of Psychology

Although many challenges inherent to the birth of a first child are likely to interfere with new parent couples’ sexuality, sexual well-being has often been neglected during the transition to parenthood. Considering the numerous uncertainties arising in this period, it is relevant to study whether first-time parents’ intolerance of uncertainty coul...

Background Anxiety impairs adolescent development and is a risk factor for psychopathology. However, factors related to anxiety impairment’s severity remain poorly studied. Objective This study aims to document anxiety impairment across different domains in adolescents and to study associated factors (sociodemographic, specific anxiety, and depres...

Les symptômes et troubles anxieux sont prévalents en périnatalité, en plus d’être liés à des conséquences négatives pour la mère. Or, les taux de consultation dans cette période sont très faibles. Le modèle de Fonseca et Canavarro (2021) suggère des facteurs liés à la décision de consulter en périnatalité, notamment la littératie en santé mentale e...

Background Genitopelvic pain following childbirth is common and likely to challenge the psychological, relational, and sexual well-being of new mothers. While genitopelvic pain generally decreases during the postpartum period, personal and interpersonal characteristics may explain why genitopelvic pain persists beyond the period of physical recover...

Anxiety disorders have been on the rise among adolescents over the past decade. The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have contributed to this increase, putting further pressure on often already overburdened health systems. Universal prevention programs may offer a potential solution, but few have been evaluated in the context of a pandemic. The objecti...

Background:Only a small proportion of older adults with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) seek professional help. One reason is the lack of access to mental health professionals licensed to provide psychotherapy. One way to improve access to psychotherapy is through guided self- help (GSH). GSH based on the principles of cognitive-behavior therapy...

Low use of professional help for anxiety disorders in older adults may be due in part to limited access to mental health services. Self-help guided by lay providers (LPs) could help improve access to treatment. This study evaluated the efficacy and long-term outcomes of self-help guided by LPs for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in older adults....

Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychopathologies in Western adolescents and have been on the rise in recent years. Not only does anxiety disrupt the daily lives of the young people who suffer from it, it can also have harmful behavioral, psychological, social, and academic effects. Given this, there is a pressing need to implement u...

Purpose To explore the intensity and variation of workers’ worries, pain, psychosocial factors, and margin of manoeuvre before and after a return-to-work program, and identified the psychosocial factors associated with non-return to work at the end of the rehabilitation program. Methods A pre-post study design was used. A convenience sample of 80...

Context Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychopathologies for children and adolescents in Quebec. The prevalence of anxiety disorders is very high and has been affecting a growing number of young people for the past 10 years. It is possible to observe an increased number of anxiety prevention programs for young people around the worl...

In this study, we combined the results of two controlled trials and examined the relationships between working alliance, telepresence, cognitive change, and treatment outcome. Sixty‐five participants with a primary diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) or panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA) received cognitive behavior therapy delivered...

Delivering psychotherapy by videoconference has been studied in a number of clinical trials, but no large controlled trial has involved generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). This multicenter randomized controlled non-inferiority trial was conducted to test if cognitive-behavior psychotherapy delivered by videoconference (VCP) is as effective as cogni...

A growing body of research examines the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on well-being. Only few studies focus on older adults or explore the predictors of COVID-19-related anxiety. Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and some behaviors (e.g., avoidance, procrastination) are linked to anxiety among older adults and could both be relevant to consider in a pa...

Background Several studies conducted since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic have shown its harmful effects on young people’s mental health. In Québec and Canada, few studies have focussed on adolescents, and even fewer of these studies have examined this subject using a methodology that involved comparisons of data obtained before and during...

Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychopathologies in children and adolescents around the world. They affect their personal, family, school and social functioning. Although symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are among the most commonly observed symptoms in adolescence, relatively little is known about the most important ri...

Introduction Workers worry during prolonged work disability, but do their worries relate to their actual work disability situation? Objective The aim of this study was to assess worries and their maintaining factors, while considering the margin of maneuver/leeway at work and their impact on return to work (RTW). Methods We conducted a cohort stu...

A cognitive-behavioral guided self-help conducted by lay providers (CBT-GSH-LP) had been shown to be effective in treating anxiety and may help facilitate access to treatment. The first objective of this study was to assess the acceptability the CBT-GSH-LP for the Generalised Anxiety Disorder in adults aged 60 and over. Its acceptability was compar...

This study aims to examine two explanatory factors of relationship satisfaction and parental alliance among both parents of a new child, namely romantic attachment and perfectionism. A sample of 80 couples completed individual online questionnaires. Path analyses based on the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model were carried out to explore the actor...

La période postnatale est associée au développement et à l’exacerbation des symptômes anxieux, notamment ceux du trouble d’anxiété généralisé (TAG) et du trouble obsessionnel compulsif (TOC) (Ali, 2018). Des recherches appuient le rôle du sentiment d’efficacité parentale (SEP), soit comme facteur explicatif ou comme conséquence de l’anxiété postnat...

Background Only a small proportion of older patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) seek professional help. Difficulties in accessing treatment may contribute to this problem. Guided self-help based on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (GSH-CBT) is one way of promoting access to psychological treatment. Moreover, because the t...

Background: Previous meta-analyses have shown a significant relationship between working alliance and treatment outcome in general. Some studies have examined the relationship between working alliance and treatment outcome during telepsychotherapy, but to the best of our knowledge, no study has examined the mediating role of individual components...

Chez les personnes atteintes du trouble d'anxiété généralisée (TAG), celles ayant une plus forte tendance à interpréter négativement les situations ambiguës bénéficient moins de la thérapie cognitivo-comportementale (TCC). En conséquence, un programme de modification des interprétations (PMI) pourrait améliorer l'efficacité de la TCC pour cette pop...

The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) is a widely used self-report measure of anxiety symptoms in older adults. Although much research has been conducted on the psychometric properties of the GAI, previous reviews have examined only a small proportion of studies and have not evaluated the methodological quality of this work. In view of this, we con...

Background Transdiagnostic group cognitive-behavioral therapy (tCBT) is a delivery model that could help overcome barriers to large-scale implementation of evidence-based psychotherapy for anxiety disorders. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of combining group tCBT with treatment-as-usual (TAU), compared to TAU, for the treatmen...

Background The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) is a widely used self-report measure of anxiety symptoms in older adults. Much research has been conducted on the psychometric properties of the GAI in various populations and using different language versions. Previous reviews of this literature have examined only a small proportion of studies in li...

La présente étude examine le ratio coûts-efficacité incrémental (RCEI) d'une thérapie cognitive et comportementale (TCC) combinée et adaptée à la comorbidité du trouble panique avec agoraphobie (TPA) et du trouble d'anxiété généralisée (TAG), comparativement à la TCC conventionnelle pour le trouble primaire (TPA ou TAG) seulement. Cent vingt-trois...

The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) and its short form (GAI-SF) are self-reported scales used internationally to assess anxiety symptoms in older adults. In this study, we conducted the first critical comprehensive review of these scales' psychometric properties. We rated the quality of 31 relevant studies with the COSMIN checklist. Both the GAI...

Telepsicoterapia para el trastorno de ansiedad generalizada: impacto en la Alianza de Trabajo La telepsicoterapia representa una solución prometedora a los problemas relacionados con accesibilidad especializada a servicios de salud mental, incluso cuando se brinda psicoterapia para personas que no tienen acceso al cuidado debido al COVID-19 pandemi...

Chez les personnes atteintes du trouble d’anxiété généralisée (TAG), celles ayant une plus forte tendance à interpréter négativement les situations ambiguës bénéficient moins de la thérapie cognitivo-comportementale (TCC). En conséquence, un programme de modification des interprétations (PMI) pourrait améliorer l’efficacité de la TCC pour cette pop...

L’intolérance à l’incertitude (II), l’attitude négative face aux problèmes (ANP) et l’évitement cognitif (ÉC) sont liés à la tendance à s’inquiéter chez les jeunes (Fialko, Bolton, & Perrin, 2012; Gosselin et al., 2007; Laugesen, Dugas, & Bukowski, 2003). Or, peu d’instruments ont été développés pour évaluer ces concepts. Ceux qui sont disponibles...

Introduction: The Intolerance of Uncertainty Model (IUM) is a well-tested model of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Objective: To test an extension of the IUM that suggests that intolerance of uncertainty (IU) contributes to worry not only by leading to a negative problem orientation, but also by leading to a negative emotion orientation. Method...

Objectives: Assessing late-life anxiety using an instrument with sound psychometric properties including cross-cultural invariance is essential for cross-national aging research and clinical assessment. To date, no cross-national research studies have examined the psychometric properties of the frequently used Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) in...

Objectives To estimate the 6‐month prevalence of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in primary care patients aged 70 years and over and to describe their clinical profile, including types of worries. Methods/Design Participants (N=1193) came from the ESA‐services study conducted in Quebec, Canada. An in‐person structured interview was used to iden...

Background: Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders in community settings, and they are associated with significant psychological distress, functional and social impairment. While cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is the most consistently efficacious psychological treatment for anxiety disorders, barriers preclude widespread impleme...

The Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ; Gillanders et al., 2014) has been found to have good psychometric properties across both clinical and non-clinical populations. To date, no study has investigated the measurement invariance of the CFQ among different populations and cutoff scores for clinical purposes are yet to be recommended. The first aim...

Background: Panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are impairing and costly disorders that are often misdiagnosed and left untreated despite multiple consultations. These disorders frequently co-occur, but little is known about the costs associated with their comorbidity and the impact of cognitive-behavioral...

Background: The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) and a short form of this instrument (GAI-SF) were developed to assess the severity of anxiety symptoms in older adults in order to compensate for the lack of validated screening tools adapted to the elderly population. This study examined the psychometric properties of the French Canadian version of...

Patients with panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA) or generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) frequently also suffer from insomnia. However, the impact of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders on insomnia has been understudied. Furthermore, comorbidity between anxiety disorders is common. Our main objective was to assess the impact o...

Objective: Fear of childbirth is common in women who are pregnant with their first child and is associated with important consequences such as abortions and miscarriages. Twenty percent of nulliparous women seem to exhibit a mild or moderate fear, while 6% present an excessive and irrational fear known as tocophobia. Tocophobia is suggested to be...

Le trouble d’anxiété généralisée (TAG) est un des troubles anxieux les plus répandus chez les personnes âgées et ses retombées négatives sont importantes. Malgré la disponibilité de traitements efficaces, le TAG est sous-traité dans cette population. Les raisons expliquant cette situation sont nombreuses et incluent les difficultés d’accès aux trai...

The main objective of this study was to examine the efficacy of a guided self-help treatment based on cognitive behavioral principles (CBT-GSH) for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in older adults. Three older adults aged from 66 to 70 and diagnosed with GAD were included in a single-case experimental multiple-baseline protocol. Data were collect...

Introduction. - Delivering psychotherapy by videoconference could considerably extend the accessibility of empirically validated treatments. Objective. - The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), administered via videoconference. Method. - Five participants wi...

Individuals with pathological worry, a common symptom of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), make threatening interpretations of ambiguous information related to various life domains (e.g., finances, relationships). A word-sentence association paradigm (WSAP) computer task, originally designed for social anxiety, was adapted to assess two threat-re...

Individuals with pathological worry, a common symptom of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), make threatening interpretations of ambiguous information related to various life domains (e.g., finances, relationships). A word-sentence association paradigm (WSAP) computer task, originally designed for social anxiety, was adapted to assess two threat-re...

Concurrent panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are the most common diagnostic occurrences among anxiety disorders. This particular comorbidity is associated with significant impairments in quality of life (QOL). The current study sought to investigate the efficacy of a combined cognitive-behavioral psychothe...

Plusieurs psychopathologies se caractérisent par des difficultés de régulation des émotions. Actuellement, aucun instrument de langue française ne permet une évaluation multidimensionnelle de ces difficultés. Cette recherche examine les propriétés psychométriques d’une traduction francophone du Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) (Gratz...

The fear of childbirth, a central aspect of tokophobia, recently started to capture the attention of the scientific community as a potential determinant of obstetric and post-natal complications. However, studies on this subject are still few and this can be partly explained by the lack of validated instruments, especially in French. This paper pre...

Objectives The fear of childbirth, a central aspect of tokophobia, recently started to capture the attention of the scientific community as a potential determinant of obstetric and post-natal complications. However, studies on this subject are still few and this can be partly explained by the lack of validated instruments, especially in French. Thi...

Affiche présentée lors du 34e Congrès de la Société Québécoise pour la recherche en psychologie. Sherbrooke, Québec.

Affiche présentée lors du 34e Congrès de la Société Québécoise pour la recherche en Psychologie. Sherbrooke, Québec.

Affiche présentée lors du 34e Congrès de la Société Québécoise pour la recherche en psychologie. Sherbrooke, Québec.

Affiche présentée lors du 34e Congrès de la Société Québécoise pour la recherche en Psychologie. Sherbrooke, Québec.

Poster presented at the annual convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. Toronto.

Anxiety disorders are very prevalent among children and adolescents and increase risk for comorbid diagnoses, psychopathology in adulthood and lower adaptive functioning in the areas of academic performance, peer relations and family interactions. Even if anxiety disorders are the principal psychopathologies present among children, there are few va...

Affiche présentée au 33e Congrès de la Société Québécoise pour la recherche en Psychologie. Québec.

Affiche présentée lors du 33e Congrès de la Société Québécoise pour la recherche en Psychologie. Québec.

Affiche présentée lors du 33e Congrès de la Société Québécoise pour la recherche en Psychologie. Québec.

Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is related to anxiety, depression, worry, and anxiety sensitivity. Precedent IU measures were criticized for psychometric instability and redundancy; alternative measures include the novel 45-item measure (Intolerance of Uncertainty Index; IUI). The IUI was developed in French with 2 parts, assessing general unaccept...

Affiche présentée lors du 32e Congrès de la Société Québécoise pour la recherche en Psychologie. Montréal, Québec.

Intolerance of uncertainty represents an important risk factor for development of anxiety disorders. However, few measures have been developed in order to evaluate this construct. Four studies were conducted in order to validate a new instrument evaluating intolerance of uncertainty: the Intolerance of Uncertainty Inventory (IUI). The first study d...

The essential feature of Hypochondriasis is preoccupation with fear of having a serious disease based on a misinterpretation of bodily symptoms. While it is classified as a somatoform disorder, it presents many similarities with anxiety disorders, particularly Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) which is core feature is excessive worry. Since these...

Excessive worries, which are the core feature of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), are associated with serious consequences for children and adolescents. According to Albano and Hack (2004), worry, as well as GAD, affects many dimensions of academic, social and personal functioning among these populations (Albano & Hack, 2004). In spite of the im...

Few self-exclusion programs have been evaluated and their long-term impact remains unknown. This study has two main goals: (1) to assess changes in gambling behaviour and gambling problems for self-excluded patrons, and (2) to follow self-excluded gamblers for a two-year period (during and after the self-exclusion period). Individuals who excluded...

Studies aiming to better understand worry have neglected children and adolescents. This constitutes an important limitation considering that excessive worry is frequent among adolescents and that patients suffering from excessive worries associate the beginning of their disorder with adolescence. This study evaluates the cognitive variables associa...

Several literature reviews confirm the usefulness of benzodiazepines. Their use is however controversial due to problems related to withdrawal symptoms that develop upon discontinuation. Dependence tends to become a problem within a few weeks and, consequently, the majority of regular users are unable to cease consumption or resume their medication...

Several literature reviews confirm the usefulness of benzodiazepines. Their use is however controversial due to problems related to withdrawal symptoms that develop upon discontinuation. Dependence tends to become a problem within a few weeks and, consequently, the majority of regular users are unable to cease consumption or resume their medication...

This study evaluated the specific effectiveness of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) combined with medication tapering for benzodiazepine discontinuation among generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) patients by using a nonspecific therapy control group. Sixty-one patients who had used benzodiazepines for more than 12 months were randomly assigned to the...

Plusieurs croyances erronées sont associées aux inquiétudes. Certaines personnes croient que le fait de s'inquiéter comporte plusieurs avantages et traduit une caractéristique positive de la personnalité. Ils développent donc une tendance excessive et incontrôlable à s'inquiéter dans le but de maintenir les avantages illusoires perçus. Les facteurs...

Negative problem orientation is a set of dysfunctional cognitions that influences one's ability to effectively solve daily life problems. Recent studies suggest considering this inhibitive variable in order to better understand and treat patients suffering from different psychopathologies (e.g. Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major Depression). Until...

This study examines whether illness intrusions can be distinguished from obsessional intrusions and worries. It also assesses the relationship between strategies, thought characteristics, and appraisal of illness intrusions. Two hundred and forty-three non-clinical participants identified an obsessive intrusive thought, a worry, and an illness intr...

Generalized Anxiety disorder (GAD) is a widespread psychiatric syndrome involving significant consequences on people's health. However, recent data show that this disorder has received little attention when compared to other anxiety disorders. A review of the publication on GAD also stated that the majority of research has been conducted on descrip...

Benzodiazepine medication is often prescribed for the short-term treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. The chronic nature of generalized anxiety disorder entails a prolonged use of these psychotropic medication on several months and several years, entailing also a psychological and physical addiction. The current study aims at determining if t...

Résumé Les benzodiazépines sont souvent prescrites pour le traitement à court terme du Trouble d’anxiété généralisée (TAG). La nature chronique du TAG entraîne une prise prolongée de ces psychotropes sur plusieurs mois et plusieurs années, entraînant ainsi une dépendance psychologique et physique. La présente étude vise à déterminer si la combinais...

This study assessed, among a French high-school student sample ( N=614), the psychometric properties of an adaptation for children and adolescents of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. The factor structure, internal consistency, convergent/discriminant validity, and test-retest reliability were investigated. The results show that the single factor...