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🥇 Congratulations to Édith Paré-Roy & Valéry Dubé, students in Martine Hébert’s laboratory, for receiving a ✨graduate scholarship✨ awarded by CRIPCAS for the year 2021-2022.

It is with great pride that we announce that Martine Hébert has won the Prix d’excellence en recherche-création du Réseau de l’Université du Québec, Leadership 2021 category.   This award aims to recognize and promote the exceptional innovation, leadership and performance of professor-researchers from institutions in the Université du Québec network.  Watch the interview granted by […]

The Marie-Vincent Interuniversity Chair, for which Martine is a co-holder, is a research chair aimed at developing and improving the treatment offered to children (0-18 years) who are victims of sexual abuse and those with problematic sexual behaviours (0-12 years). This includes identifying their developmental trajectories, evaluating services offered and prevention initiatives. To learn more […]

During the IPSCAN 2021 International Congress in Milan, Arianne Jean-Thorn, a doctoral student in psychology, had the opportunity to present an oral communication on her research project, intitled “Community relationships of families of child victims of sexual abuse”. The objective of the study was to document the relationships maintained by families of sexually abused children […]

It is important to normalize the use of counseling resources among adolescents to facilitate their access and offer them optimal support. For more information, click .

The Équipe Violence Sexuelle et Santé (ÉVISSA) is an inter-university grouping of researchers from different fields, including Martine Hébert, director of the laboratory, working on sexual violence. To learn more about the team’s work, visit the web page.

Marily Julien holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a bachelor’s degree in sexology and a master’s degree in sexology, research and clinic. She has worked in several community organizations as a practitioner and coordinator. During her graduate studies, she was involved in research projects associated with the Canada Research Chair in Interpersonal Traumas and Resilience, […]

It is important to consider the adolescents victimization profile to offer services adapted to their needs. For more information, click here.

A new ÉVISSA research capsule is available! The objectives of the study were to investigate the presence of alexithymia in school-aged children who had been sexually abused and to explore the mediating role of alexithymia in the relationship between sexual abuse and behaviour problems in these children. Results of the study indicate that child victims […]

Preventive programs based on the three profiles of dating violence, addressing healthy communication as well as constructive conflict management strategies, would reduce the rate of violence in adolescent romantic relationships. For more information, click here.