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Martine Hébert is co-chairholder of the Marie-Vincent Interuniversity Research Chair in Child Sexual Abuse. The Chair’s research programing aims to enhance our understanding of the developmental pathways of sexually abused children. It also aims to evaluate available services to ensure the ongoing improvement of practices and to help victims of child sexual abuse. For more […]

Aimée has completed her undergraduate studies in psychology at McGill University. She conducted an honors thesis at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute about the qualitative analysis of a knowledge exchange program aimed at enhancing the quality of care offered to individuals suffering from an eating disorder in the province of Quebec. She is also […]

Arianne completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, during which she conducted an honors thesis focusing on the validation of a resilience scale for mothers of sexually abused children. The article that stems from her work can be consulted here: .  She is now undertaking a PhD in psychology […]

A new EVISSA measure capsule is available! Discover the French-Canadian adaptation of the Conflict Resolution Styles Inventory, an instrument that measures the strategies used by adolescents to manage conflict in their dating relationships. The instrument has now been validated within two teenage samples and can be used to measure three types of strategies: 1. Problem […]

Laurie is an undergraduate student in psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. This year, she is conducting an honours thesis under the supervision of Martine Hébert, PhD. and Alison Paradis, PhD. She is primarily interested in sexual victimization in teen dating relationships as well as its repercussions on the subsequent intimate relationships. In […]

Cyndi Boisjoli, PhD student in psychology, and Martine Hébert, director of the laboratory, recently published an article entitled : Importance of telling the unutterable: Alexithymia among sexually abused children. Their findings indicate that sexually abused children display higher levels of alexithymia, which refers to difficulties in identifying and expressing emotions. Alexithymia was also found to […]

Catherine holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in sexology from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), as well as a PhD in Population Health from the University of Ottawa and a post-doctorate from the University of Sherbrooke. During her previous studies, Catherine was interested in various aspects of perinatal sexuality, that is, sexuality […]

A new EVISSA research capsule is available! Results indicate that manipulation and verbal pressures are the most frequently reported forms of sexual coercion, but that they are rarely recognized among young women and adolescent girls as manifestations of sexual violence.

Did you know that Martine Hébert is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience? We are please to announce that the 2020 issue, featuring a thematic section on complex trauma, is now available. Call for submissions for the 2021 issue closes November 15, 2020, be sure to have your manuscripts ready!

Trois étudiantes ont présenté au 25th International Virtual Summit on Violence, Abuse & Trauma Across the Lifespan