Daigneault, Isabelle

Biography

Daigneault, Isabelle is an Associate Professor Contact : T elephone 514-343-2487 Pav. PAVILION MARIE-VICTORIN \ bur. D-301 at University of Montreal, Department of Psychology, Canada.

Research Interest

Her research interests focus on sexual abuse of children and adolescents and I am a researcher member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Conjugal Problems and Sexual Abuse (CRIPCAS). Two more precise axes emerge from my works. The first aims to understand the variability of life trajectories after sexual assault during childhood or adolescence, including the involvement of processes such as resilience or psychotherapy in later psychological functioning. The second focuses on primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of sexual abuse of children and adolescents, including the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the incidence of sexual abuse among youth. I lead the Research Laboratory on the Health and Resilience Trajectories of Sexually Assaulted Youth: PATHWAYS. PATHS is interested in all the life trajectories of young people who have been exposed to sexual violence during childhood or adolescence. We first aim to document the consequences of sexual assault on the physical and mental health of young people. In doing so, we study how sexual aggression interacts with different life contexts to bring about more or less harmful consequences for young people and how these consequences evolve in the short, medium and long term. The risk factors that are superimposed on sexual assault, such as abuse or neglect, and the protective factors that can coexist with sexual assault, such as social support, are at the heart of our studies. These risk and protective factors allow us to better understand what facilitates or hinders the development of young people when they have been sexually assaulted. Through our studies, we want to help build the resilience of young people, their families and their communities.