Abstracts
Résumé
Vingt-sept enfants hébergés par un centre jeunesse de la région de Montréal ont participé avec leur figure d’attachement principale à une étude visant à examiner les liens entre l’attachement, l’adaptation psychosociale et différents facteurs de risque. Le protocole d’évaluation comportait des données sociodémographiques, des mesures de psychopathologie et de dissociation liées à la figure d’attachement principale, l’historique de placements et des services en protection et différentes mesures de problèmes d’adaptation chez l’enfant (problèmes généraux, problèmes intériorisés, problèmes extériorisés, problèmes sociaux et symptômes de dissociation). Les Récits d’attachement (Solomon, George et De Jong, 1995) ont été administrés aux enfants afin d’évaluer leurs représentations d’attachement. Les analyses n’ont pas révélé d’effet principal de l’attachement de l’enfant sur son adaptation, mais un effet modérateur de l’attachement sur le lien entre les facteurs de risque et les problèmes généraux d’adaptation a été démontré. En effet, les problèmes généraux d’adaptation augmentent de pair avec l’élévation du risque contextuel, mais seulement chez les enfants présentant des représentations d’attachement désorganisées. Les résultats de cette étude appuient l’importance de procéder à des évaluations rigoureuses des enfants hébergés par les systèmes de protection afin de documenter leur adaptation psychosociale, leur statut représentationnel d’attachement et leur trajectoire de maltraitance et de placements, en vue de leur offrir des interventions appropriées.
Mots-clés :
- attachement,
- adaptation,
- maltraitance,
- placement
Abstract
Twenty-seven children placed in a youth protection facility of the Montreal area and their main attachment figure participated in a study aimed at exploring the associations between attachment, social adjustment and several family risk factors. The assessment protocol included the main attachment figure’s sociodemographic data, psychopathology, and dissociation; history of youth protection services, and child’s adjustment measures (general, internalizing, externalizing and social problems, and dissociative symptoms). Children’s attachment representations were assessed using a Doll Play procedure (Solomon, George et De Jong, 1995). Analyses did not reveal any main effect of attachment on child’s adjustment, but the moderating effect of attachment on the association between contextual risk and adjustment was significant. Elevated contextual risk was associated with significantly more general adjustment problems, but only for Disorganized children. These results underline the importance of carefully assessing placed children’s adjustment, attachment representations, placement and maltreatment history, in order to offer them appropriate interventions.
Keywords:
- attachment,
- adjustment,
- maltreatment,
- placement
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