Speaker
Presentation in English
SOPHIE COUTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE. CANADA
Dr. Sophie Couture is a Full Professor in Psychoeducation at the Université de Sherbrooke and a regular researcher with the Group for Research and Intervention on Children’s Social Adjustment (GRISE) as well as the University Institute Youth in Difficulty. She holds a PhD in Criminology from the Université de Montréal and has expertise in risk-taking behaviors, trauma, and psychosocial adjustment among vulnerable youth. Her research focuses on runaway behavior, delinquency, maltreatment, emotional regulation, and resilience in adolescents placed in residential care centers.
She has led and collaborated on numerous funded research projects supported by major Canadian agencies. Dr. Couture publications actively contribute to knowledge translation for practitioners and policymakers. Her work bridges research, clinical practice, and institutional intervention in youth protection settings.
Beyond the looking glass of adversity: strength and resilience of vulnerable populations
While traditional approaches center on risk factors that hinder the development of vulnerable youth, a scientific shift must occur to better identify factors that promote youth adaptation despite adversity. Indeed, given the rapid changing environments young people are confronted with, greater insights into protective factors and strengths are ever-more imperative to guide prevention strategies.
The four presentations thus rely on various theoretical approaches (e.g., posttraumatic growth, ecological), to examine coping, protective factors, resilience, and strengths in vulnerable youth and young adults from different contexts, including the pandemic, residential care, and youth detention.
The following symposium thus invites us to move beyond the looking glass of adversity to consider hardships as opportunities for growth.
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