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Introduction: IJCAR – 2024 Issue / Introduction : RIREA – Volume 2024

Rachel Langevin

Borderline Personality Features and Basic Psychological Needs during Adolescence

Jessie-Ann Armour, Mireille Joussemet, Rose Varin, Anna Cavenaghi, Sophie Lelièvre-Blais and Geneviève A. Mageau
Objectives: Anchored in self-determination theory, this study investigates the associations between borderline personality disorder (BPD) features and basic psychological need frustration (BPNF) in adolescents.Methods: Participants (N = 270; M age = 15.3) assessed their own BPD features and BPNF through an online questionnaire.Results: Regression analyses revealed that frustrations of relatedness, autonomy, and competence were jointly and uniquely associated with more BPD features in adolescents, controlling for their gender and parents’ education.Implications: These results suggest the importance of taking BPNF into account to better understand the early signs of BPD among adolescents.

Paternal Negative Parenting and Ill-Being in Adolescence: Examining the Moderating Role of Resilience

Aikaterini Lampropoulou
Objectives: This study explores the associations between paternal negative parenting—specifically rejection, control/overprotection, and anxious rearing—and adolescent ill-being. Additionally, it examines whether resilience moderates these relationships, potentially buffering the negative effects of paternal negative parenting on adolescent well-being.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 331 adolescents (ages 12-16) from junior and senior high schools in Attica, Greece. Participants completed the Berne Questionnaire of Subjective Well-Being/Youth Form (BSW/Y), the Egna Minnen Betraffande Uppfostran (EMBU-C) questionnaire, and the Resilience Scale. Correlation analyses, multiple regression models, and moderation analyses were employed to examine the associations between paternal negative parenting, resilience, and adolescent ill-being.Results: Results showed that paternal rejection, though the least reported, was the strongest predictor of adolescent ill-being. Resilience was negatively associated with paternal rejection and significantly predicted well-being outcomes. A moderation analysis revealed that resilience buffered the negative association between paternal control/overprotection and adolescent ill-being, with lower resilience amplifying the adverse effects. Younger adolescents perceived their fathers as more controlling and overprotective, while girls reported higher ill-being than boys.Implications: These findings highlight the pivotal role of resilience in mitigating the adverse effects of paternal negative parenting. Intervention efforts should prioritize the reduction of paternal rejection and control/overprotection, while simultaneously fostering resilience in adolescents. Integrating resilience-building components and encouraging positive paternal involvement may enhance psychosocial outcomes and promote adaptive developmental trajectories.

Supervision and Organizational Resilience: Considerations for Staff Retention in Child Welfare Agencies

Melissa Wells, Linda S. Jonsson, Mackenzie Keefe and Fiona Oates
Objectives: This paper presents results from a mixed methods online survey on factors related to child welfare professionals’ experiences with supervision, considered within the framework of organizational resilience.Methods: This analysis presents results from 543 child protective service (CPS) professionals in the United States.Results: About a quarter of these child welfare professionals currently held supervisory roles. Comparisons of those without supervisory roles indicate higher mean ratings on perceptions of support and care from those not currently in supervisory roles, while those currently in supervisory roles reported higher mean ratings on perceptions of potential growth and promotion. Outcomes including intention to stay in child welfare, satisfaction with position, and salary were significantly associated with positive supervision components. These professionals’ qualitative responses highlight a need for consideration of supervision approaches that reflect trauma-informed components and that foster organizational resilience.Implications: Implementation of these critical supports for child welfare professionals may have lasting impacts on the well-being of children, youth, and families.

Understanding Trauma in Migration: A Scoping Review of How Trauma is Conceptualized in Literature on West Asian Young Women in Western Contexts

Ronak Karami and Delphine Collin-Vézina
Objectives: Trauma in migration is shaped by individual, social, and structural factors. Using an intersectional lens, this scoping review examines how trauma (i.e., as defined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; SAMHSA, 2014) is conceptualized in literature on young West Asian women in Western contexts. Given large-scale migration form West Asia over the past two decades, understanding these definitions is key to identifying gaps and informing resilience and recovery efforts.Methods: Using Arksey and O'Malley’s (2005) five-stage framework, a scoping review was conducted. From 424 articles (post-duplicates), 112 were screened, and 15 met the inclusion criteria for final analysis.Results: Trauma in migration is mainly defined as exposure to life-threatening events like war, persecution, or refugee camp conditions. Its impact is shaped by pre-existing (e.g., age, gender) and situational (e.g., discrimination, cultural dislocation) factors. Effects are typically framed clinically (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, and somatization).Conclusions: Trauma is often framed as isolated events, with little attention to ongoing, complex experiences. Lived experiences and broader impacts are overlooked, with a reliance on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD) frameworks. Intersectionality and trauma specific to young West Asian migrant women is rarely addressed across all three Es of trauma: Event, Experience, and Effect. Recovery strategies lack tangible actions.Implications: Future research could explore trauma’s complex nature. Centering the lived experiences of young West Asian migrant women through intersectional and mixed-methods approaches is essential. Policies must be trauma-informed, gender- and age-responsive, and address post-migration stressors. Interventions should be co-designed with the target population, culturally grounded, and attuned to systemic and relational dimensions of trauma.

Mitigating Distress and Hate: A Rapid School-based Response to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Quebec, Canada

Tara Santavicca, Anabelle Vanier Clément, Paula St-Arnaud, Ghayda Hassan, Janique Johnson-Lafleur and Cécile Rousseau
Objectives: Since October 2023, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has particularly affected international communities and diasporas. Within Quebec, Canada, these tensions added to existing social polarization, not sparing the school environment, by creating feelings of fear, anger, powerlessness, deteriorating school climate, and hindering individuals’ and groups’ ability to empathize with one another. This article reports a rapid intervention aimed at mitigating distress and hate in the educational environment through training and supporting school teams.Methods: Five training webinars were organized for school professionals within the Quebec Ministry of Education. Pre-webinar surveys were disseminated to participants to identify if and how the conflict had impacted their school environment to inform trainings. A thematic analysis was carried out on pre-webinar survey responses, chat feedback and field notes collected throughout the webinars.Results: Having an opportunity to share and address concerns, receive reassurance, positive reinforcement, and guidance around strategies, proved to be helpful for school teams. In a context of crisis and politicized emotions, the intervention legitimized a range of emotional responses, addressed school team and community divides, and encouraged double empathy while acknowledging its limits. Finally, these activities also unveiled the potential dangers associated with silencing dissent and highlighted the value of mobilizing agency around school teams’ common mandate to educate and protect children from all communities, and in spite of the expression of divergent solidarities.Implications: In times of crisis, school team and youth engagement in empathy-based activities facilitating non-judgmental expression and awareness of the Other can appease heightened emotions and prepare for dialogue, healing, and coexistence as a way forward.

The Global Perspectives on Intergenerational Child Maltreatment Outreach Event

Teresa Pirro and Rachel Langevin