GRIP directors: Michel Boivin, Faculty of Social Sciences (UL) — Richard E. Tremblay, (UdeM) CENTRE DESCRIPTION GRIP is an interuniversity and multidisciplinary center (Laval, UdeM, McGill) of researchers working to understand how adjustment problems develop in childhood and adolescence, and to identify the most effective means to prevent these problems. The GRIP research program is part of a larger body of research on human development conducted by researchers in a variety of disciplines. GRIP is an interuniversity research center (Laval, UdeM, McGill) recognized and funded by Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture. Its goal is to study the development and prevention of adjustment problems in children and youth from a biopsychosocial perspective. GRIP’s expertise covers the period from birth to adulthood. The unit’s research program is enriched by constant cross-fertilization between studies on normal and deviant development, and between fundamental and applied research. Researchers’ work draws on a range of methodologies including longitudinal, intergenerational, and multidisciplinary studies. The research program has four interdependent themes: describing development, explaining the mechanisms of development, averting problems through prevention program design and evaluation, and transferring knowledge in the field. Research Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment (GRIP) Childhood is a crucial period during which interaction between biological and environmental factors has an important influence on individual development. GRIP-Laval offers a unique opportunity to train in the field of human development research with an internationally recognized team. This exciting research is part of an emerging science, at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience, and genetics that stands to transform our understanding of human development. students research professionals researchers MISSION STATISTICS AT 1 JUNE 2013 RESEARCH CENTRE AT UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL
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GRIP directors: Michel Boivin, Faculty of Social Sciences (UL) — Richard E. Tremblay, (UdeM)
CENTRE DESCRIPTION
GRIP is an interuniversity and multidisciplinary center (Laval, UdeM, McGill) of researchers working to understand how adjustment problems develop in childhood and adolescence, and to identify the most effective means to prevent these problems. The GRIP research program is part of a larger body of research on human development conducted by researchers in a variety of disciplines.
GRIP is an interuniversity research center (Laval, UdeM, McGill) recognized and funded by Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture. Its goal is to study the development and prevention of adjustment problems in children and youth from a biopsychosocial perspective.
GRIP’s expertise covers the period from birth to adulthood. The unit’s research program is enriched by constant cross-fertilization between studies on normal and deviant development, and between fundamental and applied research. Researchers’ work draws on a range of methodologies including longitudinal, intergenerational, and multidisciplinary studies.
The research program has four interdependent themes: describing development, explaining the mechanisms of development, averting problems through prevention program design and evaluation, and transferring knowledge in the field.
Research Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment (GRIP)Childhood is a crucial period during which interaction between biological and environmental factors has an important influence on individual development. GRIP-Laval offers a unique opportunity to train in the field of human development research with an internationally recognized team.
This exciting research is part of an emerging science, at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience, and genetics that stands to transform our understanding of human development.
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GRIP researchers have published hundreds of articles in leading international scientific journals in fields such as psychology, psychiatry, pediatrics, and genetics, and receive funding from the major federal and provincial granting agencies to pursue their research and knowledge transfer activities. In addition to their academic publications, GRIP members have also published a number of works for general audiences.
GRIP member Michel Boivin co-chaired the Royal Society of Canada expert panel report on early childhood development (http://rsc-src.ca/en/expert-panels/rsc-reports/early-child-hood-development-rsccahs). The report was published in November 2012 and received extensive media coverage. In addition, Professor Boivin recently released a new book with co-editor Karen Bierman (Boivin, Michel, & Bierman, Karen, eds, 2013. Promoting School Readiness and Early Learning: The Implications of Developmental Research for Practice. Guilford Press).
GRIP also manages the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development and the Strategic Knowledge Cluster on Early Child Development, two organizations dedicated to the transfer of knowledge and the development of the Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development, an online publication available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and soon, Russian.
GRIP researchers from three universities pool resources and work together toward a common aim of advancing knowledge and practices in an area of strategic import-ance for Quebec and the rest of the world—childhood and youth development. To help achieve this goal, GRIP offers researchers and students the opportunity to work on a unique set of longitudinal databases covering over 30 years of assessments. GRIP’s culture of research ex-cellence and international cooperation affords national and international visibility to members, researchers and their students, who join forces to mine GRIP’s databases. In their work, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are encouraged to take advantage of GRIP’s ongoing longitudinal-experimental studies. Some students are involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation of experimental interventions with children and their families; others help plan and carry out longitudinal data collections, and use this information for their research.
Students at GRIP benefit from a wide range of financial (grants), statistical, documentary, and training services. GRIP encourages them to present papers at conferen-ces, and helps cover registration, transportation, and accommodation costs. Students also enjoy access to the GRIP documentation centre, as well as references and documents used in GRIP longitudinal studies (instruments, questionnaires, reference articles). Thanks to the group’s new web portal, GRIP members can also access PDF ver-sions of publications and questionnaires, as well as the list of conferences at which members have presented. Individualized professional support with data processing and management is also available by appointment, from GRIP’s data management coordinator, data analysts, and computer specialists.
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