Full professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, associate professor at Université Laval and member of the Centre de Recherche et d’intervention sur la réussite scolaire. She is the director of the Revue québécoise de psychologie for 14 years, author of numerous publications, organizer of international congresses, and she has supervised many students from graduate programs. She received Excellence Research Award of the Universities of Québec, and her work focuses on psychological assessment, the evaluation of protective factors and resilience, and intervention on protective factors to promote resilience within an ecosystemic framework.