Marc Tourigny...
Professor Tourigny's two main spheres of interest are child maltreatment (particularly sexual abuse) and intervention program assessment.
He has participated as an expert in a multitude of governmental workgroups and committees on youth, sexual abuse, development of orientations in Quebec sexual abuse issues, drug addiction, harmonization of practices, assessment of governmental institution and orientations in sexual abuse matters, and a Quebec youth centre association forum on sexual abuse. In the scope of these efforts, Professor Tourigny has conducted numerous research projects (compiling of literature, secondary data analyses and research).
Marc Tourigny has also participated in two large-scale studies on the incidence of maltreatment of children in Quebec and Canada. The first, the “Étude d’incidence québécoise” (ÉIQ), subsidized in part by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, focused on documenting the incidence and characteristics of maltreatment situations reported to the “Protection de la Jeunesse du Québec” (DPJ) (Tourigny et al, 2002). This study allowed, for the first time in Quebec, a detailed profile of clientele and services offered in cases reported to the DPJ. The second study, the Canadian Incidence Study, subsidized by Health and Welfare Canada, was likewise the first of its kind in Canada (Trocmé et al, 2001). Professor Tourigny is a member of the Groupe de recherche sur les inadaptations sociales de l’enfance (GRISE) and the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et les agressions sexuelles (CRIPCAS). marc.tourigny@usherbrooke.ca
