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Professeure agrégée at Université de Montréal's Département de psychologie, Julie Laurin specializes in family development and interpersonal processes within a motivational framework. She directs the MOTIF Lab and is a member of GRIP, studying parental well-being, couple dynamics, and child development. Her research focuses on bidirectional effects between parents/children and resilience in post-parental leave transitions. She teaches courses like PSY-1045 (Motivation and Emotion) and PSY-6253 (Family Interventions). Currently supervising PhD and master's students in clinical psychology and related fields.
Research interests include self-determination theory, parent-child attachment, coparenting, and socioemotional development. Active in recruiting participants for studies on parental transitions, mindfulness in therapy trainees, and workplace reintegration after parental leave. Funded projects include studies on dyadic resilience (FRQSC) and parental stress (CRSH).
Notable grants include a 2018-2023 FRQSC award for dyadic resilience research and a 2017-2018 CRSH exploration grant. Directs over 10 graduate students, including laureates of prestigious scholarships like the BESC Joseph-Armand-Bombardier. Collaborates widely in the GRIP research group on child psychosocial adaptation.
