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2025-2030

  • Simard, V., Fruchier, T., Chamberland-Pinto, L., & Moënner, M. (2026). Psychometric properties of the French version of the Preschool Anxiety Scale-Revised (PAS-R). European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 23(2), 285-296.
  • *Blouin, M.-M., Simard, V., & Achim, J. (2026). Body image disturbances and disordered eating during pregnancy: a comparison of pregnant women with low and high risk of eating disorders. Appetite, 217, 108343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.108343
  • Simard, V. (2026). Attachement. Dans M. Bouvard (Éd.), Échelles et questionnaires d’évaluation chez l’enfant et l’adolescent (2ème éd., ). Elsevier Masson.

2020-2025

  • *Tessier, G., & Simard, V. (2025). Étude des propriétés psychométriques du Questionnaire d’attachement au chien chez l’enfant. European Review of Applied Psychology, 75 (4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erap.2025.101114
  • *Blouin, M.-M., Simard, V., Achim, J., Laverdière, O., & Meilleur, D. (2024). Development and validation of a new body image and eating behaviors measure for pregnant women: the maternal body image and eating behaviors scale. Current Psychology, 43, 21902–21918. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-05926-5
  • *Jarry, M.-Z., Achim, J., *Garceau, M., & Simard, V. (2024). Expérience subjective des femmes quant à l’alimentation de leur bébé: une étude exploratoire. Devenir, 36(1), 30-51. https://doi.org/10.3917/dev.241.0030
  • *Nadeau, L., Laverdière, O., Simard, V., *Beaulieu-Tremblay, T. (2024). Attachment, defense mechanisms and early maladaptive schemas in dreams. European Review of Applied Psychology, 74(6), 100986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erap.2024.100986
  • Simard, V., *Aubry-Guzzi, M.-A., *Chapleau, I., *Moënner, M., François, N., & Champagne, N. (2024). Changes in Sleep of Families After the Arrival of an Autism Service Dog. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06546-5
  • Simard, V., *Moënner, M., *Rajotte, A., *Nolet, M.-C., *Gilbert-Geoffrion, C., *Savoie, C., & Bisaillon, C. (2024). Étude des qualités psychométriques de la version française de la Caregiving System Scale. European Review of Applied Psychology, 74(6). 101049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erap.2024.101049
  • *Chevalier, V., Simard, V., & Achim, J. (2023). Meta-analyses of the associations of mentalization and proxy variables with anxiety and internalizing problems. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 95(8), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2023.102694
  • *Servot, S., St-Amand, A., Rousseau, M., Simard, V., & Touchette, E. (2023). Sleep ecology, objective sleep characteristics and behavior problems in preschoolers referred to child protection services: an exploratory study.Child Abuse & Neglect, 138(12), 106075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106075
  • Touchette, E., Rousseau, M., Simard, V., & St-Amand, A. (2023). Portrait of sleep in preschoolers involved with Child Protective Services and from the community. Sleep Medicine, 110, 166-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2023.08.008
  • Achim, J., Simard, V., Meilleur, D., *Fruchier, T., & *Gagné, A.-L. (2022). Attitudes et comportements alimentaires, image corporelle et poids durant la grossesse : portrait des préoccupations de femmes enceintes québécoises. Périnatalité, 14(1). 9-19.
  • *Simard, P., Simard, V., Laverdière, O., & Descôteaux, J. (2022). The relationship between narcissism and empathy : a meta-analytic review. Journal of Research in Personality, 102(4),https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104329
  • *Bédard, M.-M., Simard, V., & Laverdière, O. (2021). Attachment representations and early maladaptive schemas in children’s and adolescents’ dreams: a pilot study. Dreaming, 31(2). 140-163. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000168
  • *Chevalier, V., Simard, V., Achim, J., Burmester, P., & Beaulieu-Tremblay, T. (2021). Reflective functioning in children and adolescents with and without an anxiety disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 12.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.698654
  • *Servot, S., St-Amand, A., Rousseau, M., Simard, V., & Touchette, E. (2021). Sleep ecology, sleep characteristics and behavior problems in young maltreated children: a scoping review. Child Abuse & Neglect, 122(3), 105364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105364
  • Simard, V., Laverdière, O., *Bédard, M.-M., *Brassard, C., & *Merlo-Galeazzi, H. (2021). Early maladaptive schemas in most recent dreams: core fears never sleep. Current Psychology, 40(1), 188-199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-9917-4
  • Simard, V., *Morin, A.S., *Godin, S., *Boothman, L., & *Lavoie A.-J. (2021). Children’s separation anxiety and nightmare frequency, distress, and separation-related content. Current Psychology, 42(8), 9652-9664. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02272-8 
  • Simard, V., Pilon, M., & *Blouin, M.-M. (2021). Maternal lack of sleep in the first two years after childbirth: perceived impacts and help‐seeking behaviors. Infant Mental Health Journal, 42(3), 346-361. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.21918

2015-2020

  • Laverdière, O., Descôteaux, J., *Beaulieu-Tremblay, T., & Simard, V. (2019). Attachment assessment in clinical practice: factor structure of the attachment questionnaire. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75(3), 546-561.
  • Laverdière, O., *Beaulieu-Tremblay, T., Descôteaux, J., & Simard, V. (2018). Countertransference and psychological assessment direct and indirect exposure. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 206(6), 455-460. DOI: 1097/NMD.0000000000000827
  • *Desmecht, S., Achim, J., Meilleur, D., Simard, V., Couturier, & Bisaillon, C. (2017). Préoccupations des femmes enceintes à l’égard de l’alimentation, du poids et de la silhouette et conduites alimentaires inadéquates : une étude exploratoire. Devenir, 29(3), 199-224. DOI: 10.3917/dev.173.0199
  • Simard, V., *Chevalier, V., & *Bédard, M.-M. (2017). Sleep and attachment in early childhood: a series of meta-analyses. Attachment & Human Development, 19(3), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2017.1293703
  • *Morin, C., Laurier, C., & Simard, V. (2016). Les symptômes et les troubles intériorisés chez les jeunes contrevenants associés aux gangs de rue. Revue de psychoéducation, 45(2), 289-311. https://doi.org/10.7202/1039051ar

2010-2015

  • *Bélanger, M.-E., Bernier, A., Simard, V., *Bordeleau, S., & Carrier, J. (2015). VIII. attachment and sleep among toddlers: disentangling attachment security and dependency. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 80(1), 125-140. https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12148
  • *Bélanger, M.-E., Bernier, A., Simard, V., *Desrosiers, K., & Carrier, J. (2015). Sleeping toward behavioral regulation: relations between sleep and externalizing symptoms in toddlers and preschoolers. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 47(3), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2015.1079782
  • *Bélanger, M.-E., Simard, V., Bernier, A., & Carrier, J. (2014). Investigating the convergence between actigraphy, maternal sleep diaries, and the child behavior checklist as measures of sleep in toddlers. Frontiers in Psychiatry,https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00158
  • Bernier, A., *Bélanger, M.-E., Tarabulsy, G., Simard, V., & Carrier, J. (2014). My mother is sensitive, but I am too tired to know: infant sleep as a moderator of prospective relations between maternal sensitivity and infant outcomes. Infant Behavior & Development, 37(4), 682-694. DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.08.011
  • *Imbeau, D., Bouchard, S., Terradas, M. M., & Simard, V. (2014). Attitudes des médecins omnipraticiens et des résidents en médecine familiale à l’endroit des personnes souffrant d’un trouble de personnalité limite. Santé Mentale au Québec, 39(1), 273-289. https://doi.org/10.7202/1025917ar
  • *Lara-Carrasco, J., Simard, V., *Saint-Onge, K., *Lamoureux, V., & Nielsen, T. (2014). Disturbed dreaming during the third trimester of pregnancy. Sleep Medicine, 15(6), 694-700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2014.01.026
  • *Lara-Carrasco, J., Simard, V., *Saint-Onge, K., *Lamoureux, V., & Nielsen, T. (2013). Maternal representations in the dreams of pregnant women: a prospective comparative study. Frontiers in Psychology, 4.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00551
  • *Bélanger, M.-E., Bernier, A., Paquet, J., Simard, V., & Carrier, J. (2013). Validating actigraphy as a measure of sleep for preschool children. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 9, 701-706. https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.2844
  • Simard, V., Bernier, A., *Bélanger, M.-E., & Carrier, J. (2013). Infant attachment and toddlers’ sleep assessed by maternal reports and actigraphy: different measurement methods yield different relations. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 38(5), 473-483. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jst001
  • Moss, E., Pascuzzo, K., & Simard, V. (2013). Treating insecure and disorganized attachments in school-aged children. In School Rampage Shootings and Other Youth Disturbances (pp. 127-157). Routledge.
  • *Bélanger, M.-E., Simard, V., *Bordeleau, S., & Bernier, A. (2011). La main qui berce l’enfant: attachement, pratiques parentales et sommeil durant l’enfance. Revue Québécoise de Psychologie, 32, 37-56.
  • Simard, V., *Lara-Carrasco, J., Paquette, T., & Nielsen, T. (2011). Breastfeeding, maternal depressive mood and room sharing as predictors of sleep fragmentation in 12-week-old infants: a longitudinal study. Early Child Development and Care, 181(8), 1063-1077.
  • Simard, V., Moss, E., & Pascuzzo, K. (2011). Early maladaptive schemas and child and adult attachment: A 15-year longitudinal study. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 84(4), 349-366. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.2010.02009.x

2005-2010

  • Simard, V., & Nielsen, T. (2009). Adaptation of imagery rehearsal therapy for nightmares in children : a brief report. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 46(4), 492–497. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017945
  • Simard, V., Nielsen, T.E., Tremblay, R.E., Boivin, M., & Montplaisir, J.Y. (2008). Longitudinal study of bad dreams in preschool-aged children: prevalence, demographic correlates, risk and protective factors. Sleep, 31(1),62–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/31.1.62
  • Simard, V., Nielsen, T. A., Tremblay, R. E., Boivin, M., & Montplaisir, J. Y. (2008). Longitudinal study of preschool sleep disturbance: the predictive role of maladaptive parental behaviors, early sleep problems, and child/mother psychological factors. Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, 162(4), 360-367.doi:10.1001/archpedi.162.4.360
  • Solomonova, E., Nielsen, T., Stenstrom, P., Simard, V., Frantova, E., & Donderi, D. (2008). Sensed presence as a correlate of sleep paralysis distress, social anxiety and waking state social imagery. Consciousness & Cognition, 17(1), 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2007.04.007

2000-2005