She holds the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Child Welfare and is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University. While her past research program focused mostly on the psychiatric disorders associated with child sexual abuse among hospital-based populations, her current research agenda focuses more closely on intervention programs that aim to strengthen the coping abilities of foster children and youth, as well as on the social and organizational factors that impact the ways in which maltreatment cases, especially those of sexual abuse, are being handled and addressed in the Canadian child protection system and abroad.