Parental burnout and its consequences for children: Towards an integrated and multilevel approach

Acronym: Bparent.. 1

Promoters

Isabelle Roskam (spokesperson)
Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY, UCLouvain)

Alexandre Heeren
Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY, UCL), Clinical Neuroscience Division (NEUR), Institute of Neuroscience (IoNS, UCLouvain)

Isabelle Aujoulat
Institute of Health and Society (IRSS, UCLouvain)

Aurore François
Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACS, UCLouvain)

Moïra Mikolajczak
Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY, UCLouvain)

Grant period

2019-2024, project financed by the FWB ARC grant

Objective and summary of the project

One may wonder whether a cultural system that has placed children's best interests at the center of its priorities could generate situations of significant vulnerability for some of them. This is the core question of the current research project. It is rooted in two inter-related observations: (1) the view of the child has evolved over the last century. The child is now viewed as a human subject with multiple rights: education, security, stability, health, well-being, expression, … (2) this evolution has led to a fast-growing expansion of the roles and duties of parents, who are rightly expected to provide support and warmth, avoid harsh punishment and coercion, and support the development of the child’s potential. Yet, the “good parental role” has been translated into a series of duties associated with competencies which, progressively, have objectified it as a full-time job doomed to success or failure. As it is conceptualized and formulated, the parental role is stringent, taxing, and often stressful. In this way, some parents may experience important and chronic stress that may increase the risk of parental burnout, which, in turn, could lead to a detrimental downstream cascade of consequences for children, including neglect and violence. However, uncertainty still abounds regarding the exact mechanisms whereby those phenomena interact. Consequently, the current project aims to clarify how a system promoting the children's well-being may foster such downstream harmful parental pressure, which, in turn, ultimately yields deleterious consequences for those it sought to protect.

To do so, four Work Packages (WPs), involving five disciplines, i.e., Cross-cultural Psychology, History, Public Health, Clinical Psychology, and Health Psychology, are proposed. The WPs bring together complementary backgrounds and methods, i.e. study of archives, quantitative surveys, laboratory studies, qualitative participatory research, and ecological sampling methods exploring parent-child interactions, which are combined to address common questions and achieve common goals. Based on the outputs of the WPs, a multilevel (i.e. historical, social, public health, and psychological) model of the antecedents, consequences, and moderators of parental burnout will be developed.

In sum, this interdisciplinary research project addresses novel and timely issues with far-reaching implications, ultimately setting up the scene for new research horizons, as well as co-constructed and meaningful practice implications, in the field of parental burnout.

Theses and Publications

Blanchard, Marie Annelise (2024). The temporal dynamics of parental burnout: Extending the network approach to the family system. Promoter: Alexandre Heeren

Dubois, Anne-Catherine. Regards croisés de parents, d’enfants et de professionnels sur le vécu du burnout parental et sur ses conséquences pour les enfants, Promotrice : Aujoulat, Isabelle ; François, Aurore, 19/02/2024. http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.bib.uclouvain.be:8888/2078.1/285359

Lin, Gao-Xian (2023). Exploring the Roots of Parental Burnout from Contemporary Western Parenting Culture. Promoters: Moïra Mikolajczak et Isabelle Roskam

Roberti, Margaux (2024). Être de “bons”parents. Les transformations des rôles parentaux et de la régulation de leur exercice en Belgique francophone (1945-2005)Promotrice : Aurore François

Publications directly related to theses

Blanchard, M. A., & Heeren, A. (2022). Ongoing and future challenges of the network approach to psychopathology: From theoretical conjectures to clinical translations. In G. Asmundson (Ed). Comprehensive Clinical Psychology—2^nd edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Blanchard, M. A., Contreras, A., Kalkan, R. B., & Heeren, A. (2023). Auditing the research practices and statistical analyses of group-level temporal network approach to psychological constructs: A systematic scoping review. Behavior Research Methods, 55: 767-787 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01839-y

Blanchard, M. A., Hoebeke, Y., & Heeren, A. (2023). Parental Burnout Features and the Family Context: A Temporal Network Approach in Mothers. Journal of Family Psychology. 37(3), 398-407. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001070

Blanchard, M. A., Revol, J., Hoebeke, Y., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., & Heeren, A. (2023). On the Temporal Nature of Parental Burnout: Development of an Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM) Tool to Assess Parental Burnout and Its Related Ever-Changing Family Context. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1): 74614. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.74614

Blanchard, M. A., Roskam, I. Mikolajczak, M., & Heeren, A. (2021). A network approach to parental burnout. Child Abuse & Neglect, 111, 104826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104826

Blanchard, M. A., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., & Heeren, A. (2021). A network approach to parental burnout. Child Abuse and Neglect, 111, 104826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104826

Dubois, A.-C., Roberti-Lintermans, M., Mallien, Z., François, A., Lahaye, M., De Mol, J., & Aujoulat, I. (2024). How do exhausted parents experience their interactions with their children? A qualitative and participative study. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 10p. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1340748

Dubois, Anne-Catherine ; Lahaye, Magali ; Aujoulat, Isabelle. From research « on » to research « with » children about their family lives: a scoping review of ethical and methodological challenges. In: Child: Health, care and Development, (2021). doi:10.1111/cch.12937. http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.bib.uclouvain.be:8888/2078.1/255045

Kalkan, R. B., Blanchard, M. A., Mikolajczak, M., Roskam, I., & Heeren, A. (2023). Emotional exhaustion and feeling fed up as the driving forces of parental burnout and its consequences on children: Insights from a network approach. Current Psychology, 42, 22278-22289.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03311-8

Lin, G. -X., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). Disentangling the effects of intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional competence on parental burnout. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02254-w

Lin, G.-X., Goldenberg, A., Arikan, G., Brytek-Matera, A., Czepczor-Bernat, K., Manrique-Millones, D., Mikolajczak, M., Overbye, H., Roskam, I., Szczygieł, D., Ustundag-Budak, A. M., & Gross, J. J. (2022). Reappraisal, social support, and parental burnout. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61(4), 1089-1102. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12380

Lin, G.-X., Hansotte, L., Szczygieł, D., Meeussen, L., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). Parenting with a smile: Display rules, regulatory effort, and parental burnout. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(9), 2701–2721. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211019124

Lin, G.-X., Mikolajczak, M., Keller, H., Akgun, E., Arikan, G., Aunola, K., Barham, E., Besson, E., Blanchard, M. A., Boujut, E., Brianda, M. E., Brytek-Matera, A., César, F., Chen, B.-B., Dorard, G., dos Santos Elias, L. C., Dunsmuir, S., Egorova, N., Escobar, M. J., … Roskam, I. (2023). Parenting Culture(s): Ideal-Parent Beliefs Across 37 Countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54(1), 4–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221221123043

Lin, G.-X., Szczygieł, D., Hansotte, L., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2023). Aiming to be perfect parents increase the risk of parental burnout, but emotional competence mitigates it. Current Psychology, 42(2), 1362–1370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01509-w

Robbeets, C., Bastien, M., Jacques, J., Campion, B., Roberti-Lintermans, M., François, A., & Merla, L. (2024). Exploring Parents’ Everyday Experiences With Digital Media : Barriers and Opportunities for Digital Inclusion. Media and Communication, 12, 1. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.8172

Roberti-Lintermans, M. (2021). La contraception dans « Femmes d’Aujourd’hui » (1960-2010) : Entre visibilisation et assignation de genre du travail procréatif. Enfances, familles, générations, /.

Roberti-Lintermans, M. (2021). Parentalité : Brève histoire d’un vocable et portée heuristique d’un concept (XX-XXIe siècle). Contemporanea. https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:251826

Publications by ARC promoters related

Arikan, G., Üstündağ‐Budak, A. M., Akün, E., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2020). Validation of the Turkish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1– 18. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20375

Aunola, K., Sorkkila, M., Tolvanen, A., Tassoul, A., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2021). Development and validation of the Brief Parental Burnout Scale (BPBS). Psychological assessment, 33(11), 1125–1137. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001064

Aunola, K., Szczygieł, D., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2023). Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA) in International Contexts. In C. U. Krägeloh, M. Alyami, & O. N. Medvedev (Eds.), International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment (pp. 1-76). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89738-3_42-1

Bayot, M., . . . Roskam, I. (2024). Treating Parental Burnout: Impact and Particularities of a Mindfulness- and Compassion-Based Approach. Children, 11(2), 168. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/11/2/168

Bayot, M., Roskam, I., Gallée, L., & Mikolajczak, M. (2020). When emotional intelligence backfires: Interactions between intra- and interpersonal emotional competencies in the case of parental burnout. Journal of Individual Differences, 42(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000324

François, A., & Roberti-Lintermans, M. (2022a). Evolutions des modèles éducatifs (1945-2015). In I. Poutrin & E. Lusset, Dictionnaire du fouet et de la fessée. Corriger et punir. PUF. https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:292215

François, A., & Roberti-Lintermans, M. (2022b). Parentalité et prévention de la délinquance. In I. Poutrin & E. Lusset, Dictionnaire du fouet et de la fessée. Corriger et punir. PUF. https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:292214

Gannagé, M., Besson, E., Harfouche, J., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2020). Parental Burnout in Lebanon: Validation Psychometric Properties of the Lebanese Arabic Version of the Parental Burnout Assessment. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20383

Manrique-Millones, D., Vasin, G. M., Dominguez-Lara, S., Millones-Rivalles, R., Ricci, R. T., Abregu Rey, M., Escobar, M. J., Oyarce, D., Pérez-Díaz, P., Santelices, M. P., Pineda-Marín, C., Tapia, J., Artavia, M., Valdés Pacheco, M., Miranda, M. I., Sánchez Rodríguez, R., Morgades-Bamba, C. I., Peña-Sarrionandia, A., Salinas-Quiroz, F., Silva Cabrera, P., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2022). Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA) in Different Hispanic Countries: An Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.827014

Matias, M., Aguiar, J., César, F., Braz, C. A., Barham, E. J., Leme, V., …, Fontaine, A. M. (2020). The Brazilian–Portuguese version of the Parental Burnout Assessment: Transcultural adaptation and initial validity evidence. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1– 17. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20374

Matias, M., Aguiar, J., Fontaine, A. M., Akgun, E., Arikan, G., Aunola, K., Barham, E., Beyers, W., Boujut, E., Brytek-Matera, A., Carbonneau, N., César, F., Chen, B.-B., Dorard, G., Dunsmuir, S., Egorova, N., Elias, L., Favez, N., Foran, H. M., … Roskam, I. (2023). Profiles of Parental Burnout Around the Globe: Similarities and Differences Across 36 Countries. Cross-Cultural Research, 57(5), 499-538. https://doi.org/10.1177/10693971231174551

Mikolajczak, M. & Roskam, I. Emotion Regulation in Parenting. (2024). In J.J. Gross and B. Ford. Handbook of Emotion Regulation. New York: The Guilford Press.

Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2020). Parental burnout: Moving the focus from children to parents. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1– 7 https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20376

Mikolajczak, M., Aunola, K., Sorkkila, M., & Roskam, I. (2023). 15 Years of Parental Burnout Research: Systematic Review and Agenda. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(4), 276-283. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221142777

Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J. J., & Roskam, I. (2021). Beyond Job Burnout: Parental Burnout! Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(5), 333-336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.012

Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J. J., Stinglhamber, F., Lindahl Norberg, A., & Roskam, I. (2020). Is parental burnout distinct from job burnout and depressive symptomatology? Clinical Psychological Science, 8(4), 673-689.

Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J.J., & Roskam, I. (2024) The Role of Parental ER in Parental Stress and Burnout. In I. Roskam, J.J. Gross & M. Mikolajczak. Emotion regulation and Parenting. Cambridge University Press.

Mousavi, S.F., Mikolajczak, M., & Roskam, I. (2020). Parental burnout in Iran: Psychometric properties of the Persian (Farsi) version of the parental burnout assessment (PBA). New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20369

Roskam, I. & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). The Slippery Slope of Parental Exhaustion: A Process Model of Parental Burnout. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 77.

Roskam, I. & Mikolajczak, M. (Eds.). (2020) Nature and Measurement of Parental Burnout Around the World [Special Issue]. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, vol. 174. Wiley / Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA.

Roskam, I. Bayot, M & Mikolajczak, M. (in press). Parental Burnout Assessment. In Medvedev, O.N., Krägeloh, C.U., Siegert, R.J. & Singh, N.N. Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research. Berlin: Springer.

Roskam, I., Aguiar, J., Akgun, E., Arena, A. F., Arikan, G., Aunola, K., Besson, E., Beyers, W., Boujut, E., Brianda, M. E., Brytek-Matera, A., Budak, A. M., Carbonneau, N., César, F., Chen, B. B., Dorard, G., Dos Santos Elias, L. C., Dunsmuir, S., Egorova, N., Favez, N., … Mikolajczak, M. (2024). Three reasons why parental burnout is more prevalent in individualistic countries: a mediation study in 36 countries. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 59(4), 681–694. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02487-z

Roskam, I., Aguiar, J., Akgun, E., Arikan, G., Artavia, M., Avalosse, H., Aunola, K., Bader, M., Bahati, C., Barham, E. J., Besson, E., Beyers, W., Boujut, E., Brianda, M. -E., Brytek-Matera, A., Carbonneau, N., César, F., Bhen, B. B., Dorard, G.,… Mikolajczak, M. (2021). Parental burnout around the globe: A 42-country study. Affective Science, 2, 58-79. doi.org/10.1007/s42761-020-00028-4

Roskam, I., Gallée, L., Aguiar, J., Akgun, E., Arena, A., Arikan, G., Aunola, K., Bader, M., Barham, E. J., Besson, E., Beyers, W., Boujut, E., Brianda, M. E., Brytek-Matera, A., Carbonneau, N., César, F., Chen, B.-B., Dorard, G., dos Santos Elias, L. C., … Mikolajczak, M. (2022). Gender Equality and Maternal Burnout: A 40-Country Study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53(2), 157–178. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221211072813

Roskam, I., Gross, J.J. & Mikolajczak, M. (2023). Emotion regulation and Parenting. Cambridge University Press.

Roskam, I., Philippot, P., Gallée, L., Verhofstadt, L., Soenens, B., Goodman, A., & Mikolajczak, M. (2022). I am not the parent I should be: Cross-sectional and prospective associations between parental self-discrepancies and parental burnout. Self and Identity, 21(4), 430-455. 10.1080/15298868.2021.1939773

Stănculescu, E., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., Muntean, A., & Gurza, A. (2020). Parental burnout in Romania: Validity of the Romanian version of the parental burnout assessment (PBA‐RO). New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, , 1– 18. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20384

Szczygieł, D., Sekulowicz, M., Kwiatkowski, P., Roskam, I., & Mikolajczak, M. (2020). Validation of the Polish version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1‐ 22. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20385

van Bakel, H., Bastiaansen, C., Hall, R., Schwabe, I., Verspeek, E., Gross, J. J., Brandt, J.A., Aguiar, J., … Mikolajczak, M., Roskam, I. (2022). Parental burnout across the globe during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Perspectives in Psychology, 11(3), 141-152. doi:10.1027/2157-3891/a000050

Vertsberger, D., Roskam, I. Talmon, A., van Bakel, H., Hall, R., Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J. (2022). Emotion Regulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Risk and Resilience Factors for Parental Burnout. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.2005544

Wagener, M., François, A., & Merla, L. (2021). Mères seules, la fin de la stigmatisation ? Sociétés en changement, Vol. n°, no.12, p. 1-8.

Zbrodska, I., Roskam, I., Dolynska, L., & Mikolajczak, M. (2022). Validation of the Ukrainian version of the Parental Burnout Assessment. Frontiers in Psychology, 7590.

Seminars and other dissemination activities

Aujoulat Isabelle (2022) « Parentalité et dynamiques familiales à l’épreuve de la crise Covid-19 : un aspect négligé des soins et de la prévention ? Réflexions autour de l’expérimentation d’un dispositif de soutien en ligne ». Colloque : L’invisible, le négligé, le caché des pratiques et lieux de soin, ILPEM, Paris, 23 mai 2022

Blanchard, M. A., Hoebeke, Y., & Heeren, A. (2024, May 25). Parental burnout and decreased sensitivity to context for mothers: A temporal network approach grounded in the family environment [Poster]. Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention (APS), San Francisco, USA.

Blanchard, M.A. (2023, May 22-23). Temporal networks for psychopathology research: A methods workshop [Conference workshop]. Annual meeting of the “Groupe de Réflexion en Psychopathologie Cognitive" (GREPACO), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Blanchard, M.A. (2024, July 25). Analyzing qualitative ESM data on parenting experiences [Invited talk]. Monthly meeting of the ESM methodology advisory group from the University Psychiatry Center, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Blanchard, M.A. (2024, July 4). Developing ESM items for parenting experience: From quantifying family systems to analyzing qualitative experience [Invited talk]. Monthly meeting of the Rotterdam ESM group (a project group of the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences), Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Blanchard, M.A., Contreras, A., & Heeren, A. (2021, June 30-July 2). Auditing the research practices and statistical analyses of the temporal network approach to psychological constructs: Preliminary results from a scoping review [Paper presentation]. Society of Ambulatory Assessment (SAA) Conference 2021, Virtual.

Blanchard, M.A., Contreras, A., Kalkan, R.B., & Heeren, A. (2022, May 30-31). Audit des pratiques de recherche et des analyses de réseaux temporels en psychologie : une ‘scoping’ revue systématique. In A. Heeren (Chair), Enjeux méthodologiques, métriques et conceptuels de la recherche en psychopathologie[Symposium]. Annual meeting of the “Groupe de Réflexion en Psychopathologie Cognitive" (GREPACO), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Blanchard, M.A., Hoebeke, Y., & Heeren, A. (2022, July 5-8). A temporal network approach to parental burnout. In M.A. Blanchard and G.-X. Lin (Chairs), Parental Burnout: Current Directions on its Antecedents and Treatments [Symposium Talk]. 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Blanchard, M.A., Hoebeke, Y., & Heeren, A. (2022, June 2-3). Parental burnout features and their family context: A temporal network approach [Flash talk]. 75th Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS), Leuven, Belgium.

Blanchard, M.A., Hoebeke, Y., & Heeren, A. (2023, June 5-7). Parenting exhaustion and stress in daily life: A temporal network approach [Paper presentation]. Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA) 2023 Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Blanchard, M.A., Hoebeke, Y., & Heeren, A. (2023, March 9-11). Parents’ daily experiences: A temporal network. In M.A. Blanchard and G.-X. Lin (Chairs), Complexity within Families: New Perspectives on Family Systems, from Intrapersonal Dynamics to Cultural Impact [Symposium]. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Brussels, Belgium.

Blanchard, M.A., Kerr, L.K., Kirkorian, H., Barr, R., Hoebeke, Y., & Heeren, A. (2024, May 23-26). The affective dynamics of parenting: Inertia of emotional distance as a key characteristic of parental burnout severity. In M.A. Blanchard and G.-X. Lin (Chairs), Complexity within families: New perspectives on family systems, from intrapersonal dynamics to cultural impact [Symposium]. Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention, San Francisco, USA.

Blanchard, M.A., Revol, J., Hoebeke, Y., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., & Heeren, A. (2021, May 31-June 1). De la nature temporelle du burnout parental : Développement d’un outil d’échantillonnage temporel intensif d’évaluation de la dynamique temporelle du burnout parental et de ses relations avec le système familial.[Flash Talk]. Annual meeting of the “Groupe de Réflexion en Psychopathologie Cognitive" (GREPACO), Virtual.

Blanchard, M.A., Revol, J., Hoebeke, Y., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., & Heeren, A. (2021, May 6-7). Parental burnout & family context: Developing experience sampling methodology (ESM) items [Paper Presentation].2nd International Conference on Parental Burnout, Virtual.

Blanchard, M.A., Revol, J., Hoebeke, Y., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, & M., Heeren, A. (2021, July 28). On the temporal nature of parental burnout: Development of an Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM) tool to assess parental burnout and its related ever-changing family context [Poster]. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association of Psychological Sciences (BAPS), Virtual.

Blanchard, M.A., Revol, J., Hoebeke, Y., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, & M., Heeren, A. (2021, May 31-1 June). De la nature temporelle du burnout parental : Développement d’un outil d’échantillonnage temporel intensif d’évaluation de la dynamique temporelle du burnout parental et de ses relations avec le système familial [Poster]. Annual meeting of the “Groupe de Réflexion en Psychopathologie Cognitive" (GREPACO), Virtual.

Blanchard, M.A., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, & M., Heeren, A. (2023, January 10). A Network Approach to Parental Burnout [Invited talk]. Monthly seminar of the Demographics Research Center of UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Blanchard, M.A., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., & Heeren, A. (2021, July 28). A network approach to parental burnout [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association of Psychological Sciences (BAPS), Virtual.

Blanchard, M.A., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., & Heeren, A. (2021, July 7-8). A network approach to parental burnout. In A. Heeren (Chair), Recent advances in the network approach to stress- and anxiety-related psychopathology [Symposium]. 42nd Stress and Trauma Anxiety & Resilience Society (STAR) International Conference, Virtual.

Blanchard, M.A., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., Heeren, A. (2019, December 6-7). A network approach to parental burnout [Paper Presentation]. 1st International Conference on Parental Burnout, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Boland, M., Dubois, AC., Lahaye, M. & Aujoulat, I. (2022). Therapeutic education for caregivers of a sick or disabled child: An emerging response to respite needs to deal with risks of parental burnout. Annual Metabolics.be Symposium, Brussels.Contreras, A., Mouguiama, C., Blanchard, M.A., & Heeren, A. (2022, July 5-8). A Temporal Network Approach to the Emotional Responses to Climate Change [Symposium talk]. 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Dubois AC. (2024). Le burnout parental, quels défis pour nos pratiques professionnelles? Centre d’appui pour les familles monoparentales, Journée de sensibilisation, Namur, Belgique.

Dubois AC., Aujoulat I., Boland M. & Lahaye M. (2022). Ateliers d’éducation thérapeutique pour les parents-aidants: Un dispositif innovant de soutien et de prévention du burnout parental. Congrès de la SETE. Montpellier, France.

Dubois, AC. (2022). Le burnout parental, comment en parler ? CPAS de Vielsalm, Belgique.

Dubois, AC. (2024 Le burnout parental, comment en parler ? Association des parents, Trinité – Saint-Georges, Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgique.

Dubois, AC. & Aujoulat, I. (2024, Jan). Regards croisés de parents, d’enfants et de professionnels sur le vécu du burnout parental. Une recherche qualitative et participative. APPIE LAB, Bordeaux, France.

Dubois, AC. & Mallien Z. (2022). La recherche qualitative: donner la parole aux enfants en tenant compte des dynamiques familiales. Congrès scientifique international, Comprendre les processus de changement: Apports des méthodes qualitatives et mixtes. Unité de recherche ARCh, Faculté de pyschologie, ULiège. Mikolajczak, M. (2022, June 3-4). Parental Burnout: The Positive Psychology Approach. Keynote speaker. Annual Conference of the Polish Society of Positive Psychology. Bydgoszcz, Poland (on-site conference but lecture given online for ecological reasons).

Dubois, AC., François, M., Roberti-Lintermans, M., Blanchard, MA., Saliez, Z., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., Aujoulat, I. (2023). Le burnout parental : quels défis pour nos sociétés et nos pratiques ? Séminaire de recherche, UCLouvain, Bruxelles, Belgique.

Dubois, AC., Mallien, Z., Sisavath, A., Lahaye, M., Chénard, J., Aujoulat, I. (2024, 31 Nov-1st Dec) Involving children and adolescents in researching aspects of their own family dynamics: methodological and ethical issues in creating psychological safety and meaningful participation. MethodsNet Conference, Belgium.

François, A., & Roberti-Lintermans, M. (2024). Saisir l’ordinaire des familles sur papier ? Les sources du travail social, un défi pour l’historien·ne (Belgique, 1912-1965). Restituer les familles : Collecter, analyser matérialiser. Paris, Ined. https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:284709

Gérain, P., Seghers, N., Van Dorsselaer, I., Dario, Y., Swolfs, I., & Dubois, A.-C. (2023, March). “Already too late” A qualitative study of respite care among mothers of children with special healthcare needs and disabilities. 12th Association for Research in Psychology and Health (ARPH) conference, Enschede, Pays-Bas.

Kalkan, R.B., Blanchard, M.A., Roskam, I., Mikolajczak, M., & Heeren, A. (2023, March 9-11). Emotional exhaustion and feeling fed up as the driving forces of parental burnout and its consequences on children: Insights from a network approach [Poster]. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Brussels, Belgium.

Mallien, Z & Dubois, AC. (2023). « Soirée bien-être entre femmes : le burnout parental ». Education Permanente – Collectif des femmes, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique.

Mikolajczak, M. (2019, December). Parental Burnout: Knows and unknowns. Keynote speaker. 1st International Conference on Parental Burnout. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Mikolajczak, M. (2021, May 28). Parental Burnout. Keynote speaker. 3rd International Conference on Psychological Studies, Diponegoro, Indonesia. (On-site conference but lecture given online for ecological reasons).

Mikolajczak, M. (2021, May). Parental Burnout: Knows and unknowns in 2021. Keynote speaker. 2nd International Conference on Parental Burnout. Online Conference (originally planned in Poland, transferred online because of the COVID-19 crisis).

Mikolajczak, M. (2021, September). A flash introduction to Parental Burnout. EADP Biennial Meeting. Online Conference (originally planned in Austria, transferred online because of the COVID-19 crisis).

Mikolajczak, M. (2024, September 6). Current and future perspectives in parental burnout research. Keynote lecture at the International Conference on Parental Burnout, Porto, Portugal.

Robbeets, C., Campion, B., Jacques, J., Merla, L., François, A., & Roberti-Lintermans, M. (2022). Les représentations des professionnels de l’enfance sur les pratiques médiatiques des parents : Enjeux et perspectives. 89e Congrès de l’Acfas. https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:268020

Robbeets, C., Jacques, J., Campion, B., Merla, L., François, A., & Roberti-Lintermans, M. (2022). The effects of digital media on the representations and the exercise of parenthood : Challenges and opportunities. ECREA 2022- 9th European Communication Conference. https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:268021

Roberti-Lintermans, M. (2022). Intégrations et réceptions du positive parenting promu par le Conseil de l’Europe : Pour une histoire croisée. (France, Belgique, Royaume-Uni, 1990-2020). Le contrôle social de la parentalité. https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:260282

Roberti-Lintermans, M. (2024). Saisir la voix des enfants au prisme des archives d’adultes. Les enquêtes sociales des stagiaires de la protection de l’enfance (1945-1980). Journée de l’Histoire contemporaine : Chercher les « subalternes » dans les sources du pouvoir. Éthique et méthodes, Bruxelles. https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:287967

Roberti-Lintermans, M., & François, A. (2022). When Theoretical Knowledge Meets Field Practice : Social Work Students’ First Experiences with Child Placement (Belgium, 1945-1980). International standing conference for the history of education. https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:265304

Roberti-Lintermans, M., & Juliette, M. (2021). Ouvrir des crèches ou encadrer des gardiennes à domicile ? Concurrence des modèles familiaux et politiques dans la promotion des modes de garde du jeune enfant en Belgique (1960-1980). « Qui a gardé les enfants ? » Pour une histoire sociale des prises en charge extra-familiales des enfants du premier âge depuis. https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:254293