Chantal Cyr

Chantal Cyr, PhD, is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, a researcher at the Institut universitaire Jeunes en difficulté – Santé Québec Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, and the holder of the Canada Research Chair on Child Attachment and Development. She is internationally recognized for her research on child maltreatment, attachment disorganization, and the Attachment Video-feedback Intervention (AVI), which focuses on parent-child attachment. She has demonstrated the effectiveness of AVI in improving parental sensitivity, child development, and placement decision-making in child protection cases. Her work has influenced numerous practitioners working with vulnerable families and has led to the implementation of AVI in several countries around the world.