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On-site experiences and reports have shown that the multiple outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) resulted in pervasive experience of stigma against many people who have recovered from EVD as well as their families and close relatives. Three evidence-based protective factors which are supposed to miti...
Background
Associated with high mortality rate, fear, and anxiety, Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a significant risk factor for mental distress. This longitudinal study aims to investigate the prevalence and predictors associated with mental distress among populations affected by EVD outbreaks in the Province of Equateur in DR Congo.
Methods
Surveys...
This study examines whether the Luyckx's five-dimensional process-oriented identity model (i.e., exploration in breadth, commitment making, exploration in depth, identification with commitment, and ruminative exploration) can be applied with Haitian French-speaking adolescents and young adults who survived the earthquake of January 12, 2010 in Hait...
Objectives High mortality rates, anxiety and distress associated with Ebola virus disease (EVD) are risk factors for mood disorders in affected communities. This study aims to document the prevalence and risk factors associated with depressive symptoms among a representative sample of individuals affected by EVD.
Design Cross-sectional study.
Set...
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Objectives
On July 24, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared the end of the 2018 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the Equateur Province. Conducted seven months after, this study aimed to examine knowledge and misconceptions related to EVD in a representative sample of affected communities in order to develop e...
Few instruments assess community resilience. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the capacity of communities to support resilience of members deserves to be assessed to develop programs for improving mental health of affected populations. This article presents the development of the Transcultural-Community Resilience Scale (T-CRS), its underlyin...
Background
. Mechanisms worsening the development of Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among individuals affected by high-mortality epidemics are unclear. This study examined the prevalence of PTSD and related risk factors among populations affected by the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, and investigated whether peritraumatic distre...
Recent trends in grief research have been exploring how symptoms of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) and depression co-occur in bereaved individuals using Latent Class Analysis (LCA). However, the PGD criteria have kept undergoing changes and the newest DSM-5 PGD criteria have not been captured in these studies. Also, previous LCA-grief studies have...
Background
COVID-19 peritraumatic distress (CPD), an emerging trauma-related psychopathology, involves immediate physiological arousal as well as emotional and cognitive responses to the threat of the COVID-19 outbreak. This study examined the prevalence of and temporal changes in CPD, its early and follow-up predictors and the extent to which it w...
Objectives: Currently, there is little data on the mental health consequences of the pandemic in low-and middle income countries (LMICs). This study aims to examine the pooled and separate prevalence and determinants of depression during the pandemic in samples from four LMICs.
Methods: Participants (N= 1267, 40.9% women) were recruited from the D...
PurposeEbola virus disease (EVD) is associated with high anxiety and multiple bereavement that can induce severe psychological distress (SPD) in individuals living in affected communities. Using data from the EVD and Mental Health project (EboMH), this study assessed the prevalence and determinants of SPD symptoms in a representative sample of adul...
Context
: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is an important public health problem associated with an array of negative consequences. Although prevalence rates are well established from North America, few studies have focused on the extent of CSA and associated outcomes in youth from France.
Objectives
: This study aimed to: 1) estimate the prevalence of CS...
Objective
Studies have documented the significant direct and indirect psychological, social, and economic consequences of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in many countries but little is known on its impact in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) already facing difficult living conditions and having vulnerable health systems that create...
Objectives: Child sexual abuse is a prevalent issue that may affect multiple dimensions of the victim’s life. Past studies suggest that child sexual abuse is associated with a heightened risk of sustaining dating violence, yet no studies were conducted in France to explore this issue. The aim of this paper was to document the association between ch...
Ce guide contient 9 modules dont certains doivent être réalisés sur plusieurs séances. Le premier module présente les premiers secours psychologiques, très utiles en situation épidémique et qui permettent de répondre à des besoins psychologiques et sociaux immédiats des personnes durant une épidémie. Le deuxième module offre la possibilité d’une év...
This guide contains 9 modules, some of which must be completed over several sessions. The module 1 presents psychological first aid, which is very useful in an epidemic situation and helps to meet people's immediate psychological and social needs during an epidemic. The second module offers the possibility of extensively assessing the needs of the...
Studies have shown that, in addition to being associated with a high mortality rate, Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is also related with mental health problems. This study aimed to determine prevalence of mental health problems and associated factors among survivors and individuals affected by EVD. A systematic review of peer-reviewed empirical studies...
Objectives
The Ebola virus disease (EVD) is associated with major mental health consequences (e.g., depression, anxiety, PTSD). Studies have shown a need for relevant and effective programs to address mental health consequences associated to EVD. This systematic review aimed to describe programs implemented following EVD outbreaks and to evaluate t...
Les problématiques liées au corps, aux traumatismes et à la résilience sont transversales à toute l’Histoire d’Haïti. Ce pays a connu des traumatismes historiques (esclavage, colonisation, occupation), politiques (dictatures) et des traumatismes de la terre (séismes, inondations) où la mise à l’épreuve du corps a occupé une place centrale. Cette Hi...
Background
In 2010, an important earthquake devastated Haiti and caused thousands of deaths. In a social context where women are particularly vulnerable, this cross-sectional study examined the associations between sexual assaults experienced by women before the earthquake, the earthquake exposure, the traumatic consequences, and their satisfaction...
Résumé
Ce travail explore les récits post-traumatiques d’adolescents et jeunes adultes, survivants du séisme du 12 janvier 2010 en Haïti plus de six ans après. Il s’agit de parcourir chez ces jeunes les éventuelles perturbations psychiques au long cours entraînées par l’événement et d’analyser les stratégies mises en place pour les surmonter. Deux...
After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, despite economic and relational precariousness, research noticed resilience among street children. This study assesses determinants of resilience among street children 4 years after the earthquake. One hundred twenty-eight street children aged 7–18 completed measures assessing life events, posttraumatic stress di...
Few studies have explored potential associations between polyvictimization and cybervictimization and even fewer have involved in college-age sample. As it has been shown in the literature, polyvictimization is associated with higher psychological distress and lower resilience. This study is aimed to model the association between polyvictimization...
Mental health professionals form an important component of the response teams currently working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to treat what is historically the second-largest Ebola outbreak. They provide psychological treatment to patients under extraordinary conditions, helping them cope with anxiety and the daily death of other patients...
Background
Most of the scientific literature on cyberbullying and psychosocial consequences associated is based on samples of adolescents. Also, despite their contributions, the few studies with emerging adults were conducted with small or single-site samples. The present study aimed to document the prevalence of cyberbullying among college student...
Assistons-nous au naufrage de l’Europe, du monde ou de l’humanité ? L’humanité étant en souffrance, ce syndrome ne peut être pris en charge que par une approche globale de la santé mentale du monde[2]. Lesdits « migrants » sont en détresse. Les États le sont également : ils souffrent d’inhumanité. Ce qu’on appelle aujourd’hui la crise migratoire e...
Cet article propose d’étudier les tuteurs de résilience des enfants confiés en famille d’accueil à partir de la théorie de l’attachement dans une perspective psychodynamique. Il met en évidence la complexité de la relation entre l’enfant et l’assistant familial en tant que figure d’attachement alternative, tuteur de résilience possible. Cette réfle...
This article aims to study the identification trajectory of young people concerned by the phenomenon of religious radicalisation in France. Through the discourse of three teenagers and their parents, it questions the family and societal contexts into which the matter of “radicalisation” intrudes. Analysis of semi-directive research interviews revea...
Se basant sur plusieurs recherches quantitatives et qualitatives réalisées de 2011 à 2018 en Haïti, aux États-Unis et au Canada, cette présentation interroge les parcours de vulnérabilité des réfugiés du tremblement de terre de 2010 et ceux des problèmes politico-socio économiques, d’Haïti à l’Amérique du Nord, d’Haïti à l’Amérique Latine et d’Haït...
Introduction:
In recent years, the integration of resilience in several psychological and medical studies underscores a need for resilience assessment measures with robust psychometric properties. This study aimed to evaluate the underlying structure of the French version of the Resilience Scale (RS-14), a widely used measure to assess resilience...
Not for the first time in recent history, the people of Haiti have been obliged to fall back on their resilience strategies in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. Following the powerful earthquake that struck the country on 12 January 2010, the entire population had to find the resources to survive in the face of extensive material damage and loss...
In Haiti, as in several developing countries, the phenomenon of street children has become a major public health issue. These children are often victims of traumas and adverse life events. This article aimed to investigate traumas experienced by street children and their coping and resilience strategies used to deal with adversities in a logic of s...
Les soignants d’hôpitaux habitant et travaillant aux frontières turco-syriennes sont aussi des migrants ou des réfugiés syriens. Comme la population sinistrée, ils exercent leur activité professionnelle au rythme de la guerre et nécessitent également un accompagnement. Dans le cadre de l’Unité psychosociale d’une ONG internationale, un soutien psyc...
This study investigates the long-term consequences for adolescents and young adults who experienced the January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. It aims to evaluate the consequences of the earthquake in adolescents and young adults six years after the disaster. During May and June 2016, in Port-au-Prince, 723 adolescents and young adults (364...
Cet article analyse le niveau de résilience chez des adultes survivants du séisme de 2010 en Haïti en rapport au soutien social. Un échantillon de 1355 adultes a complété l’Échelle de résilience et le Questionnaire de soutien social. Les résultats ont montré que 58,52 % des participants présentent un niveau de résilience entre moyennement élevé et...
Objectifs
Cet article vise à mettre en évidence les caractéristiques des trajectoires de jeunes mineurs non accompagnés, avant, pendant et après la migration, et d’identifier les tuteurs de résilience qui leur permettent un accrochage aux nouveaux environnements et la possibilité de maintenir une continuité dans leurs histoires. Il montre la nécess...
The only son of his widowed mother, Kervens (assumed name) was 16 years old at the time of the interview (14 years old at the time of the earthquake). During the earthquake, he lost a hand (cut by a concrete wall that fell on him) and a leg (torn away during a rescue attempt while being rescued from under his house remains). Several days later, US...
Working with street children and adolescents who lived through the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, this paper aims to assess the prevalence of symptoms of PTSD, anxiety and depression in relation to peritraumatic distress, and age, and to explore other risk factors and socio-demographic characteristics, four years after the events. Between March...
Le séisme du 12 janvier 2010 en Haïti a tué environ 2,5 % de la population haïtienne. L’une des questions posées à la population, à l’État et à la communauté internationale au lendemain de ce désastre fut celle de la gestion des dépouilles mortelles éparpillées dans les rues des villes touchées en général et de manière spécifique à Port-au-Prince....
This article forms part of a research project on the subject of resilience and the creative process in Haitian street children and adolescents who have been victims of natural disasters. A creative art group initiative was set up with street children in order to assess their ability to engage in creative activity and the extent to which such an act...
Homeless adolescents in Israel
At the end of the 1960’s, researchers became aware of the phenomena of homeless adolescents in Israel. In this literature review, we are focused on girls and boys in great distress. Based on a certain approach and treatment, these youngsters have become completely transformed in the past 4 decades. The interest of thi...
Ce travail s’intéresse au parcours de résilience d’enfants des rues en Haïti. Ces enfants constituent une population à risque qui a été davantage fragilisée au niveau psychique, sanitaire et social, suite au tremblement de terre de janvier 2010. Dans le cadre d’une recherche ANR sur la résilience et le processus créateur chez les enfants et adolesc...
The school romance of an adolescent girl « of migrants ». Clinical narrative of a suffering subjectivity
School difficulties in children and adolescents in France who are issued from migrant parents are often attributed to no meeting of family origin cultures with the institutional cultures of the host country. This gap, sometimes considered as rup...
Résumé
Cet article porte sur l’analyse de la relation entre l’éducateur spécialisé et l’enfant dont il est référent, dans un contexte de placement familial. À partir de la théorie de l’attachement croisée avec une approche psychodynamique, nous nous sommes demandés dans quelle mesure l’éducateur spécialisé exerçant dans le service de placement fami...
Cette étude porte sur la créativité des enfants des rues en Haïti quatre ans après le séisme de janvier 2010. Suite à un constat de potentialités résilientes chez ces enfants, elle évalue leur capacité à mobiliser des ressources internes et externes pour créer.
Résumé
Objectifs
Cette étude clinique porte sur la grossesse nerveuse en Haïti, maladie culturellement appelée « pèdisyon », en créole haïtien. Son objectif est de mettre en évidence les enjeux des croyances socioculturelles et religieuses ainsi que les clivages qu’elles suscitent dans la psyché.
Méthode
À travers un cas clinique, cette réflexion...
Background:
The mental health needs of young children in natural disaster contexts often remain unaddressed. The lack of a rapid and simple tool for screening combined with few mental health professionals available to accurately diagnose and provide appropriate care mean that young children remain without care. Here, we present the results of psyc...
Résumé
Objectifs
L’objectif de cet article est de montrer comment les enfants et les adolescents vivant dans la rue en Haïti, après le tremblement de terre de janvier 2010, investissent la rue comme un espace pour reconstruire leur identité. À travers des dessins d’enfants et d’adolescents rencontrés dans le cadre d’une recherche sur la résilience...
Ce rapport final concerne le projet « Parcours et accompagnement de mères victimes de violences conjugales : une recherche exploratoire dans le champ de la Protection de l’Enfance » conduit par le Centre de Recherche en Psychopathologie et Psychologie Clinique (CRPPC) de l’Université Lyon 2 en partenariat avec la Maison d’Enfants à Caractère Social...
Following the earthquake, studies were carried out to evaluate its impact on mental health. Depending on the age group and the time of assessment, prevalences ranged from 24.6% to 47.7% for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and from 26.0% to 46.2% for major depressive disorder (1–4). Studies also revealed difficulties in mourning the deaths of t...
This work is part of the elaboration of an epistemological, political and ethical project in intercultural clinical psychology. This project, Globality as a Clinical Posture (in the sense of a global clinical approach, Clinique de la Mondialité in French), aims to adapt a number of everyday topics to globalization, in particular through the design...
The aim of this pilot study is to identify the best way of preventing and assessing the livelihood and risk of school dropout amongst children entrusted to the care of the French child protection system in the Département of Rhone. The sample comprised 91 children and adolescents aged 4- to 17-years-old, of whom 45 were girls. The data were gathere...
Background:
More than 500 studies were conducted in Haiti following the January 12 of 2010 earthquake, yet few of them assessed mental health of the population. To our knowledge, none targeted the effectiveness of various methods used to treat survivors, whether adults or children METHOD: Our study aimed to assess one year after the disaster, the...
Background:
We examined the prevalence and predictive factors of PTSD and depression in relation with peritraumatic distress, trauma exposure, and sociodemographic characteristics among children and adolescent who survived the 2010 Haiti's earthquake.
Methods:
We analyzed data collected between June and July 2012 from a sample of 872 participant...
Mother-child bonds and domestic violence
The authors, two clinical psychologists, seek to distinguish what part of the apparent difficulties in the mother-son relationship stems from a past of conjugal violence and what derives from actual relational issues between mother and child. A study is conducted into a mother-child relation encountered in a...
Introduction
This article focuses on groupal traumatic experiences of children during natural disasters in Haiti. The group played a very important role for psychic survival of these children and even allowed them to dream a future. The objective of this study is to identify the functions of the group that helped a therapeutic effect for children....
In this article, we posit the hypothesis that the January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince reawakened a number of traumas linked to the natural disasters that struck Gonaives in 2004 and 2008. The study set out to evaluate the PTSD and social support in the affected areas in Gonaives seven years after the disasters. The study covered a sample of 9...
This clinical study addresses fragility of environment, construction of psychic event and its update in emotional development of the youth placed in institutions for protection. It is made from a device practitioner Social Children's House, which involves in the field of Child Protection. Through a case study structured around three analyzers: proc...
Cette étude s’inscrit dans la cadre de l’Enquête sur les parcours amoureux des jeunes (PAJ), une vaste étude longitudinale effectuée auprès d’adolescents québécois et qui a pour objectif principal de documenter la prévalence de la violence au sein des relations amoureuses des jeunes, la revictimisation, ainsi que les facteurs de risque et de résili...
Utilisation of the PSYCa 3-6 for an indicative assessment of the psychological difficulties of young children affected by the january 2010 earthquake in Haiti
This article describes a research/action project realized after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, whose aim was to make an indicative evaluation of the psychological difficulties of young childre...
The conflict of beliefs in family and individual Haitian psyches after the seism of January 12, 2010
Natural disasters reactivate religious and cultural beliefs of the affected population. This is often an opportunity to question the afterlife in that it is a possibility of easing the search for meaning in the face of trauma and the un-representabl...
The article presents a research for the indicative evaluation of psychological disturbance amongst young children following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. We used a new psychological evaluation questionnaire for young children, the PSYCa 3–6. It is a hetero-evaluation tool and is completed on site by the interviewer. The questionnaire was conducted...
This study explored the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms related to social support received by the children and adolescents who survived the earthquake on January 12, 2010, in Haiti. A strategy of stratified sampling was used, and 540 children and teenagers were questioned. Questionnaires based on the PTSD Checklist, the...
This article describes a research/action project realized after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, whose aim was to make an indicative evaluation of the psychological difficulties of young children as well as to measure the usefulness and utilization of the PSYCa 3-6 questionnaire. The investigation was carried out in three neighborhoods of Port-au-Prin...
We examined the relationship between PTSD, depression, social support and resilience among the
children and adolescent who survived the 2010 Haiti’s earthquake. We analyzed data collected between
June and July 2012 from a sample of 872 participants aged 7 to 17 in 12 schools at Port-au-Prince. Participants completed the Children's Revised Impact...
Resilience is defined as the capacity of human beings to deal with and adapt to adversity, suffering, tragedy or other traumatic event. This study aims to investigate psychometric properties and the underlying structure of the Creole version of the RS among children and adolescents survivors to the 2010 Haitian earthquake. A total of 872 children a...
L’objectif de ce travail est de proposer une analyse réflexive sur les processus psychiques mobilisés lors de l’entretien clinique de recherche afin de mieux apprécier les enjeux de la rencontre intersubjective au-delà du contenu du discours. L’analyse s’étaye sur des entretiens réalisés pour une recherche en psychologie clinique interculturelle po...
Objective
The earthquake of January 12, 2010 in Haiti has paved the way for the emergence of a series of previous traumas buried in the Haitian collective national psyche, that of institutions, families and of particular individuals. The aim of this paper is to show that these various levels of trauma are related and fit together in forms that expr...
The emotional baggage of so-called « suburban » adolescents
Adolescents living in suburban slums often express shame of their social, cultural and geographical origins. This problem is (re)inscribed in the world’s emotional geopolitics, to give a better understanding the identity issues in the adolescents. Using two clinical vignettes with adolesce...
Introduction
This study examines the reasons of failure of placement of children and adolescents in host family. It highlights what is repeated and what moves from the biological family to the host family and to the institution as well.
Method
The study was conducted about ten children and adolescents met in a house for children of social characte...
The course of a clinical relation with a creative adolescent
The adolescent is extremely sensitive to his encounter with the other, both highly invested and greatly feared. Using an encounter with an adolescent boy treated in a child and adolescent psychiatric ward, and through a reflection on methodological issues of a therapeutic setting, this ar...
Cette recherche interroge le vécu des enfants placés en maison d’enfants à caractère social (MECS) au retour de l’école. En partant de la violence du placement, notamment dans le déplacement qu’il impose à l’enfant, nous faisons l’hypothèse d’une violence inhérente au fait même que l’enfant placé soit contraint de vivre avec d’autres dans un nouvel...
This research examines the experiences of children in a Social Children's Home after school. Starting "from the violence of placement, particularly in the travel which it imposes on the child and in the separation that he suffered, we make the hypothesis of an inherent violence to the fact that the placed child is forced to live with others in a ne...
À l’école, l’enfant migrant est confronté à un travail intense de symbolisation qui articule le vécu migratoire, le vécu familial et la disponibilité de l’environnement scolaire à l’accueillir au-delà de sa mission première d’enseignement. Cet article a pour but de montrer la complexité des processus en jeu dans la psyché de l’enfant et discute des...
L’article présente une synthèse des travaux de recherche autour de l’école comme espace psychique complexe intégré pouvant favoriser le développement de la résilience chez les enfants haïtiens ayant vécu le séisme du 12 janvier 2010. Il analyse comment l’école constitue un tuteur multifactoriel de résilience individuelle et collective dans la confi...
Posing a look at the situation of children infected by HIV and whose parents are infected or have died of AIDS, we see anguish, anxiety, depressive ideas, discrimination, stigmatization, denial of their rights, precarity and social and economic vulnerability. Add to this the taboos surrounding any discussion of AIDS in Haiti. This article explores...
En posant un regard sur la situation des enfants infectés par le VIH et dont les parents sont infectés ou morts du Sida on remarque angoisse, anxiété, idées dépressives, discrimination, stigmatisation, déni de leurs droits, précarité et vulnérabilité sociale et économique. À cela s’ajoutent les tabous qui entourent tout débat sur le SIDA en Haïti....
Introduction: The interview is an intersubjective meeting in which the stakes are complex. This frequently used method in social and human sciences research brings to the foreground various mental processes. Despite its clear distinction from the therapeutic interview, due to its purpose and the origin of the request, the research interview generat...
Ce travail s’intéresse au vécu des professionnels des maisons d’enfants à caractère social (MECS), confrontés à la violence scolaire de l’adolescent confié à la Protection de l’Enfance. Il tente d’analyser les facteurs institutionnels, professionnels et subjectifs en jeu dans la perception et l’accompagnement des adolescents violents à l’école. En...
INTRODUCTION: At school, the migrant child has to face an intense symbolization that articulates the experience of migration, the family past and the availability of the school environment to accommodate beyond its primary mission of education. Migration is a potential source of trauma. This article aims to show the complexity of the processes invo...
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School drop-out
Relationship towards knowledge and institutions for children living in institutional care
In the field of child protection this research analyses the processes which lead a youth in foster care to become less and less interested in academic learning and to drop out of school. It questions the relationship of children in foster care...
This article aims to stimulate methodological and epistemological reflection on the use of projective tests (Rorschach, TAT) in non-Western cultures in general and particularly in Haiti where voodoo beliefs have an important place. He stressed the importance of adapting tests and clinical posture to the cultural context of the clinical encounter fo...