Mayssa El Husseini

Université de Picardie Jules Verne | UPJV · CHSSC - Centre d'histoire des sociétés, des sciences et des conflits

Background Bullying, the most prevalent form of abuse among adolescents, is associated with emotional and behavioural problems as well as psychiatric morbidity. Moreover, it has been shown that adolescents with previous mental health problems are at increased risk of being bullied and that the psychopathological repercussions of bullying are greate...

Background: Disclosing traumatic events experienced by parents to their children is a central issue in the intergenerational trauma transmission. However, little is known about this question among migrant population. The main objective of this study was to examine the choice to disclose the traumatic experiences of migrant women in France to their...

Objectives: The impact of psychosocial factors and social support in the transmission of trauma related to migration and the mother-child dyad has not yet been amply explored. This article examines this impact and the role that psychosocial factors may have in the transmission of the traumatic experiences of migrant mothers to their children. Patie...

Paternal involvement impacts the relationship between mother and child and protects the transmission of the traumatic experience in a migratory context. A study was conducted in France with mother-child dyads in which the women were exposed to traumatic events. It identified three themes around the metatheme of the father's place: the husband's fun...

Family components can play roles both as protective factors and maintenance mechanisms of eating disorders. We aimed to investigate the role of food in the family relationships of adolescents with anorexia nervosa and bulimia in northeastern Brazil. Using photo elicitation, a visual narrative method that gives insight into the participants' perspec...

Puberty provokes physiological upheaval that can be psychologically traumatic and destabilizing for the child. Before the transformations of puberty, the body is a protective vessel that acts as a stable reference for the child. A child's emotional security is derived from a sense of predictability and well-being. However, the nascent sexuality and...

Over recent years, more and more unaccompanied minors have been arriving on French territory in search of a better future. As a result of their complicated journey before, during and after the migration, these youngsters have specific psychological needs which are not always recognised by the professionals working with them. Research has highlighte...

Objectives The article presents the clinical description and discussion of a 17 years old Moroccan unaccompanied minor who migrated on his own to France. This case illustrates the complexity of the foreign unaccompanied minors' trajectories and the challenges of the clinical and institutional accompaniment provided in France. In the lights of the r...

Résumé But de l’étude Cette étude explore les représentations de parents adoptifs afin d’amorcer une réflexion sur l’influence de la fonction réflexive parentale (FRP) dans l’expérience de la parentalité adoptive. Définie comme l’aptitude du parent à attribuer un sens à son propre comportement et à celui de son enfant dans le cadre de la relation,...

Cambridge Core - Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology - Working with Refugee Families - edited by Lucia De Haene

L’identité, tant dans sa dimension individuelle que collective, semble une construction et élaboration continue de mémoires qui sont accueillies dans des lieux qui, en tant que espaces où aller dans un va-et-vient, parcourent les vies des hommes pendant toute la durée. Se retrouver dans les lieux de sa propre mémoire semble une manière originale de...

Being parents is an adventure in itself. Being parents in a cross-cultural situation, in exile, away from family and friends, is a double challenge. Today, we know more about the risks and the potential. Let's explore the key ingredients for early childhood: how to live through pregnancy, welcoming the child, being father and mother, building a fam...

The family provides a holding and benevolent environment, allowing the subject to construct himself psychically. Beyond the family, the group of belonging allows an individual to feel that he or she exists. During migration, belonging can be broken: loss of country, language, family, social status, etc. In France, a reception programme for migrants...

A number of studies have analyzed the bullying phenomenon among adolescent victims. Relatively few studies, however, have specifically addressed the associated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Our clinical practice and therapeutic encounters with adolescents reveal that the majority of bullied adolescents suffer from high levels of PTSD. The...

For the last decade, children are adopted increasingly at an older age. Their pre-adoptive past can bare traumatic experiences consequent to abandonment, violence, or deprivation in birth family or orphanage. The objective of this study is to explore the impact of the child’s traumatic past on parental representations and subsequent parent-child in...

Context and Objectives: According to a sociological study, the adolescents involved in the “suburban riots” of November 2005 were French nationals with a foreign background, including 55% of North African descent. Numerous attempts to interpret the “riots” have been made, but none of them has discussed the impact of the “silenced” colonial history...

Most children adopted in a foreign country present somatic disorders, which can have an impact on the construction of the bond with the adoptive parents. This potential complication must be taken into account in the adoption procedure and during the post-adoption follow-up, taking on board the trauma of everyone involved. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier...

As part of a research project aiming to measure the psychological impact of humanitarian intervention in the wars affecting the Middle East, 28 humanitarian players working with refugees and displaced people took part in semi-structured qualitative interviews. The material was analysed using the interpretative phenomenological approach. The results...

In the context of the humanitarian crisis of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a team of young Lebanese social workers attempted to identify the most economically vulnerable people. These professionals have themselves sometimes been exposed to social and economic difficulties, having in their own past experienced war and deprivation. They were confronted...

This article explores the impact of two programs implemented in the commune of Petit Goâve in Haiti following the earthquake in 2010 and the Cholera outbreak. The programs, run by a European NGO, address infant health and mother care. A clinical psychologist conducted interviews and group discussions with the facilitators, and completed naturalisti...

The massive earthquake that ripped open Haïti in January 2010 heavily impacted a population already living in precarious socio-economic conditions (Hurbon 1987; Pierre et al 2012). A few months later, in that same year, the cholera epidemic struck. The Haitian population and the humanitarian services were in shock. The earthquake left more than 230...

Close observation of the interactions between a traumatised mother and her infant son provides information on the modes of transmission of psychic trauma in the mother–infant dyad. Following the presentation of a current literature review on the theme, the subject of “radioactive residue” and counter-transference in the transmission of psychic trau...

Résumé À partir de la présentation d’une situation clinique d’adoption, ce travail décrit le fonctionnement d’une consultation groupale d’adoption internationale. Les questionnements qui y sont déposés par une famille sont analysés à plusieurs niveaux : à un niveau collectif, ils interrogent les représentations parentales des appartenances culturel...

Les jeunes dits « radicalisés » ne consultent pas ou très peu dans les structures sanitaires. C’est sur le terrain et dans les structures sociales et pénitentiaires que les professionnels les rencontrent. L’objectif de cette recherche était d’étudier la manière dont les professionnels, psychologues et éducateurs étaient impactés par la « radicalisa...

Une recherche sur la transmission du traumatisme de la mère au bébé est conduite en Centrafrique, pays affecté par un conflit très violent depuis 2013. Les mères avec leur bébé sont rencontrées dans le cadre d’entretien semi structuré et elles sont amenées à parler de leur bébé, mais aussi de l’événement traumatique dont elles ont été témoins. L’en...

Receiving Traumatized Patients: the Mother Tongue, a Mediated Therapeutic Lever? This article discusses how the mother tongue is part of the identity construction and gives the feeling of belonging to a group. In trauma therapy, the use of mother tongue, where trauma is shared, helps the patient express his emotions in a differentiated mode because...

Receiving traumatized patients: the mother tongue, a mediated therapeutic lever?

« Radioactive residues » within a mother-infant dyad : trauma transmission from mother to infant Introduction : The detailed observation of the interactions in between a traumatised mother and her baby tells us of the transmission modalities of psychological trauma to the baby. Method : After having presented a literary review of the current state...

Figuration of Haiti’s native collective history through its traumatic reverberation This article explores the transmission of an archaic collective trauma through the reactivation of its scoria by a current traumatic event. The resurgence of a repressed collective history has been observed within the frame of an emergency humanitarian intervention...

How should we receive the delusion of an isolated foreign adolescent in transcultural consultation ? In transcultural psychotherapy with an adolescent who is an isolated foreign minor, with medical personnel or social workers, the therapists come to know the patients psychical suffering, behaviors and demands within a setting where listening and el...