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Les résultats de la recherche-action - consultables in extenso sur le site du ministère de la Justice (http://intranet.justice.gouv.fr/site/apnet/expertise-16843/recherche-16848/ recherches-financees-par-la-dap-128266.html) dans le rapport final (Recherche-action sur la pertinence d’une prise en charge spécifique en Outre-mer pour les populations a...
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Un nouveau dispositif transculturel adapté à l’accueil en soins des mineurs non accompagnés a été mis en place à la maison des Adolescents de l’hôpital Cochin suite aux résultats d’une recherche action menée pendant quatre ans. Cette recherche visait à améliorer le lien des éducateurs avec ces jeunes, à favoriser l’émergence de leurs compéte...
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...
Background
The number of migrant youth traveling without parents continues to rise in Europe and North America. Some of t hem leave their home countries on their own and find themselves in a new country, separated from their family and cut off from their cultural roots. Besides those who leave to study, work, and pursue a better life, others are es...
The fate of Jewish psychiatric patients in occupied Europe during World War II is inseparable from the fate of the disabled and mentally ill, as planned by the Nazi regime. But Jews found themselves at the confluence of eugenics, Christian anti-Judaism and Nazi racist and anti-Semitic madness. They faced the twin promise of death – both as Jews and...
Esta pesquisa bibliográfica é caracterizada pelo estudo dos aspectos do corpo obeso no Brasil e na França e suas representações culturais associadas à hipermodernidade. Os fatores culturais influenciam a autopercepção da imagem corporal do sujeito e por consequência seu comportamento alimentar. Este estudo tem por objetivo descrever as representaçõ...
Dans la pluralité des courants théoriques les pratiques transculturelles tentent de répondre aux incertitudes que développent la rencontre clinique avec des altérités culturelles, linguistiques et sociales de patients venant d’ailleurs. Le dispositif de médiation que constitue la consultation transculturelle semble particulièrement pertinent dans u...
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Objective
The present work reports findings from a study that examined the association between pregnant women's exposure to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) symptoms/behaviors in their offspring at age three.
Method
A sample of 364 mother–offspring dyads who survived the 2010 earthquake in Haiti (mean (SD)...
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...
Quelle place donner à la culture dans la relation clinique ? À quelles problématiques spécifiques sont confrontés les migrants, les femmes accouchant loin de leur pays d’origine ou les enfants nés ici mais dont les parents ou grands-parents sont venus d’ailleurs ? Comment accueillir les patients et prendre en charge le traumatisme ou les troubles d...
Objectif: Dans le cadre d'une étude d'évaluation prospective
du degré d'association entre l'exposition maternelle anténatale à un
séisme dévastateur et le développement de comportements autistiques
chez des enfants de 3 ans suite au séisme du 12 janvier 2010 à Haïti, le
portrait singulier de l'évolution d'une dyade rencontrée a fait l'objet
d'une a...
he paper describes an action research for indicative assessment of psychological problems of young children following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and the interest of using the Creole version of the ques- tionnaire PSYCa 3-6. The survey took place in Port-au-Prince, and the evaluators were trained to a proper standardized administration of the que...
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...
la nona edizione della summer school “migrants, Human rights and democracy” dell’università degli studi di palermo (svoltasi a Favignana dal 29 giugno al 3 luglio 2015) si è incentrata sul tema dei Separated children. il volume raccoglie i contributi teorico–analitici ed empirici che sono stati presentati durante i lavori della scuola di alta forma...
Intellectual precocity arouses a number of preconceived ideas. While it labels the children concerned as gifted and destined to become exceptional adults, it confines and prescribes and does not guarantee academic success. Based on the hypothesis of the suffering of these children, mediation through drawing is a valuable therapeutic tool.
Copyright...
Au regard des normes sociales, l’experience de la folie est stigmatisante. Le malade mental est percu comme un etre dangereux, voire violent. Un cliche reducteur qui lui confere une fausse identite et le rend plus vulnerable a l’exclusion sociale. Outre sa pathologie, le malade mental subit une maltraitance sociale. Il en resulte parfois un fort se...
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...
No campo da proteção da infância, o atendimento de algumas díades mãe-bebê coloca em dificuldade os professionais de saúde, e podemos constatar o fracasso de parte desses acompanhamentos. O objetivo deste artigo é trazer contribuições para o atendimento mãe-bebê. A partir da apresentação de um caso clínico, os autores buscam evidenciar o impacto do...
The goal of this study was to examine, prospectively the prevalence of autistic behaviors in a cohort of young
children three years following in utero exposure to a devastating earthquake. Method: Subjects were 364 children (50.8% boys) at 39 months old (3.3 years) who were in utero during the 2010 Haiti earthquake that resulted in a death toll of...
Detection of children's psychological difficulties in crises and low resource settings is challenged by the lack of a validated, rapid and simple tool. We present the results of two confirmatory validations of the Psychological Screening for Young Children aged 3 to 6 years (PSYCa 3-6) scale.
We performed cross-cultural validations, assessing the p...
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...
This retrospective study focused on the consequences of childhood traumas and mourning among Jewish children who were hidden in France during World War II. Some of these hidden children went on to create a self-help group over a half-century after the end of the war, but most have remained isolated and, in the majority of cases, have difficulties a...
This paper presents the therapeutic family follow-up of a small, mobile child psychiatry team working in rural New Caledonia and treating an indigenous Kanak boy aged 12 suffering from severe, incapacitating headaches for which no physiological cause could be found. Subsequent to the instatement of our care protocol in October 1994, we pursued rese...
The present study aims to examine the psychometric properties of the Haitian Creole PTSD checklist, among 364 women (mean age = 27.31 (SD=5.93)) exposed to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the prevalence of PTSD symptoms 3 years later. Although, the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) checklist (PCL) is a reliable and widely used self-report instr...
Objective: The goal of this study was to examine, prospectively the extent to which the degree of maternal exposure to a devastating earthquake is associated with autistic behaviors of offspring 3 years later. Method: Subjects were 364 (50.8% boys) children 39 months old (3.3 years) who were in utero during the 2010 Haiti earthquake that resulted i...
Background
During World War II, many hidden Jewish children survived the Nazi occupation by hiding under false identities, in most cases separated from their parents. After the war, these children were not considered as survivors of the Holocaust and their suffering was often not recognized. Consequently, their experiences were ignored in many narr...
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 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 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...
Mon intervention relate des aspects d’une recherche ou plutôt d'un compagnonnage avec un groupe particulier, d'anciens enfants juifs cachés en France pendant l’occupation qui ont survécu au génocide et que je rencontre 60 ans après. Mon propos va s’appuyer sur ma participation aux activités de l’Association pour la mémoire du convoi Y1 qu'ils ont c...
This contribution concerning traumatism and the mourning of Jewish children, holocaust survivors hidden in France during WWII, is a retrospective study on the psychological consequences in a situation of genocide in childhood. In this article two different types of research, carried out in France, will be underlined. The first concerns a group of f...
“Hidden Jewish children”, Holocaust survivors. Traumatisms and mourning. Retrospective studies
This contribution concerning traumatism and the mourning of Jewish children, holocaust survivors hidden in France during WWII, is a retrospective study on the psychological consequences in a situation of genocide in childhood. In this article two differen...
This article explores how shame affects individuals over time, from childhood to late adulthood. A series of semi-structured interviews was conducted with 35 aging hidden Jewish children (21 women, 14 men; mean age of 74.9 years, range: 65-82 years), living in France 65 years after the Holocaust. For most of them, shame repeatedly acts as an "alarm...
Background
The mental health needs of young children in humanitarian contexts often remain unaddressed. The lack of a validated, rapid and simple tool for screening combined with few mental health professionals able to accurately diagnose and provide appropriate care mean that young children remain without care. Here, we present the results of the...
The encounter of anthropology and psychology in Leenhardt's controversial construct of the indigenous mind in New Caledonia widely inspired the theoretical development of French colonial psychiatry, entertaining close ties with anthropology , differential psychology, phenomenological psychiatry, and colonial psychiatry. Few ethnologists have had su...
MANUEL DES PSYCHOTRAUMATISMES CLINIQUES ET RECHERCHES CONTEMPORAINES
Yoram MOUCHENIK, Thierry BAUBET, Marie Rose MORO Eds (Eds), La Pensée Sauvage, Grenoble (2012)
Nouvelles perspectives pour les cliniques des traumatismes psychiques, ici et ailleurs. Présentation des recherches du Manuel des Psychotraumatismes. Cliniques et recherches contemporain...
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The encounter of anthropology and psychology in Leenhardt's controversial construct of the indigenous mind in New Caledonia widely inspired the theoretical development of French colonial psychiatry, entertaining close ties with anthropology, differential psychology, phenomenological psychiatry, and colonial psychiatry. Few ethnologists have had suc...
Resiliency and creative process for children and adolescents victim of natural disasters in Haiti
In the context of sustainable reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake of January 12, 2010, this research analyzes the resilience and creative processes of Haitian children and adolescents. It examines in particular the role of family, school, care...
The psychiatric and psychological consequences of traumas experienced by refugees represent an important public health problem, not to mention the social isolation, the loss of cultural references and identity, the disruption of family and social network, the difficulties in coping with economic, social and language barriers. One of the other main...
L'evaluation des difficultes psychologiques et de la sante mentale des enfants pris en charge par les institutions de protection de l'enfance devient un objet de recherche important sur le plan international. Cette preoccupation est indissociable de l'augmentation considerable du nombre des enfants pris en charge de par le monde par des institution...
Questionnaire Guiding the Evaluation of psychological disorders in young children protected by a Welfare System.
For children protected by Welfare Systems, the evaluation of psychological disorders and mental health is now an international key issue. Placements in foster care have dramatically increased around the world. Better attention is needed...
Trauma from war and violence has led to psychological disorders in individuals living in the Gaza strip and West Bank. Few reports are available on the psychiatric disorders seen in children and adolescents or the treatment of affected populations. This study was conducted in order to describe the occurrence and treatment of psychiatric disorders i...
We present the therapeutic family follow-up in rural environment of New Caledonia of a twelve year old boy suffering from serious invalidating cephalgias for which no physiological cause was found. In the second time we chose to continue a research task on the contents of the family social representations which underline the place of the social org...
Vous trouverez ci-après le tiré à part de votre article en format électronique (pdf) : Igor, l'enfant menacé de l'île d'Ouvéa (Nouvelle-Calédonie) paru dans Information psychiatrique, 2009, Volume 85, Numéro 7 John Libbey Eurotext Ce tiré à part numérique vous est délivré pour votre propre usage et ne peut être transmis à des tiers qu'à des fins de...
Igor, the Threatened Boy from Ouvea Island (New Caledonia)
We present the therapeutic family follow-up in rural environment of New Caledonia of a twelve year old boy suffering from serious invalidating cephalgias for which no physiological cause was found. In the second time we chose to continue a research task on the contents of the family social...
Interbreeding and Judaism
At first, this association of words, Judaism and interbreeding, is a nonsense since the orthodox definition of Judaism would be its very strict enclosure. We could talk of an obsession of separation in Judaism. Pure and the impure one, holy and secular, licit and illicit. Marie Douglas in her book Purity and danger underli...
JEWISH CHILDREN HIDDEN IN FRANCE DURING WORLD WAR II : TRAUMATIC TRACES WHICH REMAIN VISIBLE MORE THAN SIXTY YEARS LATER
The aim of this research is to show the consequences of trauma in adults who are between 65 and 80 years of age, even though the traumas occurred years ago when they were children. Series of psycho-historical pattern interviews h...
The aim of this research is to show the consequences of trauma in adults who are between 65 and 80 years of age, even though the traumas occurred years ago when they were children. Series of psycho-historical pattern interviews have been made with thirty-five people. We choose to present one such case. This case covers most of the themes encountere...
On Maré Island in New Caledonia ;the elder's child' is an etiologic category with its own specific features. This article describes the work of a clinical psychologist with the family of a polyhandicapped child described as 'the elder's child.' Psychological and ethnographic perspectives provide complementary approaches to investigating cultural me...
Maurice Leenhardt est parmi les rares ethnologues à inspirer les courants psychologiques et psychiatriques de son temps. Pour mieux comprendre la pensée de Maurice Leenhardt, il est indispensable de contextualiser ses travaux au regard d'au moins cinq références : l'ethnologie de Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, la psychiatrie coloniale, la psychologie différent...
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La consultation transculturelle de l’hôpital Avicenne est souvent un lieu où convergent des patients aux parcours longs, douloureux, émaillés de traumatismes et de ruptures et des équipes en difficulté devant la complexité et la lourdeur de certaines situations. Désarroi et sentiment d’impasse sont doublement vécus avec un risque renforcé d’errance...
From vanishing to mourning for the holocaust orphans
Jewish orphans children who survived to nazi persecutions and french collusion by hidding were victim of multiple trauma. Becoming adults, parents and grand-parents, some of them share for several years associative life to honour and to pass on the memory of their parents murdered in deportation....
Identification of post-traumatic disorders in young refugee children. The construction of the Debar questionnaire (Macedonia)
The construction of evaluation tools for psychological post-traumatic disorders in refugee children in situations of war and disaster seems all the more necessary that mental health programs are developped. We describe a too...
« The elder’s child » is an etiologic category which as a psychiatric nosography owns specific features. On the Mare island (Loyalty archipelago), the relations of the psychologist with Victor’s family, the polyhandicaped elder child, show cultural and anthropological aspects driving the clinician toward the underlying social and subjective meaning...
The Silences of the Archives, the Reknown of the Story.
The Martin Guerre affair has been told many times since Jean de Coras and Guillaume Lesueur published their stories in 1561. It is in many ways a perfect intrigue with uncanny resemblance, persuasive deception and a surprizing end when the two Martin stood face to face, memory to memory, befor...
A suspended and upsetting time : disease, motherhood and early childhood of Maré island in New-Caledonia
On Maré island of New-Caledonia, disease, motherhood and childhood are tied together by the same notion of vulnerability and potential danger. Through clinical practice and anthropological research with kanak families, we investigate the wide sc...
The article tries to discuss the identity construction of Jewish adolescent. This figuration of « Jewish adolescent » is an abstraction to help us to combine the diverse elements of identity with regard to the various making up of the religious, sociological and symbolic Jewish entity whom actual definition is mainly religious and historical.
