[Positioning of nurses in Criavs and the role of specialized literature].

The circular of August 8, 2008, which founded the resource centers for those working with perpetrators of sexual violence (Criavs), integrates a multidisciplinary vision including nurses. In an entity that does not function like a traditional medical unit, this role necessarily questions its positioning. In order to build up their skills, Criavs nurses will have to call upon all the information available to them, of which the specialized literature is an integral part.

[Establishment of analysis groups of professional nursing practice in mental health].

In mental health, as elsewhere, nurses are increasingly faced with clinical and organizational problems. At a time when the nursing profession is experiencing new perspectives through advanced practice, particularly in psychiatry and mental health, a cross-sectional view is proposed on the implementation of an experimentation of analysis groups of professional nursing practice at the Nancy psychotherapeutic center (54). The strengths, limits and perspectives of this system are presented for the teams, their management and for the clinical nurse specialist who leads the sessions.

[Nurses' feedback on advanced nursing practice in mental health].

Nurses will soon be able to develop advanced practice in mental health through a state certified diploma. This new role will see caregivers acquire other competencies, such as prescribing, and marks a development of the profession through the growth of nursing sciences. The evolution of practices and the clinical approach in care would gain from collaboration between advanced practice nurses undergoing training and qualified clinical nurse specialists.

[Clinical and relational approach to imprisoned perpetrators of sexual violence].

Who are these people who sexually assault others, adults or children? They are called 'monsters', 'predators', 'sex offenders', but who is really hidden behind these stereotypes? The diversity of the patients who are perpetrators of sexual violence poses a challenge in terms of the encounter with them; through what they have done but also what they are and what they have experienced. The question then arises of how to establish a relationship with them, and how, as a caregiver, to go beyond one's own representations in order to implement a therapeutic approach.