Becoming a mother when suffering from a chronic illness.

Introduction: The critical period of early motherhood when facing serious health problems constitutes a major public health issue. The disease may interfere with, influence, and compound the difficulties experienced over the course of pregnancy and during the parenthood processes. These processes are to be understood as a passage involving so many changes and fraught with difficulties leading to a series of psychological mobilizations.

Couples Coping With the Serious Illness of One of the Partners.

Chronic kidney failure is a serious somatic disease. Addressing the issue of living with a chronic disease means fully considering the patients' entourage, their families, and those close to them, especially their children and spouses. : The present paper focuses on the couple's psychological experience when one of them suffers from a chronic disease, in this instance kidney disease.

Early substance consumption and problematic use of video games in adolescence.

Substance use as well as use of video games is frequent among young people. The purpose of this research was to study the links between the use of video games and the consumption of various substances such as alcohol, tobacco or cannabis at adolescence. In order to do so, 1423 students from middle and high schools filled an auto-questionnaire that included questions on age, gender, year of study, use of video games and consumptions of alcohol (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test Short version, AUDIT-C), tobacco (Heaviness of Smoking Index, HSI), and cannabis (Cannabis Abuse Screening Test, CAST).

[Patients on dialysis and the psychological aging process].

In reference to psychopathology, the authors highlight several indicators of the aging dialysed patient's psychological functioning. The aim of this work is to extract some indicators in order to help these patients to experience a pleasant aging, in spite of a difficult disease state, constraining care and the presence of several side effects.