Influence of at-risk family interactions on the course of psychiatric care in adolescence.

Dysparenting, referring to inappropriate parental attitudes, is a vulnerability factor for mental disorders during adolescence and a therapeutic leverage, yet clinicians lack reliable tools to assess it in daily clinical practice. Moreover, the effect of this dysparenting on the amount of psychiatric care remains unclear. The Family and Care study aims to develop the at-risk family interactions and levers (ARFIL) scale, a comprehensive 30-item clinical scale, and to assess in a cross-sectional design, the impact of these at-risk family interactions on the care of adolescents (n = 425) hospitalized in psychiatry and aged 13-19 years old.

Four attachment-based categories of emotion regulation in adolescent psychic troubles.

Introduction: Emotion regulation is altered in many psychiatric disorders in adolescence, but the understanding of mechanisms that underlie this alteration is still poor.

Methods: The PERCEPT study explores alexithymia, empathy, facial emotion recognition (FER) and defence mechanisms in a sample of adolescents in psychiatric care ( = 61, 74% of girls, mean age = 15.03 y.

Clinical Stakes of Sexual Abuse in Adolescent Psychiatry.

Background: The extent and nature of sexual abuse (SA) and its consequences in psychiatry are still poorly described in adolescence.

Objective: This article describes the frequency of SA reported in an adolescent population hospitalized in psychiatry, and assesses its links with the severity of mental disorders and the medical issues of these adolescents.

Methods: The study includes 100 patients for whom SA has been mentioned, among all patients aged 13 to 17 years old hospitalized for about 4 years.

Facteurs D'adversité Chez des Adolescents Issus de Milieu Aisé Hospitalisés en Psychiatrie.

Malgré l'enjeu majeur de santé publique qu'elles représentent, les maltraitances infantiles, et particulièrement les négligences, restent sous-estimées en psychiatrie, tant dans leur prévalence que leur impact sur la santé. De plus, le phénomène de maltraitance reste habituellement associé à un fort déterminisme socio-culturel et est très peu évalué dans les catégories sociales aisées. Cette étude mesure la prévalence et l'impact sur l'état médical des facteurs d'adversité précoce - maltraitances (abus et négligences) et événements de vie (divorce, séparations précoces, antécédents familiaux de maladie psychiatrique) - dans une population d'adolescents hospitalisés en psychiatrie et issus de milieux aisés, afin d'en évaluer l'ampleur et l'impact.