Introduction: Functional neurological symptom disorder (FNSD) is a common diagnosis among adolescents. However, we feel it is a difficult diagnosis to assess because of the diversity of its clinical manifestations, the rapid changes in its nosography over the years, and its common imbrication with established somatic diagnoses. We would like to illustrate this hypothesis through a case presentation and the original diagnostic process that emerged from it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatient education program (PEP) aims to help the patient acquire the skills necessary to manage a chronic disease. A multidisciplinary TPE program for adolescents with anorexia nervosa was developed in a daycare hospital setting. This qualitative study, exploring the experience of the caregivers involved in this program, reports the benefits but more so the difficulties linked to the clinical specificities of anorexia nervosa, as well as the numerous requirements, constraints and necessary adjustments linked to this innovative practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe epidemiology of adolescent psychiatric disorders and the relational complexity of their management make exposure to adolescent psychiatry essential during medical school. However, some clinical particularities can complicate the students' learning experiences. Our work aimed to explore the experience of being a medical student during clerkships in adolescent psychiatry.
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February 2022
Bibiane Ramerstorfer is an educator for the judicial protection of youth. She takes care of minors under justice, in civil or penal matters. After having worked in a home, she now works in an open environment and regularly uses the photolanguage® method which, through visuals, allows young people to express their feelings, to share experiences that are sometimes traumatic and to verbalize physical concerns.
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February 2022
Christine Baveux is a classics teacher. After having worked in various schools, she joined the team of the Maison de Solenn - Maison des adolescents of the Cochin Hospital as a schooling manager in 2005. Her career, rich in experience, has enabled her to appreciate the suffering that some adolescents may experience at school, a suffering often expressed on the physical level.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLong-term Covid-19 is now part of our lives and can be questioned by adolescents and their families when faced with long- lasting and unexplained symptoms. This is the case of Alice, a 16-year-old teenager treated at the Cochin Hospital's adolescent centre, who presents digestive disorders and strange body sensations mas-king anxiety-depressive affects.
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November 2021
Theo's clinical observation illustrates the management of a 14-year-old adolescent with unexplained somatic symptoms. His symptoms can be integrated into what the classification of mental illnesses calls a somatic symptom disorder, with a depressive comorbidity. The description of the care pathway shows the gradual acceptance of psychological suffering by the adolescent and his parents in a service where different professionals are involved, with sufficient time for a good therapeutic alliance to be built.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Body expression of mental disorders is common in adolescence. Only two literature reviews over the last five years have been identified about somatoform disorders in children., The present article provides a systematic review of articles in English, which concern "Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders" according to the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - 5th Edition) among adolescents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBeing 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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRadicalisation resonates with the psychological vulnerabilities of adolescents. The ups and downs encountered as they attempt to construct their identity and their need to dominate favour the destructive nature of young people lacking a sense of filiation and belonging. An adolescent's engagement corresponds to a search for limits, with an adherence to religious values and to a group to establish self-esteem.
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