[How can nurses help prevent coercive control?].

Able to work in any sector, with patients of any age and from any socioeconomic or cultural background, the state-qualified nurse is a front-line player, likely to come into contact with victims of violence between (ex) intimate partners. In the current context of growing awareness of the concept of coercive control, this caregiver has a vital role to play in preventing this health and social scourge.

The Global Impact of Multisystemic Vulnerabilities on Criminal Variety: A Cross-Continental Study in Young Adults.

Previous research has shown a robust association between different childhood and adolescent vulnerabilities and youth offending. However, these investigations have primarily focused on youths from high-income Western countries. Consequently, the generalizability of these findings to better inform global justice policies remains uncertain.

[The psychopathological dimension of female alcoholism].

In France, as in other countries, more and more women are affected by alcoholism. Progress needs to be made in the early detection and management of their physical and psychological dependence on alcohol, as well as their psychopathological comorbidities.

[Impact of adapted physical activities on the health and psychological factors involved in the learning of pupils and students].

The literature documenting the positive role of adapted physical activities (APA) in academic success is flourishing. It's widely accepted that practicing APA helps you succeed. However, the pathway linking the impact of physical activity on student health to academic success remains unclear, and there is still a great deal of ground to cover.

[Preventing and regulating psychoactive substance use among occasional and regular adolescents].

The academic success and well-being of young people can be undermined by the use of psychoactive substances (PAS), which is particularly prevalent during adolescence, a period vulnerable to social influences. This article is aimed in particular at school and university preventive medicine nurses. It proposes intervention strategies for adolescents who regularly use such substances.

[Infant and child mortality in Palestine].

The infant mortality rate (children under five) in Palestine is 21 deaths per 1,000 live births. Palestine has thus successfully reached the threshold set by the Millennium Development Goals for child mortality. However, this rate is higher than in neighboring countries.

[Substance use among adolescents: Addiction or self-handicap strategy?].

Self-handicapping strategies consist of creating or declaring obstacles to oneself before a situation of accomplishment that threatens the self, as might be the case during an academic assessment or a sporting competition, in order to protect oneself from a possible failure or to valorise oneself in the event of success. It turns out that beyond the physiological effects sought and the dependence linked to the product, the consumption of psychoactive substances can serve as an excuse for users in the event of failure, thus protecting their sense of competence or enhancing it in the event of success, for having succeeded in spite of their consumption, which is known to have a negative impact on performance.

[Psychological support for weight loss].

Psychological support for obese people as part of their health care process seems to be a matter of course. However, it is one of the most poorly relayed components in the field. Exploring and assessing are necessary operations in order to develop an integrative approach to psychological support, involving body-mediated approaches and an optimal helping alliance.

[Obesity, a multifactorial, chronic disease].

A pathology of modernity, obesity is developing rapidly in the population, linked to multiple risk factors and somatopsychic disturbances. The healthcare system's responses have been enriched by specialized programs and centers, but we mustn't forget basic clinical pragmatism.

[Analysis of the psychological causes of early substance use among adolescents in school and university settings].

Experimentation with psychoactive substances (PAS), such as alcohol, tobacco or cannabis, is common in adolescence, and continues to pose a public health issue that can lead to failure at school and university. Most of the work on these issues focuses on addiction-related aspects, and little on the underlying causes of addiction. This article sheds psycho-social theoretical light on the causes of first-time use of APS, and cannabis in particular.

[Soothing in units for difficult patients and in psychiatric intensive care units].

In the units for difficult patients (UMD) and the intensive psychiatric care units (Usip), patients whose mental pathologies have or could generate violent acts which can go as far as committing homicide are taken care of. If, during the psychiatric care of these patients, isolation and restraint measures can be put in place as a last resort, in general it is the symptomatological and behavioral appeasement of these persons that is sought in an alternative way.

[Isolation and restraint in units for difficult patients and in psychiatric intensive care units].

The units for difficult patients (UMD) and the intensive psychiatric care units (Usip) are psychiatric services that are not successively sectorized, created to meet the needs of intensive care in a closed environment and sometimes of a forensic nature. These two systems are used to care for patients whose clinical condition often makes it too complex to maintain them in sector psychiatric units, and many of their operating rules differ. This is not the case for seclusion and restraint measures and the application of the law governing these measures.

[Health care workers: the importance of adapted physical activities].

Adapted physical activities (APA) in the workplace improve workers' health. Paradoxically, APA remains marginal in the very places where improving health is the central objective of health care workers, namely clinics and hospitals. Promoting physical activity in the workplace is a twofold challenge.

[Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and music therapy].

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with disabling co-morbidities can benefit from music therapy devices that are effective on anxiety, dyspnea, depression and quality of life. This complementary support therapy is easy to implement, in hospital or at home, and allows the patient to take ownership of this self-care.

[Tuberculosis remains a public health issue in South Africa].

Tuberculosis is an airborne infectious disease that can damage the lungs and other body organs. Early detection of people infected with Koch's bacillus is important because tuberculosis is a contagious disease. It can be cured.

[Circumcision and HIV Prevention in Southern Africa: WHO Recommendations Questioned].

The relationship between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and male circumcision, medical or traditional, remains controversial. Randomized clinical trials indicate that medical circumcision reduces the incidence in the months following surgery. But population-based studies show that the prevalence is the same over the long term.

[Psychological care for combatants psychotraumatized by armed conflict].

The treatment of psychotrauma is based on two main aspects, pharmacological and psychotherapeutic, in accordance with national and international recommendations on psychotherapy, which recommend the use of different techniques, depending on the time frame of the psychotraumatic event or events. The principles of psychological support are based on three phases: immediate, post-medical and long-term. Therapeutic patient education brings added value to the psychological care of psychotraumatized people.

[Social care for patients hospitalized in units for difficult patients].

The units for difficult patients are secure psychiatric wards that receive people suffering from mental illnesses with a risk of dangerous behaviour. Within the framework of the global care of these patients, the intervention of social service assistants plays an essential role. The objective is to induce the psychosocial benefits necessary for the stabilization and evolution of these patients.

[Interest of the adapted physical activities for the staff of the penitentiary administration].

The poor state of health of some prisoners, the tensions and violence that can exist in prisons lead the administration's staff to work in a sometimes difficult context. The regular practice of adapted physical activities appears to be a particularly opportune course of action for the agents concerned: it would bring them physical and psychological benefits in their professional exercise.

[Psychiatric intensive care units].

The intensive psychiatric care units are intermediate health structures between the sector psychiatric services and the units for difficult patients. Prisoners can be treated there under article D. 398 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

[Units for difficult patients].

The ten French units for difficult patients are secure psychiatric services which receive people suffering from mental pathologies who could have committed or have committed dangerous acts. Among the mental health structures presented in this dossier, the units for difficult patients are those which admit prisoners with psychological disorders and problems of dangerousness for the longest period of time. As fully-fledged care facilities, they offer intensive and multi-professional care.

[Risks and Opportunities of Reproducing with HIV].

The war in Ukraine is a major and long-lasting polytraumatic event which has deleterious psychological consequences on a very large number of people in the country (combatants, civilians of all ages), or outside the country. These psychological disorders can have a lasting effect on the lives of children, adolescents and adults who are direct or indirect victims.