Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.10.001
M. Maury
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/S0222-9617(24)00182-X
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.07.004
Sandra Brouche , Fabienne Cazalis , Natalie Rigal
Sensory processing has been a diagnostic criterion for autism spectrum condition since the fifth version of the DSM. However, there is no consensus regarding assessment methods. This article is a systematic review of methods for assessing sensory processing in children and adolescents with autism aged between 0 and 18 years, with three objectives: (1) to identify and organize, using PRISMA, the different methods used in scientific articles for assessing sensory processing in autism; (2) to discuss their advantages and limitations by using the COSMIN checklist; (3) to suggest possible recommendations. Analysis of the 142 articles selected revealed five types of assessment method: questionnaires, psychophysical measurements, electroencephalography, neuroimaging and observation. Questionnaires were the most frequently cited clinical method, while psychophysical tests were the most represented. Each method has limitations in terms of individual utilization due to non-standardized procedures and varied investigation targets. While this systematic review makes it possible to better identify the methods used in the clinical and research fields for sensory processing specificities in children and adolescents on the spectrum, it also highlights the fact that the lack of consensus on assessments is partly due to a problem of definition of this process. Future research will need to agree on a characterization of sensory processing in order to develop a common assessment.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.09.002
S. Catsaros , I. Cacho , J. Wendland
Context
High-risk pregnancy constitutes a factor of vulnerability for women. The role of midwives in caring for these women is crucial, but little is known about their views concerning these complex pregnancies.
Objective
This study aims to increase insight on midwives’ outlook on high-risk pregnancies, their self-perceived roles, the challenges encountered, and their guidance for best practice.
Methods
This qualitative study took place in a maternity clinic of a University Hospital in France. Ten midwives were interviewed, and a thematic analysis was performed. The design of the research followed the COREQ checklist guidelines for reporting qualitative research.
Results
Five themes emerged from the analysis: (1) “Like a bolt from the blue” for the psychological impact and the essential reassurance midwives bring, (2) “Helping women get help” to detect alarming signs and the difficulty to address mental health issues (3) “Human Swiss army knives” for their specific expertise and the human part of their work, (4) “Women and their environment” for taking the time to understand women as a whole and consider the impact of/on their environments, and (5) “Clinical and human setting” for consistent teamwork, respectful of each woman's individuality.
Discussion
This study highlights the necessity of a woman-centred care in high-risk pregnancies. Midwives reflected on their roles in this particular care as they contribute to a more human and respectful approach of women while helping to maintain clinical stability and enhance women's well-being. Midwives advocated for normalizing mental health issues, for approaching women in a holistic way, for providing continuity of care, and for being consistent in teamwork.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.05.006
N. Bouaziz , L. Gérémy , J.-M. Baleyte
Objective
This exploratory qualitative study aims to identify factors influencing orientation, access to speech therapy professionals and its maintenance in adolescents with autism. This was carried out by questioning them about their perceptions of the place and objectives of speech therapy concerning teenagers with autism spectrum disorders in a context where adolescents struggle to benefit from it.
Sample and Method
Eight child psychiatry professionals including four child psychiatrists, three speech therapists and a psychomotor-therapist took part. These semi-structured interviews have been analyzed using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA).
Results
The perception of adolescents with ASD as carriers of severe behavioral disorders and unlikely to be e subject to significant clinical changes has an unfavorable influence on the indication for speech therapy at this age. In addition, the management of the shortages in speech therapy is done to the detriment of adolescents in order to prioritize the youngest. Speech therapy follow-ups are experienced as cumbersome with a lack of specific assessments and speech therapy tools for this age.
Discussion
Communication disorders are insufficiently assessed by prescribing professionals who have a more vague representation of the specificities of speech therapy work at this age. In the current situation of speech therapy shortage, speech therapists are torn between the desire to continue to follow an adolescent, whose development potential is not always perceived, and the moral and clinical obligation to take care of toddlers who are generally prioritized.
Conclusion
These results reveal the need for more specific speech therapy assessments and tools for adolescents with autism to better target their communication needs and offer more appropriate care. Precise training on the issue of ASD in adolescence would make it possible to consider the diversity of needs and presentations of disorders at this age. Speech therapy monitoring of adolescents with autism raises questions about possible changes in the practice of speech therapy.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.07.006
M. Giannitelli, C. Cravero, D. Cohen, M. Karima, J. Lefèvre-Utile
Context
The interaction between individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their environment can result in numerous physical, cognitive and behavioral challenges. Evidence-based design is a means to examine the relationship between design and care and use it to achieve a positive impact on patients’ health and well-being.
Method
A literature review was conducted in a multidisciplinary manner (clinicians and architects) and complemented by ethnographic doctoral research focused on people with ASD, ID, and challenging behaviours.
Results
We found 22 articles including 11 original research but only five specifically on individuals with ASD and challenging behaviours. Behavioural disorders or challenging behaviours are mainly influenced by the restrictive dimension of the environment and its sensory characteristics. To take into account the specific needs of people with ASD, interior architecture must distinguish five aspects: (1) interaction-contact between the person with ASD and his or her living space; (2) the intelligibility of the living space (e.g. predictability and routine of daily life); (3) the possibility of modulation between the need and/or avoidance of social interaction in the living space; (4) the balance between well-being and safety; (5) sensory difficulties and adapted facilities (e.g. retreat areas or sensory rooms, acoustics, lighting, temperature).
Discussion
Architecture, as a discipline, uses best design practices to create individualized environments, engaging spaces that fit the specific needs of individuals with autism, helping them to deal with their environment, and encouraging their independence in the hope of preventing the emergence of some severe behavioral disorders and improving the individual's quality of life. More research should be conducted on this topic.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.09.003
J.-M. Baleyte (Professeur de pédopsychiatrie)
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/S0222-9617(24)00150-8
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.05.003
Objectives
Following on from our research into mediation through role-playing games, we are investigating the ways in which transference is expressed given the characteristics of this medium which combines game activity and collective narrations. From this perspective, we hypothesize that it mobilises a specific form of transference at the origin of particular therapeutic movements.
Patients and method
We met with two groups of adolescents (7 adolescents altogether) in a therapeutic mediation through role-playing games, conducted by a psychologist and an educator in an adapted educational institution. We proposed a grid for identifying transference movements, making it possible to characterize the nature of these movements and to differentiate their scene of emergence between group and narrative. We studied the transcripts of all the workshop sessions to highlight the emerging processes and their evolution.
Results
Our results showed that the transference was initially generalised and marked by massive tendencies to express aggression, denial or rejection of the other and the group. Over time, the mode of relationship to the object seemed to evolve, drawing on the transference enabled by the psychologist and the educator and by the link between relationships at the actual and narrative levels.
Discussion
The role-playing game reveals itself as a place of projection of the relational dynamics and representations of the relationships. The medium then reveals the pitfall in the creation of a bond and the recognition of the object's place, and the underlying anxieties. However, it also becomes a transformer of relationships because it allows the emergence of a transference that is first diffracted in the narrative envelope, which secondly authorizes a movement of recovery and a relief of group relationships.
Conclusion
The role-playing game offers spaces for projection that takes account of the suffering linked to the situation of encounter within the group. It is also a place where relational dynamics can unfold, protected from the destructiveness of acting through the prism of narrative and a three-stage transfer that contributes to the process of historicization.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.05.005
For more than thirty years, a huge stream of research has enlightened the functions of Mirror Neurons (MNs) in humans and animals. Criticisms have been published, especially since 2010, targeting neuropsychological hypotheses of the MNs which refer to empathy and mind-reading (i.e., high-level processes of action understanding), as well as the extrapolation of the MNs in an attempt to explain the etiology of psychiatric disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia. One would expect that these criticisms be considered with a time lag in the field of psychiatry because they were not originally formulated in that field, that these hypotheses have gained significant popularity, and that criticism of the “broken mirror theory” of ASD emerged at a later stage. We conducted an analysis of publications on MNs on PubMed. We identified 2,595 publications on “Mirror Neuron” from January 1995 until the 27th of May 2023; 443 concerned psychiatric disorders and another 550 publications were related to high-level processes of action understanding. We found no time lag in publications on high-level processes of action understanding of MNs between the peaks of publications on psychiatric disorders and all the other publications (both peaks in June 2014). Our findings indicate effective knowledge dissemination between psychiatric research and other research fields.
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