Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.11.002
S. Chergui , P. Fourneret , P. Espi , C. Gauld
Objectives
Dissociation is a major phenomenon in child and adolescent psychiatry. It involves an involuntary disruption in the adequate integration of psychological functions, related to various neuropsychological mechanisms. This study aims to examine the relationships between dissociation, emotion regulation, and alexithymia in adolescents.
Patients and methods
. Forty-eight hospitalized adolescents (aged 12–16) were recruited from February 2022 to October 2023. They completed the Dissociative Experience Scale (DES), the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). A series of multiple regressions and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were conducted to analyze the relationships among these variables.
Results
The findings revealed a significant association between dissociation (DES) and alexithymia (TAS) (β = 1.45, P = 0.002), as well as between dissociation and difficulties in emotion regulation (DERS) (β = 0.98, P = 0.018). The SEM indicated that while the total effect of alexithymia on dissociation was significant (P < 0.001), the specific mediating effect of emotion regulation was not statistically significant (P = 0.29).
Discussion
These results highlight the importance of alexithymia in the dissociative experience of adolescents, independent of emotion regulation difficulties. The absence of a mediating effect of DERS suggests that dissociation and alexithymia may be directly related without the involvement of emotion regulation.
Conclusions
This study opens avenues for therapeutic interventions targeting alexithymia to alleviate dissociative symptoms.
目的分离是儿童和青少年精神病学的一个重要现象。它涉及与各种神经心理机制有关的心理功能的充分整合的不自主中断。本研究旨在探讨青少年解离、情绪调节与述情障碍之间的关系。患者和方法。从2022年2月至2023年10月招募了48名住院青少年(12-16岁)。他们分别完成了解离体验量表(DES)、情绪调节困难量表(DERS)和多伦多述情障碍量表(TAS-20)。通过一系列多元回归和结构方程模型(SEM)分析了这些变量之间的关系。结果分离与述情障碍(TAS) (β = 1.45, P = 0.002)、情绪调节困难(DERS) (β = 0.98, P = 0.018)存在显著相关性。扫描电镜显示,虽然述情障碍对解离的总体影响显著(P <;0.001),情绪调节的特定中介作用无统计学意义(P = 0.29)。这些结果强调述情障碍在青少年分离体验中的重要性,独立于情绪调节困难。无DERS的中介作用提示解离和述情障碍可能在没有情绪调节参与的情况下直接相关。结论本研究为缓解述情障碍解离症状的治疗干预开辟了途径。
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Pub Date : 2024-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.11.007
A. Ben Hamouda , M.C. Gharbi , S. Bourgou , M. Daoud , K. Bouzghaïa Bagbag , M. Hamza , F. Charfi , A. Belhadj
Aim
This paper attempts to illustrate the semiology of temporal epilepsy in patients initially considered to be suffering from psychiatric disorders.
Methods
We report five clinical vignettes of patients referred to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of Mongi Slim Hospital (Tunisia) between 2017 and 2021 for psychiatric disorders, in whom the diagnosis of temporal epilepsy was retained.
Results
Four boys and one girl, aged three to eleven, were referred for paroxysmal neuropsychiatric features. Family history of epilepsy was noted in three patients. Two children had psychomotor and language delay. Symptomatology was dominated by cognitive and behavioral disorders. Electroencephalogram confirmed the diagnosis of temporal epilepsy by showing local paroxysmal abnormalities. Brain imaging had shown predominantly temporal abnormalities in two cases. The evolution, under antiepileptic treatment, was favorable in four patients.
Conclusion
The reported clinical vignettes underline the importance of discussing temporal lobe epilepsy when faced with paroxysmal and/or atypical psychiatric manifestations in children.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.11.003
R. Blanc , A. Rambault , P. Dansart , H. Zoppé , F. Bonnet-Brilhault , J. Malvy
Concepts of care for children with ASD have evolved significantly over the past two decades. These evolutions have been possible thanks not only to an earlier identification of the developmental particularities of children, but also by the development of earlier intervention programs and a better consideration of family needs. This present work aims to present the evolution of these care practices for children with ASD and their families in France, illustrating it with the example of exchange and development therapy and EDT through parent involvement.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-16DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.11.001
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.07.008
Valentine d’Aspremont Lynden , Cécile Vander Vorst , Anne Wintgens
We herein present the case of a child treated in our outpatient clinic, by a resident physician in child psychiatry. His symptoms of autism were seemingly evident at first glance. However, his medical history, psychosocial background and neurodevelopment led us to question this diagnosis with nuance and caution. In this situation, we observed the intertwining of neurological, developmental and psychological factors, all of which seem to have played a role in the evolution of symptoms presented by the patient. We felt it was essential to allow space for each of these three potential diagnostic readings. Our investment in this situation was particularly marked by the obstacles we encountered in setting up appropriate treatment. These difficulties arose as a result of network overload, administrative difficulties encountered by the parents, cultural and language barriers, as well as familial limitations and resistance to assistance. Despite this, the psychological mobilisation of the parents seemed to play an important role in this child's evolution. Finally, this case led us to consider the importance of prevention, particularly in perinatal care. Identification by a team of child psychiatrists in the immediate postpartum period would probably have prevented, at least in part, this child's deterioration and limited the family's suffering.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.04.004
This paper initiates a theoretical-clinical reflection on the specificity of child psychiatric support for children of psychotic parents or those suffering from severe personality disorders, at the time of the psychotherapeutic follow-up of a five-year-old child presenting psychomotor agitation. Over and above the multiple biopsychosocial risk factors, these complex situations require child psychiatrists to clarify their support and public health role in order to guarantee coherent care and expertise. Indeed, the various players involved (child welfare, justice, education, adult psychiatry, neuropediatric, etc.) may ignore one another or take on a role that exceeds their field of competence : the result is sometimes a certain confusion of roles, or even confusing measures and contradictory positions. When a child's symptomatology and that of his or her family preclude the use of classic, standardized interviews, it seems to us that narrative work is best carried out as close as possible to the subject's spontaneous enunciation (spoken or acted). We can then attempt to identify the operative stages of care and postulate that it is only when the child names his own impulsivity (his “crazy” part) that he will be able to recognize it in his parent. This opens the possibility of a certain representation of parental psychopathology and of putting it into narrative form. First postulated as a subject, this child is invited to name his psychomotor excitement, then that of his parent: “volcano”. The loss of a concrete object, a “blue pebble”, between two sessions, opens the space for representation and graphic expression. This object of reality becomes an object of mediation between him and his therapist and is presented as the support for a signifier, “blue”: in this way, a process of encryption and symbolization begins, an attempt to put the world in order. The signifier “blue” (which cools and extinguishes fire) is articulated with the signifier “red” (which burns and excites) in complex constructions, but not without effect on the patient's body and symptoms. These clinical elements could be passed on to the various partners and could support their care, educational, rehabilitative and expert missions.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.06.002
S. Fierdepied , Y. Motreff , P. Pirard , T. Baubet
Introduction
Santé publique France carried out a web-based epidemiological survey (ESPA 13 Novembre) between 8 and 12 months after the terrorist attacks of the 13 November 2015. This was done in order to explore the post-traumatic psychological impact of the attacks on the directly exposed civilians and responders as well as their use of healthcare services. The survey took the form of a series of closed-ended questions as well as several open-ended questions. We present here an analysis of the responses of civilians to the following specific question: “If you have children, can you tell us whether you think the experience you went through had an effect on them, or on your relationship with them? Can you explain?”.
Objective
To find out about the impact of the attacks on the children of exposed civilians and on parent–child relationships, something that has never been studied in the context of mass attacks.
Method
We carried out a thematic analysis of civilians’ responses to this specific question, building up general themes by data reduction.
Results
The analyses revealed four main themes which relate to the impact of the exposure to terrorist attacks on parent-child relationships, the changes experienced in their role as parents, their children's reactions and, finally, the ways in which they tried to protect their children.
Discussion
The parents highlighted the psychological changes that operated in them, their unease, their fear of the outside world, and their concern for their children's safety. They discussed the consequences of the attacks on their children in terms of stress, insecurity, psychological disturbances, and even of the emergence of real disorders. The parents have tried to fulfil their protective role in a variety of ways, sometimes with a feeling of powerlessness reinforced for some by the difficulty of finding suitable care spaces. Attachment bonds have, for the most part, tightened in these families demonstrating their reassuring function within the group. It seems essential to care for children, and the family as a whole, alongside their parents, in order to re-establish secure attachment bonds which are a factor in resilience.
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Child and adolescent psychiatrists are increasingly being requested by judicial authorities to examine children and adolescents. This increase is in part attributable to progress in Tunisian legislation on the protection of women and children. Nevertheless, clinicians have encountered several difficulties in conducting these examinations. This study aims to analyse the epidemiological and clinical profiles of children examined in a medico-legal context and to discuss the difficulties in managing these examinations.
Methods
This is a cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study that examined the records of all patients referred to the Child Psychiatry Department in Monastir as part of medico-legal examinations during the years 2021–2022. We therefore filled in a form to investigate the child's socio-demographic data, background and the specifics of the medical-legal examination.
Results
Our study included 454 children and adolescents with a M/F sex ratio equal to 103 and an average age of 11 years. The majority of the population was of low socioeconomic status and lived in a disrupted environment. Child abuse (60.1%), particularly of the sexual type (53.5%), was the most frequent reason for requesting a medico-legal examination, and the diagnoses retained were dominated by acute and post-traumatic stress disorders and adjustment disorders. We also observed a high rate of interruption in medical follow-up and limited availability of information regarding legal outcomes for children in need of psychiatric care.
Conclusion
The current study delves into a significant matter by delineating the socio-demographic and clinical profiles of children undergoing examination in child psychiatry within a medico-legal framework. Collaboration among all stakeholders is thus imperative to ensure improved management and, most importantly, the continuity of care for this specific population.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.09.004
J.-M. Coq
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2024.10.001
M. Maury
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