By Pierre-Yves Gaudart
Published on 28 Dec 20 at 11:06
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After addictology, a new alliance between the Saint-Jean de Dieu psychiatric hospital and its neighbor, the René Pleven hospital center. The two establishments unite to “meet the mental health care needs of children and adolescents”.
Needs that are growing and that the current health crisis does not help.
Doctor François Amiot, child psychiatrist at Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, reports “particular tension at the moment. Adolescents decompensate, are ill due to periods of confinement. The situation is on the rise. It also affects the smallest children, with the wearing of the mask. These findings are reported to us by parents, attending physicians, schools… ”
In the pediatric department of the hospital, the analysis is similar : “We notice, especially among adolescents who consult, situations of discomfort, crises with the family, needs for breaks. Sometimes, hospitalization allows them to distance themselves from their environment, ”explains Julie Poupart, healthcare manager in the pediatric department of Pleven Hospital.
Insufficient supply
In the area, the first access to care in this area is the Saint-Jean de Dieu medico-psychiatric center. But health professionals regret that “in view of the population served, the child psychiatry offer is insufficient in the Côtes-d’Armor both from the point of view of prevention and of hospitalization”.
There are in fact only ten beds for the department. A single complete unit in child psychiatry, located in Saint-Brieuc and continuously saturated, specifies Karine Bidan, director of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu.
–Three funded positions
The three Costa-Rican mental health establishments (including the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu) formed as a Health Cooperation Group have therefore submitted to the Regional Health Agency a cooperation project with general hospitals, including that of Dinan. .
This project, which has been validated, does not open more specific beds. However, he obtained funding for three positions.
Thus, a team of child psychiatry from Saint-Jean is now working in the pediatric departments of the Pleven hospital.
When a young person hospitalized in pediatrics in René-Pleven, presents psychic problems, he can be followed by this multidisciplinary team (full-time nurse, psychologist and social worker, both part-time).
“This has the advantage of not being stigmatizing for the child or adolescent, thus followed in a more neutral setting and closer to his place of life. “
This team will thus “assess the problems of adolescents, provide their child psychiatric opinion to the pediatric professionals at the Pleven hospital, participate in the orientation or in a support project with the adolescent, the family, the entourage, the resource persons etc. “
She can also lead therapeutic education actions for adolescents but also for those close to them.
A mobile team
Another mechanism validated by the Regional Health Agency is the creation of two mobile child psychiatry teams at the departmental level, for children and adolescents.
In place since the fall and supported by the Saint Jean de Dieu Foundation, they aim to reach out to young people and those around them to ensure access to care when they are in psychological difficulty.
Contacts: Pediatric Department: 02.96.85.79.73 Mobile team: 07.57.48.03.23 / 07.57.40.82.05 / [email protected]
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