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Adoption et troubles psychiatriques émergents à l’adolescence

Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The clinical situations recurrence with adopted adolescents in our practice of medecine leads to question the connection between psychiatric disorders emergence during adolescence and the adoption background. Adolescence enters in resonance with adoption by the convergence of filiation issues with identity and origins questioning, through parental representations which result from this. In the present study, a literature review over the last fifteen years highlights the absence of direct causal link between adoption and psychiatric disorder emergence during adolescence. But it attests the reality of vulnerability factors, like the child age at the time of the adoption, the pre-adoption living conditions, the adoption circumstances, the geographic origin (of the child) and the home environment. For instance, there is indeed less psychiatric disorders for teenagers who maintain good relationships with their adoptive family. A descriptive study we carried out in a service of hospitalization for teenagers reveals that the adoptees percentage is more important than the one in general population. Futhermore, adoptees differ from their pars not by their diagnosis but by the their disorders intensity (more frequent and longer hospitalizations, alongside with more legal actions). The cases presented in this study are extreme cases, which do not represent/reflect the majority of adopted teenagers. In general, adopted teenagers are well adapted but we sould/must be able to detect situations at risk in order to avoid their aggravation. Thanks to the knowledge of vulnerabilty factors, prevention and specific support of these teenagers are essential measures in our practice.
Source: HAL
Author: Eva Minneboo
Language: French
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2395025528
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