L'hospitalisation temps plein en psychiatrie infantojuvénile: un état des lieux

Dépression de l’enfant et de l’adolescent : place du traitement médicamenteux et de l’hospitalisation

“…En 2004, nous avions réalisé une étude sur l'hospitalisation qui montrait que le diagnostic de dépression pour les hospitalisés était porté pour 5,4 % des enfants et 20,9 % des adolescents [8].…”

Risk factors for return visits and rehospitalizations to the child emergency psychiatric unit: A retrospective study over 2 years at Saint-Étienne University Hospital

“…In 2003 the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) reported that one in eight children in France had a mental disorder [1], and although French infant and adolescent psychiatry arose as a medical discipline in the mid-1930s, challenges remain that prevent most of these young people from obtaining adequate treatment. Issues include a limited number of available hospitals with specialized care, hospital stays which are not long enough for proper care to be given, and prolonged waiting periods for attention in ambulatory care facilities [2][3][4][5][6][7] which lead to increased consultations in general emergency wards as families and institutions recognize no viable alternative [8,9]. Most such consultations involve adolescents, usually defined as no older than 15 years and 3 months [10][11][12], who are in a time of psychological readjustment.…”