Separations and placement in adolescence: The relevance of a self-narrative
Boulay, Corentin
Separations and placement in adolescence: The relevance of a self-narrative - 2020.
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In France, many children are entrusted to the child social welfare system and placed in foster homes to be protected from the neglect or abuse they suffer in their family home. However, these placement measures often complicate their situation, especially during adolescence. In this context, the narratives of adolescents are revelatory of their subjective experience and reflect the difficulties they are enduring. Our aim is to explore their subjectivity through an analysis of these narratives from a psychodynamic perspective. For this purpose, we met ten teenagers aged between fourteen and fifteen years, in a Maison d’enfants à caractère social (MECS). Data were collected during a therapeutic writing workshop and analyzed using TROPES software. Our results reveal the presence of trauma indicators related to the placement experience. They also highlight the difficulties of self-construction that emerged during the pubertal process and emphasize the need to pay attention to therapeutic mediations through writing in these adolescents.
Separations and placement in adolescence: The relevance of a self-narrative - 2020.
27
In France, many children are entrusted to the child social welfare system and placed in foster homes to be protected from the neglect or abuse they suffer in their family home. However, these placement measures often complicate their situation, especially during adolescence. In this context, the narratives of adolescents are revelatory of their subjective experience and reflect the difficulties they are enduring. Our aim is to explore their subjectivity through an analysis of these narratives from a psychodynamic perspective. For this purpose, we met ten teenagers aged between fourteen and fifteen years, in a Maison d’enfants à caractère social (MECS). Data were collected during a therapeutic writing workshop and analyzed using TROPES software. Our results reveal the presence of trauma indicators related to the placement experience. They also highlight the difficulties of self-construction that emerged during the pubertal process and emphasize the need to pay attention to therapeutic mediations through writing in these adolescents.
Réseaux sociaux