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À l'aube des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris 2024, la pression psychologique monte autant chez les athlètes en cours de qualification que chez celles et ceux qui sont déjà qualifiés. À travers les valeurs véhiculées par l'Olympisme (l'excellence, le respect et l'amitié), la participation, voire la réussite à cette compétition peuvent représenter un objectif ultime pour la carrière d'un sportif. Sa résonance mondiale, sa faible fréquence tous les quatre ans et sa localisation à Paris en font un événement particulier, à la fois source de motivation mais aussi source de stress intense. Mais qu'il s'agisse des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques ou d'autres compétitions sportives, parvenir à une motivation optimale à même d'exploiter au maximum les compétences et les capacités de l'athlète sans engendrer de risque pour sa santé physique et psychologique peut relever d'un réel défi. Dans cet entretien avec le Docteur Jean-Pierre Bouchard, le Docteur Guillaume Coudevylle aborde l'importance de s'appuyer avant toute intervention sur les principes de base issus de la recherche en psychologie du sport. Il revient sur ces principes en se rappelant que ces derniers sont la conséquence d'apport scientifique depuis une centaine d'années. Au regard de la multitude de paramètres qui rentrent en compte dans une performance, de l'examen d'une personnalité fruit d'une éducation et d'une histoire singulière et enfin de la complexité d'une situation de performance, son approche permet de mieux parvenir à clarifier les objectifs et les moyens pour y parvenir. On the eve of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the psychological pressure is mounting as much on athletes in the process of qualifying as on those who have already qualified. Through the values conveyed by Olympism (excellence, respect and friendship), participation or even success in this competition can represent an ultimate goal for an athlete's career. Its worldwide resonance, its infrequency every 4 years and its location in Paris make it a special event that is both a source of motivation and a source of intense stress. But whether it's the Olympic and Paralympic Games or any other sporting competition, achieving the optimum level of motivation to exploit the athlete's skills and abilities to the full without putting their physical and psychological health at risk can be a real challenge. In this interview with Doctor Jean-Pierre Bouchard, Doctor Guillaume Coudevylle discusses the importance of basing any intervention on basic principles derived from sport psychology research. He goes back over these principles, reminding us that they are the result of scientific contributions over the last hundred years. In view of the multitude of parameters involved in a performance, the examination of a personality as the fruit of a singular upbringing and history, and the complexity of a performance situation, his approach helps to clarify objectives and means. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pourquoi l’accompagnement psychologique des aidants ou garde-malades des personnes du troisième âge, atteintes de la démence ou troubles neuro-cognitifs ? Comme psychologue clinicien, l’expérience de tous les jours nous a montré que ces aidants souffrent beaucoup (au niveau psychologique) plus que les patients eux-mêmes. Voilà l’objet de notre étude.

Collaboration between doctors and psychologists in the psychological support of patients seems to be a natural process at the moment, and is particularly important in the context of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) with gamete donors. Indeed, the psychological stress felt by patients can have a negative impact on the ART outcome. Psychological support can help address issues that are not discussed during the medical consultation. Psychological support is all the more important in that patients need to be aware of the process they are embarking on and the consequences it will entail. The psychologist will be able to work on the mourning of the dream journey, and enable acceptance of this new mode of conception. Psychological support for patients undergoing ART with gamete donors brings added value to the medical process, and could improve the effectiveness of treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article sets of by summarizing international guidelines for psychosocial counselling in infertility found in literature. The legislation and organization of access to ART treatments and psychosocial counseling in Belgium is discussed and finally the BrusselsIVF ethical framework and procedures are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The academic success and well-being of young people can be undermined by the use of psychoactive substances (PAS), which is particularly prevalent during adolescence, a period vulnerable to social influences. This article is aimed in particular at school and university preventive medicine nurses. It proposes intervention strategies for adolescents who regularly use such substances. Based on the scientific literature, the aim is to examine how psychological support, coupled with a program of adapted physical activity, could limit the use of APS, a factor in academic failure and health risks., (Copyright © 2023. Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS.)

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The signing of the truce on 23 June 2016 and the finalisation of peace negotiations on 24 August 2016 marked the end of more than 50 years of continuous armed conflict in Colombia, South America and the transition to 'post conflict' status. According to annual reports from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre based in Geneva, Switzerland, Colombia has ranked first or second in numbers of internally displaced persons every year for the past 12 years, making forced migration a defining characteristic of the country. This is based on the personal reflections of a mother and daughter (ER and AdPGR) who were displaced from rural Colombia and resettled in the nation' s urban capital of Bogota. They survived the rigors and hardships of displacement and became capable counsellors on a global mental health project, bringing evidence based interventions to a highly traumatised population of internally displaced women in Bogota. Their account speaks to the lived experiences of more than six million Colombian internally displaced 'victims of the armed conflict'. Particularly notable is the description of myriad trauma exposures prior to the moment of displacement. This field report demonstrates how personal accounts are a useful tool for educating clinicians working with these populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In all societies, births and deaths are important moments that call upon the intimate and collective representations of each person. When death occurs during the perinatal period, bereaved couples may feel the need to refer to the cultural representations they have internalized, and thus re-affiliate themselves with a group to which they belong, likely to accompany them in making sense of what they have experienced. A clinical situation allows us to understand the psychological support of couples from elsewhere who are confronted with perinatal mourning., (Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.)

Covid long affects each patient differently. This disorder can occur in people with both severe and mild forms of the disease. It is often a series of symptoms that disrupt different areas of life in a very variable way. These symptoms can change rapidly. Moreover, several symptoms are associated and fluctuate (between aggravation and recovery) during very variable periods, which leads to a mosaic diagnosis and engages the need for multidisciplinary management., (Copyright © 2022. Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS.)

Introduction: Bladder cancer is currently ranked as the 8th most common cancer in France. However, the patient care pathway for this cancer is still not well known., Methods: A telephone survey was conducted with fifteen healthcare professionals, ten patients, and five family caregivers between November 2020 and March 2021. The objectives of this survey were to identify the major steps in the care pathway according to the medical, emotional and societal dimensions, for patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer, the associated barriers, and the initiatives to be implemented to improve it., Results: Several barriers were identified at different stages of the overall care pathway, including lack of knowledge of risk factors and warning signs of the disease by the general population and some healthcare professionals, difficulties linked to the announcement consultation, lack of psychological support for patients and their caregivers, and lack of information given about the disease and supportive care., Discussion: These results allowed us to identify three major initiatives which could improve the overall care pathway and the quality of life of patients and their caregivers: 1/implementation of a public awareness campaign on bladder cancer; 2/creation of booklets for patients and their caregivers to provide them with a source of reliable information; and 3/the creation of communication tools between healthcare professionals and patients to facilitate exchanges during consultations., (Copyright © 2022 Société Française du Cancer. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

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Abstract: Medical practice requires a rigourous line of reasoning. Relying on his medical knowledge and experience, the practitioner will propose a diagnosis, a treatment and a prognosis for a child with neuromuscular disease. Anyway, the peculiar severity of this chronic disease will stress the necessity to address the psychological effects. In this context, the practitioner should attempt, at each step of decision making, to keep a confident link with the child and his family. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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The epidemic of Covid-19 was characterized, from its beginning, by "emergency". A state of emergency enacted by the state authorities to fight, on one hand, against the pandemic as such and, on the other hand, to manage the influx of patients admitted in intensive care. In this unprecedented context, the suffering of the people goes beyond the emergency situation and persists in forms ranging from a pseudo-banality to the complexity of an insidious evolution., (Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Lucie is the mother of Georges, 5, and Camille, 3. Two years ago, she collapsed following parental exhaustion. She talks about her descent into hell, the reasons for it and the way she has been treating herself since then. She is accompanied to find a role as a mother that suits her better and allows her to have a calmer relationship with her children., (Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.)

The su rge of COVID-1 9 has been an unprecedented cataclysm requiring all health professionals to mobilise themselves in the face of a lethal risk threatening everyone. End-of-life issues have become relevant to all medical specialities, which have suddenly had to face up to a new, improvised clinical approach where deaths have become inevitable and frequent., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Palliative care remains a practice at the crossroads between several theoretical approaches. The palliative approach in terms of support requires a certain amount of diversity in order to reflect the plurality of the sources of anxiety. This anxiety causes ambivalence, a source of existential difficulties. This study analyses the motivational interview as a potential approach in the process to support patients suffering from progressive chronic diseases in order to improve their quality of life., (Crown Copyright © 2019. Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

This article presents a support model of paediatric suffering based on a culinary activity guided by the nurse. It is based on a clinical end-of-life situation for a child in a Cameroon hospital. The caring approach helps to strengthen psycho-emotional links between the child and his/her loved ones, and to ease anxieties around the mother/child dyad., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

In the context of the humanitarian crisis of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a team of young Lebanese social workers attempted to identify the most economically vulnerable people. These professionals have themselves sometimes been exposed to social and economic difficulties, having in their own past experienced war and deprivation. They were confronted with experiences of war, poverty, inter-community conflicts, the recollection of their own family trauma or guilt. Support in the form of psychological care was provided to them., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

The management of an obese patient involves a multidisciplinary team. The psychological dimension often plays an important role in weight gain and must be taken into account early on in the care pathway. The support given to the patient must notably involve work on body image and how this changes as a result of bariatric surgery., (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Women represent a small fraction of the prison population. Major issues arise when a prisoner is both a woman and a mother. The psychological and support work is particularly important and must be aimed at both the women and their children., (Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)