ABSTRACT
Many unaccompanied minors in the care of children's welfare services are housed in a children's home after their assessment. Adapting to this living environment means going from a high level of autonomy to being subject to certain rules, as well as giving oneself permission to settle and accept the support of the educational setting. Care is an important aspect of a children's home: the body is an indicator of the health of these youngsters.
Subject(s)
Child, Abandoned/psychology , Foster Home Care/psychology , Mental Health Services , Minors/psychology , Refugees/psychology , Child , HumansABSTRACT
Mediation through writing is a valuable tool to be used as a means of symbolisation in the period of psychological and physical tensions common to adolescence. By creating their own space in which to create, the evolving written account enables young people to think about their psychological life by considering the place of each individual. Each clue in the writing is to be understood in relation to the way the adolescent functions psychologically.
Subject(s)
Narration , Psychology, Adolescent , Writing , Adolescent , HumansABSTRACT
In a writing group, in hospital, teenagers' drawings help to evoke the body and its representation, at a time of life when all the changes to the body have an impact on the processes of constructing an identity. It is thereby possible to see how the teenager understands this body which expresses itself inseparably from the imaginary and the symbolic.