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AbstractIn response to the Consultation Paper on the Corrections Law Review Project, the author proposes for adoption by the proper authorities an ambitious educational prison "model". He proceeds to demonstrate its principles and objectives, its functions and concrete implications. After illustrating how the present correctional system is especially impervious to education as an ideal and as a method of rehabilitation, the author recommends that jurisdictions, in matters of correction, should be transferred from Federal authority to provincial authorities.
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ABSTRACT Suicide among hospitalized patients is an increasingly growing phenomenon. Today, it represents 5 per cent of all effective suicides. This article reviews recent literature on the topic in order to determine the frequency and characteristics of suicide among hospitalized patients in psychiatric units and in the general population. The authors identify certain risk factors as well as methods to predict and prevent suicide in hospital environments. In addition, because of its important forensic impact, the authors present legal precedents regarding the matter.
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SUMMARYThe psychiatrie institution is scrutinized through the individual personal medical file which is seen as its mean of expression. The treating personnel, through their institutional position, takes part in this expression (where the word of the patient has no place, where the desire is excluded, the suffering concealed and objectified). Our aim is not to study mental health. It's etiology or its nature but more to enter into the space where it is written and fixated. The reading of a psychotic child's medical file shows how the alienating processes which are closely related to the very form of the psychiatric file are structured.
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SUMMARYThe phenomenon of non-traditional therapies is firstly analyzed within the context of an increasing number of approaches in the therapeutic field in Quebec and the Western hemisphere and of the development of health care alternatives. The growth and diversity of alternative therapies legitimizes the need to establish an operational definition of this phenomenon, which is the framework of this article.
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ABSTRACTThe "Psi-La Boussole" project constitutes a model of coordination of services characterized by two currents : case management and coordination of Individualized Service Plan (ISP). Its objectives consists in improving autonomy, social integration and quality of life of persons with severe mental disorders, as well as reducing the burden of families and favor a partnership between different resources. From Spring 1992 to January 1996, in Quebec City, 28 people with mental disorder participated in the project. After presenting their profiles, a synthesis of the analysis of 8 history cases allows to put in light the particularities of the model and its functioning.
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AbstractAn exploratory survey of 68 youth protection services' workers in Montréal, who followed 1030 children reveals that 39 % of these children have at least one parent who suffer from mental health problems. Among these parents, 48 % of mothers and 30 % of fathers have a personality disorder, and for the majority, a borderline personality disorder. This mental health problem is preoccupying for youth protection workers because of its high prevalence, its impact on children and case workers and the difficulties brought forth by having to intervene in a context of authority and within an organization not adapted to the management of this mental health problem. Some intervention's guidelines to work with these parents are presented as well as some challenges and future perspectives.
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AbstractThe author examines certain counter-transference stakes in psychotherapeutic work with borderline patients. Specifically, she looks at counter-transference linked, on the one hand, to these persons' mode of communication, marked by identity projection, and on the other hand, to their mode of relating, characterized by the desire to merge both their anxieties and their ways of thinking, influenced by abundant use of a splitting mechanism. The author then reflects on narcissistic economy and the length considerations for the patient-therapist pair. She illustrates her article with clinical vignettes from her work with one of her patients, Cleo, who inspired this article.