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Bipolar disorder is a chronic mental illness characterized by recurrent affective episodes, as well as marked residual symptoms that interfere with functioning. Pharmacotherapy remains the cornerstone of treatment. Unfortunately, medication has limited effects on some aspects of the disorder, while many patients have difficulty complying with pharmacological treatment. This literature review examines the role of psychoeducation as a complementary treatment for patients with bipolar disorder. Different formats of structured psychoeducation are presented, including two evidence-based, manualized treatments. With a view to dissemination, recommendations are proposed for the implantation of psychoeducation in Quebec's healthcare system.
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Increasing access to psychological services across Canada has long been a focus of national and provincial/territorial psychology advocacy bodies. The Practice Directorate (PD) of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) is comprised of representatives from each of the advocacy psychology associations and a representative from CPA. Its mandate is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of psychology advocacy by sharing information and collaborating on initiatives across Canadian jurisdictions. This commentary highlights past, present, and future initiatives of the PD through policy statements, campaigns, public education, surveys, and training opportunities aimed at supporting advocacy in increasing access to psychological services for all Canadians.
Keywords: activités de représentation, services psychologiques, Canada, accès, pratique, advocacy, psychological services, Canada, access, practice
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ABSTRACTThe realm of ethnopsychiatry also includes the cultural dimension of chaos (and the ways of overcoming this chaos) and the analysis of psychic foundations. This original method deals with the "complementarity" between psychoanalysis and anthropology. In doing so, it establishes a new link between the clinician and the patient, between traditional therapies and modern treatments, between the outside (culture) and the inside (psyche). This approach can be successfully applied to the context of migration, particularly to the child who is torn between the culture of his parents and the culture of the host nation.
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ABSTRACTThe treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder has been a challenge for Cognitive Therapy (CT): some modifications to the CT basic model had to be implemented in order to intervene with BPD patients. Young's schema-focused approach offers an intervention model which relies on early maladaptive schemas and modes concepts. According to this model, the BPD presents four dysfunctional modes: the Abandoned Child mode, the Detached Protector mode, the Punitive Parent mode, the Angry Child mode. The therapist must identify the presence of these modes and implement therapeutic strategies specific to each of them. There are four different kinds of therapeutic strategies: interpersonal (therapy relationship), experiential, cognitive and behavioral.
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In this article, we will examine in three stages some ambiguous facts encountered by professionals during a practice in a transcultural clinic. The first step concerns the interculturality of the concepts and the reactions of the migrant, which would undermine the professional and oblige him to question himself, to think of his clinical position and finally to work on the resulting negative cultural countertransference. The second stage will concern the actual indication of care in this context and we will choose to mobilize ethnopsychanalysis for this purpose. Finally, it will be necessary to reflect on the clinical and psychopathological perspectives that emerge from the clinical material.We will thus set the stage for a conceptualization in the psychopathology of a demigrant or remigrant family in suffering, or as a demigrant or remigrant patient, based on the case of a teenage victim of sexual abuse. We shall see that it is on the occasion of a return of the family in Cameroon and the intrusion of a traditional practice by the grandmother (traditional test of virginity) that the first traumatic event lived in France will make return after blow. This situation would shed light particularly on the difficult question of the always possible shock between two therapeutic cultures.
Keywords: abus sexuels, clinique transculturelle, interculturalité intersubjective, contre-transfert culturel négatif, approche ethnopsychanalytique, test tradithérapeutique de virginité, sexual abuse, transcultural clinic, intersubjective interculturality, negative cultural counter-transfer, ethnopsychanalytic approach, virginity tradithérapeutic test
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