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This article emits some considerations on the topic of the next congress of the ASTED, which will be held in October 1975: «Relations de travail et développement professionnel». Various aspects are studied: work relations, cogestion, participation, interpersonal relations, help relations, professional development, motivation for work, improvement of tasks, impact of the technical changes on personnel, etc. This text intents to be the starting point to maintain the reflexion of the participants and a preparatory model scheme of the next congress of the ASTED.
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About 22.5% of mothers of children followed by Youth Protection Services have a known or probable borderline personality disorder. There are however very little information on the challenges faced by psychosocial workers who work with this clientele in the context of a protection mandate. This qualitative study focused on this particular issue. Data was collected during six focus groups in which 104 case workers from Centre jeunesse de Montréal-Institut universitaire participated. The results suggest that they perceive their interventions with these families to be subject to a set of contingencies that make their work particularly complex and demanding. Three main themes in relation to their concerns and challenges regarding their practice and in relation to their needs were highlighted. The first theme regards intervention difficulties related to the interpersonal context. The analyses show for example that trying to reconcile child protection and support for parents, or to talk to the children about their parents' mental disorder prove to be particularly difficult. The second theme related to the context of their working environment concerns their perceptions of the contingencies associated with the internal organization of services and with the collaboration with partners (judiciary milieu and adult psychiatry). The impact of the interpersonal and environmental contexts on the caseworkers constitutes the third theme. Participants suggested that the management of families impacted by this mental disorder puts an important strain on them, both emotionally and cognitively. Finally, this article highlights the importance of addressing the daily challenges faced by those working with families affected by borderline personality disorder and presents some organizational and clinical recommendations in order to better support the workers.
Keywords: parents, trouble de personnalité limite, intervention psychosociale, services de protection de la jeunesse, parents, borderline personality disorder, psychosocial intervention, youth protection services
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If the establishment in a social service centre of a programme geared to the needs of homosexuals marks a step toward the end of oppression of gays in psycho-social services, one must be cautious in making too rapid an association between such a programme and the liberation movement among homosexuals.From the initial euphoria that envisaged a demand by the community for its own functioning and control over the services it needed, we arrive at an institutionalization and a larger market for psychological services.Homosexuals must now become part of the mass of those who combat the domination of institutions. They are emerging from the side-wings to become actors on the social scene.