A french epidemiological survey of the impact of child maltreatment on internalizing and externalizing behavior problems
Aziz ESSADEK
IRFASE
Aziz Essadek is doctor in psychology. He is in charge of the research at IRFASE (Institut for Research and Social Work in Essonne). He worked with social services to abused children in France.
Adele Assous
Sorbonne Paris Cité
Adele Assous is doctor in psychology. She is associate professor at Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité University. She works at hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades at Paris.
Ségolène PAYAN
IRFASE
Ségolène Payan is doctor in psychology. She is teacher researcher at IRFASE (Institut for Research and Social Work in Essonne). She works with families who encounter migrations and precarity.
Abstract
The different kind of child abuse are still major problem in France. If clinical or sociological studies describe the psychopathology of the children admitted to the care of the social services for Children or their traumatic... [ view full abstract ]
The different kind of child abuse are still major problem in France. If clinical or sociological studies describe the psychopathology of the children admitted to the care of the social services for Children or their traumatic environment, they rarely correlate these two dimensions.
Our population-based study is carried out in a social service for children.
969 questionnaires have been filled out by the social workers who take care of them. We question the existence of a correlation between the children’s psychopathologic disorders and the abuse that they suffered in their own environment.
Here are the results :
- For children who faced educational deficency : 26,63% showed external disorders, 37,77 % showed internal disorders, 17,23 % showed both and 11,46 % did not show any psychopathological symptom.
- For children victims of domestic violences : 19,81 % showed external disorders, 32,51 % showed internal disorders, 14,86 % showed both and 8,77 % did not show any psychopathological symptom.
- For neglected children or suffering of carlessness: 14,96 % showed external disorders, 20,74 % showed internal disorders, 10,73 % showed both and 5,37 % did not show any psychopathological symptom.
Only 39 % of the children suffering psychopathological disorders receive a psychological support when they are helped by social services. This low ration can be explained by the very long delay before getting a public psychological consultation.
This survey leads us to consider how the social services deal with the childrens’s psychic suffering. The evolution of the public health policy questions the care’s specificity that is actually provided , and the way to improve it. To cope with the strong demand of care and the lack of possibility to get a public psychological consultation quickly enough, an experimentation, aimed at orientating young people towards freelance psychologists, has been voted in october, 2016.
Authors
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Aziz ESSADEK
(IRFASE)
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Adele Assous
(Sorbonne Paris Cité)
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Ségolène PAYAN
(IRFASE)
Topic Area
Physical and Emotional/Psychological Abuse and Neglect
Session
Oral 23 » Session 3-Child Physical & Emotional Abuse (16:15 - Tuesday, 3rd October, Antarctica Room)
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