Abstract

Eating disorders and school refusal behavior with delayed sleep phase are pathologies associated with very different or even inverse school problems. It is through these two prisms that we will develop the idea of school care, which is being set up in the innovative framework of the Mediterranean Area of the Adolescent, integrating a National Education Unit within the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry unit. This specific care seems to us interesting in the adolescent because it allows a work in «natural» environment of certain difficulties related to the different psychiatric disorders and seems to us as a help to the revival of the adolescent process.

Highlights

  • Adolescence is a period full of physical and psychological changes, and it is a phase during which several psychosomatic disorders are prone develop[21].At this life stage, schooling can help individuals to develop a number of important processes, such as the need for separation–individuation, the empowerment of parents, social relations within a peer group as well as with peers of the opposite sex, and the acquisition of quality hypothetical– deductive reasoning.when certain disorders disrupt the smooth progress of adolescence, the young individual’s relationships with the school are modified, and their satisfactory reintroduction into education becomes both a care objective and a healing aid.This relationship between care and schooling is developed daily in the E­ spaceAddress for correspondence: Article received: 30-06-2017

  • We will focus on how this care work in connection with schooling differs for our adolescents with eating disorders and sleep ­disorders

  • Given the significance given by these patients to education, we have made the decision at the EMA to integrate care as quickly as possible, depending, on the patient’s somatic state, into the school to create a “natural” work environment for adolescents with cognitive disorders

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Adolescence is a period full of physical and psychological changes, and it is a phase during which several psychosomatic disorders are prone develop[21]. At this life stage, schooling can help individuals to develop a number of important processes, such as the need for separation–individuation, the empowerment of parents, social relations within a peer group as well as with peers of the opposite sex, and the acquisition of quality hypothetical– deductive reasoning. We will focus on how this care work in connection with schooling differs for our adolescents with eating disorders and sleep ­disorders

Management of eating disorders in adolescence
Sleep disorders in adolescence
Findings
Delayed sleep phase syndrome associated with SRB
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