Feedback on a socio-aesthetic program for the benefit of young patients with self-endangerment

Abstract

Socio-aesthetics is a practice born in psychiatric departments but has since developed particularly in the field of oncology. For our part, since January 2018, we have initiated an experiment of this type at the Espace Unit of the CHU in Nantes, a unit that takes care of young patients who find themselves in a situation of crisis and endangerment of themselves. The qualitative evaluation of the interest of a socio-aesthetic mediation (relaxation modelling, facial care, make-up) with young patients was carried out by a collection of their feelings. Youth who expressed an overall judgment of socio-esthetic mediation appreciated it in 61% of cases. They express their satisfaction with words such as "I liked", "I loved", "I'm happy", "it was too good", "super good" or "great". This successful socio-aesthetic therapy practice experiment will continue with a quantitative analysis to demonstrate the relevance of this type of service to psychiatric patients.