Retour sur 2 ans d’activité d’une consultation de prévention de la radicalisation en service de pédopsychiatrie

Abstract

IntroductionThe terrorist threat level is critical. Professionals from different fields have been mobilized by the French government to fight against radicalization. The objective of this study is to present the work carried out within the consultation dedicated to the prevention of radicalization of a child and adolescent psychiatry department in France. MethodsThis study is retrospective, descriptive and observational. All cases reported to the Radicalization Prevention Consultation between November 1, 2015 and November 1, 2017 were included. In addition to socio-demographic data, the diagnoses, elements of the family context, the level of radicalization of the young person and his short-term future (for example in terms of orientation) were collected. ResultsA total of 34 subjects (56% males) were included over a two-year period. The average age was 15.4 years (±4.52). The prefecture of police was the main source of those addressed to the consultation. After specialized evaluation, 22.58% of the situations were considered as unrelated to radicalization, 48.39% as vulnerable to radicalization, and 29.03% were considered as truly radicalized. In total, 38.2% of the subjects suffered from a mental pathology of the axis 1: half of them had a psychotic disorder and the other half had externalized behavioral disorder. The collected qualitative data underlined the importance of dysfunctions within the families of young people involved in a process of radicalization. DiscussionThis study highlights the multiplicity of vulnerability factors as well as the complexity of the psychopathological mechanisms involved in the phenomenon of radicalization. Further research is needed, especially to evaluate the effectiveness of accompaniments.