The Parliament report proposes to improve the detection and management of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents.
The hearings are over; place to report. After four months of discussions and committee, Parliament is issuing recommendations to better deal with psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. In all, 52 proposals are made so that the early identification is accompanied by a better treatment of these disorders.
“The need to act as early as possible with the appropriate instruments is all the more essential since, if they are caught sufficiently early, certain disorders can disappear and the child or adolescent can heal”, underlines this report. , coordinated by Michel Amiel, Senator of Bouches-du-Rhône (DVG) and doctor by training.
A million young people
The authors of the report therefore recommend giving each student a medical examination when entering higher education, to take stock of their state of health, both physical and mental, and to inform them of the support they are receiving. can benefit.
The rapporteurs also recommend “supporting research in epidemiology” to better understand the population of minors affected by psychiatric disorders.
The frequency of these disorders among young French people does not appear to be increasing, but advances in diagnosis and the “rise in certain conditions” are creating new needs for care, the report explains.
According to a previous report published in November 2016, nearly a million young people per year call on child psychiatry, both in public hospitals and in associative and private structures. The majority of pathologies concern language difficulties, sleep and eating disorders, autism, depression or addiction.
According to this report, it would also be necessary to improve information for families and better disseminate “identification tools” to school psychologists and nurses and to maternal and child protection services.
Reopen beds
It also recommends “continuing the movement to reopen hospital beds in child and juvenile psychiatry” and “increasing the capacity to open medico-psychological centers” as well as their capacity to receive emergency medical services, in particular to reduce the time taken to receive medical and psychological services. ‘obtaining appointments.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 50% of adult psychiatric pathologies appear before the age of sixteen.
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