2:28 p.m. – December 1, 2024 – by Info Clermont Métropole
The unit has 6 places reserved for adolescents aged 11 to 17 in order to respond to crisis situations.
In order to improve its provision of unscheduled care, the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital recently opened an Intensive Day Care Unit for adolescents (ICUJ-Ado).
The unit has six places reserved for adolescents aged 11 to 17. Its main objective is to respond to crisis situations, whether suicidal, socio-familial or psychiatric crises. Support is provided over an average period of three weeks, with the possibility of renewing this period once.
This unit completes the graduated care offer, currently on 4 levels:
Outpatient care, which has already been reinforced with a reception and orientation team “(a nurse and a psychologist). This first level makes it possible to offer appointments within a very short period of time.
A mobile, liaison and emergency team in child psychiatry based on the Estaing site. This team carries out emergency assessments and offers intensive outpatient care.
Set up
Full-time hospitalization to manage the crisis (12 beds). This project responds in particular to the decline in the provision of care in the territory with a massive drop in the number of child psychiatrists, a density of partial hospitalization places lower than the national average and a deficit of medico-social structures.
The opening of this unit will also make it possible to: better regulate crisis and emergency situations; reduce traumatic experiences for adolescents and those around them linked to a visit to the emergency room and/or complete hospitalization not appropriate to their needs, whether in child psychiatry or pediatrics; expand recourse mechanisms for adolescents; adjust the devices according to the needs and clinical situations of adolescents.
KEY FIGURES
The Puy-de-Dôme region currently has 42,000 young people aged 12 to 17. 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line.
The mental health of adolescents is alarming. In France, suicide represents the 2nd cause of death among young people aged 15-24. The number of young people presenting to emergency departments for child psychiatric reasons has increased fourfold in 20 years.
