Le processus d'admission dans un centre thérapeutique pour adolescents comme temps de créativité et de (re)mobilisation psychique

Adolescence involves a necessary psychological effort linked to the maturation of the individual who is confronted with, among other things, the transformation of bonds, the question of sexual identity, relationships with the law and death as well as forbidden enjoyment. This “adolescent-process” is infiltrated by the questioning of the meaning of existence including a possible destiny. The notions of time, both past and future, confront the young person leaving childhood and are inherently centered on the current moment. Various pitfalls of an intrapsychic and/or contextual nature can emerge and generate disturbances such that the teenager is unable to continue without benefiting for a while from an adapted therapeutic accompaniment. This, if it can regularly be conceived in an ambulatory way, gains in certain situations by taking place within a specialized residential framework. The article notes four dimensions which represent essential issues of adolescence. These inevitably raise questions when they do not constitute the core of psychopathologic disturbances. It is in these situations that we meet with the young people and their families who envisage a stay in our Therapeutic Center for Teenagers (CThA). We discuss the interest of the admission procedure by suggesting it be understood as a time of creativity and of (re) mobilization.