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In view of a presentation during the sixth francophone pediatric palliative care congress, and in connection with the reference table about the practice of psychologists in palliative care elaborated by the French society for palliative care (SFAP) - to which it was associated for the pediatric part - the group of psychologists of the pediatric palliative care resource teams started a think tank trying to define their specific practice in this field of intervention. This theme was particularly centered on the definition of psychologists' clinical practice, related to the interdisciplinarity inherent in adult and pediatric palliative care teams. Indeed, in these multiprofessional and interdisciplinary teams, in which everyone has to intervene on the patient's bedside table, it seems important to be able to distinguish what is related to a common clinical basis, shared by the different members of the team (doctor, pediatric nurse, psychologist, etc.), from their singular professional positioning. This work, stemming from a plural practice-based think tank, tries to determine invariants in psychologists' clinical practice, specifically in pediatric palliative care with the child, his family and medical teams, in order to provide a better interdisciplinary understanding. Thereby, the guaranty of the recognition of each one's psychic life, expression and temporality, the third-party positioning with families and teams, and the containing function (through its three steps: listening, transforming and restoring) as developed by W. Bion, seem to constitute the invariants of the various practices of psychologists, always in an interdisciplinary approach.