House hosts monthly Solenn 1500 House Solenn hosts monthly 1 500 teenagers The difficulty child psychiatrist Marcel Rufo, medical officer of the House of adolescents Cochin Hospital (Paris), resigned on 1 September, and joined the Hospital Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille. A choice freely made by this man of 62, who wants to develop the youth in his native South, "A more holistic medicine and less specialized.
Marcel Rufo leaves behind a place that has proven itself. Home Solenn, whose doors opened in December 2004 with the support of the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France chaired by Bernadette Chirac, was to take charge psychological distress and somatic adolescents.
With 1 200 to 1,500 hits per month (one-third of psychiatric consultations), the House was not unworthy of adolescents. All
both host structure, information and prevention consulting services and hospitalization (20 beds permanently occupied), it hosts an Inserm research in psychiatry of adolescence (the first in France, working in particular on the serious disturbances in eating behavior), and a floor reserved for "cultural care" where alongside a dozen workshops (philosophy, climbing, music, cooking, etc..).
Beyond its role as care and guidance of 11-19 years, this high-profile launch has had another positive consequence of promoting all over France the creation of "Healthy Spaces youth," for to accommodate adolescents with mental and physical.
The Department of Health and Solidarity has also been encouraged to launch in January, in partnership with the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France, a call for proposals for the creation of houses of teens in various cities of France, who will complement those already implemented in Le Havre, Marseille, Bordeaux and in the Paris region.
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The mission of these homes, as defined by the government: "Take care of adolescents by providing them with benefits that best suit their needs and expectations, which are not currently supported in the conventional device. "
Storyteller more than a theoretician, warm, unconventional, giving much of himself, Marcel Rufo was undoubtedly instrumental in the success of the House Solenn." He helped redesign the forms home adolescents, who needed to evolve without being disowned provided the theoretical references of the profession, "said Professor Philip Jeammet, former chief of adolescent psychiatry and young adults at the Institut Montsouris mutualist ( Paris).
Designate the successor of this prominent figure in child psychiatry, in this extraordinary place not devoid of political, is obviously not easy. Pending a final decision, Dr. Isabelle Ferrand's responsibility to ensure the interim. Chief of Psychiatry at the Cochin Hospital since 1994, she was originally in 1990, the establishment of the Cassini Center in Paris-14e, specializing in the treatment of addictions, including adolescents and their family.
Associate Marcel Rufo for several months, Isabelle Ferrand considered natural that the House Adolescent "remains a place of welcome and care for psychological suffering and anorexia nervosa," but hopes to give greater attention to treatment somatic disorders.
Catherine Vincent
