title: [Do psychiatric emergencies exist in children and adolescents?].
abstract: From our experience in the pedopsychiatric emergency unit at the Salpêtrière Hospital, we discuss the concept of psychiatric emergency in children and adolescents. In 90% of cases, patients are adolescents aged 14 to 18 years. The acting out and the ensuing emergency consultation seem to be a propitious time for establishing a relationship with the adolescent, meeting his difficulties from a psychological rather than affective standpoint and instituting an exchange with the family.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004630:Emergencies; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: L'urgence existe-t-elle en psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent?