title: The elder's child of Mare Island, New Caledonia.
abstract: On Maré Island in New Caledonia ;the elder's child' is an etiologic category with its own specific features. This article describes the work of a clinical psychologist with the family of a polyhandicapped child described as 'the elder's child.' Psychological and ethnographic perspectives provide complementary approaches to investigating cultural meanings, social organization and cosmogony, which all influence clinical interaction with the family and provides tools for developing a therapeutic alliance.
authors: University Paris XIII, France. yoram.mouchenik@free.fr
authors: Yoram
authors: Y
authors: Mouchenik
mesh_terms: D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D002648:Child; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010139:Pacific Islands; D012067:Religion; D013140:Spiritualism