title: [Cooking as a therapy for dangerous mental health patients: controlled risk-taking].
abstract: Among the range of therapeutic mediators used with dangerous mental health patients in the unit for dangerous patients in Cadillac, cooking holds an important place. Led by caregivers, this activity has undeniable positive effects for the psychotic and non-psychotic patients taking part. These effects concern notably their capacities for conception, creation, organisation, execution, sensation, collaboration and socialisation. For some patients, it is also the opportunity to take the drama out of handling utensils which they previously used as weapons. As the risk factors are controlled before and during the activity, no dangerous acting out has ever occurred.
authors.affiliation: Unité pour malades difficiles (UMD), centre hospitalier de Cadillac, 89, rue Cazeaux-Cazalet, 33410 Cadillac-sur-Garonne, France.
authors.forename: Janique
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Geay
authors.affiliation: Unité pour malades difficiles (UMD), centre hospitalier de Cadillac, 89, rue Cazeaux-Cazalet, 33410 Cadillac-sur-Garonne, France.
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.affiliation: Unité pour malades difficiles (UMD), centre hospitalier de Cadillac, 89, rue Cazeaux-Cazalet, 33410 Cadillac-sur-Garonne, France; Unité de soins intensifs psychatriques (Usip), centre hospitalier de Cadillac, 89, rue Cazeaux-Cazalet, 33410 Cadillac-sur-Garonne, France. Electronic address: jean_pierre_bouchard@yahoo.fr.
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Bouchard
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003296:Cooking; D003297:Cooking and Eating Utensils; D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D008612:Menu Planning; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology
keywords: cooking; crime; cuisine; dangerosité; dangerousness; risk; risque; unit for dangerous patients; unité pour malades difficiles; violence