title: [Supporting a teenager confronted with a traumatic experience].
abstract: Everyone reacts differently to a traumatic event. There is a risk of underestimating a teenager's traumatic experience by considering only the usual post-traumatic stress diagnosis criteria. However, when the trauma has not been able to be sufficiently developed, the adolescent's suffering is revealed through their behaviour. The therapeutic support of the youngster and their family enables them to reposition the traumatic event within the continuity of their history and to relaunch a thought process, often frozen by the traumatic experience.
authors.affiliation: Maison de Solenn-Maison des adolescents de Cochin (AP-HP), 97 boulevard de Port-Royal, 75014 Paris, France. Electronic address: clara.merchin@aphp.fr.
authors.forename: Clara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Merchin
authors.affiliation: Service de psychopathologie de l'enfant, de l'adolescent, psychiatrie générale et addiction, Hôpital Avicenne (AP-HP), 125 rue de Stalingrad, 93000 Bobigny, France.
authors.forename: Agathe
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Benoit de Coignac
authors.affiliation: Maison de Solenn-Maison des adolescents de Cochin (AP-HP), 97 boulevard de Port-Royal, 75014 Paris, France; Unité Inserm 1178, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, 190 avenue de France, 75013 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Marie Rose
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Moro
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D000067073:Psychological Trauma / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: adolescence; child psychiatry; post-traumatic stress; psychological trauma; pédopsychiatrie; traumatic event; traumatisme psychique; état de stress post-traumatique; événement traumatique