In therapy, asking about the sexual abuse facts known by the child can sometimes appear like additional maltreatment. On the other hand, not talk about it could also mean not to be interested or not being able to do so and therefore, not being a big help for the child victim. Despite the various recommendations in the treatment of children victims of sexual abuse, it seems to continue to be unclear ...

Les couples et les familles avec partenaires et parents LGBT (lesbiens, gays, bisexuels, transgenres) sont souvent passés sous silence dans l’approche systémique. Ce silence trouve ses racines dans l’hétérocentrisme qui a influencé la définition de couple, de famille et de relations familiales ainsi que de leur « normalité » vs « pathologie ». Qu’on soit chercheur ou clinicien, il est intéressant ...

From reading the Guedeney & Guedeney's book L'Attachement (2006) has become an issue: the use of attachment theory in a meta-analyse on the institutional caring of abusive families. This article explores some possible parallels in the idea of helping to thinking about the treatment when sometimes violence impede it.

When they consult in the context of difficulties in separating, families left first to see what they have lost. Therefore, referring to existing models, the systemic approach often read these difficulties by the way of grieving. But separated families have shown us they can’t be reduced neither to their losses neither to the actual clinical models. Their complexity leads us to think of new explanatory ...

Among the numerous changes which the notion of family has known over time, we are interested here in the normalization/acceptability of the divorce (or separation). We postulate that, in a context where these modifications are less and less ritualized and thus, less and less representable, the family (whose achronic character we shall differentiate from the diachronic) has no access to a social ...