par Haesevoets, Yves ;Gerard, Michel
Référence Neuropsychiatrie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, 44, 12, page (609-616)
Publication Publié, 1996
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : The SOS Children Confident Center of the Brussels Free University is set up in the structure of the Saint-Pierre University Hospital and is run as a full-fledged unit. Its ramifications both internal and external enable this unit, specialized in the multidisciplinary handling of ill-treated children, to utilize as a mean of intervention the hospitalization of abused children. In the cases of sexual abuse towards children, the hospital can fulfil a function both psychosocial and therapeutic. Place of security and cares, of crisis and transition, the hospital offers a necessary space for change. The advantages and drawbacks of such a tool are described. The hospital school plays a major part in this type of intervention. The consequences of the hospitalization on the abused child and his family are discussed. internal and external collaborations permit to improve the prognosis and the case treatment. Other intervention procedures and disinvolvement practices exist as alternatives to hospitalization.