Symptom Assessment in Adolescents Placed on Child Welfare

Evaluation of Post-traumatic and Neurodevelopmental Symptoms in Adolescents Placed in Child Welfare

This study aims to characterize emotional dysregulation in complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) and to determine the extent to which it can promote the distinction with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

As emotional dysregulation is a dynamic process whose phenomenological manifestations are labile, associated with physiological modifications and modulated by cognitive processing, a multiple methodology associating measurements in a real-life ecological context with measurements performed in the hospital will be preferred.

Overall, this study proposes to capture, for the first time, the clinical manifestations associated with cPTSD from the perspective of emotional dysregulation and its underlying processes

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescent aged 12 to 17
• Entrusted to ASE Bas-Rhin.
• Fluent in French
• Affiliated with a social health insurance scheme
• Agreeing to take part in the study
• Legal representative of the minor or his/her guardian, or his/her representative from the ASE agreeing to take part in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Adolescent refusing to participate in the study
• Legal representative of the minor or his/her guardian, or his/her ASE representative refusing to participate in the study
• Adolescent with severe developmental delay
• Adolescent participating in another research study
• Adolescent deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision