Patrick Alecian, Anne-Marie Royer, Catherine Jousselme : failure of binding processes in adolescence and cultural paradoxes

Our experience in adolescent homes, Maisons des adolescents (MDA), has enabled us to theorize the practice in a multidisciplinary setting. This practice, called « taking care », involves a number of paradoxes, which are considered risks for failure, but which administrations, services and professionals must nevertheless use to help the most troubled adolescents.

Adolescence, 2014, 32, 1, 111-127.