[The young adult in psychiatry : the problem and experiences in intervention]

Abstract

Young Adults represent a significant proportion of health care beneficiaries; in the field of psychiatry, their proportion is as significant as it is troublesome for those dispensing care. Young Adults aged 18 to 35 must rely on short-term health care policies that stress deinstitutionalization as the final goal; in short, they must deal with solutions that only partially address their problems and needs. This article focuses on Young Adults on a treatment center in the U.S.A. that specializes in this area and on a project of clinical intervention introduced by Louis-H. Lafon-taine Hospital.