DIJON: New premises for child psychiatry at the La Chartreuse hospital center
The child and adolescent psychiatry center of the specialized health establishment has installed new premises for the Father-Mother-Baby and the Petits Pas care unit.
The particularity of child psychiatry is the need to understand the complexity and uniqueness of the development of the child in his environment: family issues resonate in him from the smallest moment of his life.
Childhood and adolescent psychiatry is faced with a rapidly growing demand for which current means do not allow optimal care of users. The ambition of CH La Chartreuse is to strengthen organizations and optimize public reception to reduce patient waiting times.
The Small Steps Care Unit (USPP) and the Father-Mother-Baby Unit (UPMB) therefore come together by settling in a single place, in a building of the renovated former charterhouse, near Prisme (12- 25 years old) and Intermède (11-17 years old), giving overall consistency.
The Small Steps Care Unit
Formerly called the Fontaine aux Berlingots, the USPP welcomes children from birth to 6 years old with disorders justifying specialized hospital care. The unit provides screening, prevention, diagnosis and care actions. In addition to the medical service, the USPP offers a whole range of individual and group care in the form of therapeutic mediation or rehabilitation. All this takes place in a renovated building in the heart of the former charterhouse of Dijon, a place that has been designed to receive children and their parents in the best possible conditions.
The Father-Mother-Baby Unit
The main mission of the UPMB is to offer outpatient perinatal psychiatric care adapted to parents going through psychoaffective difficulties and to their babies. As part of the new establishment project, the offer of care in child psychiatry tends to expand. Thus, since 2018, a day hospital has been set up to accommodate several mother-baby dyads on a weekly half-day. In addition, since 2020 there has been a mobile team which completes the care offer with interventions in families’ homes (psychiatrist, midwife, childcare nurse, psychomotrician). The unit, now open every day, offers a mother-baby day hospital, reception time and numerous parent-baby therapeutic mediations.
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