Les professionnels de santé de la périnatalité ont un rôle majeur dans la prise en charge des patientes au cours de leur grossesse et dans le post-partum. Cependant la prise en charge des patientes présentant une situation de déficience intellectuelle demande une implication plus importante et différente de leur part. Le vocabulaire riche et diversifié obtenu au sein de notre étude nous a permis de mettre en évidence une ambivalence de la part des professionnels sur le regard qu’ils portent sur les capacités parentales de ces parents en situation de DI légère. La situation de déficience intellectuelle légère est abordée par des aspects positifs avec la mise en avant de réelles capacités parentales et, dans un même temps, avec une vision plus pessimiste avec la nécessité d’un accompagnement particulier pour pallier aux difficultés inhérentes au handicap. Malgré des émotions d’empathie ressenties par les professionnels, les difficultés d’intégration sociale ainsi que la dépendance et le besoin d’assistance dans la prise en charge de leur nouveau-né sont toujours bien présentes.

Parce que le déficient intellectuel a longtemps été désigné comme un simple d’esprit, on pourrait croire que le monde dans lequel il évolue est celui de l’innocence et de la clarté. C’est faux : dès qu’il apparaît, le trouble l’accompagne. Monstrueux pour les uns, angélique pour les autres, il sollicite les frontières de l’humanité en rappelant que l’altérité dérange là où elle permet à l’identité de se construire. C’est pour cette raison que toutes les sociétés ont créé des représentations et des stratégies pour le neutraliser en le condamnant, en le marginalisant ou en l’intégrant. Ce livre offre un panorama des déficiences intellectuelles en s’appuyant sur des données historiques et pluriculturelles comme sur les réalités actuelles. Il apporte un ensemble d’informations pratiques qui ont été entièrement mises à jour pour cette nouvelle édition. En affirmant une position résolument éthique, l’auteur propose ici une rencontre précise, directe et réaliste avec les déficiences. Il donne ainsi au lecteur des repères utiles pour comprendre et agir avec et auprès des personnes souffrant de ce handicap.

Surveys contemporary theories of perception, criticizing mechanistic information-processing models and stressing differences between perception in the external world and in experimental laboratory situations

Explains how to do practical and improbable things, such as how to roast an ox, handle a hamster, photography a fish, play the bagpipes, and vanquish a vampire.].

Recent years have seen important developments in the computer and game industry, including the emergence of the concept of serious games. It is hypothesized that tools such as games, virtual reality, or applications for smartphones may foster learning, enhance motivation, promote behavioral change, support psychotherapy, favor empowerment, and improve some cognitive functions. Computers and games may create supports for training or help people with cognitive, emotional, or behavioral change. Games take various formats, from board games to informatics to games with interactive rules of play. Similarly, computer tools may vary widely in format, from self-help or assisted computerized training to virtual reality or applications for smartphones. Some tools that may be helpful for mental health were specifically designed for that goal, whereas others were not. Gamification of computer-related products and games with a numeric format tend to reduce the gap between games and computers tools and increase the conceptual synergy in such fields. Games and computer design share an opportunity for creativity and innovation to help create, specifically design, and assess preventive or therapeutic tools. Computers and games share a design conception that allows innovative approaches to overcome barriers of the real world by creating their own rules. Yet, despite the potential interest in such tools to improve treatment of mental disorders and to help prevent them, the field remains understudied and information is under-disseminated in clinical practice. Some studies have shown, however, that there is potential interest and acceptability of tools that support various vehicles, rationales, objectives, and formats. These tools include traditional games (e.g., chess games), popular electronic games, board games, computer-based interventions specifically designed for psychotherapy or cognitive training, virtual reality, apps for smartphones, and so forth. Computers and games may offer a true opportunity to develop, assess, and disseminate new prevention and treatment tools for mental health and well-being. Currently, there is a strong need for state-of-the-art information to answer questions such as the following: Why develop such tools for mental health and well-being? What are the potential additions to traditional treatments? What are the best strategies or formats to improve the possible impact of these tools? Are such tools useful as a first treatment step? What is the potential of a hybrid model of care that combines traditional approaches with games and/or computers as tools? What games and applications have already been designed and studied? What is the evidence from previous studies? How can such tools be successfully designed for mental health and well-being? What is rewarding or attractive for patients in using such treatments? What are the worldwide developments in the field? Are some protocols under development? What are the barriers and challenges related to such developments? How can these tools be assessed, and how can the way that they work, and for whom, be measured? Are the potential benefits of such products specific, or can these additions be attributed to nonspecific factors? What are the users’ views on such tools? What are the possible links between such tools and social networks? Is there a gap between evidence-based results and market development? Are there any quality challenges? What future developments and studies are needed in the field?

The titles in this series gather together all the vital knowledge and practical support that schools need to meet specific needs. Information is simply explained and clearly signposted so that practitioners can quickly access what they need to know. Each book describes a specific area.