[Assessment and health needs of unaccompanied minors]

Abstract

Unaccompanied minors are particularly vulnerable due to their pathway marked with multiple bereavements and constant uprooting. They find themselves confronted with the ordeal of mistrust due to administrative contradictions between the need to protect and immigration control. They are particularly at risk of developing psychiatric pathologies. Care must be multidisciplinary and in continuity with the educational support, taking into account the young person's original culture.

Keywords: child protection; foreign isolated minor; mineur isolé étranger; mineur non accompagné; protection de l’enfance; psychiatrie; psychiatry; transcultural; transculturel; trauma; traumatisme; unaccompanied minor.