Browsing by Author "Fovet, Thomas"

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    Trauma and PTSD in prisons and corrections
    (Elsevier, 2023) Fovet, Thomas; Villa, Clément; Bouchard, Jean-Pierre
    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and particularly complex PTSD, is over-represented in prisons and corrections. In this interview with Jean-Pierre Bouchard, Thomas Fovet, Cle ́ ment Villa, Bettina Belet, Fanny Carton, Timothe ́ e Bauer, Suzanne Buyle-Bodin and Fabien D’Hondt draw on their clinical experience and recent epidemiological research to provide an overview of the issue. The clinical aspects specifically found in the prison environment, especially the questions of comorbid psychiatric and substance use disorders or PTSD in perpetrators of violent crime, are developed. The current state of knowledge regarding the management of post-traumatic symptoms in prison is also discussed and put into perspective with daily practice.
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    “VigilanS-Prison”: a brief contact intervention to prevent suicidal behavior in prisons and corrections
    (Elsevier Masson s.r.l., 2025) Bouchard, Jean-Pierre; Mao, Élodie; Fovet, Thomas
    In France, suicide accounts for around half of all deaths in prisons. Every year, around 120 people die by suicide in French prisons, i.e. one suicide every three days. Preventing suicide in prisons is therefore a major public health issue. In this interview With Jean-Pierre Bouchard, Élodie Mao, Thomas Fovet, Christel Debien, Guillaume Vaiva, Christophe Debien and Vincent Jardon provide feedback on the implementation of the VigilanS-Prison system in Hauts-de-France. The main principles of this brief contact intervention are presented, an initial activity report is given and the development prospects for this experiment are discussed