Innovations in child psychotherapy

Innovations in child psychotherapy. The psychotherapeutic approach represents the main focus of care in the field of child and adolescent mental health because of the limited place of psychopharmacology at this period of life. In recent years we have witnessed a diversification of theoretical models and the development of new focused approaches which explicitly raise the question of the formalization of therapeutic objectives and their sharing with the child/adolescent and his/her family. The aim of this article is to present some of the main innovations developed in recent years in the field of child and adolescent psychotherapy and in particular : parental guidance, mindfulness meditation, trauma-focused psychotherapies and psychotherapies delivered via the internet. Beyond the specificities of these models, all these approaches converge to underline the involvement of the entourage and the perception on the part of the child of being understood by the therapist as the two main mechanisms at the heart of change in psychotherapy and as levers capable of promoting the re-emergence of a capacity to learn in the interpersonal and social world.