You said `'psy'' : Psychologist's clinical practice in pediatric palliative care

In view of a presentation during the sixth francophone pediatric palliative carecongress, and in connection with the reference table about the practice of psychologists inpalliative care elaborated by the French society for palliative care (SFAP) - to which it was associated for the pediatric part - the group of psychologists of the pediatric palliative care resourceteams started a think tank trying to define their specific practice in this field of intervention. This theme was particularly centered on the definition of psychologists' clinical practice, related to the interdisciplinarity inherent in adult and pediatric palliative care teams. Indeed, inthese multiprofessional and interdisciplinary teams, in which everyone has to intervene on thepatient's bedside table, it seems important to be able to distinguish what is related to a commonclinical basis, shared by the different members of the team (doctor, pediatric nurse, psychologist, etc.), from their singular professional positioning. This work, stemming from a pluralpracticebased think tank, tries to determine invariants in psychologists' clinical practice, specifically in pediatric palliative care with the child, his family and medical teams, in order toprovide a better interdisciplinary understanding. Thereby, the guaranty of the recognition ofeach one's psychic life, expression and temporality, the third- party positioning with familiesand teams, and the containing function (through its three steps: listening, transforming andrestoring) as developed by W. Bion, seem to constitute the invariants of the various practicesof psychologists, always in an interdisciplinary approach. (C) 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.