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The management and optimal care for the pediatric patient with chronic kidney disease requires attention not only to medical management, but also special focus on the psychosocial and developmental factors of children which is complicated by the presence of other disease-related complications. In recent years, specialized chronic kidney disease and predialysis clinics have been set up to facilitate and improve the quality of care of these patients with a multidisciplinary organisation and coordinated management approaches of a renal team. We present our experience in establishing such a renal management clinic named "Prévoir" for children with chronic kidney disease at Sainte-Justine Hospital.

The objectives of this research are to take the inventory of the psychosocial mechanisms that promote the unemployed individual's equilibrium, and to draw the profile of mental health practices existing in a homogenous group of unemployed persons in the manufacturing sector. In the first part, the authors review the methodology used in the course of their study and present a global analysis of the daily experiences of unemployed individuals, by showing the means they have put into effect to ensure their subsistance and that of their family. The second part seeks to provide an original viewpoint to the issue of mental health. The analysis includes an inventory of mental health practices followed by a brief description of techniques used to establish mutual aid networks.

The article presents a new short team made of intervention in a situation crisis in psychiatry. This new approach developed by Ross V. Speck and his collaborators aims at involving the relatives and friends of the family in crisis in order to help the seeing through of a dead-end situation. The authors, after describing the main intervention criteria as well as the process and role of the mediators, analyse some of the parameters differentiating this model from the traditional approaches. In their commentary they use a bio-psychosocial approach to mental illness.

In this article, the authors present results stemming from the exploratory analysis of mental health practices that are used by a group of unemployed workers. The study presents five types of practices: the enhancement of the unemployed individual's experience, institutional consultation within the health care system, anticipation, self-actualization and changes to the unemployment situation. These various mental health practices, demonstrated among a homogenous group of unemployed individuals in the manufacturing sector, promote a wider reflexion of intervention methods.