Pratiques Psychologiques
Volume 23, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 127-152

Resilience to school and behavioral difficulties in children of migrants: Impact of the imaginary genogram [Résilience scolaire et difficultés de comportement chez les enfants de migrants : contribution du génogramme imaginaire] (Article)

Azuelos X.* , Quintard B.
  • a École élémentaire Renan, 7, chemin d'Audibert, Toulouse, 31200, France
  • b Inserm U1219, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, université de Bordeaux, 3 ter, place de la Victoire, Bordeaux cedex, 33076, France

Abstract

This exploratory study compared two groups of migrant children who are all resilient at school, i.e. they achieve well at school in spite of their difficult life conditions. One group has severe behavioral difficulties, unlike the other. Using the imaginary genogram and interviews, we first tried to confirm the existence of Models of Identification as factors of resilience in all of these children. Then, we compared their ability to include these models by portraying an imaginary family, in order to detect conflicts of loyalty that might reveal the presence of behavioral difficulties. Our results seem to confirm the existence of such conflicts in children with behavioral difficulties but also suggest that the essence of resilience is fundamentally different from one group to the other. © 2016 Société française de psychologie

Author Keywords

Filiation Affiliation Behavioral difficulties Resilience Migrant Children Genogram school achievement

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85009282368&doi=10.1016%2fj.prps.2016.11.005&partnerID=40&md5=d1f81765f077f0c919eafc61eff6fcac
DOI: 10.1016/j.prps.2016.11.005
ISSN: 12691763
Original Language: English; French