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Article in “Revue médical suisse”: Psychological distress is common in patients after solid organ transplantation and often motivates psychological and psychiatric consultations. Due to its clinical and economic potential, the CHUV has been offering a group therapy for solid organ transplant recipients since 2022.
Patients use the sessions to talk about their feelings of stigmatization or fear of contamination, but also about their need for a balance between overstepping some limits and ­ rigorous discipline regarding medication intake and precautions to be taken. They talk about issues they usually do not discuss with the various health professionals who follow them. The group therapy thus contributes to their empowerment and helps them to take responsibility in their life and medical follow‑­up.

This article describes a modified form of the IPPI interview for children based on the use of pictorial representations, i.e., the Metaphoric and Associative Cards, “OH-Cards”. A clinical vignette illustrates the different steps of this intervention such as those provided to sibling 6-year-old twins in the context of a post-immediate CUMP intervention after a drowning.
Results. – Adding the pictorial cards to IPPI interview techniques facilitated the children’s verbaliza- tion, the narrative reports of the traumatic experience with the professional, and globally enhanced the symbolization process.
Discussion. – This developmental-sensitive adaptation of the commonly used debriefing approach illus- trates the positive synergy between the professional cultures of the clinicians from the CUMP and the child psychiatrists.
Conclusion. – Children-specific adaptations of the IPPI based on symbolic mediators, such as pictorial cards, should be considered as a reference tool at this age in the training of CUMP professionals.

Interview with Estelle Phelippeau Métrot. She presents the associative cards, explaining some reasons for their worldwide success. The cards have many benefits. The pleasures of playing, self exploration, getting to know others, developing skills and stimulating creativity and cooperation.

In Christine Gatineau’s article, she introduced associative OH Cards and their process of bypassing the mind to allow advancement into the depths of the psyche.