Provide support in the Citizen Accompaniment process: a necessity for the accompanying citizen mental health
The APIC (Citizen Accompaniment Project for Community Integration) is an innovative program that aims to support people with health problems. The support takes place by offering an accompanying citizen (AC) in the accomplishment of significant life activities. In this context, relational process is important and complex. The purpose of this article is to analyze the influence of constraints encountered during practice on the psychological health of accompanying citizen (AC) from the work psychodynamic point of view. Results come from a monitoring process with ten persons occupying the role of ACs with people who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). From the actors point of view, the study suggests the establishment of support in the citizen accompaniment process and developpement of tools to avoid risk to Acs mental health.