Les compétences mobilisées par le psychologue dans la pratique de l’éducation thérapeutique : exemple d’une prise en charge d’un patient obèse

Abstract

The Therapeutic Education is a tool allowing the patient to find its own strategies of change by confronting with the point of view of others, by approaching new knowledge and recapturing some skills. The change involves a multitude of psychological processes, which we rarely question. What place do we grant to these psychological processes? What is the role of the psychologist of the health in the ET. We shall approach these notions by discussing a clinical case of a patient obese having participated in a therapeutic patient education “for a long-lasting loss of weight” (Medical Unit of the Nutrition, CHU de Toulouse).