Éthique de la sollicitude dans une unité cognitivo-comportementale : des « proofs of care » aux « outils pour le care »

The professional crisis that health workers in hospitals and health institutions have been coping with, long before the tsunami generated by the COVID-19 epidemic, has led them to alternate between mobilization and discouragement. In this context, what place should be given to relational care at a time when even basic care is compromised? In line with the dynamics of the research initiated around the concept of “proofs of care”, we propose to define the expression “tool for care”: how, and with what type of setup and/or back-up, can we implement an ethic of care, between attentiveness and determination to act, between commitment and responsibility, at individual and collective level? We then explore this definition on the basis of the “Aloïs en Photonesie” programme used in a cognitive-behavioral unit.