Please note, this entry is for further development by the Preceptor. The psycho - socio-aesthetic is a companion craft therapeutic, who practices cosmetic care and touch body massage as mediation tool and supportive care in a multidisciplinary framework, in the heart of a care project the medico-social sector.
By supporting the person to become an actor of their own well-being, the objective of the job is to enhance self-image and self-esteem, by encouraging speaking by expressing their feelings and by working on the disadaptation or the handicap of the appearance. Socio-aesthetics was born in England in , in oncology and psychiatry services and the first socio-esthetician appeared in San Francisco in a psychiatric center in Two years later, a volunteer esthetician intervened in the hospital.
Le Vinatier psychiatric ward in Lyon. In , the first aesthetics school with a humanitarian and social option was created at the Tours hospital center : CODES. The CEW Cosmetic Executiv Women association, by women responsible for the beauty industries, set up beauty centers in hospitals in In , supportive care was born by measure 42 of the cancer plan , socio-aesthetics is one of them.
The National Union of Socio-Estheticians is working from to on a new training aimed at professionalization, elaboration of the program and the repository of psycho- socio-aesthetic training. In two pilot schools of psycho- socio-aesthetics were created, in Nanterre and Pau. The union obtains the validation by the Ministry of Health of the job description of socio-esthetician with recognition of the terminology " psycho- socio-esthetic", as another name of socio-esthetic.
Psycho- socio-aesthetics PSE is a profession which takes into account the person in a multi-objective way bio-psycho-social-aesthetics to work on the disadaptation or the handicap of appearance. It implements rehabilitation, reintegration and psycho- social rehabilitation care activities: through individual care, group care and always in the context of transdisciplinary care. After a CAP in aesthetics, it is necessary to follow a specialized training at a school certified by the National Union of professionals in socio-aesthetics.
