Reliability and validity of the Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia in a mixed clinical and nonclinical sample from Italy. PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH, vol. 187, p. 432-436, ISSN: 0165-1781, doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.02.015

In this study, the (a) association of the client- and therapist-rated strength of the real relationship to the outcome of brief psychotherapy, and (b) extent to which the real relationship predicted outcome above and beyond the predictive power of the working alliance were examined. A total of 50 clients at the counseling center of a university in Italy received brief therapy and completed measures before treatment, after the third session, and at the end of treatment. From the clients’ perspective, both the Genuineness element of the real relationship and the Bond scale of the working alliance were found to relate significantly to treatment outcome. When we examined the real relationship a…

ADOLESCENTI CON SINDROME DI TURNER E MENARCA SPONTANEO: CORRELAZIONE CON CARIOTIPO, PARAMETRI ORMONALI E IMAGING PELVICA

LA RMN NEL FOLLOW UP DELLA FUNZIONALITA’ GONADICA NELLE ADOLESCENTI CON S. DI TURNER

Pelvic magnetic resonance imaging in Turner syndrome.

Background: Adolescents with Turner Syndrome (TS) live a difficulty related to the prospective to have spontaneous pubertal development and menarche as well as to their future fertility. These questions have relevant psychological-therapeutic implications on clinical and endocrine follow-up and represent critical points in the TS management. Some patients have spontaneous menarche and do not need estroprogestinic replacement in the first years of adolescence. This evolution is not always predictable on the basis of hormonal pattern and echographic imaging, while it is described in patients with mosaicism. Methods: We studied 17 patients with TS, age: 9-16 years, caryotype 45,X in 9 patients…