Search results for " Psicologia clinica"

Il boss mafioso ieri ed oggi. Caratteristiche psicologiche e dati di ricerca

2014

L’articolo descrive le caratteristiche psicologiche dei boss di Cosa Nostra a partire dai dati di ricerca raccolti in quasi un ventennio (1994-2013). Attraverso l’utilizzo di frammenti di interviste a collaboranti di giustizia, mogli, figli, cognate, si analizza la figura del boss e il suo contesto relazionale. L’articolo riporta, inoltre, i risultati di una recente ricerca sulla relazione tra boss e colletti bianchi, realizzata attraverso l’analisi delle intercettazioni ambientali registrate a casa di un noto boss mafioso siciliano: Giuseppe Guttadauro. Da questa ricerca emerge la diversità psicologica su cui si fonda la relazione tra boss e colletto bianco. L’analisi dei trascritti delle …

PREMORBID ADJUSTMENT AND CANNABIS USE IN FIRST-EPISODE-PSYCHOSIS PATIENTS. A CROSS-EUROPEAN CASE-CONTROL STUDY

The harmful effects of cannabis use and possible neuropsychological impairment associated with its use are a contentious topic of debate in both research and public health,as is thefact that cannabis use has been repeatedly shown to be a risk factor for the development of psychosis. Surprisingly, three different meta-analyses on cognition and cannabis, among schizophrenic patients, found better cognitive performance in patients with a lifetime use of cannabis (Potvin, Joyal, Pelletier, & Stip, 2008; Rabin, Zakzanis, & George, 2011; Yücel et al., 2012). This counterintuitive finding, coupled with the fact that most psychotic patients suffer from cognitive impairment (Reichenberg et al., 2009…

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN COPING STRATEGIES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT AFTER SMALL BURN INJURIES. A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

2017

Objective: This study aimed at describing the coping strategies used by patients of small burns (<= 20% body surface area) at the early stage of rehabilitation process and to analyze the effect of coping strategies and body image dissatisfaction on psychiatric symptoms and quality of life.Method: Sixty-nine patients firstly admitted to an out-patient burn unit were involved in the study. Coping response to burn trauma was investigated using the Brief-COPE, while the Short-Form 36 Health Survey, the Self-report Clinical Inventory, and the Body Uneasiness Test were used respectively to assess post-burn quality of life, psychiatric symptoms, and body image dissatisfaction.Results: Avoidant …

I luoghi del malinteso nella cultura e nella cura

2015

This article focuses on cultural misunderstanding in care relations, starting from the analysis of the effects misunderstanding causes in the relation between doctor and migrant patient. The Western medical model tends to be based on objective data, which can be diagnosed through more and more precise and detailed techniques, but it excludes from care relations human and cultural aspects of subjectivity and relation. This exclusion creates distance, which increases when doctor and patient do not share a cultural homogeneity but differ for their language and the way they conceive their body, health, disease. By showing some clinical examples, this contribution points out how specialized comp…

Misunderstanding Situations in Culture and Cultural Care

2017

This article focuses on cultural misunderstanding in care relations, starting from the analysis of the effects misunderstanding causes in the relation between doctor and migrant patient. The Western medical model tends to be based on objective data, which can be diagnosed through more and more precise and detailed techniques, but it excludes human and cultural aspects of subjectivity and relation from care. This exclusion creates distance, which increases when doctor and patient do not share a cultural homogeneity but differ for their language and the way they conceive their body, health, and disease. By showing some clinical examples, this contribution points out how specialized competence…

“reverse anorexia in un gruppo di body builders”.

2009

Infanzia, adolescenza e terapia sostitutiva della funzione renale

2008

Ogni anno in Italia 30 bambini d'età compresa tra 0 e 15 anni, affetti da Insufficienza Renale Cronica (I.R.C.) iniziano il trattamento dialitico con dialisi peritoneale e circa 10 sono sottoposti per la prima volta ad emodialisi. In questo articolo si traccia un profilo epidemiologico dell'attuale situazione di dialisi e trapianti renali in Italia, evidenziando le condizioni attuali di qualità di vita dei bambini sottoposti a trattamento sostitutivo della funzione renale, nel confronto tra le due diverse pratiche (emodialisi e dialisi peritoneale). Tali elementi vengono analizzati in rapporto allo stress vissuto dal "caregiver" di riferimento ed all'assistenza proposta da equipe medico-inf…

Pathos e creatività nel bambino nefropatico

2008

Il presente contributo mira a delineare la modalità secondo cui il pathos e la creatività si dispiegano all'interno del percorso di ospedalizzazione pediatrica, con diretto riferimento al vissuto del bambino nefropatico. Con creatività si fa riferimento ad una possibilità innovativa e risolutiva che unisce riflessione cognitiva ed emozioni, dunque fantasia che si esplica in atto volontario di modifica della realtà. Dunque, un insieme complesso di risorse interagenti nel soggetto che si confronta con il suo ambiente e con contesti nuovi, in stretto confronto con i concetti di di molteplicità delle novità, imprevedibilità, processo umano. Si fa riferimento al tema della compliance sia con paz…

Beyond good and evil: The impact of digital environment in family life

2019

Internet has changed the way we interact with others and has become an essential tool for daily activities. Children and adolescents are the main users of new digital technologies and their first contact with a screen happens increasingly earlier in life. Its premature use can be dangerous: technology represents a “supernormal stimulus” that can act on the brain reward circuit and affect neural development. In this article we describe the effects of technology on the brain, well-being, social and family relationships, highlighting both positive and negative ones: rather than defining a priori any type of technology as “good” or “bad”, we should consider how specific applications are used in…

L'exercise addiction

2008