Giancarlo Tamanza

Depressive symptoms of Alzheimer caregivers are mainly due to personal rather than patient factors

Objectives. To investigate the predictors of caregivers depressive symptoms in a sample of community‐dwelling Alzheimers patients.

Divorce and coparenting: A qualitative study on family mediation in Italy

This qualitative study intended to assess how intergenerational transformative family mediation is a resource in promoting and supporting coparenting during the transition of divorce. There were 2 goals: to assess parents’ perceptions of key topics of family mediation and to compare their perceptions concerning different moments of the intervention. Fifteen Italian parents were interviewed using an ad hoc semistructured interview. Data were analyzed using the textual analysis software T-LAB. Findings showed mediator, pragmatic aspects, and family relationships as the most salient aspects of mediation. Significant differences emerged among the beginning, the middle phase, and the end of this intervention.

Depression in carers of elderly people living at home. Carers' characteristics could be risk factors.

EDITOR,—Gill Livingston and colleagues suggest that caring for people with psychiatric illness predisposes to depression, and that this may be mediated by lack of a confiding relationship.1 Our study of carers of people with dementia suggests that pre-existing characteristics of carers determine their likelihood of becoming depressed. We evaluated the association of carers depression, measured by Becks depression inventory,1 with perceived health (number of physical symptoms and quality of sleep1) and with sociodemographic and …

Revealing the Difference: Between Conflict Mediation and Law Enforcement—Living and Working Together as a Conceptual and Methodological Turning Point to Activate Transformation in a Juvenile Criminal Mediation Service

This article aims at proposing the construct of living and working together in organizations as an interpretation and tool proposed in a Juvenile Criminal Mediation Service, in order to highlight how important it was as a turning point in activating the working groups reflexive function as far as their sense of belonging, otherness, culture of diversity, and work subject matter are concerned and start an important transformation process in the very service delivery. Our proposal finds its roots in a follow-up experience regarding the aforementioned service, which has been taking place for almost three years. It was structured in three different phases: a research phase evaluating process and results of the activity that was carried out; a phase of monitoring the mediation practice; a research-action phase in a clinical perspective on the working groups operating mode. The leverage of living and working together in organizations is specifically proposed as far as this last working phase is concerned, lasting approximately ten months.

Promoting Coparenting After Divorce: A Relational Perspective on Child Custody Evaluations in Italy

ABSTRACT This study intended to explore how child custody evaluations might help in supporting parents during the transition of divorce to continue to be parents together. Sixteen Italian divorced parents were interviewed using an ad hoc semistructured interview. Data were analyzed by T-LAB software. Findings indicated a shift from the structural aspects of the intervention to the dynamic ones, as well as from an individual vision of the child to a more relational one, from the problems and the conflicts to resources, mutual respect, and trust. Results are discussed in relation to practical implications for intervention.

Alienazione Genitoriale (PAS) e procedimenti di Consulenza Tecnica d’Ufficio: evidenze cliniche dall’analisi di alcune valutazioni

Durante l’evento di separazione o divorzio accade spesso che figli minori rifiutino di incontrare uno dei genitori senza apparente motivo. Il fenomeno e conosciuto come Sindrome di Alienazione Genitoriale (PAS; Gardner, 1992, 1998) e ancora oggi e alla verifica empirica e clinica della comunita scientifica (Drozd & Olesen, 2004; Emery, Otto, & O’Donohue, 2005; Gould, 2006; Johnston & Kelly, 2001, 2004; Warshak, 2001). Anche le teorie familiari hanno contribuito alla comprensione del fenomeno in prospettiva relazionale e sistemica e all’interno di esse si colloca il presente contributo. In particolare, l’obiettivo e illustrare le dinamiche e le configurazioni relazionali familiari in situazione di PAS attraverso il modello relazionale-simbolico (Cigoli & Scabini, 2006). A questo proposito, sono state analizzate 22 relazioni di Consulenza Tecnica d’Ufficio di famiglie caratterizzate da PAS: i risultati evidenziano costanti fragilita relazionali dei genitori riguardo alla loro storia originaria e al legame di coppia medesimo. Tali evidenze consentono di progettare percorsi di trattamento clinico considerando gli scambi intergenerazionali familiari e le caratteristiche della relazione di coppia quali focus per l’intervento.

Putting Words to the Experience: An Italian Group Intervention for Children of Separated Parents

ABSTRACT This article presents an Italian group intervention for children of separated parents and describes preliminary findings about its efficacy. After briefly discussing the state of art for interventions of children of separated parents, the core characteristics of the group intervention are explained and each meeting is described. Then, pre–post research is presented to provide empirical support for this approach. Results reported that participation in the group strengthens the social and interpersonal self-concept dimension in the majority of children. Results are discussed considering both empirical and clinical implications.

Il contributo del DSSVP (disegno simbolico dello spazio di vita professionale) allo studio delle identità lavorative: il caso di una casa circondariale

The work aims at presenting the contribution of the professional life space drawing (DSSVP), a graphic-symbolic tool, to the analysis of the identities within the working frameworks. Namely, the study will consider police officers and middle management working in a prison (casa circondariale) in Lombardia (Italy). Firstly, the relationship between work and identity and the challenges that it is facing in the present setting will be considered. Secondly, the analysis will focus on the prisons context, where the professionals figures investigated within this study operate. At this stage, the tool of DSSVP will be presented together with those issues that it has helped to highlight thanks to a metric-type and phenomenological analysis Il lavoro intende presentare il contributo che il Disegno Simbolico dello Spazio di Vita Professionale (DSSVP), uno strumento grafico-simbolico, puo portare nello studio delle identita entro i contesti di lavoro. In particolare nello studio si fara riferimento ad agenti e quadri intermedi, che lavorano in una Casa Circondariale lombarda. Ci si soffermera dapprima sull’evoluzione del rapporto lavoro-identita e sulle sfide che questa ultima e chiamata ad affrontare nello scenario odierno. A seguire, dopo aver delineato il contesto delle Case circondariali, entro cui i professionisti considerati in questo lavoro operano, verra presentato lo strumento del DSSVP e cio che riesce a mettere in evidenza grazie a un’analisi di tipo metrico e di tipo fenomenologico.