In the Italian context, the psychology profession is regulated by a particular legal framework, which establishes that (a) a set of expert functions (e.g., psychological diagnosis, rehabilitation) are exclusively reserved to the psychology profession (b) psychotherapy is defined a second-order function reserved to psychologists (and practitioners) having a 4-year specialization after the master degree in psychology. This specific institutional framework raises the necessity of a threefold differentiation. First, the need to set clear scientific boundaries between professional psychology and other non-psychological forms of professional/expert practice (e.g., counselor, mental coach). Second, the need to clarify the specificity of the psychology practices operating in the clinical field with respect to those operating in other fields of intervention (e.g., school, community). Third, the need to model the articulation between the clinical psychologist and the psychotherapist. The paper provides a model to operate such a differentiation. Though motivated by and focused on the peculiarity of the Italian context, the current paper offers considerations that may transcend that context and be of general interest
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.3280/rpc1-2023oa15851
Raffaella Abate, Guoyonne Rogier
In recent years, several clinical syndromes have emerged, labeled as ecopsychopathologies, underlying the psychological relationship between individuals and natural environment. The aim of the present study was to analyze the nature of psychological distress related to this relationship administering to a sample of 20 participants: the Eco Psychopathologies Interview. The narratives elicited by this semi-structured interview were recorded and transcribed. The elementary context analysis, carried out with the T-Lab software, led to a two-factors and three-clusters solution. The interpretation process has identified the factors as Narrative of the personal story and Action. Three clusters have emerged, labeled Bonding, Transforming and Educating. As discussed, this qualitative data supports the idea that psychological distress emerging from the human relationship with the natural environment is a matter of identity, personal values and attachment to place.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.3280/rpc1-2023oa15698
Barbara Cordella, Annachiara Miano, Angelo R. Pennella
The research born with the aim of exploring the perspective with which the Digital Natives (ND) are confronted with online psychological counseling and video conference psychotherapy (VCP) is presented. To this end, 30 interviews were conducted, distinguishing those who had only experiences in offline settings, those who had experiences in mixed settings (offline/online) and those who had no experience of psychological interventions. The narratives were analyzed through a cluster analysis and a subsequent correspondence analysis. The results underline the importance of the physical co-presence and the organizational aspects of the setting as facilitating factors of the clinical process but do not allow to specifically characterize the NDs. The representations collected regarding online psychological counseling/VCP seem in fact to have been influenced more by the emotional correlates of the pandemic period than by the characteristics of remote psychological work.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.3280/rpc1-2023oa15427
Stanley Berman
Salvatore et al. (2022) have contributed a most important commentary about how patients and the profession of Clinical Psychology are at considerable risk as the trend towards specialization has meant that even core constructs in our field are not universally endorsed. A science without fundamental agreement about foundational concepts is at great risk. They go on to make several salient suggestions to facilitate addressing this substantial problem. In this commentary, the author strongly agrees with their concern and applauds their suggested next steps towards a resolution. He argues that all scientific pursuits benefit from both theory and research that has a broad focus as well as a very specialized focus. Advances in cell biology, for example have created a new and vital field of gene editing. The difficulty is when health care provider psychologists can no longer have dialogues about shared and overlapping theory and practice. Examples of collaborative work in World War II technology research and in the development of Chaos Theory are cited, as well as the philosopher Stephen Pepper's argument about the role of root hypotheses. He proposes beginning a process of an international working group to assist in this effort to reunify our field. He also cautions and specifies the significant obstacles to this endeavor.
{"title":"The necessity and the challenges for a unified model of clinical psychology: A commentary on Salvatore et al., 2022","authors":"Stanley Berman","doi":"10.3280/rpc1-2023oa15427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/rpc1-2023oa15427","url":null,"abstract":"Salvatore et al. (2022) have contributed a most important commentary about how patients and the profession of Clinical Psychology are at considerable risk as the trend towards specialization has meant that even core constructs in our field are not universally endorsed. A science without fundamental agreement about foundational concepts is at great risk. They go on to make several salient suggestions to facilitate addressing this substantial problem. In this commentary, the author strongly agrees with their concern and applauds their suggested next steps towards a resolution. He argues that all scientific pursuits benefit from both theory and research that has a broad focus as well as a very specialized focus. Advances in cell biology, for example have created a new and vital field of gene editing. The difficulty is when health care provider psychologists can no longer have dialogues about shared and overlapping theory and practice. Examples of collaborative work in World War II technology research and in the development of Chaos Theory are cited, as well as the philosopher Stephen Pepper's argument about the role of root hypotheses. He proposes beginning a process of an international working group to assist in this effort to reunify our field. He also cautions and specifies the significant obstacles to this endeavor.","PeriodicalId":493122,"journal":{"name":"Rivista di Psicologia Clinica. Teorie e metodi dell'intervento","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136205242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.3280/rpc1-2023oa15951
Matteo Reho, Skaiste Kerušauskaite, Barbara Cordella, Alessandro Gennaro
This paper presents the results of an in-depth analysis aimed to identify climate change representations in four major Italian newspapers over 11 years. The objectives of the study were to map the prevailing themes, to examine the underlying semantic structures that shape the content of these themes, and to investigate their evolutionary trajectory. To this end, the study used the Automated Co-occurrence Analysis for Semantic Mapping (ACASM) procedure applied to a text corpus consisting of the journal articles. Results highlight four distinctive themes, grounded on two basic structures, according to which climate change in Italian media is represented. Additionally, the study revealed significant temporal variability in the use of the themes during the period examined. Drawing on the framework of Semiotic Cultural Psychology theory, the implications of the findings are discussed, offering valuable insights into the perception and social representation of climate change in the Italian media landscape.
{"title":"The representation of climate change: A retrospective newspaper analysis","authors":"Matteo Reho, Skaiste Kerušauskaite, Barbara Cordella, Alessandro Gennaro","doi":"10.3280/rpc1-2023oa15951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/rpc1-2023oa15951","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of an in-depth analysis aimed to identify climate change representations in four major Italian newspapers over 11 years. The objectives of the study were to map the prevailing themes, to examine the underlying semantic structures that shape the content of these themes, and to investigate their evolutionary trajectory. To this end, the study used the Automated Co-occurrence Analysis for Semantic Mapping (ACASM) procedure applied to a text corpus consisting of the journal articles. Results highlight four distinctive themes, grounded on two basic structures, according to which climate change in Italian media is represented. Additionally, the study revealed significant temporal variability in the use of the themes during the period examined. Drawing on the framework of Semiotic Cultural Psychology theory, the implications of the findings are discussed, offering valuable insights into the perception and social representation of climate change in the Italian media landscape.","PeriodicalId":493122,"journal":{"name":"Rivista di Psicologia Clinica. Teorie e metodi dell'intervento","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136206040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.3280/rpc1-2023oa16368
Richard F. Mollica, Sonia Graziano
Salvatore and colleagues wrote a brilliant Target Article (2022) in this journal on the state of Italian psychology and recommendations for change. In this contribution, we look at the failure of Italian psychology to address the suffering of the affected population of the Central Italian earthquake in Norcia in 2016. The Italian National Trauma Center centered in Orvieto, Umbria has been on the ground assisting local health care practitioners in caring for the mental health impact of the earthquake and the COVID pandemic lockdown. Absent Italian psychologists walk hand in hand with a political system that has had limited response to the mental health needs of earthquake survivors. Lessons learned from the historic revolution in Italian Psychiatry led by Professor Franco Basaglia are presented to help understand the current reality in Norcia. Many of the barriers to mental health reform that existed for Basaglia and his colleagues still exist today. This contribution strongly supports Salvatore and colleagues' recommendations for the transformation of Italian psychology.
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