Nuda vita come animalità. Un argomento di ontologia sociale contro Giorgio Agamben

In this paper, through the tools of social ontology, we criticize the concept of “anthropological machine” theorized by the italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. According to Agamben, the “machine” produces a hierarchy (animal-human-citizen), but we argue that his perspective is still anthropocentric. We substitute the dispositif of inclusion/exclusion with a cascade scheme, where every point of the scheme is considered as a social object. In the end, we show how this perspective allows to consider animality as a primary condition of possibility of all other divisions

A preliminary study on the relationship between central auditory processing and childhood primary headaches in the intercritical phase

Recently, an increasing number of articles have appeared on central auditory processing disorders, but in the literature there is only one study that evaluated the possible correlation between migraine in the critical phase and central auditory processing. The aim of our study was to assess the correlation between auditory processing information and childhood primary headaches in the intercritical phase

Scoping Review: Digital mental health interventions for children and adolescents affected by war

Objective Over 200 million children and adolescents live in countries affected by violent conflict, are likely to have complex mental health needs, and struggle to access traditional mental health services. Digital mental health interventions have the potential to overcome some of the barriers in accessing mental health support. We performed a scoping review to map existing digital mental health interventions relevant for children and adolescents affected by war, examine the strength of the evidence base, and inform the development of future interventions. Method Based on a pre-registered strategy, we systematically searched MEDLINE, Embase, Global Health, APA PsychInfo, and Google Scholar from the creation of each database to 30th September 2022, identifying k=6,843 studies. Our systematic search was complemented by extensive consultation with experts from the GROW Network. Results The systematic search identified 6 relevant studies: one evaluating digital mental health interventions for children and adolescents affected by war and five for those affected by disasters. Experts identified 35 interventions of possible relevance. The interventions spanned from universal prevention to specialist-guided treatment. Most interventions directly targeted young people and parents/carers and were self-guided. A quarter of the interventions were tested through randomized controlled trials. Because most interventions were not culturally or linguistically adapted to relevant contexts, their implementation potential was unclear. Conclusion There is very limited evidence for the use of digital mental health interventions for children and adolescents affected by war at present. The review provides a framework to inform the development of new interventions

The descriptive epidemiology of DSM-IV Adult ADHD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

We previously reported on the cross-national epidemiology of ADHD from the first 10 countries in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys. The current report expands those previous findings to the 20 nationally or regionally representative WMH surveys that have now collected data on adult ADHD. The Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) was administered to 26,744 respondents in these surveys in high-, upper-middle-, and low-/lower-middle-income countries (68.5% mean response rate). Current DSM-IV/CIDI adult ADHD prevalence averaged 2.8% across surveys and was higher in high (3.6%)- and upper-middle (3.0%)- than low-/lower-middle (1.4%)-income countries. Conditional prevalence of current ADHD averaged 57.0% among childhood cases and 41.1% among childhood subthreshold cases. Adult ADHD was significantly related to being male, previously married, and low education. Adult ADHD was highly comorbid with DSM-IV/CIDI anxiety, mood, behavior, and substance disorders and significantly associated with role impairments (days out of role, impaired cognition, and social interactions) when controlling for comorbidities. Treatment seeking was low in all countries and targeted largely to comorbid conditions rather than to ADHD. These results show that adult ADHD is prevalent, seriously impairing, and highly comorbid but vastly under-recognized and undertreated across countries and cultures

Quale giustizia per i bambini e gli adolescenti? Una riformaannunciata

La riforma della giustizia minoril

LE STARTEGIE DI PREVENZIONE DELL'ABUSO ALL'INFANZIA

L'articolo descrive le principali questioni aperte legate alla prevenzione degli abusi sui bambin

Emergenza nell’infanzia e nell’adolescenza. Interventi psicoterapeutici e di comunità.

Disastri naturali, disastri causati da errori umani, atti di violenza diretta o indiretta, lutti, gravi malattie accompagnano da sempre l’umanità. Ogni anno milioni di bambini e adolescenti ne sono vittima.I soggetti in età evolutiva, inoltre, sono esposti a emergenze del tutto particolari: gravi abusi, maltrattamenti, trascuratezza. Sono in una fase della vita in cui è più facile essere coinvolti in situazioni traumatiche che mettono a serio rischio l’incolumità psicofisica. Il volume analizza, dunque, le diverse tipologie di emergenza che coinvolgono bambini e adolescenti, soffermandosi, nella prima parte, sui possibili esiti clinici a breve e lungo termine, secondo il modello della psicopatologia dello sviluppo.Ma che cosa si può fare per fronteggiare queste emergenze? I metodi e gli strumenti di ricerca in questo campo, analizzati nella seconda parte del testo, sono molto articolati e più avanzati di quanto non si creda. Gli interventi che è possibile proporre a livello individuale, familiare e di comunità - la Well-Being Therapy, il CD-CP Program del Child Study Center di Yale, il Community Reactivation Program sviluppato dal Cohen-Harris Center for Trauma and Disaster Intervention di Tel Aviv e il modello del Team Emergenza di Telefono Azzurro - testimoniano la ricchezza degli studi in materia e sottolineano la necessità di approcci multidisciplinari e interistituzionali

La violenza in adolescenza. Violenza subita e procurata

L'articolo introduce al tema dell'abuso in età adolescenzial

Il trauma dell'abuso all'infanzia

L'articolo analizza gli effetti del trauma in età evolutiv

Consulenza telefonica e relazione d’aiuto. La qualità dell’ascolto e dell’intervento con i bambini e gli adolescenti

A partire dall'esperienza maturata dagli esperti e dai consulenti del Centro di Ascolto di Telefono Azzurro, il volume descrive le modalità e le strategie di base della consulenza telefonica, rivolta sia ai bambini e agli adolescenti che agli adulti