The personal experience of parenting a child with Juvenile Huntington’s Disease: perceptions across Europe

The study reported here presents a detailed description of what it is like to parent a child with juvenile Huntington’s disease in families across four European countries. Its primary aim was to develop and extend findings from a previous UK study. The study recruited parents from four European countries: Holland, Italy, Poland and Sweden,. A secondary aim was to see the extent to which the findings from the UK study were repeated across Europe and the degree of commonality or divergence across the different countries. Fourteen parents who were the primary caregiver took part in a semistructured interview. These were analyzed using an established qualitative methodology, interpretative phenomenological analysis. Five analytic themes were derived from the analysis: the early signs of something wrong; parental understanding of juvenile Huntington’s disease; living with the disease; other people’s knowledge and understanding; and need for support. These are discussed in light of the considerable convergence between the experiences of families in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe

Le Transizioni nella Psicologia dei Costrutti Personali Validazione della teoria e dimensioni cliniche del cambiamento

Personal Constructs Psychology (Kelly, 1955) is the field of this research. Its aim is validate/invalidate experimentally hypotheses of Transitions (emotions) that are "Professional Constructs" that the therapist may use to do a "Transitive Diagnosis". Here are presented two complementary studies. The first study compares the definitions of Transitions as defined by Kelly with those resulting from participants lived experiences. In the second study, the work of McCoy (1977) is enlarged to include a number of new emotions and to identify "transition's sequences" that can be used in clinical and psychotherapy. Research results validate Kelly's theory as "first person psychology " and the transitions sequences emerged are individually discussed and argued

L\u2019ansia come matrice di cambiamento:Il modello costruttivista di G.A. Kelly

Il modello costruttivista dell'ansia (Kelly, 1955) difende l\u2019idea che l\u2019ansia sia una parte integrante nel movimento dell\u2019esistenza e che non abbia, di per s\ue9, un valore negativo. Non viene infatti definita come un \u201cdisturbo\u201d, ma come un momento di passaggio nel naturale movimento vitale, una \u201ctransizione\u201d caratterizzata dalla "consapevolezza che gli eventi che ci troviamo di fronte si trovano per lo pi\uf9 al di fuori del campo di pertinenza del nostro sistema di costrutti". Tale teorizzazione dell'ansia implica un atteggiamento diverso nell'affrontarla sia in ambito di ricerca sia in ambito clinico. Il contributo delinea le metodologie e le strategie coerenti con il modello e indica criteri per la distinzione tra "ansia naturale" e "ansia patologica

Qualitative Approach to Attempted Suicide by Adolescents and Young Adults: The (Neglected) Role of Revenge

<div><p>Background</p><p>Suicide by adolescents and young adults is a major public health concern, and repetition of self-harm is an important risk factor for future suicide attempts.</p><p>Objective</p><p>Our purpose is to explore the perspective of adolescents directly involved in suicidal acts.</p><p>Methods</p><p>Qualitative study involving 16 purposively selected adolescents (sex ratio1∶1) from 3 different centers. Half had been involved in repeated suicidal acts, and the other half only one. Data were gathered through semistructured interviews and analyzed according to Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.</p><p>Results</p><p>We found five main themes, organized in two superordinate themes. The first theme (individual dimensions of the suicide attempt) describes the issues and explanations that the adolescents saw as related to themselves; it includes the subthemes: (1) negative emotions toward the self and individual impasse, and (2) the need for some control over their lives. The second main theme (relational dimensions of attempted suicide) describes issues that adolescents mentioned that were related to others and includes three subthemes: (3) perceived impasse in interpersonal relationships, (4) communication, and (5) revenge.</p><p>Conclusions</p><p>Adolescents involved in suicidal behavior are stuck in both an individual and a relational impasse from which there is no exit and no apparent way to reach the other. Revenge can bridge this gap and thus transforms personal distress into a relational matter. This powerful emotion has been neglected by both clinicians and researchers.</p></div

Thematic findings.

<p>Representation of themes and subthemes emerged from our analysis.</p

Interview topic guide.

<p>Interview topic guide.</p

Participants' characteristics.

<p>Participants' characteristics.</p