Models of collaboration between psychologist and family doctor: a systematic review of primary care psychology

open2noThe prevalence of psychological suffering is greater than the actual request for clinical consultation in Europe (Alonso et al., 2004). In Italy, no more than 5.5% of the population requested psychological assistance during lifetime (Miglioretti et al., 2008). There are different obstacles that prevent the access to mental health services, such as economic restrictions (Mulder et al., 2011), cultural prejudice (Kim et al., 2010), and lack of knowledge about the service providers that can answer to the patient’s psychological needs (Molinari et al., 2012). Therefore, the psychologist is often consulted as a last resort, only after everything else has failed, when problems have become severe, and thus requiring longer, more intensive, and expensive treatments. The introduction of the Primary Care Psychologist, a professional who works together with the family doctor, allows to overcome the above-mentioned problems and intercept unexpressed needs for psychological assistance. This professional role is operating in many countries since several years. In this study, current literature concerning different models of collaboration between physician and psychologist, in Europe and in Italy, was reviewed. A systematic search of Web of Science (ISI), Pubmed, Scopus, and PsychINFO was conducted using the initial search terms Primary Care Psychologist, Family Doctor, Primary Care, Collaborative Practice, and several relevant papers were identified. The review has shown the improved quality of care when mental health care is integrated into primary. Analyzing how different programs are implemented, results indicated that the more efficacious models of Primary Care Psychology are those tailored on the environment’s needs.The results of our systematic review stress the importance of the Primary Care Psychologist implementation also in Italy, to intercept unexpressed psychological needs and enhance clients’ quality of life.openFrancesca, Bianco; Enrico, BenelliBianco, Francesca; Benelli, Enric

From Psychological Intention Recognition Theories to Adaptive Theory of Mind for Robots

Progress in robots' application to everyday scenarios has increased the interest in human-robot interaction (HRI) research. However, robots' limited social skills are associated with decreased humans' positive attitude during HRI. Here, we put forward the idea of developing adaptive Theory of Mind (ToM) model-based systems for social robotics, able to deal with new situations and interact with different users in new tasks. Therefore, we grouped current research from developmental psychology debating the computational processes underlying ToM for HRI strategy development. Defining a model describing adaptive ToM processes may in fact aid the development of adaptive robotic architectures for more flexible and successful HRI. Finally, we hope with this report to both further promote the cross-talk between the fields of developmental psychology and robotics and inspire future investigations in this direction

Absorption and Scattering 2D Volcano Images from Numerically Calculated Space-weighting functions

Acknowledgments Yosuke Aoki and an anonymous reviewer greatly improved the quality of the paper. All calculations were made with Mathematica-10TM. Discussions with Marie Calvet, Danilo Galluzzo, Mario La Rocca, Salvatore De Lorenzo, Jessie Mayor and Ludovic Margerin are gratefully acknowledged. The authors are supported by MEDSUV European project and by Spanish Project Ephestos, CGL2011-29499-C02-01 and NOWAVES, TEC2015-68752. The TIDES EU travel Cost action provided travel money to support cooperation between Luca De Siena and the other authors.Peer reviewedPostprin

Ossian e Shakespeare nella letteratura italiana tra fine Settecento e primo Ottocento

The study aims to recognise the influence of the translation of Ossian’s songs by Cesarotti (in his three main editions: Padua 1763 and 1772, Pisa 1801), and of the first complete translation of Shakespeare’s theatre, written by Pierre Le Tourneur (Paris 1776-1782), on the great Italian authors of the late XVIIIth and early XIXth century (Monti, Alfieri, Foscolo and Leopardi). The work is structured in a chronological itinerary that intersects different literary genres, periods and personalities. It begins by proposing an analysis of the French translation of Shakespeare's work – because it is in this version that the theatre of the Bard arrived in Italy. Secondly, there is an analysis of the influence on the literary milieu. The research also includes a consideration of the first Italian translations which used the French version, whose idiom was a sort of “bridge language”, as often happened in Italy. The imposing work of Le Tourneur became fundamental for Italy because it allowed the cultural milieu a full knowledge of the work of the English dramatist: the rare and partial Italian translations were not in fact previously able to offer a complete interpretation of the author’s idea. Parallel to the Shakespearian movement, there is, strictly connected with the first, the growing awareness of the famous songs of Ossian by Cesarotti (who, because of his authority on translation also became a point of reference for Shakespearian translations), which had a great influence on the whole of Europe. Symbolic of the burgeoning romantic spirit, the poems represented a sort of rite of passage for literary men, who subsequently approached Shakespeare's work: the dark atmosphere and the intense dramatic tone of the narrated events anticipated the new style. The new awareness of English theatre follows logically from this, so that the complex eighteenth century debate about theatre and, with it, great romantic Italian poetry emerges

Lo psicologo nelle cure primarie: dall'utenza alla realizzazione

Mental illness accounts for 14% of the total global burden of disease. The prevalence of psychological suffering is greater than the actual request for clinical consultation in Europe. Health care system has not yet adequately responded to the burden of mental disorders. To cope with mental disease, WHO proposed the European Mental Health Action Plan (EMHAP) 2013- 2020, which recommends to improve access to safe, competent, effective and community-based mental health services. Primary Care Psychologist (PCP) can reduce the gap between the need of psychological treatment and its provision. To improve the access to psychological care, a new mental health service was created in one public health care district of Veneto Region: ULSS 7. The service provided direct referral to a co-located PCP working together with the general practitioner (GP). Patients, psychologists and GP reported great interest and high satisfaction with the service. PCP interventions were effective in improving well-being and reducing drugs prescriptions and laboratory tests. The results stress the importance of the PCP implementation, to intercept unexpressed psychological needs

Paolo Luca Bernardini, "Di dolore ostello" : pagine di storia italiana

Obra ressenyada: Paolo Luca BERNARDINI, "Di dolore ostello" : pagine di storia italiana. Vicenza: Ronzani, 2021