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    L’utilizzo del costrutto di attaccamento in ambito giuridico: per un suo corretto uso a difesa dell’interesse del minore un invito alla discussione

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    Attachment Theory is instrumental in the context of court-appointed and party-appointed experts consultations provided within the Juvenile Court – recently redefined by new regulatory provisions as a single court for families and individuals- in terms of custody, separations, and divorces. Unfortunately, however, there are numerous occasions of incorrect use of the conceptual and methodological tools indicated by Attachment Theory, which significantly impacts the decisions taken about minors and families. The recent proposal of an article dedicated to this topic (Forslund et al., 2022) which collects, in the form of a «consensus statement», the opinions of authoritative scholars and international researchers in the field, is an opportunity to bring attention to what it means to pursue the «best interests of the child» by applying, in an empirically based and non-ideological way, the methodological and conceptual indications offered by the Attachment Theory. The suggestion for discussion we present here has two aims: first, to shed light on the current misunderstandings in decision-making practices that are inspired by Attachment Theory in forensic contexts for families and children; second, to suggest good practices in the work of the court-appointed or party-appointed experts, which is in line with what the research indicates as «plausible» statements and, therefore, translatable into reliable practices for all parties involved

    School communication strategies improve schools' surroundings' safety: The moderation of students' participation and anti-bullying programs in Northern Italy

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    In the last decades, research focused on the surroundings' influence over schools, but only a few studies investigated whether the presence of a school may increase its surroundings' safety. Still, the characteristics of the school which could ameliorate the surroundings' safety are still unclear. The current study hypothesizes that: i. a higher number of communication strategies in the school may increase the school surroundings' safety; ii. the students' participation in school decisions and the frequency of anti-bullying programs may strengthen the effect of communication over surroundings' safety. The sample includes data of 62 school principals from the Northern Italian region of Lombardy who answered self-report questions from Health Behaviors in School-Aged Children (2014) protocol. Findings from moderation analysis show that a higher number of communication strategies within the school fosters the perception of safer school surroundings. The impact of students' participation in school decisions does not constitute a significant moderator of the relationship. In contrast, the frequency of anti-bullying programs results to impact negatively on the association between communication strategies and surroundings' safety
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