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La qualità dell'attaccamento nei bambini con disturbi da Sintomi Somatici e disturbi correlati
No full textThere is a lack of studies on attachment in specific psychopathological conditions in middle childhood and early adolescence; this study aims to evaluate the attachment in 101 children, aged 8-15, 50 with a diagnosis of Somatic Symptoms Disorders (SSD) and 51 as control group, administering the Child Attachment Interview and Children Behavior Checklist. Findings showed in SSD group higher percentages of insecure, preoccupied, disorganized attachment, and higher levels of Involving Anger to caregivers than comparison group. Negative correlations between security scale and somatic complaints were found. This study might help clinicians in the SSD evaluation and treatment processes
An available measure of attachment for italian clinicians: national data of Child Attachment Interview
No full textQuando un affido può definirsi concluso con successo? Riflessioni sul processo di valutazione dell’affido e dei suoi esiti in età adulta. Commenti a “L’affidamento familiare tra teoria e realtà: opportunità, incongruenze e contraddizioni.
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Pathological personality and gambling disorder: An empirical study
No full textBackground: Despite the fact that near 2% of the Italian population suffers from Gambling Disorder (GD), the nature of psychopathological variables accounting for the disorder remains partially unclear. In particular, studies examining the link between pathological personality and GD suffer from important limitations principally due to the use of instrument evaluating adaptive personality traits or being based on a categorical conceptualization of pathological personality. The aim of the present study was to bridge such gaps, investigating the role played by pathological personality traits in a clinical population of addicted gamblers.
Method: A group of addicted gamblers (N=70) and a group of healthy controls (N=105) fulfilled the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS, Lesieur & Blume, 1987) and the Personality Inventory for DSM-V (PID-5; Krueger et al., 2011).
Results: Analyses of variance showed that addicted gamblers scored higher than healthy controls on the five domains of the PID-5 and on some specific personality facets. Moreover, the multiple regression analysis indicated that only the Disinibition domain remained a significant and positive predictor of GD severity whereas the Detachment factor predicted negatively and significantly SOGS’ scores.
Conclusions: Our data supported results of previous studies examining the link between GD and Personality Disorders. Moreover, a dimensional perspective of pathological personality seems promising for the understanding of specific components accounting for the comorbidity between GD and personality disorders
Non è solo questione di sviluppo cognitivo (Commento a "Interventi educativi per la prima infanzia: A chi fa bene il nido?")
No full textAttachment representations in children with disruptive behavior disorders: A special focus on insecurity in middle childhood
No full textAccording to the emotional and social problems encountered in disruptive behaviour disorder (DBD), there is little available information regarding the attachment processes during middle childhood. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the attachment representations to both caregivers in a sample of 84 children, aged 8–12 years (N = 42 with a diagnosis of DBD; N = 42 as a comparison group). Attachment is assessed through the Child Attachment Interview, a semi-structured interview that incorporates both narrative and behavioural assessments of attachment, permits the assessment of attachment representations using dimensional and categorical approaches, and allows for the detection of disorganisation to both parents individually. Our results point to the presence of high frequencies of insecure attachment (more than 80%) in the DBD group, with a higher percentage of dismissing attachment, and an over-representation of disorganised attachment (more than 50%). Higher levels of dismissal and lower levels of security are found in DBD than in the comparison group. No attachment differences with respect to both parents are found. Understanding how different aspects of attachment during a specific developmental phase plays a role within the broader emotional functioning of DBD has great potential to lead to innovations in evaluations and treatment processes
Disorganized attachment and psychological symptoms in children with somatic symptoms disorders
No full textThrough a relational lens: reflections about foster care experience in Italian emancipated foster youth
No full textThe study aimed to investigate relational outcomes of Italian emancipated foster youth across open-ended reflections about their perceptions of their relationships with the biological and foster family, with partner and peers. A total of 26 Italian emancipated foster youth (19–25 years old) recruited by social services completed a single in-depth interview. A qualitative thematic analysis was selected for this study. The results revealed two major themes of foster care experience that emerged often simultaneously from the participants’ narration: (1) Positive Relational Outcomes including “Feeling supported,” “Sense of belonging,” “Good memories,” “Relationship with family of choice,” and “Staying in touch”; and (2) Negative Relational Outcomes referring “Devaluation,” “Refuse,” “Bad memories,” and “Isolation.” Foster care experience leads to complex relational perceptions in emerging adulthood according to different relational outcomes and ways of processing foster care experience. Professionals could work on relational outcomes and memories, especially during a critical transition like emerging adulthood, to support youth in making sense of their past experiences
Adoptive parenting in adolescence: children’s attachment representations and emotion and behavior problems reported by their mothers
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