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Alessitimia e psicopatologia in adolescenza: studio caso-controllo. ALEXITHIMYA AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN ADOLESCENCE: A CASE – CONTROL STUDY
No full textThis paper aims to study the relationship between alexithymia and psycho-behavioural disorders. It compares a group of psychiatric teenagers (experimental group) with a group of "healthy" teenagers (control group), considering the gender and age variables. This paper also considers the relationship between alexithymic characteristics in adolescents and parents. To test alexithymia we used Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), to test emotional-behavioural disorders and psychiatric symptoms we used respectively the Youth Self Report questionnaire (YSR 11-18) and the Symptom Checklist-scale -90-Revised (SCL-90-R). The results show that alexithymia is prevalent among psychiatric adolescents if compared with "healthy" subjects. In the control group no differences were found between males and females, instead in the experimental group girls are more alexithymic than boys. According to age, in the control group alexithymic characteristics tend to decrease with age increasing (and with cognitive abilities’ improvement). Instead, in the experimental group there is no difference and it suggests that the presence of psychopathology might influences the evolutionary movement in emotional processing skill with age. Studying the relationship between alexithymia and emotional and behavioral disorders in the experimental group, in contrast to the control group, an association between alexithymia and externalizing problems come out. Finally, according to some other literature studies, we found that there was a significant association between adolescents’ and mothers’ alexithymia scores rather than fathers’ ones
Psycho-educational intervention for psychiatric adolescents: the experience of a daily service
No full textObjectives. The aim of this research is to analyze the therapeutic approach to the psychiatric adolescent within a daily care centre. The experience is that of the Daily Service for Adolescents located into the Neuropsychiatric Unit for Children and Adolescent, ULSS 16 Padua.
Matherial and methods. The sample, 60 adolescents, aged 12 to 19 years, was divided into 2 groups: who started and continued the clinical-pedagogical path in the daily service and who, after the location in the daily centre, received indications for the recovery in a community. All patients were evaluated at the beginning and during the clinical-pedagogical path (every 3-6 months) throughout the Youth Self Report questionnaire (YSR 1] - 18) of T. Achenbach and the Global Assessment Functioning scale (GAF). Moreover, information about the adolescent and his/her family and aspects concerning the clinical-pedagogic intervention (diagnosis, therapeutic targets, participation modality to the activities, therapeutic alliance with adolescents and family, therapeutic compliance, clinical outcome) were collectedfor each patient.
Results. These variables were analyzed for each group and compared with the aim to verify possible meaningful differences in order to establish previous indicative elements for a residential rather than daily care approach.
Conclusions. The study made evident some factors which can be referred to the opportunity of a recovery in a community: younger age (<14 years),family's low socio-culturallevel, monoparental families (because of divorce and/or high parental conflict), medium-severe psychopatology (borderline or psychotic disorders with the presence of psychiatric comorbility), scholastic difficulties with interruption of the educational care
IL SERVIZIO SEMIRESIDENZIALE DI PSICOPATOLOGIA DELL'ADOLESCENZA: UN PONTE DI TRANSIZIONE VERSO UNA NUOVA PROGETTUALITA' DI VITA.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
FINDINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN PLANNING A RESIDENTIAL OR SEMI-RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR ADOLESCENTS WITH PSICHIATRIC DISORDERS
No full textAim. The particularity of the adolescent with medium- severe psychopathology and the extreme lack of placements different from hospitals (e.g. residential and semi-residential) often hamper the early intervention of the therapeutic treatment. From our experience from the daily Semi-residential Service for Adolescents at the Childhood and Adolescence Neuropsychiatry Unit of the Public Health Services (Azienda ULSS 16) in Padua, Italy, a retrospective analysis was carried out to identify which factors could be the best indicators for a residential or a semi-residential placement.
Sample and methodology. The sample consists of 102 adolescents referred to the daily Semi-residential Service for Adolescents (77 males and 25 females, aged between 12 and 18 years). It was later on divided into two groups: one group stayed in the Semi-residential Service and the second group went into a residential child care institution. All the patients were assessed using the Youth Self report (YSR 11-18) and the Global Assessment Functioning Scale (GAF) when admitted to the Service, and 6 months further on. For each patient the following data were collected: personal and familiar details, schooling, diagnosis, therapeutic objectives, collaboration of the adolescent and his/her family to the treatment and type of intervention. All the data were analysed and compared to find out which could indicate the best early placement for the patient (Semi-residential or residential).
Results and conclusions. From this study, it emerges that the residential child care institution is more indicated for the adolescents with: age below 14 years old, monoparental family, externalizing problems (delinquent and aggressive behaviour, conduct or personality disorders), a poor therapeutical compliance (in particular during the first 6 months in the Semi-residential Service) and a lack of parental collaboratio
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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