RISULTATI RICERCA

Lo studio qui presentato si è posto gli obiettivi di analizzare le differenze tra tossicodipendenti e non dipendenti in merito al funzionamento familiare e all’alessitimia e di approfondire le differenze interindividuali dei tossicodipendenti relative alle dimensioni del funzionamento familiare. Alla ricerca hanno partecipato 15 persone in trattamento per dipendenze patologiche da alcol e/o altre sostanze psicoattive presso una comunità terapeutico-riabilitativa e 15 persone non dipendenti da sostanze. Dal confronto fra i due gruppi sono emerse differenze significative: il gruppo dei tossicodipendenti presenta un funzionamento familiare globale peggiore e dei livelli di alessitimia più alti. L’analisi delle differenze interindividuali all’interno del gruppo clinico ha evidenziato profili familiari variegati e non omogenei, ma accomunati in larga misura da un marcato disimpegno.

L’acquisizione di competenze numeriche e matematiche è uno degli obiettivi primari dell’istruzione formale. Il presente contributo è una rassegna critica degli studi che hanno esaminato lo sviluppo dell’elaborazione di quantità simboliche e non simboliche nei bambini di scuola primaria, e dell’impatto che queste abilità hanno sullo sviluppo delle competenze aritmetiche. Inoltre, sono esaminate le evidenze sulla discalculia evolutiva e sull’efficacia dei training per lo sviluppo della rappresentazione numerica. Una maggiore comprensione dello sviluppo della capacità di elaborare numerosità simboliche e non simboliche è fondamentale per predisporre interventi didattici più efficaci per l’acquisizione delle abilità numeriche e aritmetiche.

Psychology and cognitive sciences and comprise a discipline whose history has been inherently intertwined and inseparable. While the scientific community distinguishes between these two disciplines, such clarity may not necessarily be apparent at the level of common understanding. In this article, we aim to delineate the historical relationship between these disciplines to elucidate both disparities and points of convergence. We will commence with an exploration of the historical trajectories of each discipline, culminating in an analysis of their intersecting junctures. We will elucidate the outcomes of their collaborative trajectories and examine the current perspectives that have emerged as a result. Finally, we will endeavor to discern whether the proximity between these disciplines may undergo transformation in light of the significant influences of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, and we will consider the prospects for their future collaboration.

The indirect exposure to war could have an impact on children's construction of meaning about peace and war. The study investigates Italian children's representations of peace and war by observing the contents and expressive connotations of their drawings, and the possible influences of the conflict in Ukraine.Drawings of peace and war of 38 children (M = 9.43, SD = 1.47) were collected in Italy in the Spring of 2022 after the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Parents answered a socio-demographical questionnaire, including information about family indirect experience of war. According to previous literature, peace images resulted as positive actions or absence of war, and war images are typical objects and activities of war. In contrast to the negative connotation of war drawings, peace drawings were more colored and convey a positive expressivity. The majority of children began by representing peace and included few people in both drawings. The frequencies of references to the war in Ukraine are not high, even if the majority of children talked about war with their parents after the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Educational implications of understanding the representations of peace and war in children with indirect exposure to conflicts are discussed.

This article aims to contribute to the debate on the reform process affecting public health in many Western countries by focusing on the Italian situation. The analytical choice of theme stems from the centrality assumed in Welfare State systems by the paradigm of «working together», which refers first and foremost to the founding objectives of the creation of a national service for the protection of health and the care of people, as well as to the current urgent need for a structural-functional overhaul to guarantee economic sustainability and restore value to public protection. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the national health systems have suffered an aggravation of the antecedent crisis factors, which include the strengthening of primary health care services in the Italian context leading to the introduction and experimentation of «Case della salute» in 2007, converted by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) into «Case di Comunità». A change that recalls the need for collaborative action between all stakeholders - institutional and community - not only for the defense of public health against the private dimensions that have progressively entered its structure but also for a new architecture of care and assistance models that looks to «territorialization» as an important tool for universalism. For developing this reflection, field studies, scientific articles, grey literature, and regulatory acts were used. Long abstract

Oggi si è produttori di continue performance. Non solo il lavoratore deve generare continue prestazioni, ma ogni momento, anche il tempo “libero”, è occasione per produrre contenuti, progetti e prestazioni, in un’eterna corsa competitiva che porta a stanchezza e nuove alienazioni. L’individuo moderno, così, diventa performer, subendo sia il rapporto con il tempo, percepito come sempre più veloce, frenetico e da riempire, sia la relazione con le tecnologie, ormai pervasive nella quotidianità digitale. L’articolo, partendo da un’analisi dei disturbi mentali presenti nei lavoratori sfruttati della gig economy, allarga lo sguardo oltre questi modelli di lavoro nocivi. Nel testo, infatti, si ipotizza l’esistenza di una dipendenza che colpisce consumatori e lavoratori e che si ripercuote sulle loro vite: la dipendenza da performance (performaholism). Long abstract

This work has a twofold research aim: to analyze the main individual factors associated with having benefited from regularization in Italy and to study the association between having benefited from regularization and the change in professional situation of first-generation immigrants regularly living in Italy. To achieve our research goals, we used data from the cross-sectional SCIF survey carried out by ISTAT in 2011-2012 and we performed logistic regression analysis. We found that those benefiting from regularization have a lasting presence in Italy and that regularization proves significant in allowing immigrants to advance in the settlement process. Moreover, being men, middle-aged, resident in the regions of southern Italy, coming from countries with a consolidated history of migration towards Italy and having a good knowledge of Italian increase the likelihood of being regularized. Finally, there is a negative association between benefiting from regularization and improvements in professional situation. Long abstract

Overcrowding and harsh delivery of punishment characterise the Italian prison system. Nonetheless, labour in penal institutions should be a central aspect as a re-educative tool. Social farming is a specific declination of labour activities in prison with a high positive impact on prisoners. In Italy the number of prisoners involved in social farming activities has dropped in the last decade. The Marche region presents a reverse trend with an increase in the number of social farming activities in prisons. This study investigates the Marche region case study to evaluate its output and outcome in the background of reconstructive social theory by Vandenberghe. The qualitative research design adopted (short focused ethnography, interviews, focus groups) shows the number and characteristics of social farming outputs, and the outcomes for the prisoners, institutional stakeholders and citizens. The study highlights the importance of networking between different institutional stakeholders inside and outside the prison, the positive impact on the wellbeing of prisoners and the point of view of citizens and consumers of social farming products. The results highlight the role of social farming in prison as a morphogenetic agent of reconstruction processes for the institutional and administrative personnel, for prisoners and for all citizens as consumers of prison social farming products. Long abstract