The Ombudsman for children and adolescents’ look at the training of psychologists and other child protection professionals

Journal title MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA
Author/s Riccardo Bettiga
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/2
Language Italian Pages 11 P. 11-21 File size 172 KB
DOI 10.3280/MAL2023-002002
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The regional ombudsman for children and adolescents, in Italy, declines much of its activity in the field of child protection services. In this regard, thanks in part to the fact that this fig-ure is increasingly emancipating itself from purely legal and operational perspectives, it now seems crucial to understand, from this particular point of view, what strengths and weaknesses exist, if any, in the preparation of professionals working in these contexts, par-ticularly psychologists. Starting from the importance of a culture of human rights in order to understand and internalize ethical principles and act deontologically, moving through the relationship of the professions with the legal and bureaucratic constraints that define their legal subjectivity, some transversal competencies and methodological set-ups are hypothesized, in particular focusing on the concepts of integration and complementarity, useful for the enhancement of specific and transversal professional competencies, as well as for the optimization of possible teamwork.

Keywords: ombudsman/guarantor, human rights, ethical principles of psychologists, legal subjectivity, deontology, complementarity, integration.

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Riccardo Bettiga, Lo sguardo del Garante per l’infanzia e l’adolescenza sulla formazione degli psicologi e degli altri professionisti per la tutela dei minori in "MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA" 2/2023, pp 11-21, DOI: 10.3280/MAL2023-002002