The approach to Open Dialogue in the Department of Mental Health in Caltagirone. Training in group work with the family and the social network

Journal title GRUPPI
Author/s Angelo Sordano, Elisa Gulino, Raffaele Barone, Giuseppe Lunardo, Alessandra Furin, Angelo Silvestri
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2022/1
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 97-112 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/gruoa1-2022oa17966
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The interview with Raffaele Barone and his team represents an important event to explore an innovative psychosocial practice in a phase in which COIRAG is changing its institutional configuration toward the Third Sector. Open Dialogue is a clinical approach to the treatment of the onset of a psychiatric crisis. It originated in the 1980s in Finland and was introduced to Italy in the 1990s, but it has found an effective theoretical synthesis and a strong integration with multifamily psychoanalysis and the democratic therapeutic community in Caltagirone Mental Health Service.Recently, the transformation of clinical psychopathology has steered the Caltagirone team to try this kind of treatment for other symptomatic illnesses such as suicide, different kinds of dependencies, feeding and personality disorders. The innovative aspects are not limited only to the concept of Need Adapted Treatment, but they will consider also the flexibility of the organization of the mental health services and the importance of training permanently reflective teams, social facilitators and all the involved professionals in the sanitary system and into the community.

Keywords: ; Open Dialogue; Group work; Family; Social network; Mental health; Training

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Angelo Sordano, Elisa Gulino, Raffaele Barone, Giuseppe Lunardo, Alessandra Furin, Angelo Silvestri, L’approccio del Dialogo Aperto nel Dipartimento di Salute Mentale di Caltagirone. La formazione al lavoro di gruppo con la famiglia e la rete sociale in "GRUPPI" 1/2022, pp 97-112, DOI: 10.3280/gruoa1-2022oa17966