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GiornateRomane

The emotional climate: the process of building it and contribution to change

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The authors present clinical considerations rooted on their experiences in multi-family groups. They address the issue of the construction of an emotional climate and environment promoting the work of the group. The emotional climate also supports the functions of the co-therapists and of therapy itself, it maintains attention to emotional experiences and to the climate of respect and solidarity, as well as to the relationship between the internal and shared external Read more

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Evaluation of psychodynamic multi-family group therapy for psychiatric patients and their families. A proposal of a process-outcome assessment protocol

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In the community perspective about the treatment of serious mental illness through the multi-family groups (Badaracco, 2004; Scholz & Asen, 2010), empirical research with psychiatric patients should focus, according to the literature (de Albuquerque et al., 2010; Karamlou et al. 2010), on the evaluation of correlation between outcome variables, therapeutic factors, perceived burden of care and characteristics of family’s structure, in order to understand what roles they play in mediating Read more