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In 2020 Dignity Therapy Protocol was administered to the patients taken in charge by Avellino Ser. D (Addiction services of Avellino healthcare unit) for addiction problems and assigned to U.E.P.E. (Office of External Enforcement) on parole and to complete the full term of sentence. Before and after administering Dignity Therapy Protocol, Beck Depression Inventory was used in order to evaluate the possible improvement of the quality of life of the patient, associated with a decrease in depressive symptoms. This experimentation has allowed to highlight perspectives and issues in the application of Dignity Therapy Protocol, in different contexts than the one in which it was born. A decrease in the scores in the detected items has been observed in almost all participants.

The COVID-19 epidemic has been a major global public health problem during past months in Italy and in several other Countries and on the date of publication of this article, is still a serious public health problem. The health staff, engaged in the care of the sick and in the prevention of the spread of the infection have been subjected to a further increase in psychological difficulties and work-related stress, related to the workload for the continuous influx of sick and intense and close working shifts for the viral emergency. The SAVE-9 (Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics - 9 items) scale has been developed as a tool for assessing work anxiety and stress in response to the viral epidemic of health professionals working to prevent the spread of the virus and to treat infected people.

Dignity therapy was administered to ten prisoners in a detention center. The Beck Depression Inventory was administered before and after the intervention. The results obtained from the Beck Depression Inventory have highlighted dimensional changes in all the prisoners. There was a significant improvement in relational abilities and the disappearance of self-harming thoughts.