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FreeLudo is an innovative project targeting the primary prevention of DSM-5 Gambling Disorder (GD), addressing children aged between 6 and 8 years attending Primary School. An innovative platform has been developed, which enables hybrid online and offline interaction and provides children with questionnaires aimed at better understanding the potential risk factors for the development of GD. Online interaction consists in providing questionnaires through a simple platform video game; after the video game, the platform also proposes social interaction among children by assigning them social challenges and activities. While providing an interactive user awareness on the risk of Gambling Disorders, the platform allows data collection on potential risk behavior. The paper summarizes the preliminary results of the platform’s first testing phase, conducted on a heterogeneous sample of children aged 6 to 8 years, attending a primary school in the province of Taranto (Apulia, Italy). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Il lavoro presenta una revisione sistematica della letteratura sui metodi e gli strumenti per lo sviluppo dei fondamentali tecnici nel mondo della pallavolo. Complessivamente sono stati individuati, dopo opportuno processo di screening, 17 contributi scientifici in accordo con lo scopo di questa revisione. Dall’analisi dei risultati emerge che i lavori analizzati riguardano in generale le metodologie usate per l’insegnamento delle varie tecniche della pallavolo (servizio, bagher, palleggio, schiacciata). I principali metodi di allenamento riscontrati riguardano sia metodi più tradizionali come l’instructional training, l’allenamento ludico, pliometrico, intensivo o estensivo, sia approcci misti, quali l’approccio dinamico, l’approccio cognitivo, l’approccio tramite ausili visivi, approccio su combinazioni parziali e totali. Infine altre ricerche hanno messo in luce gli effetti di metodologie come il Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) e gli Small Side Game (SSG).

L'attenzione alla patient experience in pediatria, tenendo conto della health literacy di adolescenti e genitori in particolare, può fornire importanti spunti per migliorare la qualità delle cure e dei servizi sanitari. Questo approccio consente di personalizzare interventi informativi, educativi e assistenziali favorendo una partecipazione efficace dei giovani pazienti e delle loro famiglie al processo di assistenza, migliorando così la loro esperienza complessiva.

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This article addresses the experiences of transgender students in the educational system. In accordance with PRISMA methodological principles, a systematic, integrative review of the literature was conducted. The final analysis included 29 peer-reviewed scientific texts from the Scopus and Web of Science databases, which were evaluated using qualitative thematic analysis. Four main categories describing transgender people's experiences in the educational system were identified, namely (i) inequities and hostility, (ii) cisnormativity of the school system, (iii) consequences of transphobia and strategies for navigating the school space, and (iv) protective factors and visions for the future. The results of the literature review indicate that the educational space is often unsafe for transgender youth, where they experience various forms of hostility and injustice, while transgender issues go unaddressed. Research indicates that minority stress, mental health issues, and barriers to academic success are all consequences of an unsafe school environment. Despite the fact that the negative aspects of transgender individuals' experiences dominate the research, the findings demonstrate the many ways that the education system can create a safe and stimulating school environment for transgender students. The review of the literature is important for the Slovenian context because there are no empirical studies that examine transgender students' experiences in the education system. Research that has examined the everyday lives of LGBT+ individuals generally shows that there are also challenges in the Slovenian education system that are related to those highlighted in the current literature review. In addition, the research included offers ways to create a safe school environment that have not yet been developed in our area. In this way, it represents a potential guide for educational practice and opens opportunities for empirical research in the Slovenian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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After almost twenty years of collaboration in the Specialist Clinical Centers of the Academy of Family Psychotherapy of Rome, we intend to present the model of work with families with children and adolescents, overlapping and partly specific with respect to work with each of the two developmental phases. It will be described how over the years the first reception phase has transformed, both in the work with families with children and with adolescents. Furthermore, the work tools used in the two therapeutic contexts will be suggested and a particular space will be dedicated to work "of" and "in" the network, especially with schools. Finally, following a reflection on family and social changes, clinical vignettes will be proposed to suggest the specificity of symptoms in children and adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article studies the cultural function of the representation of violence in Italian polizieschi of the 1970s within the historical context of the anni di piombo. Focusing especially on the representation of victims in the filone, the article claims that polizieschi presented for the first time a particular aesthetics of victimhood that I call 'aesthetics of random violence'. I retrace the experiential core of this aesthetics in the filone's recurring representation of imperilled, wounded, or dead children. The pervasive presence of this representation has so far remained practically unregistered in Italian studies scholarship. I therefore propose a novel periodisation of the filone based on the evolution of the aesthetics here described. Finally, I argue that through this aesthetics polizieschi allowed viewers a communal catharsis that reinforced the bonds between them as a united social body against the violence produced by terrorism and organized crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Obiettivo di questo lavoro è di indagare alcune tecniche che vengono utilizzate nelle attività di ricerca partecipativa con i bambini che vanno dai 3 ai 8 anni circa e di indentificare i punti di forza e di criticità in base alle competenze cognitive, emotive e sociali dei bambini. Lo scopo è di individuare quali siano le strategie capaci di abilitare e promuovere ma anche di ostacolare i livelli di partecipazione dei bambini, verificando quali e in che modo permettano a loro di esprimere le proprie esperienze e opinioni. Verranno analizzate le sfide associate alle tecniche partecipative al fine di prendere decisioni informate sulla scelta dei metodi e sulle variabili che possono incidere sul buon esito della ricerca, affinché possa essere definita come “partecipativa”.

Pain catastrophizing is a concept recognized as being one of the most powerful psychological determinants of sufferance and pain-related disability. The development of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Children (PCS-C) has greatly contributed to research in this area. The aim of this investigation was to validate the Italian version of PCS-C (PCS-CIV) by testing its factor structure, internal consistency and criterion related validity. In study 1 (438 participants; 40.4% males; 8-17 years) we tested the structure of the PCS-CIV through an Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and we subsequently checked the appropriateness of the solutions to the two subsamples of respondents (aged 8-11 and 12-17) by running separate dimensional analyses. In study 2 (351 participants; 44.2% males; 8-20 years) we aimed at replicating the same structure obtained for Study 1 in a new sample of respondents, by checking the appropriateness of one-, two-, and three-dimensional solutions. The results suggested that a 2-factor model derived from the PCA best represented the data, and it is to be preferred to the 3-factor solution. Our findings show that the PCS-CIV is a valid and reliable measure that provides interpretable scores for Italian-speaking children and adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the phenomenology of major depression and suicidal ideation in children, offering a brief overview of relevant findings in psychiatry, with particular reference to statistical evidence, and outlining psychoanalytic models, including Jungian as well as the post-Kleinian and Bionian vertices. Bowlby's seminal contribution to the understanding of mourning processes in relation to Freud's theory is also considered. The case of an eight-year-old boy is examined, with particular attention to a series of drawings that the patient produced over the two years of his psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The therapy was interrupted abruptly by his parents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. It is known in the literature that the main cause of physical impairment in children with severe disabilities is falling, which can worsen their already compromised condition. There are no specific scales for this population in the literature, neither in Italian nor in other languages. We created and validated a scale for assessing the risk of falling in children with severe disabilities. Study design. Observational prospective study. Methods. We enrolled children (inpatients or day-hospital) admitted to the “Santa Maria Bambina Centre” of the “Fondazione Onlus Sacra Famiglia” in Cesano Boscone, Milan; the Content Validity Index of the Scale was calculated to assess the content validity of a new scale (ALICE). Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (α) was used to examine internal consistency, Spearman’s rho coefficient to test inter-rater reliability. Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values were calculated. Results. Out of 48 patients enrolled, 14 fell (29.2%). The ALICE scale, with cut-off set at 16, showed a sensitivity of 100%, a specificity of 88.2%, a positive predictive value of 77.8% and a negative predictive value of 100%. The Content Validity Index of the Scale (=0.93), inter-rater reliability (rho=0.91, p<0.001) and Cronbach’s alpha (=0.72) were satisfactory. Conclusions. The ALICE scale seems reliable and valid in the disabled population and can be applied by nurses. Further studies with larger samples and a multicentre design are needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: The literature has focused on the psychological impact of type 1 diabetes; however, few of them have explored the possible causal mechanism between the psychological variables of the parents and the glycometabolic outcome of the children. A good number of previous studies, despite otherwise diverging results, have identified parental fear of hypoglycemia and parental stress as risk factor for psychological outcomes and childs' glycometabolic control (e.g. Patton et al., 2008). We hypotesize that fear of hypoglycemia has an indirect impact on glycated hemoglobin, through parenting stress. Method and results: 80 parents of children with type 1 diabetes with type 1 completed Parenting Stress Index and Fear of Hypoglycemia-Parent Version. Glycemic control was extracted from the medical database. Mediation analysis revealed that fear of hypoglycemia predicts parenting stress (β =0,521; p<0,001) which in turns, predicts glycated hemoglobin (β=0,372; p<0,05). Conclusions: According to the hypothesis, results suggest that the relationship between fear of hypoglycemia and glycated hemoglobin is totally mediated through parenting stress. The importance of including the assessment of psychological parental variables and taking charge of the entire family unit is therefore evident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Il Disturbo da Deficit di Attenzione e Iperattività (ADHD) è uno dei disturbi dello sviluppo, frequentemente diagnosticato nell’infanzia, caratterizzato da uno spettro di disturbi fisici, cognitivi e comportamentali. Le strategie terapeutiche adoperate fino ad oggi, prevedono la somministrazione di farmaci psicostimolanti associati ad interventi di tipo psicologico. Questo approccio multimodale, a lungo termine, può determinare effetti negativi sulla salute dei bambini con ADHD. Per tale motivo la necessità di trovare approcci ecologici ed educativi, a sostegno di quelli tradizionali, sta diventando sempre più importante. Recenti ricerche hanno introdotto l’esercizio fisico come una potenziale opzione di trattamento della gestione dei sintomi dei bambini con ADHD. Lo scopo di questo lavoro è stato analizzare la letteratura recente per comprendere i potenziali effetti dell’esercizio fisico sul funzionamento cognitivo nei bambini con ADHD. L’analisi condotta suggerisce che l’esercizio fisico rappresenta un’alternativa aggiuntiva promettente. In questo studio, sono stati evidenziati gli effetti benefici indotti dagli esercizi aerobici sia di tipo acuto che cronici. Nello studio sono fornite delle raccomandazioni sulla durata e sulla tipologia di esercizio fisico più efficace per il miglioramento del funzionamento cognitivo nell’ADHD. Queste informazioni potrebbero essere utili per l’elaborazione di programmi di esercizio fisico adattato alle esigenze dei bambini con ADHD.

Objective: The literature has focused on the psychological impact of type 1 diabetes; however, few of them have explored the possible causal mechanism between the psychological variables of the parents and the glycometabolic outcome of the children. A good number of previous studies, despite otherwise diverging results, have identified parental fear of hypoglycemia and parental stress as risk factor for psychological outcomes and childs' glycometabolic control (e.g. Patton et al., 2008). We hypotesize that fear of hypoglycemia has an indirect impact on glycated hemoglobin, through parenting stress. Method and results: 80 parents of children with type 1 diabetes with type 1 completed Parenting Stress Index and Fear of Hypoglycemia-Parent Version. Glycemic control was extracted from the medical database. Mediation analysis revealed that fear of hypoglycemia predicts parenting stress (β =0,521; p<0,001) which in turns, predicts glycated hemoglobin (β=0,372; p<0,05). Conclusions: According to the hypothesis, results suggest that the relationship between fear of hypoglycemia and glycated hemoglobin is totally mediated through parenting stress. The importance of including the assessment of psychological parental variables and taking charge of the entire family unit is therefore evident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A child weighing 30 kg should carry a backpack of 3 kg and no more. In the period of the SARS COV-2 pandemic, our little students' backpack had to stand much heavier loads. Visual, sleep, relationship, language, food, posture, neurological disturbances ... were the consequence of isolation, hours sometimes scanned in very small spaces, lack of contact with nature, difficult distance teaching. Forced physical distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic deprived the children of fundamental experiences, family relationships, school in presence and all the opportunities for growth, movement, curiosity and play. The only way out of this condition of isolation was represented by technology, the only window open to the world, but completely insufficient to represent reality. In this survey we will deal with some of the damage caused by social distancing and distance learning, concluding with an observational work on visual disturbances related to the prolonged use of computerized technologies conducted on primary school children in the city of Taranto. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The multidimensional assessment of self-esteem in childhood and adolescence proves to be very useful in the research field and has important implications in clinical practice. The Five-Scale Test of Self-Esteem for Children questionnaire is widely used in international research, examining four sub-dimensions of general self-esteem: academic, body, family, and social self-esteem. This study aims to illustrate the psychometric characteristics and the calibration of the Italian version of the questionnaire and to investigate whether factors such as age, gender and socio-demographic family variables have an effect on the sub-dimensions of self-esteem. The present cross-sectional study involved a sample of 1004 children and adolescents ranging from 8 to 20 years of age (mean age 12.71 ± 3.13, males 49.3%). The Five-Scale Test of Self-Esteem for Children questionnaire showed good psychometric properties (factorial analysis and internal consistency). Males reported higher levels of general and body self-esteem than females. Primary school children scored higher than older students on every dimension, except for social self-esteem. Academic self-esteem is the dimension most affected by socio-demographic variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studi recenti mostrano come il periodo di pandemia da COVID-19 abbia influenzato significativamente lo stile di vita e le prestazioni motorie di soggetti in età pediatrica. Lo studio si pone l’obiettivo di analizzare l’impatto del periodo di pandemia da COVID-19 riguardo alle competenze motorie di base in soggetti in età prescolare. I risultati di valutazioni delle competenze motorie di base (FMS) (corsa, salto e lancio) di bambini di età compresa tra i 3 e i 6 anni, valutate nei tre anni precedenti il periodo di pandemia da COVID-19, sono stati paragonati con i risultati di valutazioni di FMS in un campione di bambini da 3 a 6 anni rilevati a seguito di tale periodo (maggio 2021). Eventuali differenze di competenza motoria in abilità ritenute fondamentali in numerose attività sportive e non sportive (FMS), a seguito di un forzato periodo di inattività in soggetti in età prescolare, potrà permetterci di comprendere, almeno in parte, il reale impatto che il periodo di pandemia da COVID-19 ha avuto, e avrà, nello sviluppo motorio di bambini da 3 a 6 anni di età.

This paper analyses and compares statutory provisions on tutelage for minor children in the Venetian towns of Koper, Izola, and Piran, and compares them with the regulation of the town of Ptuj, which was part of the Holy Roman Empire. It draws on selected notations from the notary books of Piran and, indirectly, documentary sources from Ptuj that reflect the practice corroborating and illustrating findings concerning statutory law. Moreover, from a comparative perspective, the paper aims to establish how Roman law influenced the legal regulation of the care of minor children in the two neighbouring territories that differed in terms of tradition and administrative affiliation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Il Museo del Giocattolo e del Bambino di Cormano è il primo nel suo genere in Italia. Con l’obiettivo di salvaguardare e tramandare la memoria storica dell’infanzia, raccoglie giocattoli, memorie e testimonianze di un percorso storico che parte dal 1700 e arriva agli anni Ottanta del Novecento. L’idea che lo sorregge è quella di un museo inteso come esposizione degli oggetti, ma anche come luogo di incontro, scontro, ritorno e partecipazione, come stimolo educativo del bambino. The Toy and Child Museum in Cormano is the first of its kind in Italy. Aiming at salvaging and transmitting historical memory of Childhood, the museum collects toys, documents and testimonies from 1700 to 1980s. The idea at its core is not only the exhibit of toys, but also the creation of a space of gathering, participation and education for children.

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L’articolo tenta di porre con sguardo interrogativo alcune questioni educative che oggi, di fronte a fenomeni e cambiamenti di portata mondiale (le migrazioni, le disuguaglianze nelle risorse, le mutazioni climatiche) segnalano la crisi del modello di sviluppo occidentale e il pericolo rispetto alla stessa sopravvivenza sia umana, sia ecologica. I modelli e le categorie pedagogiche consolidate nel mondo occidentale, tra cui l’idea di “bambino attivo” e adulto empatico, si rivelano inefficaci e parziali di fronte a sfide che impongono nuove visioni educative e un ruolo più attivo, trasformativo e responsabile da parte degli adulti. Per approfondire questi temi si sono coinvolti con un questionario più di cento futuri educatori e insegnanti, indagando le loro idee di “bambino migrante” e le necessità connesse all’interno delle classi.

Separation between a married couple represents an event in a family's history, potentially leading to rupture thus creating constant tension. This can accompany the people who are undergoing the separation for a long time bringing forth complications and issues especially for children. The goal here is to present the paper elaborated by the Academy of Family Psychotherapy of Rome entitled "Clinical Service for the child and the family". The work demonstrates the organization of a therapeutic process in various articulated phases following Kaslow's separation model. Even though there is some procedural flexibility, the sequence of the work focuses on three areas: boundaries, reelaboration of separation and re-elaboration of the history of three generations throughout different moments of family therapy and of the members involved (the couple, children and family of origin). The objective is to give continuity in conflict separation cases focusing on both the development of each individual involved, which risks a halt if ties are broken, and on the family structure as a whole, which faces a rupture in generations. This will allow the children to regain a mother and father which are able to share the parenthood thus liberating the children from conflicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With divorced parents in high conflict everybody seems to get caught in the destructive spirals and starts to feel powerless: parents, children, new partners, grandparents, the social network, and also the professional network: lawyers, judges, schools, counsellors, mediators and therapists. Margreet Visser and Justine van Lawick, two systemic working clinical psychologists in Haarlem, the Netherlands, created a multi-family group program to free the families and professionals from the conflict spirals. They warn for too much professional illusions and a colonising attitude in which the therapists try to educate the parents about a good and child friendly divorce. That often increases the struggle. In this article they propose the No kids in the Middle program and the keystones that form the fundament of this program. The keystones seem also to be relevant for working with high conflict divorces in other formats or contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When families are in conflict, high levels of emotional activity such as anger, fear, loss and grief in the adults involved can affect children and young people in the family, particularly as a result of conscious and unconscious adult emotional pressure and manipulation. An aspect of this is when one parent uses their power over a child to excommunicate the other parent. This is sometimes called parental alienation. This terminology arises from the work of Richard Gardner, who developed the notion of Parental Alienation Syndrome. What lies behind the label parental alienation, the journey and implications of that phenomenon are explored. A consideration of the limitations of the UK court system reveals the lonely predicament of the child. This paper considers how psychotherapists may help young people to make sense of their experience of being caught up in destructive family narratives by claiming their own understanding and narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Choice overload has been mainly investigated on adults. The only study that investigated choice overload in children, adolescents, adults, and seniors showed that the phenomenon does not equally extend across age groups. Our research aims to further explore the negative consequences of choice overload on children, adolescents, and seniors. Findings showed that while adolescents are affected by the phenomenon in a very similar way as adults, children and seniors do not experience any negative consequence of having an overabundance of choice. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Does money bring happiness? How does one become rich? How does one become poor? This essay analyzes the responses to these questions in a sample of around 1,300 children aged 8, 9, and 10 in Italy who are involved in the financial education project called “The Economic Pie,” along with other aspects of their financial socialization. The research indicates that around half of those interviewed attribute significant importance to money, but not as a means for attaining happiness. Moreover, the majority of them are aware of some moral barriers (i.e., one cannot buy friends with money) and negative aspects (i.e., gambling) of the use of money. Finally, poverty is attributed to both social and individual factors that intervene in a person’s financial career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our paper is divided into three parts: the first, analyzing the results of a recent report of the Academy of Sciences of France concerning the interactions between children and touch-screens, clarifies the epistemological-evolutionary background within which we develop our research about the way children manage this kind of technology. The second part begins with an analysis of the digital revolution impact on the macro-economic scenarios in order to better understand the following review of the most recent international and Italian researches concerning the use of touch-technology by children (0-10) in informal contexts such as family and peers. This review aims to demonstrate how the age of children access to technology in general – and especially to smartphone and tablet based on touch-screen interfaces – has significantly lowered. The third is concerned with understanding how and why the new educational models culturally enhanced by digital technology can’t ignore the new informal touch-culture of children.