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The article is an overview of the private psychotherapy training system in Italy. The relationship between professional competence and psychotherapist clinical intervention is described as based upon three elements: treatment methods, psychotherapist variables, patient-therapist relationship: the literature concerning each element gives the reader an update picture of the contemporary problems. The relationship between professional competence and training and how to implement the basic issues of a good clinical competence is the next step of the analysis, followed as last section by the outline of some general guidelines for more evidence-based training in psychotherapy

Negli ultimi vent’anni sono stati sviluppati numerosi programmi di ricerca finalizzati a verificare l’efficacia della psicoterapia ma spazio decisamente esiguo è stato dedicato agli studi sistematici sul processo di formazione degli psicoterapeuti e alla valutazione dell’efficacia di tali interventi. Dal punto di vista degli autori mancano soprattutto studi sistematici di verifica della validità di criteri e programmi di insegnamento. Un approccio più scientifico alla formazione richiede una chiarificazione, sulla base della letteratura di ricerca, di quale sia la competenza professionale dello psicoterapeuta e, a partire da questo dato, costruire percorsi che possano essere oggetto di una valutazione condotta secondo criteri di scientificità. Il capitolo tratta sia gli aspetti relativi alle ricerche sulel caratteristiche individuali favorevoli alla professione, sia gli aspetti relativii alle ricerche sui processi formativi, con particolare attenzione ai meccamismi e processi della supervione clinica.

Introduction. Kennedy Axis V or K Axis acts is an alternative tool to the DSM-IVTR Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale, that many researchers describe as a scale with poor inter-rater reliability and clinical utility. Unlike the GAF scale, K Axis provides a multidimensional and multiaxial approach to measure personal, social and interpersonal functioning in psychiatric outpatients and inpatients. In this study, we examined K Axis's inter-raters reliability by using it with an Italian clinical population. Methods. Clinicians used Kennedy Axis V to assess global functioning among 180 inpatients, in 9 psychiatric services in Lombardia and Piemonte. Patients were divided into 4 different diagnostic groups, according to the DSM-IV-TR criteria. Results. Intraclass correlations between two independent raters's scores reveal high level of inter-rater reliability for all K Axis scales (0,633

Descrizione dei cambiamenti nella classificazione dei disturbi di personalità: categoriale versus dimensionale. Ripercussioni che i cambiamenti possono avere nell’assessment forense. Vantaggi e limiti.

Target: a questionnaire was prepared to investigate attitudes and opinions which clinical psychologists and psychology students have towards clinical psychology research. Methods: the sample consists of 694 clinical psychologists and 253 psychology students, attending the last year of the 5-year degree. The questionnaire deals with three areas of clinical psychology research - attitude towards research, judgment/evaluation on the various fields of research, opinions on statements concerning clinical research. For both samples the statistic analysis covers the frequency of reply and the relevant percentages for each item of the first two investigated areas. To the answers to the third investigation area the factorial analysis by main components was applied so as to detect the implied factors of the evaluations expressed. Results: Both with professionals and with students a dicothomy between science and practice comes out: both groups prefer to use the results of research rather than making it personally. A certain difficulty towards statistical processing appears. Indications on the areas of clinical research of primary interest for professionals are given, but at the same time fields of research are detected, of which both students and psychologists seem to have a scarce knowledge. Conclusions: From an analysis of the results it appears that the dicothomy between research and clinical science could be overcome: both samples believe that an integration between research activity and clinical science may be performed at educational level, most during university years.