Il prossimo 2 maggio inizierà il Corso di formazione per volontari e familiari dal titolo “Percorsi di cittadinanza nella promozione della salute mentale”, organizzato dalla Fondazione Internazionale Don Luigi Di Liegro Onlus. L’iniziativa rientra tra gli obiettivi previsti dal Bando Comunità Solidali 2020, promosso dalla Regione Lazio - Assessorato Politiche Sociali, Welfare e Enti Locali - Direzione Regionale per l’Inclusione sociale - Area Welfare di Comunità e Innovazione Sociale.
"Percorsi di Cittadinanza attiva nella promozione della salute mentale" intende sensibilizzare i cittadini sul tema della salute mentale tramite la conoscenza e la formazione. Il volontariato rappresenta una fonte da sviluppare, valorizzare e dalla quale attingere risorse per creare una società consapevole e attenta verso coloro che soffrono e le loro famiglie. Una società consapevole è capace di accogliere e non respingere la diversità, e questo rappresenta una opportunità per le persone con disturbo psichico per trovare il giusto centro del proprio percorso esistenziale.
PLAN
MODULO I - 2 maggio, orario 17 - 20
"Tecniche di comunicazione"
Jose Mannu, Psichiatra e Psicoterapeuta
Marco Soricetti, Musicoterapeuta e Conduttore del Laboratorio di Musica della Fondazione di Liegro
MODULO II - 7 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Ascolto attivo, empatia e centralità della relazione"
Alessandro Vento, Psichiatra, Psicoterapeuta e Responsabile Osservatorio sulle Dipendenze
Giorgio Veneziani, Dottore in Psicologia
MODULO III - 14 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Paradigma della Recovery"
Antonio Maone, Psichiatra, Psicoterapeuta e Direttore Comunità Terapeutica e Residenzialità AslRm1
Daniele Bonarini, Regista PotiPicture
Sara Borri, Psicologa PotiPicture Accademy
MODULO IV - 21 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Gli strumenti della riabilitazione psichiatrica (socializzazione, arte terapia, cura sul territorio)"
Paolo Paolotti, Psichiatra, Psicoterapeuta e Segretario regionale S.I.R.P. Lazio
Nicola Se Santis, Attore, Stuntman, e Conduttore del laboratorio teatrale della Scuola Piero Gabrielli
MODULO V - 28 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Studio dei nuovi strumenti informatici e digitali a supporto delle nuove forme di comunicazione e della relazione"
Antonia Lonigro, Psicoterapeuta
MODULO VI - 4 giugno, orario 10 -13
"Il modello degli Ufe (empowerment e self help)"
Giovanni Fiori, Referente per l’associazione “Le Parole Ritrovate” Regione Lazio
MODULO VII - 11 giugno, orario 10 -13
"Il contributo del volontariato nei percorsi socio riabilitativi"
Michele Di Nunzio, Psichiatra e Psicoterapeuta AslRm1
MODULO VIII - 17 giugno, orario 17 - 20
"Gestione della sindrome di burn-out, organizzazione dei servizi territoriali e delle attività della Fondazione"
Jose Mannu, Psichiatra e Psicoterapeuta
Per info e iscrizioni: Tel: 06 6792669 - segreteria@fondazionediliegro.it
La Fondazione Di Liegro e la formazione al volontariato
The Di Liegro Foundation continues to investigate the topics of volunteering and mental health.
We have organized four online events on volunteering and mental health, which will be visible live on the Foundation's Facebook page.
During the Facebook live broadcasts, we will analyze the values of volunteering, especially for young people, and of solidarity to protect the rights of people experiencing mental distress; we will talk about the need to strengthen the family environment to provide help to the suffering person. In this context, training is the tool that facilitates the implementation of therapeutic paths and the dissemination of greater knowledge on ways to deal with mental distress and promote well-being for everyone and at all ages.
The appointments will also be an opportunity to present the new training course for volunteers and family members, scheduled from May, as part of the "Active citizenship paths for the promotion of mental health" project.
Now, more than ever, we need citizens who are aware of the role they can have in the psychosocial well-being of their community.
It was Luigina Di Liegro, General Secretary of the Foundation which bears the name of the priest who passed away 24 years ago, who welcomed the participants of the 15th edition of the "Volunteers and Families online" course, entitled A new model of community after the pandemic".
“The launch of this course on the eve of two important anniversaries is particularly significant: World Mental Health Day and, a few days later, the anniversary of Don Luigi's passing, on 12 October”. declared Di Liegro “A moment in which, together with you, we renew our commitment alongside the most fragile people. People who have felt the consequences of the spread of Covid 19 more due to the intertwining of health problems with those of a social, environmental and economic nature. A hidden pandemic, that of mental distress, which urgently needs to be remedied by leveraging the community and volunteering. In these days the activities in support of Mental Health of the Di Liegro Foundation are back in full swing with the Course, but also with the laboratories of art therapy, music and theatre. To find ourselves after the hard test of the pandemic, in a new and supportive community." – he concludes – because as Don Luigi said “A city in which a single man suffers less is a better city”
For this year's edition, over 100 people have booked and will be able to follow the course remotely or in person. A signal from the Community of how much these issues are felt by a large part of the population, who has directly or indirectly experienced discomfort increased by Covid. A way for the Liegro Foundation to respond to the request for training and information on mental health issues.
The participants in this year's edition are mostly women and fall into a very broad range. They find themselves united by similar motivations, young students and older pensioners, who want to make their free time and skills available to others.
“Experience has taught us how the different experiences of the participants become the strong point for the success of each edition” says Tiziana Ceccarelli, head of the Course “this year's high participation and the great desire to create community after the pandemic, are undoubtedly the best conditions for a good start."
The course is open to the participation of all those who want to broaden their knowledge of the world of mental health and engage in building a support network for people with mental health problems and their families: students, local service workers, volunteers, family members.
For information: tel. 06 6792669 – fax 0669920486; segreteria@fondazionediliegro.it
A new community model after the pandemic: registrations open for the fifteenth edition of the training course “Volunteers and Families networking for Mental Health” of the Don Luigi Di Liegro International Foundation
“It may sound strange, but I had to reach the age of almost 50 to seek support in my relationship with my sister, who has always suffered from mental disorders.” tells Joseph, IT expert who in 2018 participated in the "Course for Volunteers and Families on the Internet" promoted by the Di Liegro Foundation "From the first phone call I understood that it was the right place to find not only understanding, but also new tools to be close to her. Taking part in the course allowed me to "see" his illness from a different perspective, more detached and lucid. I needed to get out of the domestic and family dimension which, paradoxically, represented a limit for me. Among the many things I brought home at the end of the meetings " goes on “the most precious is having become part of a network of people, made up of volunteers and operators. A fundamental dimension, even more so today after the pandemic, in which the possibility of establishing deep and concrete contacts has almost completely been lost”.
“I learned about the Foundation Course thanks to a fellow student", He says Federica, 23 years old, about to obtain a master's degree in Psychology "After much theoretical study, the time had come for me to confront reality and practice. The Foundation's approach, for promoting the well-being of the person at 360 degrees, reassured me and allowed me to come into contact in a "simple" way with the complex world of mental health. It was an opportunity for discussion that enriched me greatly on the human side.” “First through participation in the course, where despite the lockdown due to Covid, I was able to come into contact with people very distant from me, not just geographically. Then with my inclusion in the Foundation's theater laboratory, where each person makes their own characteristics and abilities available in a perspective of growth and mutual exchange".
Like Giuseppe and Federica they are beyond 2.000 the people who, in recent years, have participated in the “Course for Volunteers and Families in the Mental Health Network” promoted by the Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation – onlus.
The theme around which this year's edition will revolve is "A new community model after the pandemic”: a cycle of seven meetings that will start next Saturday 9 October, held by psychiatrists, university professors, heads of the Mental Health Departments of the ASL of Rome, representatives of family associations.
The course, to which you can still sign up, is open to the participation of all those who want to broaden their knowledge of the world of mental health and commit to building a support network for people with mental health problems and their families: students, local service operators, volunteers, family members.
“The spread of Covid 19, as is now recognized by many, has unfortunately further exacerbated the burden of economic and social inequalities and caused the resurgence of psychological problems starting from the youngest.” He has declared Luigina Di Liegro General Secretary of the Don Luigi Di Liegro Onlus Foundation “Volunteering, today more than ever, plays a fundamental role: helping to remedy critical issues, working alongside and integrating with traditional public welfare systems. This is why we promote the course for volunteers and families, with profound awareness that strengthening the family environment can provide fundamental indirect help to the person who suffers.”
The training course will take place, where possible in person, The Saturday morning from 9 October to 11 December from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm at the premises of the Di Liegro Foundation, near the historic Centrale Montemartini in Rome (via Ostiense 106).
There is a small contribution of 40 euros (20 for university students).
For information and registration: 06/6792669 segreteria@fondazionediliegro.it
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Recipients: volunteers, family members of people with mental distress, workers in the healthcare sector and help desks, university students.
The training course, organized by the Di Liegro Foundation, "Volunteers and families networking for mental health" is now in its 15th edition. This year we want to induce a reflection on the theme of the Community and how the spread of Covid-19 has highlighted various psycho-socio-economic problems that require urgent responses.
“A healthy social life can only be found when everyone's virtues live in the entire community.”
Rudolf Steiner
The shortcomings of the healthcare system, the weight of economic and social inequalities, pollution, the progressive reduction of biodiversity and the resurgence of psychological problems that have affected all ages. Volunteering can help remedy the critical issues that have emerged thanks to the importance it is recognized in welfare systems.
A private resource that has joined the traditional tools of public welfare by participating in the provision of social and educational services and in the planning and planning of social and health policies at different levels.
Youth volunteering, in particular, presents aspects of interest for the social sciences: it is a form of active citizenship, it contributes to social well-being, it promotes the maturation of young people, the acquisition of skills and their employability in the job market.
>>> SIGN UP FOR THE "VOLUNTEERS AND FAMILIES ONLINE" TRAINING COURSE
Registrants will then be contacted by our secretariat to confirm participation and pay the participation fee.
The training course will take place in person, at the headquarters of the Di Liegro Foundation, located in via Ostiense 106 (Rome) and online on Zoom.
The contribution is 40 euros, 25 for students, in the form of a donation to the Di Liegro Foundation, deductible from your tax return.
October 9, 2021
Educational agencies of the third millennium, school and family between crisis and opportunity
Tiziana Sallusti, Headmaster of Liceo Mamiani in Rome
Annalisa Giannotti, Clinical Educator
October 23
From the polis to the virtual community: the centrality of human relationships
Jose Mannu, Psychiatrist
November 6, 2021
History and perspectives of mental health services
Giuseppe Nicolò, Psychiatrist Director of the Mental Health Department of ASL Rome 5
November 20, 2021
From the old to the new world, the paradigm shift in psychiatry
Jose Mannu, Psychiatrist
December 4, 2021
Volunteer today, with an eye to the future
Valerio Pieri, Professor at the Department of Business Economics at Roma TRE University
December 11, 2021
Mental health and territory, a new idea of community
Gemma Brandi, Psychiatrist, Director of SOC Health in prison, AUSL Tuscany Centre
January 15, 2022
Addictions, the educating community as a response to complexity
Alessandro Vento, Psychiatrist, Head of the "Addiction Observatory", ASL Roma2
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A three-day webinar on the topic “Young people and mental health: a common good”. It is the training event organized by the Di Liegro Foundation, together with Anci Lazio And Observatory for Addiction and sub-threshold mental disorders, and with the contribution of the Lazio Regional Council, to help train administrators, managers and officials of Local Authorities on topics such as social withdrawal, substance addictions, the use and abuse of new technologies. The objective is to impact policies and the organization of prevention and promotion activities for the psychosocial well-being of younger citizens and their families.
The webinar “Young people and mental health: a common good” in fact, it intends to underline the importance of the psychological well-being of citizens, in particular that of young people, especially in this moment linked to the difficulties caused by the pandemic. The Covid-19 emergency has affected not only physical but also mental health, delving into fragilities and difficulties and making many realities even more difficult which, too often, go unnoticed". For this reason it is necessary to think of policies capable of combining the contribution of institutional actors, social services and educational agencies, with that of specific mental health services in a dynamic of complementary value, as underlined when presenting the event Lina Novelli, delegate for Welfare and Social Policies of Anci Lazio.
The Di Liegro Foundation has been working since 2006 with public and private institutions to promote psychosocial well-being, the prevention of mental distress and the dissemination of culture and knowledge of mental health. Over time, the secretary general explained, Luigina Di Liegro, this commitment focused in particular on youth hardship.
Over time, this commitment has focused in particular on youth hardship. Daily experience tells us that substance addictions and pathological behavioral addictions in young people represent a social emergency. Together with the Observatory Association for Addiction and Sub-Threshold Mental Disorders, chaired by the psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Alessandro Vento, the foundation collaborate on a project which, through systematic scanning of the web by software, identifies the presence of New Psychoactive Substances offered for sale on the internet.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND MENTAL HEALTH: A GOOD IN COMMON - THE PROGRAM
Tuesday 13 April 2021 3.00pm - 4.30pm
“The promotion of mental health in adolescence. R-exist the pandemic”
Alessandro Vento, Psychiatrist, Head of the Addictions and Subthreshold Mental Disorders Observatory.
Tuesday 20 April 2021 3.00pm – 4.30pm
“Social withdrawal and school dropout in adolescence”
Ignazio Ardizzone, Child neuropsychiatrist, Head of the Child Neuropsychiatry Psychiatric Clinic at the “Umberto I” Polyclinic in Rome.
Tuesday 27 April 2021 3.00pm – 4.30pm
“The addiction between old and new substances”
Alessandro Vento, Psychiatrist, Head of the Addictions and Subthreshold Mental Disorders Observatory.
Carrying out Civil Service at the Di Liegro Foundation is an opportunity to commit to active citizenship, an opportunity to increase one's wealth of knowledge, which can be used throughout one's working life, while ensuring financial recognition at the same time.
We are looking for young people who love life communication and the relation, whatever they want team up for a concrete project, who are interested inempathy and to theI listen, particularly in the area of psychosocial well-being.
If you have just graduated, if you don't work and you want to dedicate part of your time to your community, the Civil Service at the Di Liegro Foundation offers you a significant educational and training experience.
The Civil Service volunteers at the Di Liegro Foundation will contribute toorganization, to the support and to communication from the training activities aimed at citizens, volunteers and family members, of Telephone listening and orientation service, and to those of the Self-help groups to support families of people with mental and mental health problems socialization and art therapy workshops.
The training of volunteers is oriented in particular to the consideration of the "person with discomfort", as "a person who, at a certain stage of his life, is suffering from a mental problem."
Commitment, values and future are the cornerstones of the Universal Civil Service. Principles which inspire the activities and projects of the Di Liegro Foundation. Our goal is to train aware citizens of their role within the local community, who are bearers of a vision of society based on attention to rights and needs of the most fragile people in the social fabric.
The project of the Di Liegro Foundation is “From loneliness to inclusion” and is part of the ASL RM2 program “We look after the most fragile” (program code PMCSU0011220010007GXXX). Download the program poster.
FROM SOLITUDE TO INCLUSION
PROJECT CODE: PTXSU0011220010025GXXX
The general objective of the project is to promote and implement the activation of resources within the social network of people with mental health problems and their families.
Specific objectives:
THE COLOR OF THE MOON: POSSIBLE CIVILLY INCLUSIVE VISIONS
PROJECT CODE: PTCSU0011220010026GXXX
The general objective of the project is to focus on the rights and well-being of the person experiencing social exclusion and marginalization due to mental health problems. In particular:
WELCOME TO INTEGRATE
PROJECT CODE: PTXSU0011220010024GXXX
The project has the general objective, on the one hand, of contributing to the civic, social, cultural and professional training of young people who will carry out the civil service, and on the other of strengthening the capacity to welcome users, their families and the subjects who they take care of interests, providing personalized answers oriented towards multiple areas.
The project's target audience will be adults in a state of mental distress, with particular attention to patients with severe psychosis residing in the municipalities involved.
WELCOME TO ORIENT AND ORIENTATE TO HEALTH
PROJECT CODE: PTCSU0025320010030GXXX
The general objective of the project is to promote food education and healthy lifestyles in opportunistic contexts, through the acceptance and implementation of communication strategies and the development of functional skills for behavioral change, with reference to a multi-stakeholder approach and multisectoral.
Specific objectives:
THE CULTURE OF LEGALITY
PROJECT CODE: PTCSU0008720010029GXXX
The aim of the project is to promote the culture of legality, aimed at developing civic sense in young people, intended as a basis for affirming an idea of a supportive and cohesive community, which recognizes itself in the rules it has established and which respects them.
The reference target is young people from Ostia (Italians and immigrants) aged between 15 and 29;
The project therefore intends, with activities open to young people, who can transform themselves from users to protagonists of the same, to develop occasions and opportunities for aggregation that facilitate discussion, dialogue and develop the sense of belonging to a community and the active exercise of participatory democracy and assumption of responsibility.
Through the project we want to develop the themes dearest to the Civil Service:
NEW RECEPTION IN SERVICES FOR MINORS
PROJECT CODE: PTXSU0011220010027GXXX
The general objective of the project is to protect the rights of minors to health, improving the quality and accessibility of local services and their usability, to truly pursue the rights of equality, non-discrimination and equal opportunities in developmental age.
The specific objectives to be pursued will be:
BEYOND THE PRISON WALL 5
PROJECT CODE: PTXSU0011220010028GXXX
The direct beneficiaries of the project are all the inmates of the 4 Rebibbia institutions with psychiatric diagnoses or mental insufficiency. These are people who are usually not included in criminal circles, who commit crimes considered "bagatellar", epiphenomenon of a long history of social deprivation, with poor or ineffective use of local services, sometimes not adequately defended in court. Diagnoses can range from psychosis to personality disorders, posing difficulties in social reintegration that are particularly difficult to deal with.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES RELATED TO THE SERVICE
GENERAL OBJECTIVES RELATING TO YOUNG PEOPLE IN CIVIL SERVICE
Young people between 18 and 29 years of age at the time of submitting the application, not employed and not included in education and training courses, can participate in the selections.
Furthermore, they must be registered with the Youth Employment Initiative program (Youth Guarantee) and have signed the Service Agreement with the relevant Employment Center and/or Service. To register for the Youth Guarantee, go to www.garanziagiovani.gov.it.
Aspiring volunteer operators must submit the application for participation exclusively through the Online Application (DOL) platform which can be reached via PC, tablet and smartphone at the address https://domandaonline.serviziocivile.it.
The deadline for submitting applications has been extended to 2pm on 17 February 2021.
To access the application compilation and submission services on the DOL platform, the candidate must be recognized by the system.
1 - Italian citizens residing in Italy or abroad can access it exclusively with SPID, the Public Digital Identity System. On the website of the Agency for Digital Italy www.agid.gov.it/it/piattaforme/spid all the information is available on what SPID is, what services it offers and how to request it. For the Question Online Civil Service requires SPID security level 2 credentials.
2 - Citizens of countries belonging to the European Union and foreigners regularly residing in Italy, if they are not available to acquire the SPID, will be able to access the services of the DOL platform through specific credentials to be requested from the Department, according to a procedure available on the home page of the platform itself.
To find out more about the Universal Civil Service: https://www.serviziocivile.gov.it/
Download the Notice for the selection of 46,891 volunteer operators to be employed in projects relating to universal civil service intervention programs to be carried out in Italy, abroad and in the territories of the regions affected by the National Operational Program - Youth Employment Initiative (PON-IOG "Youth Guarantee" - Measurement 6)
>>> For information call 06.6792669 or write to segreteria@fondazionediliegro.it
Last December 3, the webinar "Children of parents with mental health problems" was held. The event is part of the project Share4Carers, of which the Di Liegro Foundation is a partner.
Share4Carers was created with the aim of sharing good practices at a European level aimed at children of parents with mental health problems.
The webinar, to which Marisa Matias, MEP, member of the European Parliament and of the European Parliament Interest Group on Family Caregivers also brought her greetings, represented an opportunity for enrichment due to the strong contribution of professional skills, experiences and political perspectives from the participants. Share4Carers in fact involves experts from the academic, clinical and association worlds of Belgium, Greece, Italy and Turkey.
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Il XIV corso di formazione della Fondazione Di Liegro "Dall’isolamento alla resilienza" si è concluso con un’ampia panoramica condotta dal dottor Michele Di Nunzio, psichiatra psicoterapeuta e criminologo, sul tema "Il ruolo del volontariato: riflessioni, metodologie, esperienze". Un racconto in prima persona, da un operatore che considera il volontariato un contributo “di fondamentale importanza” nel campo della salute mentale.
Punto di partenza: nell’esperienza del volontario fare del bene agli altri è un effetto secondario, successivo all’azione prioritaria che è quella di fare del bene a se stessi. Io sto facendo qualcosa che, facendomi sentire meglio, accrescendo la qualità della mia vita, mi metterà in condizione di produrre relazioni propositive, costruttive, funzionali anche per l’altro.
La mia serenità è fondamentale. Nei momenti di malumore mi è utile il ricordo, il collegamento con le ragioni che mi hanno condotto a questa scelta.
Il volontario, come chiunque operi in un settore ad alto impatto emotivo come il volontariato e sia per questo molto esposto al logoramento, deve mettere in conto la necessità di fare costantemente la "manutenzione di se stesso", che significa tornare a capire "quello che faccio e perché lo faccio".
Questa azione di consapevolezza ha un nome: meta-cognizione. Si può sviluppare con qualche suggerimento: tenere un diario, leggere molto, ascoltare molto, accogliere ogni occasione ludico-ricreativa che includa una componente emotiva, conoscitiva, razionale, intellettuale. In questo, cinema e teatro sono preziosi.
Può capitare spesso che un volontario della salute mentale incontri persone scontrose, diffidenti, addirittura ostili. L’altro che ci tratta male è qualcuno che ci percepisce come più potente, ha paura di noi e pertanto si difende. Le chiavi per risolvere questo tipo di situazione sono l’umiltà, l’ascolto, la comprensione, l’umana curiosità. Chiavi che sono preziose anche quando l’altro che incontriamo ha scelto di non vivere, di chiudersi in se stesso, come risposta alle paure non risolte che nella stragrande maggioranza dei casi sono all’origine del disagio psichico.
La persona di cui il volontario si prende cura ha necessariamente una ‘diagnosi’, che però non la descrive nella sua interezza. Bisognerà farsi raccontare la sua vita, prima dagli operatori poi da lei stessa, quando vorrà, se vorrà, come vorrà.
Uno dei cimenti maggiori nei quali il volontario può applicarsi è mediare tra le antiche paure tuttora cogenti e la bontà del mondo, che pure esiste. Saranno le piccole cose che rappresentano per tutti il tessuto della vita, alle quali diamo poca importanza ma che riempiono gran parte del nostro tempo, a favorire la riapertura al mondo.
Il volontario è quindi 'ingenuo', fa domande, svela cose che gli operatori nella loro routine hanno perso di vista. La sua ‘sprovvedutezza’ come d’altra parte la diversità del suo bagaglio lavorativo e professionale sono contributi importanti per il settore della salute mentale.
E infine c’è la ‘valorialità’, perché i valori, gli ideali qualificano enormemente la nostra esistenza. Ed è difficile che il volontario sia arrivato a questa scelta senza aver avuto una formazione valoriale.
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Even on the subject of addictions, the impact of the pandemic on mental health clearly emerged in the first wave of the virus and has a start date: last March 9th, when the entry into force of the lockdown, the confinement, changed perhaps forever our lifestyle.
The very existence of Covid-19 has triggered a maladjustment syndrome in the general population and even more so in a group of people with pre-existing mental disorders diagnosed in the anxious-depressive spectrum.
In the field of addictions - in which the psychiatrist works Alessandro Vento, speaker of the VI meeting of the training course "Volunteers and families online for mental health" and responsible forAddictions Observatory - consumption patterns have changed. There has been a massive increase in alcohol and prescription drug use, especially by street users of psychoactive substances, which disappeared from the market during the lockdown. At the same time, the adulteration of substances has increased - which consumers have begun to cut with what they have available, with greater damage to health - and the online purchase of psychoactive substances, legal or not.
Also noteworthy is the use of foods with psycho-pharmacological properties (for example spices) used in the pandemic together with alcohol, as compensatory conduct.
There were big differences between the first and second waves of Covid, he confirmed Giuseppe Ducci, director of the Mental Health Department of ASL Roma 1, also a speaker at the VI meeting of the training course. Differences due to the different types of insulation implemented. Psychiatric problems were much greater during the lockdown. In the ASL Roma 1 there have been five suicides, all involving single women.
We must consider that the fundamental elements of mental health are sociality and resilience which is that ability to adapt to circumstances, overcome the stress of adverse events that occur in life, maintaining or restoring balance in a fairly short time.
This pandemic occurs a century after the "Spanish flu", in a totally different world which will still change profoundly due to the emergency we are experiencing, and must be an opportunity to build a different way of operating in mental health too.
We need to move to "a new culture of taking care of the user", based on the strong integration of services, imagine and create flexible working groups made up of different operators with different skills that are set up on a case, a patient, tailored to the characteristics of the person. Groups open to external parties, such as families and entities active in the area. ASL Roma 1 is working on this.
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