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This article aims at describing the intervention research realized by the
Post-Graduate School in Clinical Psychology of the University of
Turin for the community of Casale Monferrato. Casale is a town in
Oriental Piedmont sadly known because of asbestos and the very high
amount of deaths among its inhabitants.
Basing on the results of a research realized between 2006 and 2008, in
2010 we designed a clinical intervention that could address the specific
needs that population had showed. Needs that made the Regional
Health Services at first - and then the National ones – demanding for
the developing of an integrate care protocol that would include also a
psychological assessment of patients and caregivers. The best
instrument to work on a traumatic situation that involved an entire
community seemed to be the multifamily group, created by the
Argentinian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jorge Garcìa Badaracco.
In this article, we describe the clinical experience of the first
multifamily group in Casale Monferrato, focusing on the attempt made
in the group to elaborate the anger, the anguish and the fear connected
to the aerial contamination. Up to our intervention, in Casale
everybody focused on illness and dead, but nobody took care of those
who survived trauma and of their massive fear of death.
KEY WORDS
Asbestos, mesothelioma, aerial contamination, trauma, intervention
research, multifamily groups.
This article aims at describing the intervention research realized by the
Post-Graduate School in Clinical Psychology of the University of
Turin for the community of Casale Monferrato. Casale is a town in
Oriental Piedmont sadly known because of asbestos and the very high
amount of deaths among its inhabitants.
Basing on the results of a research realized between 2006 and 2008, in
2010 we designed a clinical intervention that could address the specific
needs that population had showed. Needs that made the Regional
Health Services at first - and then the National ones – demanding for
the developing of an integrate care protocol that would include also a
psychological assessment of patients and caregivers. The best
instrument to work on a traumatic situation that involved an entire
community seemed to be the multifamily group, created by the
Argentinian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jorge Garcìa Badaracco.
In this article, we describe the clinical experience of the first
multifamily group in Casale Monferrato, focusing on the attempt made
in the group to elaborate the anger, the anguish and the fear connected
to the aerial contamination. Up to our intervention, in Casale
everybody focused on illness and dead, but nobody took care of those
who survived trauma and of their massive fear of death.
KEY WORDS
Asbestos, mesothelioma, aerial contamination, trauma, intervention
research, multifamily groups.
