Trauma e resilienza. Tecniche e modalità di intervento psicosociale nel post-emergenza: il contributo della neurofisiologia

• Main Authors: Claudia Filipetta, Raffaela Paladini
• Format: Article
• Language: Italian
• Published: Psicologi per i Popoli : Federazione 2014-03-01
• Series: Rivista di Psicologia dell'Emergenza e dell'Assistenza Umanitaria
• Subjects: adolescence; earthquake; trauma; resilience; psychosocial intervention
• Online Access: http://www.psicologiperipopoli.it/files/Numero%2012%20Fil.pdf

The authors explore the key issues covered in the seminar “Trauma and resilience”, held in Bologna May 17th, 2014, approaching from a purely neurophysiological perspective the process of resilience generated by traumas related to post-emergency contexts. On the one hand the article considers disaster’s impact on the individual and its consequences in terms of a verbalization of the event, on the other hand it examines the group dimension as a protective factor and a preferential context for starting the resilience process and the psychophysiological adjustment of the individual. Through the analysis of a field work experience in the refugee camp Santa Liberata in Cento (FE, Italy), which was conducted in the two months following the earthquake in the region, some psychosocial intervention techniques aimed at teenagers are presented that favour the use of non-verbal communication channels, such as the use of images, body, and photography.