L’importanza della formazione sull’empowerment per le squadre che op- erano nel soccorso urgente / The relevance of empowerment training to rescue teams in emergency situations

• Main Author: Massimo Dagnino
• Format: Article
• Language: Italian
• Published: Psicologi per i Popoli : Federazione 2018-01-01
• Series: Rivista di Psicologia dell'Emergenza e dell'Assistenza Umanitaria
• Subjects: empowerment; desire; renewing; motivation; relations
• Online Access: http://www.psicologiperipopoli.it/files/Numero%2018%20Dag2.pdf

The path of empowerment is based on the motivations of the staff, such as the desire to experiment in new situations and difficulties, to receive the consent of their peers and superiors and to do a job improving their technique. This pushes the individual to a professional and individual growth, within the activities he per- forms, helping the rescuer to better express his motivations on the professional setting. Empowerment thus becomes the concept to renew a culture of work and of the worker, renewing the organizational models, reinterpreting in this study, the culture of work in the rescue that takes place during emergencies, in order to better motivate the staff who works in this area. I focus on the theory in which empowerment is connected to the presence of meaningful relationships that do not limit expressivity and individual freedom and that are oriented towards mutuality and reciprocity. It is important to create a specific training path on this topic, by acquiring the awareness of evaluation and solution of difficult situations, using physical, mental and emotional energies of rescuers. In the decision for the choice of the solution to be taken, during the emergency rescue, I consider it interesting to introduce the definition of appraisal, argued in the following pages.