Il programma di apprendimento delle abilità di ripre- sa psicologica nel dopo-emergenza: presentazione dello Skills for Psychological Recovery

• Main Authors: Gabriele Lo Iacono, Luigi Ranzato
• Format: Article
• Language: Italian
• Published: Psicologi per i Popoli : Federazione 2018-01-01
• Series: Rivista di Psicologia dell'Emergenza e dell'Assistenza Umanitaria
• Subjects: psychological recovery; psychological first aid; psychosocia
• Online Access: http://www.psicologiperipopoli.it/files/Numero%2018%20Loi.pdf

In this paper, the authors present the Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR), a modular intervention program based on teaching specific psychological skills. SPR was designed to help disaster survivors who show distress but don’t need a psychotherapeutic or psychopharmacological intervention. It is to be applied after the psychological first aid, to those who need a more intensive kind of help. The program was presented by S. Berkowitz and colleagues in the book Skills for psychological recovery. Field operations guide, issued in 2010 by the National Center for PTSD, National Child Traumatic Stress Network, a text which here is partly trans- lated and partly synthesized. The authors will consider, among other things, the features that differentiate the SPR from other kinds of interventions, as well as its duration, goals, methods, modules, with the aspects concerning providers’ and receivers’ expectancies. In the Appendice section, the authors present some definitions of “psychosocial wellbeing” and “psychosocial support”, two terms and concepts so central in this psychological discourse domain.