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Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government’s initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historical roots. This is the first interdisciplinary book to critically examine the ongoing phenomenon of disguising contagious disease in Italy from Unification to the present. The book explores how governments, public opinion, social entities and cultural production have avoided or sublimated contagion during cholera, typhoid, syphilis, malaria, HIV and COVID-19 to impose narratives of the nation’s healthy body in Italy and its colonies. Examples range from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Capri that masked as a luxury hotel and hideaway for queer couples to an obscure but talen...
This publication collects contributions to understanding and addressing migration flows from Africa to Europe and supporting social coexistence in the destination countries. Written by experts in psychology and social work, the articles approach the topic of immigration based on empirical research in their academic and professional specialties. The book focuses on issues of intervention, letting the research be the starting point for further plans. This focus makes the book valuable for professionals as well as policy makers.
CONTENTS/CONTENUTI ANOREXIC FAMILIES AND BULIMIC FAMILIES: PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL RISK AND FAMILY FUNCTIONING/FAMIGLIE ANORESSICHE E BULIMICHE: RISCHIO PSICOPATOLOGICO E FUNZIONAMENTO FAMILIARE Di Mimmatafà, Eleonora Marzilli, Silvia Cimino, Luca Cerniglia, Fabrizia Bracaglia COMMUNICATING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO INVOLVE STAKEHOLDERS: THE CASE OF EMPLOYER BRANDING FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS/COMUNICARE LA RESPONSABILITÀ SOCIALE D’IMPRESA PER COINVOLGERE GLI STAKEHOLDER: IL CASO DELL’EMPLOYER BRANDING PER STUDENTI UNIVERSITARI Di Uberta Ganucci Cancellieri, Irene Petruccelli, Stefano De Dominicis, Alessandro Groggia, Laura Illia, Marino Bonaiuto GROUP AS A RESOURCE FOR FAMILIES OF PE...
This book engages with a wide spectrum of questions and topics related to children's, adolescents' and families' difficulties, as well as to epistemological, meta-theoretical, taxonomical, and intervention issues. Particular emphasis is given throughout the book to discussing and suggesting various alternative methods and practices of promoting the potential and capacity of children, families, and schools to deal with various personal and contextual risks and adversities. Most of the contribu ...
HOW COMPETENCE AND TRUSTWORTHINESS INFERENCES MADE BY VOTERS IN THE CENTRE OF ITALY PREDICTS THE NORTH ITALIAN POLITICAL ELECTIONS: THE IMPACT OF THE CITY SIZE/ COME LE INFERENZE DI COMPETENZA E AFFIDABILITÀ ESPRESSE DAGLI ELETTORI DEL CENTRO D’ITALIA PREDICONO LE ELEZIONI POLITICHE DEL NORD DI ITALIA: L’EFFETTO DELLA DIMENSIONE DELLA CITTÀ di Ambra Brizi, Lucia Mannetti ALESSITIMIA IN ETÀ EVOLUTIVA: RIFLESSIONI TEORICHE E COSTRUZIONE DI UN NUOVO STRUMENTO PER BAMBINI TRA I 4 E GLI 8 ANNI/ ALEXITHYMIA IN DEVELOPMENTAL AGE: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW INSTRUMENT FOR CHILDREN FROM 4 TO 8 YEARS OLD di Michela Di Trani, Francesca Piperno, Alessia Renzi, Carla Sogo...
Expanding Horizons: Current Research on Interpersonal Acceptance offers readers an outstanding collection of papers that reflects current trends in research on interpersonal acceptance. Papers in this volume cover a variety of questions and topics with regard to issues of acceptance-rejection by significant figures in parent-child, sibling, peer, and adult intimate relationships. Also, several papers deal with the implications of interpersonal acceptance for the development and educational achievement of children, college students, as well as children with special needs. Lastly, an entire section of the book is devoted to methodological issues in the evaluation of interpersonal acceptance ac...
"Never before in the history of humanity have so many people lived to be so very old. Throughout our past, a few individuals might have made it to old age but "mass aging" is a new concept for the human species"--