Search Results - "Donatella, Cavanna"
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Attachment representations to parents and emotional-behavioral problems: A comparison between children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and healthy children in middle childhood
Published in Clinical child psychology and psychiatry (01-04-2021)“…Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is one of the most demanding chronic diseases for children and their families, since controlling diabetes involves a process of…”
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Testing Children’s Mentalizing in Middle Childhood: Adopting the Child and Adolescent Reflective Functioning Scale with Clinical and Community Children
Published in Journal of child and family studies (2022)“…Beginning with Ensink’s seminal study (2015), the field entered a new era in which we were able to measure mentalizing in school-aged children. The goal of…”
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Does Children’s Mentalizing Mediate the Role of Attachment and Psychological Maladjustment in Middle Childhood?
Published in Journal of child and family studies (01-07-2020)“…Objectives This study investigated mentalization, operationalized as Reflective Functioning (RF), focusing on its differential subcomponents (self- and…”
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Domestic Violence in Separated Couples in Italian Context: Communalities and Singularities of Women and Men Experiences
Published in Frontiers in psychology (03-09-2018)“…Relationship breakdown and separation represent a critical aspect in domestic violence. Few studies have investigated domestic violence in separated couples…”
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Organizational well-being and motivation to work among employees and freelancers: the case of physiotherapists in Italy
Published in Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology (01-01-2021)“…Background: Numerous studies have furthered the dimension of organizational well-being in terms of its complexity over the years. However, little research that…”
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The catcher in the mind: validation of the brief-mentalized affectivity scale for adolescents in the Italian population
Published in Research in psychotherapy (Milano). (08-01-2024)“…The concept of mentalized affectivity (MA) encompasses the dimensions of identifying, processing, and expressing emotions and describes the process of making…”
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Adopted Adolescents Talk about the Mental States: a Qualitative Exploratory Study
Published in Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology (01-01-2021)“…Adolescence represents a developmental phase characterized by several changes during which social and cognitive advances lead adolescents to the progressive…”
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Physiological Factors Linking Insecure Attachment to Psychopathology: A Systematic Review
Published in Brain sciences (08-11-2021)“…Although many studies have documented associations between insecure attachment and psychopathology, attachment may not confer risk for psychopathology…”
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Exploring well-being and satisfaction with physiotherapy efficacy: an Italian study of cancer patients
Published in Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology (01-01-2018)“…Several studies have shown that rehabilitation can alleviate post-treatment side effects, maintain quality of life, and improve survival. However, information…”
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A controlled study of attachment representations and emotion regulation in female adolescents with anorexia nervosa
Published in Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology (01-05-2016)“…Background: Several recent studies highlighted that both attachment insecurity and emotion regulation difficulties form a key part of conceptual models of…”
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Qualitative research in adolescent psychotherapy: attachment and reflective functioning as psychotherapy’s outcomes of an adolescent with anorexia nervosa
Published in Research in psychotherapy (Milano). (23-12-2015)“…The aim of this study was to examine both the change in attachment state of mind and mentalization competencies as outcomes of a two-year weekly psychodynamic…”
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Which Space for Fathers’ Mentalizing? A Systematic Review on Paternal Reflective Functioning, Mind-Mindedness and Insightfulness
Published in Journal of child and family studies (01-05-2023)“…Over the past twenty years research interest has been focused on deepening the role of parental mentalizing. Nevertheless, few studies have specifically…”
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Attachment in eating-disordered outpatients with and without borderline personality disorder
Published in Journal of health psychology (01-12-2017)“…This study aims at examining the attachment states of mind in 50 female outpatients with eating disorders compared with 50 matched control participants using…”
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Beyond the Family Fostering Experience: A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of the Self and One’s Own History in Italian Care Leavers
Published in Adoption quarterly (02-01-2024)“…Research on the subjective experience of transitioning to adulthood among young people aging out of foster care is scarce. Accordingly, this study investigated…”
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Attachment and reflective functioning in children with somatic symptom disorders and disruptive behavior disorders
Published in European child & adolescent psychiatry (01-05-2019)“…Our goal in conducting this study was to examine whether children with somatic symptom disorders (SSD) and disruptive behavior disorders (DBD) have higher…”
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Emerging adults facing the COVID-19 pandemic: emotion dysregulation, mentalizing, and psychological symptoms
Published in Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) (01-04-2024)“…Settled in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the present short-term longitudinal study aims to investigate the relation between emotion dysregulation,…”
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Psychometric Properties of the Child Attachment Interview in Italian Context: A Focus on Normative and Specific Clinical Groups in School-Aged Children
Published in Psychological reports (01-02-2021)“…While attachment assessments developed for infancy and adulthood are well established, no such gold standard measure exists for school years, where measures…”
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The Italian version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Validity within a sample of adolescents and associations with psychological problems and alexithymia
Published in Journal of clinical psychology (01-04-2022)“…Objectives This study aims to test the psychometric proprieties of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ) applied to younger (13–16 years) and older…”
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Parental Mentalizing during Middle Childhood: How Is the Adoption of a Reflective Stance Associated with Child's Psychological Outcomes?
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health (19-05-2022)“…This exploratory cross-sectional study attempts to understand the mechanisms underlying the role of parental mentalizing in a child's psychological functioning…”
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Adverse childhood experiences and psychological maladjustment in adolescence: The protective role of epistemic trust, mentalized affectivity, and reflective functioning
Published in Journal of clinical psychology (01-11-2024)“…Introduction Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are psychosocial factors acknowledged as significant contributors to health consequences later in…”
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