| title | Evolutionary trauma: The impact /influence in the relational evolution and evaluation of protective factors |
| consultor | Luigi Goffredi |
| coordinator | Relatore Prof.ssa Maria Grazia Martinetti |
| researcher | Estensore dott.ssa Rossella Meiattini |
| collaborations | Doctor Mario Santini, Coordinator |
| description | Longitudinal observation of behavioral, psychological, affective and cognitive changes in children and adolescents who experienced evolutive trauma and who are in foster care. |
| target aims | Identification, in a preventive and therapeutic prospective, of protective factors regarding exposure to maladjusted conditions of risk, resulting from the distortion of primary ties experienced by children. |
| destination | Children and adolescents coming from multi-problematic family situations, characterized by serious parental incompetence and violence; all contribute and determine the distortion and damaging of primary ties experienced by children causing the beginning of evolutive trauma. |
| methodology | The research instruments employed are the following: 1)The Child Behavior Checklist for following the evaluation of evolutive development of the subjects, already evaluated with the same instrument. 2) The Adult Attachment Interview for the evaluation of parental representations as compared to the relation to their own figures of attachment. 3) The Working Model of Child Interview for the evaluation of parental representation as compared to the relationship with their own children. |
| financial loans | Self-financing of the Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences of the University of Florence. co-financing of the Fondazione Il Forteto onlus |
| partner | Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia,Dipartimento Scienze Neurologiche e Psichiatriche dell’Università di Firenze |
