The Italian Health Ministry Project The Lausanne Trilogue Play as A Psychodiagnostic And Therapeutic Tool in a Public Neuropsychiatry Unit. Preliminary Findings.

TitleThe Italian Health Ministry Project The Lausanne Trilogue Play as A Psychodiagnostic And Therapeutic Tool in a Public Neuropsychiatry Unit. Preliminary Findings.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsGatta M, Del Col L, Battistella P
JournalInterdisciplinary Journal of Family Studies
Volume21
Issue1
Pagination1-13
Date Published11/2016
PublisherPadova University Press
Place PublishedPadova, IT
ISSN Number2282-2011
Keywordsfamily interaction, Lausanne Trilogue Play, psychodiagnostic assessment, psychopathology, therapy outcome
Abstract

The article presents a research design aiming to apply the LTP procedure in a clinical setting for diagnostic- therapeutic taking in charge purposes. The research is a longitudinal study lasting 36 months funded by the Italian Ministry of Health. The sample was recruited at a Neuropsychiatry Unit for Children and Adolescents, in Padua (Veneto) and consists of patients aged between 3 and 18 years and their parents, referred for psychodiagnostic assessment due to emotional and/or behavioral problems. The sample is divided into two groups: in one of them the child is administered individual treatment, while in the other the child’s treatment is associated with intervention to support parenting.
LTP and other tests were administered every 6 – 12 months.
Preliminary data confirm the value of the LTP as part of the diagnostic and therapeutic armamentarium in developmental psychopathology.

URLhttp://ijfs.padovauniversitypress.it/2016/1/1