La formazione di una nuova generazione di psicoterapeuti come priorità per la sanità pubblica

Journal title TERAPIA FAMILIARE
Author/s Angelo Barbato
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/139
Language Italian Pages 9 P. 29-37 File size 114 KB
DOI 10.3280/TF2025-139002
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In Italy and elsewhere the common mental disorders are widespread in the population and are often associated with heavy social burden and low quality of life. However, the response of the health system is inadequate, inasmuch as is mainly based on prescription of psychotropic drugs by general practitioners. In few cases psychological treatments are offered, despite the research findings and the guidelines of most international agencies. Widening the healthcare offer for such problems is a public health priority. It requires the availability in primary care of a personalized and stepped approach based on a growing intensity of psychosocial and psychological interventions, ranging from selfhelp to lifestyle changes up to low intensity treatment and brief psychotherapies. Care should be delivered in the framework of an ecosystemic view, overcoming a narrow individual approach by considering the needs for social justice of communities as change agents. The focus on primary care as the setting for a care pathway aimed to common mental disorders, asks for the training of clinicians with broad skills not provided by current prevailing models of training in psychotherapy. This paper will present some suggestions in this direction.

Keywords: Common mental disorders, Training in psychotherapy, Access to psychological treatments, Psychology in primary care, Brief psychotherapies, Social and health care integration.

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Angelo Barbato, La formazione di una nuova generazione di psicoterapeuti come priorità per la sanità pubblica in "TERAPIA FAMILIARE" 139/2025, pp 29-37, DOI: 10.3280/TF2025-139002