Journal title TERAPIA FAMILIARE
Author/s Ilaria Di Vecchio, Franco Della Maggiora, Daniela Merciadri, Ilaria Genovesi
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/139
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 63-81 File size 144 KB
DOI 10.3280/TF2025-139004
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This work aims to develop a series of reflections on the assessment of parental competence mandated by the Judiciary, specifically focusing on parents’ ability to ensure the wellbeing of the child even when direct observation of the child is not possible. Starting from a theoretical framework related to the concept of parenting and its functions – whose purpose is to give meaning to the evaluation process in a complex and transformative sense – the following dimensions have been analyzed: the structural dimension, through a review of one of the most widely used assessment tools in the legal context, the Assessment Parental Skills Interview (APSI) (Camerini, Volpini & Lopez, 2010), with Reflexive Questions (Tomm, 1987); the emotional dimension, drawing on the symbolic relational paradigm by Scabini and Iafrate (2003), and the concept of family semantic polarities by Ugazio (2018); finally, the cultural dimension, with reference to the model of cybernetics of prejudices (Cecchin, Lane & Ray, 1997), linked to the anthropological and ethnopsychiatric perspective.
Keywords: parenting, protection, culture, emotion, structure, complexity.
Ilaria Di Vecchio, Franco Della Maggiora, Daniela Merciadri, Ilaria Genovesi, “Quando una sedia è vuota”. La complessità della valutazione delle competenze genitoriali in assenza del minore in "TERAPIA FAMILIARE" 139/2025, pp 63-81, DOI: 10.3280/TF2025-139004