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Psychological knowledge and skills for preventing violent radicalization: the Italian experi-ence of the PROVA Project
Journal Title: PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’ 
Author/s: Cristina Cecchini, Elisa Guidi, Patrizia Meringolo 
Year:  2019 Issue: 2 Language: Italian 
Pages:  19 Pg. 56-74 FullText PDF:  232 KB
DOI:  10.3280/PSC2019-002005
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Professionals and educators working with youth at risk of violent radicalization may show a stable need for training, mainly related to the learning of tools able to effectively cope with minors’ social and psychological fragility. This contribution is focused on the Training developed during the European Project PROVA, carried out with professionals directly and indirectly involved in interventions with minors under proceedings. Competences provided to par-ticipants will be described and results coming from the self-evaluation process will be showed. In the Project, participants’ feedbacks were important aspects to produce Guidelines for best practices.
Keywords: Violent radicalization, minors at risk, networking, SWOT analysis, participatory evaluation, training.

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Cristina Cecchini, Elisa Guidi, Patrizia Meringolo, Psychological knowledge and skills for preventing violent radicalization: the Italian experi-ence of the PROVA Project in "PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’" 2/2019, pp. 56-74, DOI:10.3280/PSC2019-002005

   

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