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POSTERS
These two posters have been selected from those presented at the 16th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine Medicine: “Interdisciplinary behavioral medicine: systems, network and interventions”, held in Glasgow in June 2021.
CLINICAL CASE OF CORRADO
The case of a homosexual patient sent to a psychology service for depressive-anxious symptoms is described. The patient had adopted an avoidance coping and a passive-anassertive attitude towards his sexual orientation, especially due to the shame deriving from a self-stigma. He had a brother who was married with three children and died 3 years earlier. The trans-diagnostic framework of the clinical case leads to the identification of short, medium and long-term therapeutic objectives such as: immediate psychological support, and then, once the mood had improved, reduction self-stigma for HIV, internalized homophobia, and then the coping with social problems and avoidance behaviors. Recognizing that his avoidance behaviors have been learned in the family context, psychotherapy proceeded rapidly, especially since the patient has started making decisions in his favor and following his preference. Today he has moved to a new home where he lives happily, he also bought a new car and meets a man he has been dating for a few months.
EDITORIAL – 50 YEARS OF COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY IN ITALY
La Terapia Comportamentale, divenuta ben presto Terapia Cognitivo-Comportamentale (TCC, ovvero la CBT in inglese), fu introdotta in Italia cinquanta anni fa. Le due principali associazioni di TCC italiane ricordano questo anniversario. L’AIAMC (l’Associazione Italiana di Analisi e Modificazione del Comportamento) tiene a Napoli, nell’ambito del XVIII Congresso “Ritorno al futuro dal comportamentismo al cognitivismo andata e ritorno”, una Tavola […]