Analysis of the data of the Rome Gambling Survey, our orientation research on gambling within the foreign population in the Municipality of Rome.
Psy + Onlus in collaboration with the Orthos project carried out a preliminary investigation aimed at exploring the phenomenon of gambling in the foreign population living in the territory of Rome.
In recent years, the opportunities for gambling have multiplied and branched across the territory, differentiating and pervading every social space. In recent times numerous Las Vegas-style game rooms have flourished which in terms of turnover and social damage have nothing to envy to the real casinos. We are constantly witnessing the opening of small spaces dedicated to gaming, in particular to slot machines, which occupy the space left empty by commercial or artisan businesses forced to close due to the crisis. A crisis that is often exacerbated by the illusion of being able to face it by relying on chance, luck. And 'so that hundreds of thousands of citizens, Italian and foreign, "invest" the little money they have in the hope of multiplying it, thanks to a pounding publicity by dealers and state monopolies. If it is true that advertising is often accompanied by the indication "responsible play" and that the message of prohibition against gambling is periodically spread for those under the age of 18, it is also true that the continuous promotion of the game is guilty of light of the daily dramas that afflict the news forcing those affected to clog the lines of aid services (often not financed by the state).
Psy + Onlus deals with psychological counseling in schools. The intervention activity has the following objectives:
Guarantee a clinical psychological service, support and counseling within the school.
Reduce socio-cultural distances and feelings of discriminatory belonging that hinder the aggregation processes and the teaching process.
Promote dynamics of integration and active participation in community life by parents and the territory, enhancing the school as a space for cultural promotion and psycho-social well-being.
Currently our psychological listening counters are active at the IC "Antonio de Curtis in arte Totò" (at first degree secondary school), the IC "Via Pirotta" (at secondary school) e the IC "Via Giuseppe Messina" (at primary and secondary of first degree), the IIS Guglielmotti of Civitavecchia (at secondary of second degree - weekly frequency).
GUIDELINES OF THE LISTENING DOOR
REFERENCE TARGET: Pupils, parents, teachers, auxiliary staff and key community figures (close to the educational institution).
PROJECT: The project aims to respond to the needs of the school related to the need for an internal psychological service that supports pupils, families and teaching staff with qualified interventions, aimed at containing individual inconveniences and dysfunctional dynamics and promoting the improvement of teaching effectiveness. The planned clinical psychological intervention is carried out by professionals in the sector under the Psy + Onlus association. Psychologists who work in the school context are qualified for the profession and registered on the national register. The project is divided into 3 phases. A preliminary survey, oriented to the exploration of the context through a careful analysis of the demand that makes it possible to identify the relevant problems and resources to arrangement of the organizational system. This is followed by an information activity on the listening desk service and an intervention to raise awareness and recall on issues with a maladaptive impact. To this end, seminars and focus groups, plenary assemblies and study days open to parents and teaching staff are organized. We then work on the creation of the internal desk to provide psychological-clinical support and advice on individual, developmental, family and couple problems. The desk has a clinical function but not a psychotherapeutic one, it is also open to teachers and parents and acts as an interface with the mental health services of the territory and with professionals in the sector, in the case of complex problems. The counter work can also include the use of observations in the classes. In addition to clinical activity, actions are developed to contain abuse, bullying and school drop-out. These actions are co-designed with the teaching staff and the school presidency on the basis of what emerged from the initial analysis of the context. The effectiveness and stability of the changes produced are then assessed with follow-up aimed at following up and replicating the intervention in line with the results achieved and the new maintenance and change objectives.
EXTRA COUNTER ACTIVITIES
Starting from the 2015-2016 school year Psy + Onlus has activated:
projects that aim to highlight through an early screening (within the second grade), if any learning difficulties in order to prevent the emergence and consolidation of erroneous and ineffective strategies or mechanisms and limit the damage deriving from frustration for failure such as loss of motivation to learn, withdrawn into oneself, low self-esteem, relationship problems.
teacher training and supervision.
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SONET-BULL PROJECT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DIGITAL WORLD FOUNDATION
Psy + Onlus participated in the Sonet-Bull project for the prevention and contrast to the phenomenon of school bullying, promoted by Fondazione Mondo Digitale.
The project SONET-BULL "The use of ICT social networking tools together with Peer Learning and Crowdsourcing techniques to form school communities on how to deal with student bullying" involves 4 European countries and aims to combine modern pedagogical approaches (e-learning and peer learning ) with the widely used technological means (internet, social networks, cell phones) in order to provide timely and continuous support to the whole community of actors interested in the phenomenon of school bullying.The main objective of the project is to plan, create, implement and evaluate a training path and one training platform able to provide teachers, trainers ofteachersand all the others stakeholders, access to accredited training material on school bullying, as well as the means and tools to publish their experiences and comment on the experience of their peers. The training courses are based on Peer Learning and crowdsourcing techniques.
The ENEA Interculture Project: Educating for New Welcoming Expressions, intends to promote a path of raising awareness on the issue of migration and the reception of asylum seekers, through meetings aimed at teachers, parents and students oflast year of lower secondary school. The migrant is, by definition, the bearer of diversity and among the natural human reactions to the encounter with the different it is possible to encounter feelings of suspicion and fear. The nervous system is programmed to activate defensively when it comes into contact with something unknown, but this activation is reduced as understanding of the phenomenon increases.
Is there a relationship between always running and fear of foreigners? Is there something in the lifestyles of complex societies that, from the point of view of emotional and relational well-being, rather than making us evolve, risks pushing us into a dimension of closure and isolation?
In recent years, the opportunities for gambling have multiplied and branched across the territory, differentiating and pervading every social space. In recent times, numerous Las Vegas-style game rooms have flourished in Rome which in terms of turnover and social damage have nothing to envy to the real casinos.
In recent years, the opportunities for gambling have multiplied and branched across the territory, differentiating and pervading every social space. In recent times, numerous Las Vegas-style game rooms have flourished in Rome which in terms of turnover and social damage have nothing to envy to the real casinos.
Psy + Onlus in collaboration with the Orthos project is launching a preliminary investigation aimed at exploring the phenomenon of gambling in the foreign population living in the territory of Rome. In recent years, the opportunities for play have multiplied and branched out over the territory, differentiating and pervading every social space. In very recent times, numerous Las Vegas-style gambling halls have flourished which in terms of turnover and social damage have nothing to envy to real casinos.
Emigration implies a fracture, a detachment. Emigrating also means abandoning, leaving, leaving a protective covering, the homeland, and going elsewhere. The elsewhere is a place far from the sounds, smells, sensations that constitute the first traces on which a psychic functioning code has been established. It means finding yourself halfway between two cultures, "snatching one's roots from the land of origin, looking for a way to transplant into the new land, with the need not to give up on oneself, one's identity" (Mazzetti, 1996).
arrangement of the organizational system. This is followed by an information activity on the listening desk service and an intervention to raise awareness and recall on issues with a maladaptive impact. To this end, seminars and focus groups, plenary assemblies and study days open to parents and teaching staff are organized. We then work on the creation of the internal desk to provide psychological-clinical support and advice on individual, developmental, family and couple problems. The desk has a clinical function but not a psychotherapeutic one, it is also open to teachers and parents and acts as an interface with the mental health services of the territory and with professionals in the sector, in the case of complex problems. 
