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Articles

An Italian Team Uses Transactional Analysis to Help Children in Brazil

Pages 87-95
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article describes the author’s experience working on a project in Maranhão, one of the poorest regions of Brazil, with a group of volunteers from the Istituto per la Prevenzione del Disagio Minorile [Institute for the Prevention of Minors’ Distress] (IPDM), an Italian nonprofit association. The focus of the project was on bringing psychological and medical help to educators, families, and children in the communities of Peritorò and Bom Jardim, where children often experience problems related to family breakdown and extreme poverty. Ideas from social cognitive transactional analysis, which provided the rationale for the project, are described along with some of the interventions used and results achieved by the team.

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Laura Bastianelli

Author Biography
Laura Bastianelli is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy). She lives in Rome, Italy, where she works in private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor. She is also a lecturer and researcher at the Salesian University in the Scuola Superiore di Specializzazione in Psicologia Clinica [Upper School for Specialization in Clinical Psychology] and a trainer at the Istituto di Formazione e Ricerca per Educatori e Psicoterapeuti [Institute of Training and Research for Educators and Psychotherapists] (IFREP). Laura is a founding member of the Istituto per la Prevenzione del Disagio Minorile [Institute for the Prevention of Minors’ Distress] (IDPM). Since July 2013, she has been the chair of the transactional analysis theory development and research committee of the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA). Financial support for the purchase of medical supplies for the project was received from the Presidenza del Consiglio della Regione Lazio in 2008, 2009, and 2011. This article is based on a paper presented at the EATA Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, on 10 July 2010. Laura can be reached at Via Ermogene 52, 00124 Rome, Italy; email: .