On 14 May at 6 pm the psychological emergency room-Italy with an online event, it will virtually open its doors to the city of Catania, which hosts its main office in via San Filippo Neri 14, and to all those who want to know more closely the “preciousness” of a Service created to guarantee Accessibility to psychological well-being for all citizens.
There will be guests of great prestige experts in the sector, and prominent authorities starting from the mayor of Catania, Hon. Salvo Pogliese, His Excellency Monsignor Antonino Raspanti, vice president of CEI – Italian Episcopal Conference and bishop of Acireale, Fabrizio Trentacoste, Senator of the Italian Republic, Hon. Giuseppe Zitelli , Member of the Ars.
With them also Antonio Bonanno, Mayor of Biancavilla, Barbara Mirabella, Councilor for Public Education of the Municipality of Catania, Gioacchino Nicolosi, President of Federfarma Regionale, Simone Massaro, CEO Free Mind Foundry, Grazia Zitelli, Councilor of the Order of Psychologists of Sicily, Cinzia d ‘ Agate, AUOC Regional Referent – Adult Celiac Disease Center of the Catania Polyclinic, Barbara Fiorito, ANFI Referent – Catania Familiarists Association and Mariolina Palumbo, founder of the Rome Psychological Emergency Room.
To report on the topic: Filippo Aschieri, Associate Professor of Psychology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Francesco Pira, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Messina, Giuseppe Santisi, Full Professor and Dean of the Degree Course in Psychology at the University of Catania and Giuseppe Catalfo, Pischiatra Doctor, Psychotherapist and Forensic Consultant. Among the guests also the theater and fiction actor, Agostino Zumbo.
To introduce the event the co-founder of the Italian Psychological Emergency Room, dr. Tommaso Careri, Psychologist and Neuropsychologist, while the conclusions will be entrusted to Prof. Mariano Indelicato, professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Messina, Psychologist Psychotherapist and co-founder of Italian Psychological Emergency Room.
Throughout the day, it will be possible to participate in free screening on Resilience at Covid, at some pharmacies in the Catania hinterland.
Following, the same event will be replicated in the main psychological emergency rooms of the other Sicilian provinces: Enna, Syracuse, Palermo, Agrigento.
The possibility of “direct access” allowed by the opening of the offices h24 which reduces waiting times, the provision of the service at affordable costs, the presence of a team of highly specialized professionals, the adoption of an effective, innovative and scientifically supported method make the Psp- Italy unique of its kind.
Concept reaffirmed and strongly supported by Prof. Indelicato, who in this regard expresses himself as follows: “Speaking of psychological first aid means responding to all the needs for well-being which are often limited and confined to experiences that we are forced to live alone, without being able to count immediately, in the “here and now”, with the help of specially trained and specialized professionals. The Italian Psychological Emergency Room is a model of intervention that makes hospitality its specific mission: its professionals are always available from 9.30 to 19.30, also guaranteeing nighttime telephone assistance. Today it is certain that psychological disorders can be countered with the help of a service that has no equal in all of Italy “.
Always on the importance of the “ethical foundation” that moves the entire project, born about a year and a half ago and with the increasingly concrete objective of expanding widely throughout the nation, Dr. Careri declares: “Objective of the Italian Psychological Emergency Room is to decongest the hospital emergency wards, to clear access to psychological services, to reduce the costs of therapies and to promote the culture of psychological well-being to all those who are often forced to wander from service to service, without finding answers if not pharmacological. Anxiety disorders, depressive and relational crises, violence in all its forms, eating and sexual disorders today represent a real social emergency. This is why the Italian Psychological Emergency Department intends to work alongside the territorial realities and in collaboration with general practitioners and others, in order to respond effectively to the requests for help of those who today live a shared ment of psychological distress “.
It will be possible to follow the event live online on the facebook pages Psychological Emergency Room-Italy and today, and on the youtube channel Psychological Emergency Room Italy.