Short-term psychological intervention and new demands in Mental Health Centers.

Abstract

Nowadays CSMs (Mental Health Centers) can hardly develop suitable operative patterns and procedures to keep up with the new issues and the evolution of the demand. 
Paniccia, Di Ninni and Cavalieri (2006), highlighted two historical cultural trends informing CSM1 operative patterns: 1) Militant ideology, prevailing in the first period, characterized by a de-institutionalizing culture and by sacrificial, oblational attitudes which don’t require any verification; 2) Technicality, where the therapeutic relationship is characterized by a feeble patient relying on a sound, skilled specialist.