Marta Toraldo
This review aims to explore some aspects of social and psychological problems of young people in Italy - from the description of the Italian family of today to the types of psychosocial interventions to be implemented - adding steps and psychological critical details to the article (see: Marta Toraldo and Maria Rita Serio (2014) “Psychological Disorders and Social Distress Affecting Today’s Youth in Italy: The New Face of Adolescent Problems”. J Psychol Abnorm Child 3: 114. doi: 10.4172/2329-9525.1000114) to which this review serves as commentary.
The article offers food for thought on all factors within Italy which bring about the onset of youth problems and raises some issues for debate. Youth problems are evident not only on an individual level, but reflect and manifest themselves in a social and community context. The youth in Italy suffers, in fact, from all the cultural transformations that, in recent years, have hit the country: the economic crisis, unemployment, changes in family life and its balance, new forms of child abuse. Institutions have not yet started to give concrete and innovative answers.
Schools remain stable in the logic that guides their activities, focusing on core subjects, and a little on the overall development of the child/teenager growing up. Finally, schools are not able to implement the “school-work alternation” to lower the gap between the world of education and professions.
The purpose of the review is to reflect on the forms of child and adolescent discomfort and propose possible and helpful interventions.
