Quando tocca a te: una guida per adolescenti che hanno un familiare in Terapia Intensiva

Authors

Giulia Lamiani
University of Milan, Milan, Italy
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1943-3282
Michela Maxia
University of Milan, Milan, Italy
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2708-3892
Stefano Iodice
Giovanni Mistraletti
University of Milan, Milan, Italy
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-1623

Keywords:

Intensive Care Units, Adolescents, Open visiting policy

Synopsis

This guide was developed for adolescents aged 14 to 17 who have a loved one hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit.

In these moments, it can happen to remain stuck in your own thoughts or fears. Reading this guide could be useful to feel less alone in a painful moment and to seek answers to the most frequently asked questions. This guide can also be used to get prepared for a possible visit to the Intensive Care Unit, with the accompaniment of healthcare professionals.

The guide is part of a larger action-research project (MinViTI Project) which aims to improve the psychological well-being of children and adolescents who have a family member hospitalized in Intensive Care and was created in collaboration with Intensiva.it, a scientific initiative promoted and supported by SIAARTI, Aniarti, AAROI-EMAC.

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Author Biographies

Giulia Lamiani, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Giulia Lamiani, psychologist and psychotherapist, is Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Milan. She previously worked at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Humanitas University where she taught “Communication and relationship” to undergraduate students and healthcare professionals. He collaborates with the Clinical Psychology Unit of the Santi Paolo e Carlo Hospital, Milan, where she coordinated the adaptation of the “Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills” (PERCS) to the Italian context. For the development of PERCS in Italy, she received the Terzani Award for Humanization of Medicine.

Michela Maxia, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Michela Maxia, is a psychologist and family psychotherapist. She works at the Clinical Psychology Unit of the Santi Paolo e Carlo Hospital, Milan, where she provides psychological support for children, adolescents, adults, and their families. For years she collaborated with the University of Milan as an adjunct professor of Clinical Psychology for occupational therapist’ students.

Stefano Iodice

Stefano Iodice, born in Milan in 1988, has been an Intensive Care Nurse since 2015.

He works in the general intensive care unit and in the post-operative intensive care unit of the Ospedale Nuovo di Legnano, ASST Ovest Milanese. In 2022 he started collaborating with the Italian Group for the Evaluation of Interventions in Intensive Care (GiViTI) and actively collaborates with Progetto Intensiva.it.

His first short story collection is published by Bookabook.

Giovanni Mistraletti, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Giovanni Mistraletti, born in Piacenza in 1976, is an intensivist and anesthesiologist physician, and associate professor of anesthesiology at the Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation of the University of Milan.

Since 2021 he has been Director of Critical Care and Anesthesiology Unit of the Legnano Hospital, ASST Ovest Milanese. In 2022-2024, he is national coordinator of the Bioethics Section of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI).

In 2003-2004 worked at McGill University in Montreal, Québec, Canada, as a research fellow. Since 2017 he has been Principal Investigator of the Intensiva 2.0 Project, a randomized and controlled multicenter study involving 335 Italian Intensive Care Units, for which in 2018 he won the Terzani Prize for the Humanization of Medicine.

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Published

May 15, 2023