Mauro CozzolinoUniversità degli Studi di Salerno | UNISA · Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Education
Mauro Cozzolino
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Professionals working with refugees are vicariously exposed to complex traumatic experiences lived by forced migrants, which can lead to the risk of developing secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and a poor compassion satisfaction. The current study aimed to explore the effects of secondary traumatic stress on burnout and compassion s...
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted individual’s life and society, and such an emergency has increased the likelihood of recurring conspiratorial thinking. There is much research on broader conspiratorial thinking and studies on COVID-19-related conspiratorial thinking has been growing worldwide, moreover, the negative consequences of COVID-...
This study explored the experience of growth related to being a cancer patient by implementing a thematic analysis. An online questionnaire was completed by 69 patients narrating their growth experience related to cancer. Collected narratives were analyzed by running a deductive thematic analysis, starting from the five domains of the Post-Traumati...
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This study aimed to investigate differences in adolescents' social relationships with classmates of diverse gender, socioeconomic status, immigrant background, and academic achievement.
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A population of 10th-grade students (N = 406,783; males = 50.3%; Mage = 15.57 years, SDage = 0.75) completed the Classmates Social Isolation...
This paper contains a narrative review of the literature in the field of school-based mind–body interventions (MBIs). The aim of the current review is to verify whether the school-based MBI programs implemented in primary and secondary schools over the past 5 years are effective in helping schoolchildren cope with stress-related, behavioral, and af...
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The mental health of university students is significantly affected when faced with public health emergencies and requires specific interventions to help support and prevent any long-lasting effects that the pandemic may have on their mental health status. This study aims to evaluate the impact of an online individual counseling intervent...
The present qualitative study, through a psychoanalytic and culturally sensitive lens, aims at shedding light on the representations of the Nigerian sexual trafficking phenomenon and on the peculiarities of the relationship with trafficked women, from the perspective of five Nigerian female cultural mediators who work in the field of anti‐trafficki...
The paper outlines a model of the basic cognitive process of the constitution of experience - the Affective Pertinentization Model (APER). The constitution of experience is intended as the basic cognitive process underpinning the meaning-maker’s experience of mental representations as self-contained, stable, substantive entities standing for someth...
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ABSTRACT: School absenteeism is a serious problem among very-low-income students, with long-term consequences for well-being. Unfortunately, most acknowledged risk factors are difficult to modify through school-based interventions. However it i...
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Motivation to engage in physical activity plays a central role in ensuring the health of the population. The present study investigated the psychometric properties and validity in Italy of the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-3), a widely used instrument for assessing individuals' motivation to exercise based on se...
Young people's mental health problems are a matter of concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. Counselling services for university students by means of telemental support can help them to deal with psychological issues that they may be facing due to the pandemic. The present study investigated the effects of four once-weekly online counselling session...
Positive developmental outcomes among youth living in poverty have rarely been studied. Despite numerous risk factors, it is important to understand the factors that contribute to positive developmental outcomes among youth in poverty. Using the Self-Determination Theory framework, this two-wave longitudinal study investigated the contribution of b...
The psychosocial genomics paradigm first proposed by Ernest Rossi established an epistemological shift in our application of hypnosis. We present original experimental research conducted within this paradigm that highlights the mind–gene relationship and, in particular, the positive health effects associated with hypnosis and mind–body integrated p...
The study, based on Self-Determination Theory (SDT), investigated the similarities and differences in the aca- demic motivation of adolescents with different socioeconomic status (SES) and immigrant backgrounds. Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling (ESEM) analyses were conducted on data from a representative sample of 26,598 Italian adolescent...
Background: In many countries, physical distancing is seen as one of the crucial preventive measures for limiting the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is likely to be very difficult to ensure that adolescents keep apart from one another since peer interactions are extremely significant for them. Aims: We examined the utility of the Theory of Planned...
In the context of covid-19 pandemics, different studies have reported an increase in the occurrence of psychological symptoms in the population, linking the coronavirus outbreak to a mental health epidemic. Stress and anxiety are the most commonly reported symptoms, along with panic behavior, fear of public events and other less impacting psycholog...
This study aims to evaluate the effects of an innovative mind-body practice named the brain wave modulation technique (BWM-T) on stress, anxiety, global distress, and affect. The technique was administered online through a web-based video conferencing platform. The intervention started on week four of the first quarantine in Italy (week commencing...
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Very-low-income students are a population at a high risk of perpetrating and suffering bullying at school, and at the same time the peer group at school is often one of the few sources of support for these minors.
Objective
This two-wave study is aimed to disambiguate the two different roles of peer acceptance and friendship on bullying...
Several studies have highlighted the key role of chronic inflammation in breast cancer development, progression, metastasis, and therapeutic outcome. These processes are mediated through a variety of cytokines and hormones that exert their biological actions either locally or distantly via systemic circulation. Recent findings suggest that positive...
Riflessioni sul 2020 e nuovi scenari 2021 nella ricerca scientifica e nella psicoterapia
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Physical distancing behavior (PDB) is a key disease prevention strategy for limiting the spread of COVID-19. In order to effectively encourage it among adolescents, it is necessary to understand the associated mental mechanisms. Health behavior theories suggest that emotions, personality, motivation, and moral disengagement could all play...
The present study, based on data concerning 2328 immigrant children attending a representative sample of 561 schools, investigates the impact of various group, family and individual characteristics as well as proficiency in the national language on acceptance and friendship among classmates, while controlling for measurement errors by means of a st...
The hypothesis of a general psychopathology factor (p factor) has been advanced in recent years. It is an innovation with breakthrough potential, in the perspective of a unified view of psychopathology; however, what remains a controversial topic is how its nature might be conceptualized. The current paper outlines a semiotic, embodied and psychoan...
This study is aimed at evaluating the outcomes of mind–body transformation therapy (MBT-T), previously known as the creative psychosocial genomic healing experience© (CPGHE). The intervention was aimed at reducing the perceived level of stress in two non-clinical groups of students with different educational levels and different expertise in the do...
In this paper we illustrate an innovative and effective model called Neuroscientific Strategic Psychotherapy. This model originates from the combination of integrative-strategic and psychosocial and cultural genomics approaches in psycho- therapy. From a holistic perspective of human functioning, we integrated modern neuroscientific findings in psy...
Despite a number of studies on hypnosis as analgesia and anesthesia in several medical conditions, case studies on patients with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) are still relatively few. This case study is about a female patient with MCS who underwent dental removal using hypnosis as the sole anesthesia. The paradigm in which we work is psychos...
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This study describes the implementation of a mind–body intervention to reduce the perceived level of stress in a nonclinical group of university students. We used a novel approach including a single session of a mind–body technique known as the brain wave modulation (BWM) as an adjunct to a single information session on stress manageme...
The main aim of this research was to test the factorial validity and measurement invariance across genders and countries of a set of instruments designed to assess high-school students’ attitudes, self-regulatory efficacy, and moral disengagement with regard to doping. A second aim was to examine the criterion and predictive validity of these scale...
Studies have shown that the satisfaction of basic psychological needs, as defined by Self- Determination Theory, has a great impact on adolescents’ well-being, prosocial behavior and academic success. In the present study, we aim to validate a brief scale for adolescents measuring the satisfaction of the three basic needs for autonomy, competence,...
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During adolescence, experiencing positive emotions at school is important for motivation as well as for academic success and psychological well-being. In the present study, on the basis of Self-Determination Theory (SDT), we investigated the relationships between sociocultural factors (gender, immigrant and socioeconomic background),...
In the last few decades, several studies have investigated the role of personality traits and attitudes toward traffic safety in predicting driving behaviors in diverse types of drivers across several countries. However, to the best of our knowledge, no studies so far have investigated the possible moderating role played by age in relation to predi...
Dropout rates in Italy are very high, particularly in freshmen students (Anvur, 2016). University students’ academic achievement has been found to prevent dropout. The present study tested a predicting model of academic achievement in first-year university students based on self-determination theory, through a longitudinal design with two points in...
Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the process that lead to academic adjustment of undergraduate students in the first year of higher education, by testing a predictive model based on self-determination theory with the inclusion of self-efficacy. The model posits that perceived autonomous forms of support from parents and teachers fo...
Objective: An explorative study focusing on the process of a Cardiac Rehabilitation Psychodynamic Group Intervention (CR-PGI) addressed to Myocardial Infarction (MI) patients is discussed. The study aimed at analysing whether the treatment based on CR-PGI serves as a communicational context within which MI patients are enabled to explore new interp...
Objective: The present work aims to detect the role of the rate of speech as a mechanism able to give information on patient's intrapsychic activity and the intersubjective quality of the patient–therapist relationship.
Method: Thirty clinical sessions among five patients were sampled and divided into idea units (N = 1276) according to the referent...
In the last years, epigenetics and functional genomics methods to evaluate the genomic effects and mechanisms of mind-body therapies have increasingly grown.
DNA microarray technology has been used to show the involvement of the stress response pathways both in the case of disease and stress and as an effect of mind-body therapies.
In the present r...
In the last years, epigenetics and functional genomics methods to evaluate the genomic effects and mechanisms of mind-body therapies have increasingly grown.
DNA microarray technology has been used to show the involvement of the stress response pathways both in the case of disease and stress and as an effect of mind-body therapies.
In the present r...
Aim. The purpose of this study was to provide a better understanding of undergraduate students persistence and academic success in the first year of higher education, by developing and validating a predictive model of dropout intentions. Based on self-determination theory (SDT), the model posits that perceived autonomous forms of motivation decreas...
Nell'ambito del confronto scientifico sulla teoria della semplessità, la vicarianza è intesa come la capacità creativa del cervello di usare molteplici e spesso inusuali strategie per raggiungere un obiettivo, per rimpiazzare un senso o per supplire ad un processo con un altro. Nel campo educativo-didattico, la vicarianza permette l'individuazione...
espanolEl presente estudio aborda la necesaria conexion entre los fundamentos biologicos de la personalidad del individuo –ahora desde la neurociencia– y las practicas o conductas prosociales. Y defiende la modificacion comportamental de los seres humanos, desde la intervencion educativa, a la que considera impregnada de la dimension afectiva y rel...
This editorial starts from the consideration that in many cases the different levels of our functioning have been distant or totally separated one from the other. This happens because the have been often the result of methodological and/or epistemological limits which have led the disciplines and/or the different approaches in those ones to develop...
We propose a new quantum field theory for the emerging psychosocial genomic science of optimizing health and wellness. Psychosocial genomics facilitates creative consciousness, gene expression, brain plasticity and expectancy in the holistic approaches to mind/body therapy. Psychosocial genomics brings together a variety of interdisciplinary fields...
Recent research on Parkinson's Disease (PD) revealed some common etiopathogenic mechanisms underlying a large range of chronic diseases, and more specifically the deregulation of chronobiological rhythms that may start in the very beginning of such pathological development. Contrary to the bottom-up tradition, the post-genomic biology provides now...
This paper explores the hypothesis that a psychotherapeutic protocol, " The Mind-Body Healing Experience " (MHE), could modulate experience-dependent changes ingene expression in human white blood cells. Peripheral blood was collected just before and immediately followng administrationof the MHE to 18 individuals. Changes in experience-dependent ge...
BACKGROUND: Although therapeutic hypnosis has been used to treat a range of psychiatric problems, its biological mechanisms remain poorly understood. We utilized gene microarrays and bioinformatics software to explore the molecular-ge-nomic basis of therapeutic hypnosis. We hypothesized that therapeutic hypnosis would be associated with the express...
This study explores a new top-down epigenomic psycho-therapeutic protocol, the Creative Psychosocial Genomic Healing Experience (CPGHE), for facilitating evidence-based mind-body research in psychology, psychiatry, rehabilitation , therapeutic hypnosis and translational medicine. We experimentally document how the SNCA gene, which codes for the alp...
The authors present empirical data on therapeutic hypnosis and brief psychotherapy as a 4-Stage Creative Process of focused attention and positive expectancy in professional training workshops of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the National Institute for the Clinical Applications of Behavioral Medicine, and the Milton H. Erickson Foundat...
In a 2008 pilot study we used DNA microarrays to explore the historical ideo-plastic faculty of therapeutic hypnosis. We documented how to measure changes in activity or experience-dependent gene expression over relatively brief time periods (1 hour and 24 hours) following a single intervention of therapeutic hypnosis (about 1 hour). In the present...
This prolegomenon to the philosophy of evolution and consciousness includes the perspectives of all peoples from the mythological and ethical doctrines of ancient cultures to our modern sciences around the globe. This chapter presents a neuroscience integration of ancient perspectives and practices with modern research on facilitating the co-evolut...
1 We extend the use of DNA microarrays to explore a new psychotherapeutic therapeutic protocol, The Creative Psychosocial Genomic Healing Experience, an easy-to-learn approach to facilitating therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, rehabilitation, meditation, and pastoral counseling. This pilot study assessed the hypothesis that a top-down creatively...
We outline our expectations for a new bioinformatic and neuroscience of therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation based on the Human Genome Project. Just as The Human Genome Project identified the psychobiological foundations of modern medicine with the new technology of sequencing DNA during the past decade, we propose extending this...
We propose the formation of an International PsychoSocial and Cultural Bioinformatics Project (IPCBP) to explore the research foundations of Integrative Medical Insights (IMI) on all levels from the molecular-genomic to the psychological, cultural, social, and spiritual. Just as The Human Genome Project identified the molecular foundations of moder...
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Dear Colleagues,
The advances in the field of research on the mental health status of forced migrants has largely demonstrated a high risk for asylum seekers, refugees, and forcibly displaced people, compared to voluntary migrants, to develop psychological and psychopathological disturbances. Premigratory, migratory, and postmigratory traumatic experiences all contribute to configure a particularly complex concept of “forced migration trauma”, which, in order to be understood, requires a multidimensional approach able to take into consideration the individual, relational, cultural, and social dimensions of the forced migration experience. Additionally, a person-centered and culturally as well as gender-sensitive lens able to discriminate between the different experiences of forced migration is needed in order to shed light on the unique ways in which forced migrants can live the adversities, in the light of their ethnicity, cultural belonging, the specificities of their context of origin, journey experiences, and context of reception.
Recent evidence also demonstrated that the “forced migration trauma” involves not only the forced migrants themselves but also the wider contextual and social fields in which they are hosted, challenging, for example, the professionals’ practices of the mental health care services or making the mental health of the operators in contact with forced migrants at high risk of diseases and disturbances itself.
An increasing reflection on the complex nature of forced migration trauma and of its extensions to the social field might allow to develop and plan of more adequate clinical instruments and intervention projects capable to address the complexity of these experiences, promoting mental health and implementing of new and best practices capable to enrich the encounter with the “cultural other” and address his/her needs.
This Special Issue invites scholars to enhance the actual national and international debate on the aforementioned domains, welcoming contributions related, but not limited, to the following main thematic areas:
In-depth exploration of the forced migration experience: focus on its certain specific configurations and peculiarities within contexts;
Advances on the research field on the mental health status of asylum seekers, refugees and forcibly displaced people through culturally sensitive and/or gender-sensitive investigations;
Investigations on the mental health care practices for forced migrants put in place by services at national and international level;
Investigations on the mental health status of professionals and operators working with forced migrants;
Critical reflections on the methodological challenges of research and intervention within cross-cultural and transcultural settings.
Research papers, longitudinal studies, reviews, case reports, brief reports, conducted through qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods are welcome.
Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website.
For details: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/9V7N46OK3Z
THE PSYCHOSOCIAL AND CULTURAL GENOMICS
