The Resilience-Oriented Therapeutic Model: A Preliminary Study On Its Effectiveness In Italian Polyabusers

摘要

The present article was intended to outline the guidelines of a new resilience-oriented therapeutic model of intervention and to present preliminary data about its effectiveness on a sample of polyabusers undergoing residential treatment.Resilience being a multidimensional process not easy to measure, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of our model we considered as indicators of resilience some of its outcomes that extant literature has described; in particular, we assessed, pre- and post-intervention, coping styles and perceived stress and psychological well-being, together with levels of anxiety and depression.Student's t-test showed significant differences in all the scales, with the exceptions of the "humour" coping strategy and anxiety. The preliminary findings suggests that a targeted intervention shaped within the framework of a resilience-oriented model can facilitate the raising of resources that are useful to activate a resilient process.