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The migrant and refugee population present a high risk of developing mental disorders due to the difficulties associated with abandoning their own nation and culture and following often very dramatic migratory journeys. The experience of migration can be complex and stressful, linked to events before departure, during the journey and transit and after arrival. We present the case of the application of a cognitive behavioral approach to a young migrant from Cameroon, with strong symptoms of discomfort and serious difficulties in entering the Extraordinary Reception Center (CAS). The approach to the treatment involved the use of Protect, Beck Depression Inventory and List of Migration Experiences (LiMes). These tests are associated with clinical interviews where the presence of a post-traumatic stress disorder in comorbidity with a depressive syndrome emerged. The intervention was developed in different phases: psychoeducation, relaxation, cognitive restructuring, and narrative exposition technique. At the end of therapy, the interviews and the re-administered tests showed a clear general improvement in the migrant's state of health. There were no flashbacks, their ability to concentrate increased, their sleep was regularised and social relationships resumed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The digitization project Giving a new voice to sources. Communicate humanistic research for all aims to make available to the scientific community the audio archive of the Bruno Kessler Foundation's Library, which preserves the recordings of the conference activities of the two humanistic research centers of the Foundation. The project represents, at least in Italy, one of the first attempts to realize a virtual space devoted to audio archival sources researchable freely online to avoid the deterioration of a cultural heritage of extremely scientific relevance, leading to its conservation and availability. The deterioration of the analogue media of the archival collection makes the digitization a matter of survival which allows a diffusion otherwise unthinkable. The accessibility to the audio archival sources allows for enlarging the number of scholars and students that can benefit from the collection for the research. It also allows general users to approach the cultural contents of the humanities. The paper aims to describe the goals, the phases of realization of the project, the methodological problems due to the critical issues of the material supports, the descriptive analysis of the contents, and the opening of the database. The first part of the essay describes the history of the audio archive of the library. This archive covers an extensive period from 1974 to the new Millennium and is composed of the reels and compact audio cassette. The second part analyses the phases of work of the project, from the preliminary analysis of the support to the conversion and the digital reworking. The last part is dedicated to the method adopted in the compilation of metadata of the files and to the description of the structure of the database, as well as his research functions and the descriptive scheme of each audio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]