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The contemporary religious landscape is characterized by a great diversity of religious expressions, including the emergence of new religious movements (NMRs). NMRs are religious groups that emerged in recent decades and that often challenge traditional religious institutions. Young people often characterized by a strong emphasis on spirituality, personal experience, and social engagement. This article, starting from the analysis of the contemporary religious context and through some key documents related to the theme of NMR, as well as, through the reflections that come from some scholars on the topic, tries to investigate the world of youth and its spiritual orientations, in particular refers to a research conducted by the GRIS of Palermo on a sample of 2503 high school students in Palermo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Il linguaggio dei giovani spesso appare oscuro e distante. Sicuramente è diverso, ma questa diversità è conseguenza della vitalità del linguaggio e della lingua stessi. Per l’adulto, questa difficoltà di approccio, di contatto, può essere convertita in occasione di reciproca conoscenza, a patto di essere in grado di incontrare i ragazzi sul loro terreno, avvicinandosi a loro. La musica può essere uno strumento utile, nel caso? La riflessione vale per gli ambiti scolastico e familiare.

The NICE guidelines (2017) for the psychological treatment of anorexia nervosa in young people recommend family-based therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy or psychodynamic therapy focused on the eating disorder, of all which externalisation is an integral technique. In contrast to this, we are challenging the premise of this method by using Sartre's phenomenological ontology that does not presuppose the separation of the person from the illness, which is the basic premise of the externalisation. We present the key-concepts of Sartre as described in 'Being and Nothingness'. We describe the ontological categories of the in itself and for itself, and their development into human reality in the form of facticity and transcendence. In addition, we explore the concept of the look, the psychic body and the notion of objectification through three clinical cases. We conclude by reflecting on the value of Sartre's existential ontology to the promotion of the importance of collaboration in co-constructing treatment with patients and their families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Due to the lockdown many young people have been “forced” to family circumstances characterized by dysfunctional relational modalities. These domestic conditions of extreme proximity have, at times, significantly affected the psychological health of children and adolescents, especially in those contexts where mobility limitations and space restrictions have become forebearers of aggression and violence. Although perfectly aware that such a high-impact event is not entirely comprehensible by observing it “in media res”, an attempt has been made to analyse to what extent the pandemic is to be held as the sole responsible for the discomfort and/or dysfunctional behavior of young people. In the present article, from a methodological point of view, the focus was put on sources and data referring to the Italian context, with a look at authoritative foreign sources.

The focus of this article is the gender-based violence compared to how it is realized, represented and experienced by the new generations from adolescence. At the beginning of the article, to confirm the urgency of the topic, will be indicated data that starting from a European framework specify how more and more young women are subjected to violence, which in many cases is attributable to the online dimension. After that, will be indicated the most interesting reflections emerged in this regard and that propose the urgency of new reading keys to read and to understand how the violence is practice among the young people, strengthening a dimension of conflict and opposition that inexorably invades the relational and emotional-affective sphere. This more descriptive part will also be supported by the presentation of national and local data, using the Regional Observatory and the statistics of Anti Violence Center operating in the territories. Specific measures should be reinforced in order to intercept requests for help and information from young people. In this sense, an example, is an action-research project entitled “Genere-azione: Ciack si gira contro la violenza. Dal dialogo a fare prevenzione”, which has produced, among other actions, an awareness-raising campaign designed by young people for young people. Violence should no longer be regarded as a natural way of expressing one’s feelings. Among the means of combating violence against women, one of the most effective of these is the education one, and it is no coincidence that in the Istanbul Convention, prevention is the first measure to be taken to promote change in behaviour leading to violence against women.

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This article reports the results of a language laboratory held in a high school class in Pozzuoli (Naples). The aim was to find out to what extent a Neapolitan text of the seventeenth century – the short story 'La gatta Cenerentola', from Lo cunto de li cunti by Giovan Battista Basile – could be understood by a group of students who perceive themselves as Neapolitan speakers, and to assess which words were best known and which less. The students were asked to classify the vocabulary in the novella according to categories based on use and knowledge. It emerged that most of the lexemes were known to the sample, although it was not always easy to establish what meaning was attributed to the words that have undergone a semantic shift through time. Articles and pronouns were the most recognised elements. Finally, some comments are made on names and verbs, due to their greater polymorphy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Il problema del disagio giovanile e delle conseguenze connesse, in particolare in riferimento ai comportamenti estremisti, violenti e di radicalizzazione (Unesco, 2019) appare negli ultimi anni un’emergenza sia a livello nazionale che internazionale. L’adolescenza rappresenta di per sé una fase particolarmente critica e difficile della vita dove la ricerca del senso di apparenza si fa sempre più forte. L’intento principale di questo paper è quello di evidenziare le potenzialità insite in approcci formativi artistici che vedano il coinvolgimento dei giovani attraverso varie forme di attività per creare senso di appartenenza e coesione sociale. Questo concetto è stato alla base delle varie campagne realizzate nel Progetto europeo CommUnity1 di cui il Dipartimento FORLILPSI dell’Università di Firenze è stato partner. In particolare, il contributo vuole essere un’occasione di riflessione per la ricerca pedagogica su un’attività di cineforum realizzata in alcune scuole secondarie toscane e presso la stessa Università.

Nell’Eneide, Virgilio inventa il personaggio del puer che, volendo combattere come un guerriero (iuuenis) e mostrarsi un degno eroe (uir), finisce per essere abbattuto da un maior hostis. L’articolo presenta un’analisi comparativa di queste figure e riflette sulle possibili ragioni che hanno portato Virgilio a insistere così tanto su di loro.

Over the past years, increasing number of scholars has been addressing questions of religious polarization in Europe and the US. The findings show that religious polarization tends to be more present in countries with Catholic majority and in more secularised countries. The present study considers trends of structural and ideological dimensions of religious polarization among young people in Slovenia. In terms of methodology, it is based on secondary analysis of data from national youth surveys Youth 2000, Youth 2010 and Youth 2020. On this basis, longitudinal analyses of three indicators of religiosity and five indicators of general values and attitudes was conducted. The results point to a substantial increase in ideological dimension of religious polarisation over the period between 2000 and 2020. This trend was accompanied also by a marked structural polarization in the period between 2010 and 2020. This structural polarization is a direct consequence of a strong increase in shares of very religious youth, both in terms of attendance at religious rituals and in terms of the self-reported importance of God in person's everyday life, which happened simultaneously with the more general trend of secularization. The study also found, somewhat surprisingly, that the differences between the religious and the nonreligious youth in ascribing value to family life had been decreasing over the observed period. This leads to the conclusion that the value of family life has been growing increasingly more independent from religiosity over the first two decades of the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dall’EXPO 2015 alla pandemia da COVID-19, Milano ha vissuto un periodo di forte attrattività urbana e competitività sul piano nazionale e internazionale. Le numerose opportunità generate da un mercato del lavoro dinamico e dalla ricca offerta formativa universitaria hanno contribuito ad attrarre in città una quota sempre più consistente di giovani, molti dei quali però faticano ad accedere al mercato immobiliare della città poiché i canoni degli affitti sono molto elevati e mancano politiche abitative pubbliche adeguate a sostenere la domanda. Il contributo indaga le dinamiche di inserimento abitativo dei giovani arrivati a Milano per inseguire opportunità di lavoro o studio. Attraverso l’analisi di 44 interviste semi-strutturate a giovani studenti e lavoratori fra i 20 e 35 anni, l’articolo discute luci e ombre dell’attrattività urbana. Se da un lato la città esercita un forte richiamo sui giovani, dall’altro risulta poco inclusiva per coloro che dispongono di basso capitale economico. In tale contesto, promuovere politiche abitative inclusive per le giovani generazioni costituisce una condizione necessaria per garantire uguaglianza di opportunità e mobilità sociale.

This paper collects the speeches made at the traditional event of the «Thursday after Ash Wednesday», to which the academic community invites the presbyters and deacons of the Region, in order to prepare the Easter proclamation together. In the 2021 edition, the event took inspiration from a statement contained in the Christus vivit: «Once the Church […] listens carefully to the young, this empathy enriches her, for it allows young people to make their own contribution to the community, helping it to appreciate new sensitivities and to consider new questions» (n. 65). Young people were, therefore, attentively listened: which aspects of the Paschal Mistery of Christ are significant for them in their lives? What does the Church have to take into account, in the eyes of the young, in order to pass on the faith in the Risen Crucified Christ to their peers? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The growth of global migration flows does not only reshape territories towards superdiversity and transnationalism (Crul et al 2012) ; it also influences peopleʼs everyday life in an educational way (Tramma 2015). The merging of different cultural systems, together with the multiplication of opportunities for women and the increasing insecurity of the life course, challenges the traditional dichotomies – native/foreigner, man/woman, adulthood/youth – and requires from everyone the capability of building a self-made biography (Beck 1998) in a system of multiple belongings. The biographies of young women with a migrant background seem to be an important object of attention: these stories are an example of the intersectionality of gender-based, generational and intercultural dynamics. Furthermore, these youngsters are involved in a permanent renegotiation of meanings and in the daily crossing of real and symbolic borders: they grew up juggling different cultural expectation and racialized gender norms (Pyke, Johson 2003). The domain of educational sciences is challenged by this population: because the girls need to develop some specific skills – of syntheses, creativity and negotiation – in order to actively participate within their social context; and because institutions providing formal education, such as schools and social care services, need to re-discuss their traditional models and praxis, in order to recognise and promote the value of these mixed biographies.

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The concept of democracy is clearly undergoing a transformation from a static to a dynamic definition, one that is adapted to the social metamorphosis we are experiencing. Political participation is not what it once was, but the problem is not young people because by now it seems to be a widespread phenomenon. The era of ideologies is over, and we are no longer fighting for ideals, almost to the point that no one fights for anything anymore. The result is a fictitious, unreal participation through new means such as social networks, for example. A more directive and deliberative democracy is required. We must decisively aim towards citizenship education that is truly effective, because minds that can think will lead to thought-out decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In these times the process of formation must take on several questions regarding the social and political context: What are the reforms to carry out? Are we witnessing the end of the constitutional pact based on the person-society-State trilogy? What new geopolitical structure is emerging? For the Church one of the tasks of formation is to construct an alternative to consumerism and to promote a new model of integral human development. History teaches us the conditions for regenerating political formation: the testimony of those who teach, a new national unity accord, the political class recovering its skills, the construction of a European identity, and - for the Church - places in which to nurture politics with spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When families are in conflict, high levels of emotional activity such as anger, fear, loss and grief in the adults involved can affect children and young people in the family, particularly as a result of conscious and unconscious adult emotional pressure and manipulation. An aspect of this is when one parent uses their power over a child to excommunicate the other parent. This is sometimes called parental alienation. This terminology arises from the work of Richard Gardner, who developed the notion of Parental Alienation Syndrome. What lies behind the label parental alienation, the journey and implications of that phenomenon are explored. A consideration of the limitations of the UK court system reveals the lonely predicament of the child. This paper considers how psychotherapists may help young people to make sense of their experience of being caught up in destructive family narratives by claiming their own understanding and narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Differentiation of Self and the Forgivingness have the ability to facilitate the regulation of emotions on an individual and relational level. Although the two constructs are both known, a few empirical studies have been realized to know their relationship. The aim of the present study is to confirm how much the two constructs have a protective role as regards to problem behaviors, adding hypothesis that the Differentiation of Self has a bigger influence on internalizing problems, associated to anxiety and emotions as fear and sadness, while the Forgivingness influences more externalizing problems, associated with excitement and emotions as anger. Hypothesis testing has been realized through correlation analysis, mediation models and hierarchical regression. The findings of the research have confirmed that both constructs are able to modulate uneasy emotional states, but with different features, the Differentiation of Self especially for internalizing problems and the Forgivingness for externalizing problems. This is an useful finding both in a psychoeducational perspective and in a clinical one. The study ends with a proposal for a therapeutic family reconciliation intervention in which the victim develops the forgiveness of others and the offender the acceptance of the forgiveness received and self-forgiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article, starting from the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Christus vivit, offers some perspectives of engagement for the renewal of the youth ministry and vocation, also in light of the experience of Catholic Action: growing in personal and community discernment, building paths to encourage the protagonism of young people, renewing pastoral care in a missionary and popular sense, enhancing people's desire for social and political commitment. Listening to young people helps the Church to rethink itself and to bet on this continuous renewal, thus getting free from useless anachronisms. Finally, the positive relationship between young people and adults, which characterizes the life of Catholic Action, is an indispensable perspective for a fruitful ecclesial life and a real social reconstruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intergenerational dimension is a possible key to reading Christus vivit. Pope Francis' eyes show the right perspective with which to look at the juvenile world, capable of attitudes of willingness and holiness. Today it is difficult to define the periods of adolescence, youth, and adulthood; but the adult cannot separate themselves from their role, that they should develop first of all through example. To speak of youth means, furthermore, facing questions and reflections both bioethical and biopolitical. Today the virus of self-sufficiency threatens humanity and distances it from the discovery of its own origin, working to find oneself in God. The Synod an ecclesiological aspect, because dialogue also develops in the Church, where the identities and personalities of young people develop, in a manner of adequate communication to the times and that can be summarized in a single world: listening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Youth is a great gift, a grace, a fortune. Pope Francis used these words in his apostolic exhortation Christus vivit. The Pope speaks directly to the heart of each single young person in the world. The article makes clear how the Church should set up its relationship with today's youth, but also how the educational processes must take into account the rapid changes of the modern society. The author pays attention to the world of the young, to the right questions the ecclesial and pastoral paths should raise, without forgetting the educational dimension and its emergency. The theological foundation is still the icon of the Trinitarian Agape-God, who founds the identity and the mission of the Church in its being charity, unmissable principle of any educational relationship and communion. The horizon of every educational process is to accompany and awake faith in the young, inside communities capable of building authentic relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The presents essay the point of view of a young man who works in the financial sector. He, through a critical sense and a prospective planning on the future, considers the connections between young people, money, education, highlighting the added values of family, social and professional relationships; the solid and specialized training and the urgency of their promotion, by subjects and institutions; of culture and its singular economic value, of the possibilities of new alternatives to mark a turning point in the direction of integral development in the specific field of the use of money. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rich italian historiography related to the most dramatic feature of the seventies – the black and red terrorisms – risks identifiying this decade only as 'the night of the Republic'. In the same period, on the other hand, another Italy elevated and nourished its democratic conscience, active political participation and civic awereness and achieved significant individual as well collective rights and freedoms. Its protagonists came from the same younger generation of those who lost themselves in ideological extremism, destroying own lives and that of others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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