Consultazione breve autoriferita e «area di pre-breakdown» in adolescenza

The As analyze the psychopathological problems of adolescents who autonomously turn to a public consultative service. They individualize a diagnostic category which they define as pre-breakdown area, indicative of the existence os cracks rather than fractures in the psychic organization in subject who are able to ask, autonomously, psychological help. Within these categories certain subgroups are individualized with different characteristics and various levels of risk. The As formulate hypotheses on the type of therapeutic intervention the public service can offer to adolescents