| Revista INFAD 2012 |
ISSN EDICIÓN EN PAPEL: 0214-9877 |
| Nº1, Vol. 4, pp. 345-354 | doi: en trámite |
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Help! I need somebody! Multidisciplinary support forworkers in the economic crisis.
Alessandro De Carlo / Paula Benevene / Irma Seminara / Marco Nicolussi. pp. 345-354
Abstract
The current economic crisis is causing difficulties to a vast amount of workers in different fields, and many of them now find themselves in need of help. The question is how to effectively support them, especially considering the wide range of conditions, problems, diseases, and fears that they experience in relation to the contingent economic situation. In this perspective, one critical success factor can be identified in the multidisciplinary natureof the intervention. In fact the help cannot be just psychological: there is also the need of legal, economic, social and medical support. The psy-chologist, in this perspective, has a pivotal role: not only the one of giving psychological aid, but also the one of coordinating the other professionals in order to produce an integrated service that is acceptable, understandable and useful for the workers seeking support. This paper examines the experience of the multidisciplinary help center created in the area of Padova, Italy, for the assistance to workers experiencing difficulties related to the crisis. This center was established in 2010 after a series of suicides that could be related to work, and contributed to help more than 150 workers. Its methodologies, procedures and results are examined and discussed.
Keywords:Crisis, organizational psychology, psychologist, multidisciplinary intervention, sup-port, suicide, precariousness, uncertainty, organizational well-being
