Stefano Tonchi

Maria Luisa Frisa

Mario Lupano

This book presents a psychotherapy intervention model called Multimodal Integrative Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (MICST). It is grounded in information processing and cognitive stimulation techniques and operates out of a positive psychology framework. This model, designed for group work with clients with schizophrenia, can be easily tailored to working with clients in individual therapy sessions. The three core MICST group activities include: 1) body movement-mindfulness-relaxation (BMR); 2) cognitive stimulation using group discussions; and 3) cognitive stimulation using paper-pencil cognitive exercises and self-reflection exercises. A chapter is devoted to each of these core areas with actual case vignettes to illustrate ways that these activities can be implemented in clinical practice. Homework recommendations are included at the end of each chapter, devoted to a core MICST group activity and providing suggestions on ways to practice various skills and exercises in between group sessions. Also provided are several handouts and worksheets which can be used with clients.

Total Living

Alessandra Vaccari

The first visual history of Italian fashion and modernism covering the years of Fascism, this book is an innovative tool, which clarifies fashion's active role in shaping modern aesthetics, as well as its ambivalent status, between the spreading of international culture and the visions dictated by the Fascist regime. The outcome of extensive research, this volume explores and - for the first time - compares a wide variety of Italian sources, such as womens' glossies, fashion, film and gossip magazines; photo archives, exhibition and commercial catalogues; books and magazines on tailoring and dressmaking, design and architecture; corporate and government journals. All materials are organised in a tight sequence of images and texts, charting rhythms, rituals and lifestyles of the typical "modern" Italian day through four basic concepts: Measurements, Model, Brand and Parade.

Mario Lupano

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