Interview

How does a bicycle work? A new instrument to assess mechanical reasoning in school aged children

This study demonstrated that a brief interview can reveal the mechanical reasoning that could not be assessed via the Bicycle Drawing Test. This study, conducted on 190 children (6 to 11 years old), shows that mechanical reasoning improves with age. It shows correlations with spatial reasoning and motor control, and with visual reasoning

DSM-5 personality domains as correlates of non-suicidal self-injury severity in an Italian sample of adolescent inpatients with self-destructive behaviour

To evaluate the associations between DSM-5 alternative model of personality disorder dysfunctional personality domains and the clinician's ratings of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) severity, a sample of consecutively admitted Italian adolescent inpatients (N = 100) were administered the Italian translations of the DSM-5 Clinician Rating Scale-NSSI (CRS-NSSI), the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5), the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders, Version 2.0 (SCID-II) and the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI).

Diagnosis of alcohol use disorder from a psychological point of view

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is one of the most common psychiatric disease in the general population, characterized by having a pattern of excessive drinking despite the negative effects of alcohol on the individual's work, medical, legal, educational, and/or social life. Currently, the bio-psycho-social model describes properly AUD as a multidimensional phenomenon including biological, psychological, and socio-cultural variables affecting the nature, maintenance, and expression of the disorder.

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