Elena Faccio
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 631226 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elena Faccio |
| NOMBRES | Elena |
| APELLIDO | Faccio |
| FIRMA | FACCIO E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1204-4866 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Shaping Professional Role in Peer Support
Peer Support Workers in Mental Health Care
INTRODUCTION: The role of the Peer Support Worker (PSW) has gained increasing prominence in mental health services, yet its institutionalisation raises questions about balancing autonomy and assimilation into service logics. This study examines the narrative positionings of three PSWs, focusing on how they construct professional identity in relation to mandate, collaboration with practitioners, and service organisation. METHODS: A qualitative des…
How Do Collaborative Approaches Shape Power Dynamics in Therapeutic Relationships? Evidence From Recovery‐Oriented Mental Health Services
INTRODUCTION: Recovery-oriented mental health services emphasise collaboration, empowerment and service-user involvement. However, less is known about how power is enacted within relationships described as collaborative. This study explores how power dynamics are interactionally produced, negotiated and made visible within recovery-oriented therapeutic relationships. METHODS: The study involved 15 service users from an Italian recovery-oriented m…
How to Tell a Recovery Story ‘Professionally’? Issues Related to the Transformation of Personal Stories During a Training for Becoming a Peer Support Worker
INTRODUCTION: Sharing narratives about recovery is a central activity in peer support work. Researchers have so far investigated many issues related to recovery narratives, but have paid no attention to how the building and sharing of one's story are modified during training courses. This study examines the beliefs of participants in the first national training to become Peer Support Worker (PSW), funded by the Italian Ministry of Health in 2022-…
One or Many Recoveries? Recoveries in the Plural for a Better Understanding of One's Healing Journey
The staged addiction
Background: This study is situated within the growing emphasis on user participation in healthcare services, including those for individuals living with substance use disorders, where power dynamics and mutual distrust between users and professionals can hinder dialogue and collaboration. Using Goffman’s dramaturgical theory, this research explores how young adults manage their identity and self-presentation in relation to the context when access…
Desiring to be a non-birth mother. Lesbian women narrating non bio-normative maternal identity in Italy
Over the past three decades, Western societies have witnessed transformations in lesbian motherhood. This study examines the emergence of de novo lesbian families in Italy, focusing on nonbirth lesbian mothers (NBLMs). It addresses a gap in existing literature by exploring how NBLMs construct their sense of self as mothers, moving beyond the focus on decision-making processes within lesbian couples planning parenthood. The research is situated wi…
Body-Related Existential Dilemmas During Gender Transition
The scientific literature shows that gender transition is effective in improving the general well-being of transgender people. However, so far, little attention has been paid to the actual role of the body concerning the existential dilemma that holds the person hostage during transition. This study investigates the relationship between the body-here considered in its concrete, experienced, imagined, and intersubjective dimensions-and gender iden…
‘Doctor, I’m not here to quit drugs!’ Hidden goals that undermine shared decision-making during access to services by young people who use substances
Young people who use substances rarely access addiction services. When access does occur, the relationship between professionals and users is often described as difficult because of mutual distrust. This results in low motivation for treatment and limited involvement in decision-making. This study aims to investigate the perspectives of young who used substances to understand their motivations for access, both stated and unexpressed. Four focus g…
(Re)constructing identity following acquired brain injury
INTRODUCTION: People with poststroke acquired brain injury (ABI) face a complex and often troubled identity reconstruction journey. The literature is rich with studies related to the psychological and neuropsychological components involved in rehabilitation, but it is lacking with respect to the investigation of the existential dimensions and the challenges associated with finding new senses and meanings for one's identity and future perspectives…
‘All About My Ideal Mental Health Service’
INTRODUCTION: Many studies have investigated patients' understandings of how to optimise mental health services. However, only a few studies in the Italian context have involved experts by experience (EbEs), who can be ex-users, family members of ex-users or current service collaborators. Their role is crucial in implementing collaborative service quality assessment projects. METHOD: The study investigated the experience of 35 EbEs, users, and fa…
‘But … Would I Be Able to Toast With Friends?’ When Service Users Ask for New Care Pathways
INTRODUCTION: The WHO European Mental Health Action Plan (2013-2030) emphasises the need to generate services that are more inclusive and attentive to the co-construction of care practices. This exploratory research investigates the needs of young substance abusers shown during their stay in residential communities; in particular, it explores the idea that treatment may include a new phase focused on how to manage moderate or controlled alcohol i…
What to Say and What to Omit? Strategies and Self-Narratives for Obtaining a Diagnosis in Gender Transition
Management of the Disease of primary Immunodeficiencies
Mental health practitioners’ narratives about gender transition and the role of diagnosis
In many European Countries, a diagnosis is needed to access the gender transition process, which has sparked debate about whether gender variance should be equated with a psychodiagnosis. This study explores mental health practitioners' perspectives about the implications of using the diagnosis for gatekeeping purposes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 Italian mental health specialists. The personal positions and interpretative r…
The Impact of Relational and Organizational–Environmental Aspects in Hospital Blood Collection
This study deals with people who underwent a blood test and consequently suffered a fainting episode in the past. This phenomenon affects many people and if not adequately dealt with, it can lead to a perception of the blood test as a serious and traumatic event, which could limit its use as a preventive diagnostic tool. These experiences have been explored by research mainly on the basis of the physiological mechanisms involved in fainting, with…
Working with gender in psychotherapy
Sociocultural factors are recognized as among the causes of eating disorders (EDs) in general and bulimia in particular. The social constructions of gender constitute a key factor among these causes and bulimia can then be construed as a response to a failure to meet the social (dominant and normative) expectations of what it means to be a woman, as females remain the majority of people suffering from EDs. This article – informed by a critical fe…
Illness Experiences and Attitudes towards Medication in Online Communities for People with Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a chronic disabling syndrome, and the legitimacy of its diagnosis is still debated. Internet and online communities may become a relevant resource for affected people. This present study aims to understand the role of online communities relating to fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients' illness experiences and their attitudes towards medication. A qualitative content analysis based on the grounded theory approach was conducted on 1…
Trans people’s attitudes and beliefs regarding the diagnosis of “gender dysphoria”
In many countries, the psychological pathway is an important practice in gender transition, especially where a diagnosis is needed in order to access medical treatments and legal recognition. This filter function is a source of debate for both professionals and trans people, particularly because of its potential for equating gender variances with mental illness. Despite recent changes in health communities' attitudes toward diagnosis for gender t…
Tackling Prejudice and Discrimination Towards Families with Same-Sex Parents
What is it Like to Be a BDSM Player? The Role of Sexuality and Erotization of Power in the BDSM Experience
To Tell or not to Tell? Parents’ Reluctance to Talking About Conceiving Their Children Using Medically Assisted Reproduction
What it is like to be “ex”? Psycho-discursive analysis of a dangling identity
The goal of this article is to observe how communicative processes intervene in constructing and maintaining given self-narratives. Proceeding from the idea that the Self is, first of all, narration, we shall scrutinise the topic of identity permanence and change in our linguistic system by exploring the configurations of reality produced by the use of a specific morpheme: the “ ex”. After considering some differences about the intricate relation…
The ‘invisible’ needs of women with disabilities in transportation systems
Normalisation Versus Medicalisation of Sexual Disturbances During Menopause
Online support for transgender people
Transgender people face a range of personal and social conflicts that strongly influence their well-being. In many cases, the Internet can become the main resource in terms of finding support. The aim of this study was to understand how transgender people give and receive help online. Between 2013 and 2015, 122 online community conversations were collected on Italian forums and Facebook groups involving transgender people, and online interviews w…
What is it Like to Be a BDSM Player? The Role of Sexuality and Erotization of Power in the BDSM Experience
On Acting Against One's Best Judgement
Akrasia is a philosophical concept meaning the possibility to perform actions against one's best judgement. This contribution aims to clarify this phenomenon in terms of a social construction, stating it as a narrative configuration generated by an observer. The latter finds himself engaged in justifying a “problematic” line of action with regard to specific cultural beliefs referring to the self, the others and the behaviour. This paper intends …
Measuring up to Measure” Dysmorphophobia as a Language Game
Mental health practitioners’ narratives about gender transition and the role of diagnosis
In many European Countries, a diagnosis is needed to access the gender transition process, which has sparked debate about whether gender variance should be equated with a psychodiagnosis. This study explores mental health practitioners' perspectives about the implications of using the diagnosis for gatekeeping purposes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 Italian mental health specialists. The personal positions and interpretative r…
The ‘invisible’ needs of women with disabilities in transportation systems
Trans people’s attitudes and beliefs regarding the diagnosis of “gender dysphoria”
In many countries, the psychological pathway is an important practice in gender transition, especially where a diagnosis is needed in order to access medical treatments and legal recognition. This filter function is a source of debate for both professionals and trans people, particularly because of its potential for equating gender variances with mental illness. Despite recent changes in health communities' attitudes toward diagnosis for gender t…
Tackling Prejudice and Discrimination Towards Families with Same-Sex Parents
To Tell or not to Tell? Parents’ Reluctance to Talking About Conceiving Their Children Using Medically Assisted Reproduction
The power of weight and the weight of power in adolescence
Obesity is an important emerging problem in adolescence because it causes psychological distress and social prejudice. Using Ugazio’s theory, this study aims to test if the construct ‘winner/loser’ and its associated meanings are used and considered important among obese adolescents. The personal constructs of 68 participants (young and adult; obese and normal weight) were elicited through the repertory grid test and analysed using the log-linear…
The presentation of self in everyday prison life
Today, Italian prisons are reporting the highest level of overcrowding ever recorded. In reference to this situation, this article proposes an ethnographic study carried out inside the prison of Padua as a voluntary 2 years’ experience. It documents the values and conventions that convicts share in prison and details the ways in which prisoners constantly construct and adapt to an informal conduct’s rule system, the inmate code. It also illustrat…
What to Say and What to Omit? Strategies and Self-Narratives for Obtaining a Diagnosis in Gender Transition
On Acting Against One's Best Judgement
Akrasia is a philosophical concept meaning the possibility to perform actions against one's best judgement. This contribution aims to clarify this phenomenon in terms of a social construction, stating it as a narrative configuration generated by an observer. The latter finds himself engaged in justifying a “problematic” line of action with regard to specific cultural beliefs referring to the self, the others and the behaviour. This paper intends …
Measuring up to Measure” Dysmorphophobia as a Language Game
Transsexual parenthood and new role assumptions
This study explores the parental role of transsexuals and compares this to common assumptions about transsexuality and parentage. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 male-to-female transsexuals and 14 men, half parents and half non-parents, in order to explore four thematic areas: self-representation of the parental role, the description of the transsexual as a parent, the common representations of transsexuals as a parent, and male a…
The presentation of self in everyday prison life
Today, Italian prisons are reporting the highest level of overcrowding ever recorded. In reference to this situation, this article proposes an ethnographic study carried out inside the prison of Padua as a voluntary 2 years’ experience. It documents the values and conventions that convicts share in prison and details the ways in which prisoners constantly construct and adapt to an informal conduct’s rule system, the inmate code. It also illustrat…
Forbidden games
This study aims to explore personal meanings related to the constructs 'sexuality' and 'sexual pleasure' in people who choose to write in forums and blogs about their own experience with Bondage and Discipline, dominance and submission, and Sadism and Masochism (BDSM). We carried out semi-structured online interviews with 343 people, of whom 50 (24 women and 26 men) claimed to practise or to have practised BDSM, in order to investigate participan…
The power of weight and the weight of power in adolescence
Obesity is an important emerging problem in adolescence because it causes psychological distress and social prejudice. Using Ugazio’s theory, this study aims to test if the construct ‘winner/loser’ and its associated meanings are used and considered important among obese adolescents. The personal constructs of 68 participants (young and adult; obese and normal weight) were elicited through the repertory grid test and analysed using the log-linear…
The ‘invisible’ needs of women with disabilities in transportation systems
Normalisation Versus Medicalisation of Sexual Disturbances During Menopause
Online support for transgender people
Transgender people face a range of personal and social conflicts that strongly influence their well-being. In many cases, the Internet can become the main resource in terms of finding support. The aim of this study was to understand how transgender people give and receive help online. Between 2013 and 2015, 122 online community conversations were collected on Italian forums and Facebook groups involving transgender people, and online interviews w…
What it is like to be “ex”? Psycho-discursive analysis of a dangling identity
The goal of this article is to observe how communicative processes intervene in constructing and maintaining given self-narratives. Proceeding from the idea that the Self is, first of all, narration, we shall scrutinise the topic of identity permanence and change in our linguistic system by exploring the configurations of reality produced by the use of a specific morpheme: the “ ex”. After considering some differences about the intricate relation…
To Tell or not to Tell? Parents’ Reluctance to Talking About Conceiving Their Children Using Medically Assisted Reproduction
Working with gender in psychotherapy
Sociocultural factors are recognized as among the causes of eating disorders (EDs) in general and bulimia in particular. The social constructions of gender constitute a key factor among these causes and bulimia can then be construed as a response to a failure to meet the social (dominant and normative) expectations of what it means to be a woman, as females remain the majority of people suffering from EDs. This article – informed by a critical fe…
Illness Experiences and Attitudes towards Medication in Online Communities for People with Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a chronic disabling syndrome, and the legitimacy of its diagnosis is still debated. Internet and online communities may become a relevant resource for affected people. This present study aims to understand the role of online communities relating to fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients' illness experiences and their attitudes towards medication. A qualitative content analysis based on the grounded theory approach was conducted on 1…
Trans people’s attitudes and beliefs regarding the diagnosis of “gender dysphoria”
In many countries, the psychological pathway is an important practice in gender transition, especially where a diagnosis is needed in order to access medical treatments and legal recognition. This filter function is a source of debate for both professionals and trans people, particularly because of its potential for equating gender variances with mental illness. Despite recent changes in health communities' attitudes toward diagnosis for gender t…
Tackling Prejudice and Discrimination Towards Families with Same-Sex Parents
What is it Like to Be a BDSM Player? The Role of Sexuality and Erotization of Power in the BDSM Experience
The Impact of Relational and Organizational–Environmental Aspects in Hospital Blood Collection
This study deals with people who underwent a blood test and consequently suffered a fainting episode in the past. This phenomenon affects many people and if not adequately dealt with, it can lead to a perception of the blood test as a serious and traumatic event, which could limit its use as a preventive diagnostic tool. These experiences have been explored by research mainly on the basis of the physiological mechanisms involved in fainting, with…
Management of the Disease of primary Immunodeficiencies
Mental health practitioners’ narratives about gender transition and the role of diagnosis
In many European Countries, a diagnosis is needed to access the gender transition process, which has sparked debate about whether gender variance should be equated with a psychodiagnosis. This study explores mental health practitioners' perspectives about the implications of using the diagnosis for gatekeeping purposes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 Italian mental health specialists. The personal positions and interpretative r…
What to Say and What to Omit? Strategies and Self-Narratives for Obtaining a Diagnosis in Gender Transition
‘Doctor, I’m not here to quit drugs!’ Hidden goals that undermine shared decision-making during access to services by young people who use substances
Young people who use substances rarely access addiction services. When access does occur, the relationship between professionals and users is often described as difficult because of mutual distrust. This results in low motivation for treatment and limited involvement in decision-making. This study aims to investigate the perspectives of young who used substances to understand their motivations for access, both stated and unexpressed. Four focus g…
(Re)constructing identity following acquired brain injury
INTRODUCTION: People with poststroke acquired brain injury (ABI) face a complex and often troubled identity reconstruction journey. The literature is rich with studies related to the psychological and neuropsychological components involved in rehabilitation, but it is lacking with respect to the investigation of the existential dimensions and the challenges associated with finding new senses and meanings for one's identity and future perspectives…
‘All About My Ideal Mental Health Service’
INTRODUCTION: Many studies have investigated patients' understandings of how to optimise mental health services. However, only a few studies in the Italian context have involved experts by experience (EbEs), who can be ex-users, family members of ex-users or current service collaborators. Their role is crucial in implementing collaborative service quality assessment projects. METHOD: The study investigated the experience of 35 EbEs, users, and fa…
‘But … Would I Be Able to Toast With Friends?’ When Service Users Ask for New Care Pathways
INTRODUCTION: The WHO European Mental Health Action Plan (2013-2030) emphasises the need to generate services that are more inclusive and attentive to the co-construction of care practices. This exploratory research investigates the needs of young substance abusers shown during their stay in residential communities; in particular, it explores the idea that treatment may include a new phase focused on how to manage moderate or controlled alcohol i…
One or Many Recoveries? Recoveries in the Plural for a Better Understanding of One's Healing Journey
Psychology (26 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Social Psychology (17 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Psychiatry (12 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Qualitative research (9 obras)