The specialist training of emergency psychologists. Contributions from the XIII Field Camp of Psychologists for the Peoples - Federation (OdV)

ABSTRACT

This narrative-report presents the activities of the 13th Field Camp of Italian Emergency Psychologists which, due to the restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, was held remotely one year after the planned date, on 9 and 17 April 2021. The voluntary organisation Psicologi per i Popoli - Federazione (OdV), on the strength of the training experience of the Field Camps that since 2006 it has been planning and - together with the association Psicologi per i Popoli - Trentino (ODV) - it has been managing at the Centro di Addestramento della Protezione Civile in Marco di Rovereto, puts at the centre of this online event the theme of the training of emergency-urgency psychologists. This training should be accredited by means of a postgraduate specialisation that also legitimises access to the emergency and urgency services of the National Health Service through competitive exams. The article also presents the results of the groups' work in proposing guidelines for the definition of "operational models" for emergency intervention.