Charlie Azzopardi

Systemic Family Therapist, Malta

 

More information will be announced soon. 

Luigi Baldascini

Director, Isrtituto di Psicoterapia Relazionale Napoli IPR, Italy

 

More information will be announced soon. 

Pietro Barbetta

Director of the Centro Milanese di Terapia Familiare, Italy

 

Professor of Psychodynamic Theories, University of Bergamo. Therapist at the l'equipe Etnoclinica Forme Ruah and at the Centro di Terapia della Famiglia di Bergamo. 

Paolo Bertrando

Director of the Systemic-Dialogical School of Psychotherapy, Bergamo, Italy

 

Paolo Bertrando MD, PhD, psychiatrist and systemic-dialogical therapist, was trained by Luigi Boscolo and
Gianfranco Cecchin in the 1980s. He has travelled widely holding courses and workshops about systemic
therapy, in Italy, Europe, Latin America, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia. His latest book published in 2014 is Emotions and theTherapist (Karnac Books). He is currently the director of the Systemic-Dialogical School of Psychotherapy in Bergamo, Italy.

   

 

 

 

Maria Borcsa

Professor of Clinical Psychology,
University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen, Germany

Francesco Bruni

Director of the Emmeci s.c. Institute,
Professor at Centro Studi di Terapia Familiare e Relazionale, Italy

Marie-Christine Cabié

Hospital Psychiatrist (F-Paris),
Psychotherapist,
President of EBTA (European Brief Therapy Association), France

Antonio Caruso

Founder & Director of Panta Rei Centre,
Founder of School of Specialization in Systemic and Socio-Constructionist Orientation Psychotherapy, Milan, Italy

 

Antonio Caruso, psychologist and psychotherapist, he worked for twenty years in public health, in mental health departments and in family therapy centers.  In 1994 he founded the Panta Rei Center in Milan, which he directs from its birth and the School of Specialization in Systemic Psychotherapy and Socio-Constructionist Orientation (2011) which he founded after nineteen years of collaboration with Gianfranco Cecchin and Luigi Boscolo.  Expert in sexology and in the treatment of psychological trauma.  He deals with overt pathologies, couple therapy and leads psychotherapy groups.  Follows families with children and adolescents.  Member of national and international scientific societies.  After He has collaborated with important centers of andrology and urology, currently collaborates with an important assisted reproduction center.  In the model he carries out with his collaborators he combines the systemic and socio-constructionist approach with a particular attention to the body with motor sensory techniques, thus combining top-down and bottom-up therapy.

Pasquale Chianura

Director of the Institute of Psychotherapy METAFORA, School of Specialization Systemic-Family, Bari-Rome, Italy

 

Pasquale Chianura, child psychiatrist and neuropsychiatrist, psychotherapist with psychoanalytic and systemic training, in the 80's he founded the Institute of Family Psychotherapy in Bari, which later became the Institute of Psychotherapy METAFORA, School of Specialization Systemic-Family recognized by the MIUR in 1994 with educational facilities in Bari and Rome. For many years he directed the Public Services of Psychiatry and Child Neuropsychiatry in Bari, applying the systemic-family model to the management of the Department of Mental Health, facilitating and intensifying psychotherapeutic work. Expert in the care of families with children, he works mainly in individual and couple settings, extended to significant family members as collaborators in the therapeutic process. His main contributions to the field of Family Clinic are the work with adolescents, on the borderline disorder through an integrated approach between systemic optics and psychoanalysis (Family and Borderline Personality. Prospects for the therapeutic intervention Progedit 2007).

Chianura was president of S.I.P.P.R. (Italian Society of Relational Psychology and Psychotherapy) for two terms from 2003 to 2009 organizing in Bari two international conferences, the first in 2006 "Multimodal therapy and culture, two ways to understand the mind (Acts published by Franco Angeli "Relations and care. Viaggio nel mondo della psicoterapia relazionale") and the second in January 2010 "La mente relazionale e l'intersoggettività. The contribution of systemic psychotherapy to the dialogue between biology and psychology" He has been Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Bari.

Model:Experential-Trigenerational

The reference model is the Structural - Experential (Minuchin - Whitaker), with particular attention paid to the history of the family (Bowen), the individual, the therapeutic relationship, the relationship between family and individual and between this and its inner world. The Institute has also been working for many years on a model of integrated family therapy, inspired by the principles of Bowlby's attachment theory, the research on Fonagy's reflective competence and the postulates of the Family Therapy of the object relations of G. and D. Scharff.

Stefano Cirillo

Psychologist, psychoterapist, 
co-founder and co-director of “Mara Selvini Palazzoli” Psychoterapy School, Italy

 

Psychologist, psychoterapist, co-founder and co-director of “Mara Selvini Palazzoli” Psychoterapy School, pioneer in treatment of abusing parents obliged by the Juvenile Court (Families That Abuse: Diagnosis and Therapy. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., Ltd., 1992), he recently dedicated himself to the therapies of men who have been abused in their childhood. Trainer and supervisor in Italy and in many contries abroad, especially in the field of foster care and protection of minors and of addiction. He has carried out clinical and research work on psychoses and nervous anorexia for years.

He is coauthor together with Mara Selvini Palazoli, Stefano Cirillo and Matteo Selvini of Family games, Norton, New York 1989; Karnac, London 1989 and Ragazze anoressiche e bulimiche (1998). In 2016 he wrote with Matteo Selvini and Anna Maria Sorrentino Entrare in terapia: Le sette porte della terapia sistemica [Going into therapy: The Seven Doors of Systemic Therapy], published by Raffaello Cortina.

Maurizio Coletti

President & Director of IEFCoS (European Institute for Systemic Training and Consulting), Italy

Erna Dahl Tyskø

Leader of the coordinating unit, Family coordinator at Ørland Municipality, Norway

Sonia Di Caro

Director & Sole Administrator of the Centre for Relational Therapy (C.T.R.), Catania, Italy 

Laura Fruggeri
Psychologist, Psychotherapist,
Director of the Centro Bolognese di Terapia della Famiglia in Bologna, Italy

Laura Fruggeri, Psychologist and psychotherapist. She was Professor of Family Psychology at the University of Parma (Italy) and visiting professor at the University of New Hampshire. She has served as external examiner in the PhD program of the Tavistock Clinic. She is now director of the Centro Bolognese di Terapia della Famiglia in Bologna (Italy), where she works as teacher and psychotherapist. She is consultant and supervisor of teams working in the mental health services and has given seminars in many European and American Training Institutes and Universities, with many of which she still keeps contacts for research and teaching. She is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of national and international Journals in the family studies field and has consistently presented at national and international conferences. She is author of numerous articles, essays and books. Her research is currently focused on: Relationships and processes in non-traditional families; Interactions and transitions in everyday family life with a particular interest in families’ microtransitions; Process analysis of therapeutic conversations; Psychotherapy in residential psychiatric contexts.

Gennaro Galdo

Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Co-founder of Istituto di Psicologia e Psicoterapia Relazionale e Familiare - ISPPREF, Italy

 

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Emanuela Giglio

Edith Goldbeter-Merinfeld 

Paolo Gritti

Professor at Università degli Studi della Campania, Italy

 

Psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology - University of Campania, Dept of Psychiatry. Author of more than 250 scientific papers, author and editor of monographs on issues of systemic-relational psychotherapy. Trainer & supervisor of family system therapy. Past-President, SITF (Italian Association of Family Therapy); President, SIPO (Italian Association of Psycho-Oncology).Full member SIPPR. Member, psychotherapies training programs Consulting Committee of Italian Ministry of Health.

Editor, Journal of Psychosocial Systems.

Annette Kreuz 

Clinical Psychologist, 
Director of the Centre for Phasic Family Therapy, Fase 2, Valencia, Spain

Lennart Lorås

Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences,
Adjunct Associate Professor at VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway

Camillo Loriedo

Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”,
Founding President of SIPPR (Italian Family Therapy Association), Italy

 

Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Scientific and Training Director, Istituto Italiano di Psicoterapia Relazionale of Rome
Scientific and Training Director, Scuola Italiana di Ipnosi e Psicoterapia Ericksoniana of Rome
President, Società Italiana di Psicoterapia (SIPSIC-Italian Society of Psychotherapy).
President, Società Italiana Milton Erickson (SIME-Italian Milton Erickson Society).
President, Società Italiana di Ipnosi (SII-Italian Society of Hypnosis).
Since 1998, Board of Directors of the Milton Erickson Foundation (Phoenix, Arizona).
Founding President, Società Italiana di Psicologia e Psicoterapia Relazionale (SIPPR: Italian Family Therapy Association)
Founding President, Federazione Italiana delle Associazioni di Psicoterapia (FIAP)
Past-President, International Society of Hypnosis (ISH),
Past-President European Society of Hypnosis (ESH)
Awarded The Milton H. Erickson Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Psychotherapy, in Phoenix, Arizona (2001)
Awarded The Benjamin Franklin Award (Gold Medal), the highest honor of ISH, with the following motivation: Prolific author, creative therapist distinguished leader. You have exemplified the highest achievement in promoting academic and clinical efficacy of hypnosis worldwide, while pionering the use of hypnosis in couples and family psychotherapy, 2012, in Bremen
He has authored over 390 scientific papers and 32 books

Giovanni Madonna

Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Professor at Instituto Italiano di Psicoterapia Relazione (I.I.P.R), Italy

 

More information will be announced soon. 

Gianmarco Manfrida

Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist,
Director at Centro Studi e Applicazione della Psicologia Relazionale (Prato), Italy

 

Psychiatrist, psychotherapist. University degrees in Medicine, Psychology and Sociology. Director and teacher at Centro Studi e Applicazione della Psicologia Relazionale (Prato); Past President of Italian Society of  Relational Psychology and Psychotherapy (S.I.P.P.R.). 3 books and more than 150 papers published in Italy and foreign countries; member of scientific committees of Contemporary Family Therapy (USA), Redes (Mexico), Terapia Familiare, Ecologia della Mente, Psicobiettivo, Rivista di Costruttivismo. In private practice as individual, couple and family therapist, his interests lie in interpersonal relationships, Narrative Therapy, new online resources for psychotherapy. Principal guest at the world congress of Relates network, connecting Spanish speaking European and SouthAmerican therapists and teachers (Barcelona 2019). The third edition of his book “Narration and Psychotherapy” is being translated into Spanish (ed. Morata).

Anna Mascellani
Psychologist and family therapist 
Deputy Director of Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia, Rome, Italy

Lia Mastropaolo
Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Director of Il Metalogo – Scuola Genovese Sistemica, Italy

Efrossini Moureli
Psychiatrist, Systemic Association of Northern Greece

Andrea Mosconi
Professor, Director of the Paduan Center of Family Therapy, Italy

 

Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, teacher of the Milanese Center of Family Therapy, director of the Paduan Center of Family Therapy, ordinary teaching member and former member of the Executive Council of the Italian Society of Relational Psychology and Psychotherapy (SIPPR), training partner of the Italian Research Society and Systemic Therapy (SIRTS), formator of the International Association of Systemic Mediators (AIMS), director of the North-East Macroregion of AIMS, formator of the National Coordination of Professional Counselor (CNCP), Master in Hypnosis, European Supervisor in EMDR.

Matthias Ochs
Dipl.-Psych., Psychological Psychotherapist/ Systemic Family Therapist (DGSF / SG)/
Teacher of Systemic Therapy (DGSF), Fulda - University of Applied Sciences, Germany

 

Prof. Dr. Matthias Ochs is a psychologist, psychotherapist (certified by the German psychotherapy law), systemic family therapist, trainer for systemic therapy and counseling (certified by the German systemic associations)  and a Gestalt therapist. He is a professor for Psychology and Counseling at a department for Social Work at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He was 2010-2017 co-president together with Prof. Dr. Jochen Schweitzer of the International Systemic Research Conferences in Heidelberg. His current topics of interest are: systemic practice and research, epistemology of psychotherapy and systemic work, dialogism in systemic work, systems theory of professional networks, multi- and interprofessional cooperation of employment and welfare offices, negative and adverse effects of systemic therapy and counseling. Current publication: Ochs, Matthias, Borcsa, Maria & Schweitzer, Jochen (eds.) (2020). Linking systemic research and practice – Innovations in paradigms, strategies and methods. (European Family Therapy Association Series, Volume 5). Cham: Springer International.

Kallistheni Pantelidou Vorkas
Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and Family Therapist, Cyprus

 

Dr. Kallistheni Pantelidou Vorkas has graduated from the Medical School of Athens. She specializes in child and adolescent psychiatry and she has worked at public hospitals in both Cyprus and Greece. She completed her training in systemic psychotherapy at Athenian Institute of Anthropos, while she continues her training in Group Psychotherapy. She is a member of the board of directors of Cyprus Child and Adolescent Society and served as secretary, chairman and now treasurer. She keeps a private medical office. She has a special interest in family therapy and gives seminars to parents and educators on the psycho-emotional evolution of children. She has also worked for four years as a lecturer at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Roberto Pereira

Medical Psychiatrist, Director of the Escuela Vasco Navarra de Terapia Familiar (EVNTF), Spain

 

More information will be announced soon. 

Kyriaki Polychroni
Psychologist, Systemic Psychotherapist and Trainer,
Athenian Institute of Anthropos, Director EFT Greek Network

 

Kyriaki Polychroni is a Psychologist, Systemic Psychotherapist and Trainer. She is specialized in Attachment and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and is Internationally Certified as a Couple Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer (ICEEFT). Kyriaki holds a long-standing position on the Faculty and Scientific Council of the Athenian Institute of Anthropos – the first center to practice family therapy in Europe. She is the Founder and Director of the EFT Greek Network. For several years now, she trains and supervises professionals in Couple and Family Therapy throughout Europe and in Iran. Kyriaki is Past President of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA, 2010-2013) and a member of the Association since its early founding. She has played a major role in the networking and mutual learning of Family Therapy Trainers in Europe, and in 2016 was given an Award for her Outstanding Contribution to Family Therapists in Europe and was appointed Honorary President of the EFTA Chamber of Training Institutes (EFTA-TIC). For several years, Kyriaki has held the position of Joint Editor of “Human Systems”, a long established multidisciplinary European Journal of Systemic Practice.

Petros Polychronis
Director of the Athenian Institute of Anthropos (A.I.A.), Greece

 

Petros Polychronis M.D., E.C.P., is a Child-Psychiatrist, Systemic Group and Family Psychotherapist.
Dr. Polychronis is the Director of the Athenian Institute of Anthropos (A.I.A.) in Greece, - a center founded by George and Vasso Vassiliou (FAGPA) in 1963 -  the first to practice systemic group and family therapy in Europe.

He is involved as a Consultant to the development of support programs for multi-problem families in a variety of contexts dealing with Child and Family welfare and in community group interventions.
He is a Founding Member of the European Family Therapy Association (E.F.T.A.), of the Hellenic Association for Systems Thinking and Family Psychotherapy, and of the Greek Society for De-Institutionalization and Mental Health.
He has served on the Executive Council of the World Association for Social Psychiatry and  of  the Hellenic Child-Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Polychronis is a Visiting Professor at Postgraduate programs at the Universities of Athens, Crete and Ioannina.
Main areas of interest/publication (Greek Journals): Training in Systems Thinking, Groups and Family Therapy. Family as a Group for Developing Skills/Metaskills in a Digital World. The Child as Co-Therapist in Family Therapy. Systems Consultation to Organizations.

Peter Rober
Professor at the Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium

Giuseppe Ruggiero

Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Family mediator, Director,
Istituto di Medicina e Psicologia Sistemica di Napoli, Italy

 

More information to be announced soon. 

Carmine Saccu

Neuropsychiatrist-Psychotherapist, Director of Roman School of Family Psychotherapy, Italy

 

Carmine Saccu, Child Neuropsychiatry Doctor is Director of the Roman School of Family Psychotherapy. Former Associate Professor at the Chair of Child Neuropsychiatry of the "La Sapienza" University of Rome, he worked for many years as a Family Therapy Service Manager. Since 1975 he has been teaching in the training and supervision of family therapists. He developed a particular way of working with children in therapy with play and humor, masters in activating the therapist's phantasmatic areas. In developing these areas of resonance, prof. Saccu helps therapists to discover creative potentials and new relationship spaces.

He is a Founding Member of: Institute of Family Therapy (ITF), Italian Society of Family Therapy (SITF), Italian Society of Relational Psychology and Psychotherapy (SIPPR), Roman School of Family Psychotherapy (SRPF), EuropeanFamiliyTherapyAssociation (EFTA), Italian Federation of Psychotherapy Associations (FIAP ), The European Association for Psycotherapy (EAP).

 

Viola Sallay

Clinical health psychologist, Family therapist, Assistant professor at the University of Szeged, Institute of Psychology, Hungary

 

Viola Sallay, PhD. is a clinical health psychologist, family therapist and assistant professor at the University of Szeged, Institute of Psychology, Szeged, Hungary. She received her PhD in 2014. Her PhD thesis was based on qualitative Grounded Theory research of emotional self-regulation processes in the family home. Her research interests include relationship stress and well-being, positive functioning in couples and communities, self-regulation across the adult life-span, person-environment transaction in the family home and community settings, qualitative methods in psychological research. She is a member of the “EnviWell Research Group”, hosted at University of Tampere (FI) and author of several book chapters and papers both in Hungarian and in English. She works also as a family therapist in Budapest, Hungary with Hungarian and intercultural families.

 

Pier Francesco Sannasardo

Psychiatrist Medical Director, Palermo, Italy

 

More information to be announced soon. 

Jochen Schweitzer

Associate Professor, Deputy Director, Head of Section Medical Organizational Psychology,
Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany

 

Prof. Dr. Jochen Schweitzer works at Heidelberg University Institute of Medical Psychology and at the Helm Stierlin Training Institute. He has initiated and organized the Heidelberg Systemic Research Conferences from 1998 to 2019. As a scientist and as former president (2007-2013) of the German Association for Systemic and Family Therapy (DGSF), he was involved in the process of the  recognition of systemic therapy as evidence-based and insurance-reimbursed. As a co-leader of the SYMPA-project, he helped to introduce family systems psychiatry in 10 psychiatric hospitals.

Matteo Selvini
Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Director of "Mara Selvini Palazzoli" School of Psychotherapy, Milan, Italy

 

Matteo Selvini, psychologist and psychotherapist and  manager of the School of Psychotherapy of Milan’s family "Mara Selvini Palazzoli". He has a particular expertise in taking care of difficult adolescents, in the field of family secrets, in research on the results of family therapies and post-traumatic personality disorders. He published Reinventare la psicoterapia (2004) and with S. Cirillo and A.M. Sorrentino I giochi psicotici nella famiglia (1988), Ragazze anoressiche e bulimiche (1998) and Entrare in terapia (2016).

Jim Sheehan

Social Worker, Couple and Family Therapist, Systemic Supervisor, Professor of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway


Jim Sheehan is a Social Worker, Couple and Family Therapist and Systemic Supervisor. He worked for 36 years in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Ireland where he was Director of a Masters in Family and Couple Therapy program for University College Dublin at the Mater Hospital for 25 years. Since 2005 he has been Professor of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice at the VID Specialized University  in Oslo, Norway, where he teaches family and couple therapy and supervises clinical research. He lives in Dublin where his clinical practice finds him engaged with couples, families and children challenged by many facets of contemporary living.   For many years he has had a special interest in the area of post-separation family conflict and he has been assisting families and the family courts in Ireland in managing such conflict since 1977. His most recent publications include Vetere and Sheehan (2017) (eds.) Supervision of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice(New York: Springer) and Sheehan (2018) Family Conflict After Separation And Divorce (London: Palgrave McMillan).

Silvana Silvestre
President, Brazilian Family Therapy Association, Brazil

 

More information to be announced soon.

Reenee Singh

Chief Executive of the Association of Family Therapy,
Founding Director of the London Intercultural Couples Centre at the Child and Family Practice, UK

 

Dr. Reenee Singh is the Chief Executive of the Association of Family Therapy.  She is a Consultant Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, and Founding Director of the London Intercultural Couples Centre at the Child and Family Practice.  Reenee is the co-director of the Tavistock Family Therapy and Systemic Research Centre and was the Editor of the Journal of Family Therapy.   She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bergamo. Reenee has written and published widely in the areas of 'race', culture and qualitative research. She has presented her work nationally and internationally. 

Anna Maria Sorrentino

Psychologist, psychoterapist, 
co-founder and co-director of “Mara Selvini Palazzoli” Psychoterapy School, Italy

 

Psychologist, psychoterapist, co-founder and co-director of “Mara Selvini Palazzoli” Psychoterapy School, she was a member of the therapy and research team directed by Mara Selvini Palazzoli.

She is an expert on problems of childhood and the debilitating illness (Figli disabili 2006) and eating disorders. On developmental pathologies he has trained numerous operators in Italy and abroad. In training, she is particularly attentive to bodily and non-verbal aspects.

She is coauthor together with Mara Selvini Palazoli, Stefano Cirillo and Matteo Selvini of Family games, Norton, New York 1989; Karnac, London 1989 and Ragazze anoressiche e bulimiche (1998), with Stefano Cirillo and Matteo Selvini wrote Entrare in terapia: Le sette porte della terapia sistemica [Going into therapy: The Seven Doors of Systemic Therapy], Published by Raffaello Cortina.

Gemma Trapanese

Psychotherapist, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Co-founder of Institute of Relational and Family Psychology and Psychotherapy - ISPPREF

 

More information to be announced soon. 

Valeria Ugazio

Founder of European Institute of Systemic-relational Therapies (EIST),
Professor of clinical psychology, University of Bergamo, Italy

 

Valeria Ugazio, Ph.D, is a psychologist and a systemic psychotherapist. She practices in Milan where she leads the European Institute of Systemic-relational Therapies (EIST) (www.eist.it), which she founded twenty years ago. She is also a full professor of clinical psychology at the University of Bergamo, Italy, and has taught at the universities of Turin, Venice, Milan. Introduced to the family therapy field by Mara Selvini Palazzoli, her first mentor, she took part in what was to become the Milan Approach from the beginning and taught at the Centro Milanese di Terapia Familiare, directed by Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin, until she founded the EIST.

She developed a model of interpretation of personality and its possible pathological evolutions, named the theory of semantic polarities, set out in Semantic  Polarities in the Families. Permitted and Forbidden Stories (2013, Routledge, New York). It presents a new perspective focused on meaning making and the development of phobic, eating, obsessive-compulsive and mood disorders within the family.

She is currently interested in applying her model to couples and in developing systemic therapeutic approaches coherent with the semantic polarities theory specific to individuals, couples and families facing phobic, obsessive-compulsive, eating and mood disorders and also specific to couples with high and low semantic cohesion. 

Francesco Vadilonga

Director of Adolescence therapy center (CTA),
Co-director of IRIS School of Psychotherapy, Milan, Italy

 

Psychologist and Systemic Psychoterapist, trainer and supervisor. Director of Adolescence therapy center (CTA) and co-director of IRIS School of Psychotherapy in Milan, where he carries out teaching, research and clinical activities. He founded and coordinates the specialist support and treatment service for difficult adoptions and adoptive crisis. He coordinated a project on the development of a treatment manual for adoptive families based on systemic family therapy integrated with Attachment Theory interventions. For several years he has been committed in the field of trauma, abuse, child protection and foster care. Technical Court Counsultant at the Juvenile Court of Milan. Trainer and supervisor in private and public social services. Author of several publications and speaker at many national and international conferences. Board member of CISMAI (Italian Network of Services Against Children Abuse).