TRENTO. Psychiatric disorders. A silent pandemicsubtle and unexpected that In recent years it has also increased in Trentinoboth among the young that among the adultwith numbers that unfortunately make the wrists tremble. The operating units of psychiatry present in the area 8,830 users followed last year, of which 870 with an age between 14 and 24 years old. A band, the latter, which in recent years has detected a surge in disorders, rather than doubled.
There has been a growth of the problems that was also seen in number of access to provincial emergency room for psychiatric problems. In these cases there has been 3,958 accesses in 2021 to 4,544 in 2023. An increase in requests for help and increasingly complex needs that clash with the few places made available.
And it is in this framework of critical issues that in Trentino, finally, after a few years of work, will come inaugurated next Monday Two important centers. This was announced by the health councilor Mario Tonina. “We are in front of an ambitious project. There are two news that we put on the pitch with the Crisis center for teenagers and at the same time the transformation of the SPDC into Mental Health Center H24“He explained to the Dolomites The Councilor for Health Mario Tonina.
To the medical center “Le Palme” of Arco will be the new crisis center for teenagers For taking into the multidisciplinary charge aimed at young people who suffer from serious psychological symptoms. A brand new structure that will aim to carry out medical, psychological, health and rehabilitative clinical activities aimed at preventing the development of full -blown paintings and modifying their development trajectory.
The Center will host young people of age between 14 and 22 years oldfrom all over the provincial territory, and will make available 6 beds in 3 double rooms.
The multidisciplinary team of the teenage crisis center is made up of several professionals: among these there are 2 psychiatrists e 2 neuropsichiatriand psychiatrist which carries out night availability and collaborates in the continuity of territorial cure, i Psychologists managers In addition to the social worker, the nurses8 full -time and 3 on shifts, but also six Psychiatric rehabilitation technicians e 2 educators and finally 3 Oss full -time on the three shifts. The center will work in close synergy with territorial services, school, social services and therapeutic communities, to ensure a global and integrated taking care of patients.
“The new center for teenagers 14–24 years – explained Mario Tonina – was born to give specific, timely and above all human answers. Have increased The difficulties of young people and the pandemic we have crossed has amplified fragility, discomfort and solitude“. The new center welcomes, listens and accompanies young people on a path of recovery and awareness.“ This is the right direction – continues Tonina – and it is the one that was also given to me during the listening operation that I carried forward at the beginning of the legislature. Put people in the center to listen to their needs. The new crisis center for teenagers will be a symbol compared to the changes that are underway. Taking care of these guys is a duty, a commitment of those who make administration and politics. Only in this way will we be able to build a strategy and a vision for the future “.
Next to this important new structure dedicated to young people will also be inaugurated The new 24h Arco mental health center. It is a territorial structure “Open doors”, operational 7 days on 7 and 24 hours a day. It has 8 beds for the reception of users in the acute phase and subacuta on a voluntary basis and represents a more familiar and welcoming place than a hospital department. The goal is to offer an effective and timely response of the territory to people’s mental health needs, avoiding inappropriate hospitalizations and promoting continuity of care.
“A project – concluded Councilor Tonina – which began during the last legislature and who is now finally concretizing in front of the experiences that are already carrying out in the area. A model that has shown in these years to know how to deal with psychiatric problems. A challenge that we carry on and that we want to win ”.
