Naples, 15 April (LaPresse) – It is necessary to proceed “as a matter of urgency” to restore the family unit in order to “put an end to the process of the breakdown of minors’ fundamental points of reference” and to “prevent their distress from developing into more serious and entrenched forms”. These are the conclusions reached in the new expert report drafted by psychiatrist Tonino Cantelmi and psychologist-psychotherapist Martina Aiello, technical experts for the defence of Mr and Mrs Trevallion-Birmingham, parents of the ‘family in the woods’. According to the two experts, the clinical picture of the three children “reveals a state of significant and progressive psychological distress, directly linked to the uprooting they have suffered and the persistent disruption of their emotional, educational, identity-related and organisational reference points which had supported their development until the moment they entered the facility”. Signs which, they emphasise, “cannot be considered transient or adaptive, but constitute a concrete risk of the malaise becoming entrenched and of compromising their developmental trajectories”. This is why, the defence’s technical experts conclude, “any further delay in restoring emotional and family continuity exposes the minors to the risk of a worsening of their psychological state, making any subsequent remedial intervention progressively more complex and less effective”.
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