Organized by Compagnia delle Opere (education)
Luigi Ceriani, psychologist and psychotherapist, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan; Federico Pichetto, director of the theological training school, Diocese of Chiavari. Moderated by Emiliano Monzani, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Director of Psychiatry 1, Asst Bergamo Ovest.

The emergence of distress among adolescents and young people is an expression of a broader crisis, linked to the epochal change of recent decades and the associated educational, social, and cultural factors. The prevention of disorders is not only a clinical issue but concerns the community, family, school, and social network. More than a general discussion on the topic, the experience of those who are in the field, educating, accompanying, and caring for young people, with their need for meaning, often in the shadows, in the gray area between distress and disorder, is interesting. Meeting young people also raises the issue of competence, which is relevant both for the available professional and for any adult figure capable of listening.