EXPERT PROFESSIONALS IN THE INTEGRATED METHOD FOR MANAGING FAMILY CRISIS

The Integrated Method is a highly specialized intervention, which involves a preliminary and preventive screening intervention. It can be used in any situation, regardless of the agreement between the parties or how the specific separation situation is organized. If the parents agree on its use, it can be used by both parents, which makes it more effective, but it can also be used only by one parent exclusively or without the other's knowledge, if the situation requires it. It can be indicated by the court or more often suggested by the lawyers themselves or by other consultants such as psychologists or social workers. It is an intervention of variable but always short duration, which offers parents greater awareness of the situation they are facing, providing them with effective and timely tools for a rapid resolution of the crisis. Often this intervention is sufficient to re-establish the new family balance. In more complex situations, where it is not sufficient, it still offers the possibility of guidance by providing important indications regarding which tools to use among all the possible ones to further support the family, the children or the parents in this transition.