Miano P, Calvo R, (2012) La dimensione della genitorialità in un ospedale psichiatrico giudiziario.

[automatically translated] Parenting skills are Expressed through providing care and support During a child's life- cycle; fatherhood is built up through a caring approach That Facilitates the mentalization of parental relationships. Detention in a psychiatric prison Represents a Particular condition That influences the parental dimension negatively, both as a Consequence of separation and the progressive loss of parenting skills. We Analysed parenting skills (AAPI-2 Bavolek, Keene 1999) and parenting representations (semi-structured interview) in 4 fathers interned in a psychiatric prison. Date allowed us to highlight low-medium scores on the AAPI-2 stairs and a tendency to renunciation of the parental role: fatherhood is excluded or postponed until the termination of detention.