THE REMS OF SAN NICOLA BARONIA: A PLACE OF INCLUSION

Abstract

The REMS of San Nicola Baronia, the first definitive REMS of Campania, began its activities in December 2015, allowing the closure
of the Judicial psychiatric hospitalof Aversa and therefore of Secondigliano and is a service of the AA.SS.LL of Avellino Benevento Salerno
and Naples 3 South. Rems activities have been oriented from the beginning to rehabilitation activities taking into account individual oriented
rehabilitative therapeutic projects and social and community re-integration activities with moments of aggregation and socialization
with the social context of the territory in which REMS insists. Structured rehabilitative cognitive (Cognitive Remedation Therapy),
Social Skill Training and Problem Solving, Psycho-educational Groups and outcome evaluations with evaluative scales were activated. An
important pilot project concerning Immersive Virtual Reality (RVI) thanks to the laboratory set up and managed by the operators of the
Assing Group SPA (Virtual Lab Division) has allowed to plan a desensitization program recreating a structured environment, controlled
and shared with the therapist. The inclusion in the social context through participation in social and religious initiatives has characterized
the element of integration between the guests and the
local community that, after an initial phase of diffidence, welcomed guests into the social life spaces of the country. This experience was
the subject of a photography course and a photographic exhibition. The rehabilitative activity was oriented on the model of Community
Care involving the operators and the local community within an experience of rehabilitation of the single guest with the social group,
giving back emotional and social abilities that could allow an effective return to the communities of origin.