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GIAN PIERO TURCHI

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Position

Professore Associato

Structure

Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata - FISPPA

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 14 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498276633

E-mail

gianpiero.turchi@unipd.it

Turchi Gian Piero, Associate Professor (2004) for the grouping M-PSI/08. Lecturer in "Psychology of Cultural Differences and Clinical Deviance", "Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology" and "Clinical Psychology" at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua. Graduated in Psychology from the University of Padua with full marks and honours. Graduated from the three-year postgraduate course for the training of experts in the area of deviant behaviour. Specialisation in "Multivariate analysis methods" for applications in clinical psychology, at the Faculty of Statistics and Demographic and Actuarial Sciences, in October 1993. Member of the "Interuniversity Centre for Research on the Genesis and Development of Prosocial and Antisocial Motivations" - Padua section. Project Technical Assistants for the European Commission Marie Curie project. Participation in multicentre and coordinated scientific research programmes (CNR, MURST, ISS). Scientific Responsible for research activities in agreement with the Ministry of Justice, from 2003 to date (research and training collaborations with the Department of Penitentiary Administration). Director of the Master in "Mediation as an operational tool in criminal, family and civic contexts" at the Faculty of Psychology of Padua. Director of the post-graduate course "Methodology of research in the discursive field" at the Faculty of Psychology of Padua. Expert in text analysis. Scientific director of the research project "Foreigners and drugs" in agreement with the Ministry of Justice, from 2004 to 2006, which involved 24 Italian Penitentiaries with the aim of investigating the situation of Italian and foreign prisoners who were users of legal and illegal substances. He is responsible for several projects addressed to the community, including: the project "I Ragazzi della Panchina" (2015-active) with the involvement of the SerT of Pordenone; the project "Kairòs" (2011-2013) for the promotion of health in the territory of the Province of Padua; the service "InOltre" (2012-active), funded by the Veneto Region and addressed to crisis situations involving entrepreneurs and small savers in Veneto; the project "Welfare generativo" in collaboration with the municipality of Melzo (2021-2023); SALVO project "Health and Work in Oncology Surgery" (2018); the Project "Hyperion: Observatory of Social Cohesion in Emergency Settings," created in conjunction with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic (active since 2019); the project "Habitability. Experimenting with how comfort, productivity and usability are configured in interactions with environmental parameters in smart buildings" (2021-2023). It carries out consultancy and training activities aimed at the Olgiatese Social Services Consortium for the promotion of skills for the management of services with a view to the social cohesion of the community.
Scientific Director of the conference "Dialogic Science, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. New perspectives for managing interactions in the community" (2021).

Notices

NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS:
In order to prepare for the examinations for the subjects listed below, you must always refer to the bibliography for the current academic year; it is not possible to refer to the bibliography for the year in which you took the course.

The examination consists of a written and an oral test. Passing the first gives access to a single attempt at the oral test. In the event of failing the latter or failing the grade, the test must be retaken from the written.
In the event that, once you have passed the written paper, you do not take the oral test, you may keep the grade from the written paper for one year from the current session.


• "PSICOLOGIA CLINICA", corso di laurea in "SCIENZE PSICOLOGICHE SOCIALI E DEL LAVORO"

8 CFU

For the bibliography and other information relating to the course and examination, please refer to https://didattica.unipd.it/didattica/2023/PS1085/2021/000ZZ/PSO2043215/N0


• "PSICOLOGIA DELLE DIFFERENZE CULTURALI E CLINICA DELLA DEVIANZA", corso di laurea magistrale in "PSICOLOGIA CLINICO-DINAMICA"

12 CFU

For the bibliography and other information relating to the course and examination, please refer to https://didattica.unipd.it/didattica/2023/PS1088/2017/000ZZ/PSN1032407/N0


• "PSICOLOGIA CLINICA", modulo interno all'insegnamento di "SCIENZE PSICOLOGICHE DI BASE 2", corso di laurea in "EDUCAZIONE PROFESSIONALE (ABILITANTE ALLA PROFESSIONE SANITARIA DI EDUCATORE PROFESSIONALE)" (sede di Rovigo)

For the bibliography and other information relating to the course and examination, please refer to https://didattica.unipd.it/didattica/2023/ME1847/2011/000ZZ/MEQ0090098/N0


NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE TO THE ABOVE.

Office hours

  • Tuesday from 14:00 to 16:00
    at Edificio Psico3, terzo piano, Studio 11
    Si richiede prenotazione tramite e-mail.

Teachings

Publications

The following is a partial list of the most recently published academic articles. For the complete list, including articles, volumes and contributions to other volumes, please refer to the curriculum vitae.

1) 2024 - Orrù L., Cuccarini M., Moro C., Turchi G. P. Clinical Questions and Psychological Change: How Can Artificial Intelligence Support Mental Health Practitioners? BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, vol. 14, 1225, ISSN: 2076-328X, doi: 10.3390/bs14121225

2) 2024 - Bassi D., Orrù L., Moro C., Salvarani D., Turchi G. P. Investigating AVHs narratives through text analysis: the proposal of Dialogic Science for tackling stigmatization. BMC PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 12, 434, ISSN: 2050-7283, doi:10.1186/s40359-024-01936-x

3) 2024 - Bassi D., Moro C., Orrù L., Turchi G. P. Pupils' inclusion as a process of narrative interactions: tackling ADHD typification through MADIT methodology. BMCPSYCHOLOGY, vol. 12, 281, ISSN: 2050-7283, doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01767-w

4) 2024 - Tassinari Rogalin M., Turchi G. P., Orrù L. Autism as diversity or difference? A text analysis study involving students, caregivers and education professionals in two special educational settings. EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DIFFICULTIES, vol. 29, p. 187-202, ISSN: 1363-2752, doi: 10.1080/13632752.2024.2417321

5) 2023 - Turchi, Gian Piero, Bassi, Davide, Cavarzan Marco, Camellini, Teresa, Moro Christian, Luisa, Orrù. Intervening on Global Emergencies: The Value of Human Interactions for People's Health. BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, vol. 13, ISSN:2076-328X, doi: 10.3390/bs13090735

6) 2023 - Turchi, G. P., Bassi, D., Agnoletti, C., Dalla Riva, M. S., Iudici, A., Orrù, L. What Are They Gonna Think About Me? An Innovative Text Analysis on Social Anxiety and Taijin Kyofusho Through MADIT Methodology. Human Arenas, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00328-8

7) 2023 - Marigo M., Carnieletto L., Moro C., Arcelli T., Ciloni C., Turchi G.P., De Carli M. & Di Bella A. Thermal comfort and productivity in a workplace: An alternative approach evaluating productivity management inside a test room using textual analysis - Building and Environment https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110836

8) 2023 - Iudici, A., De Donà, D., Faccio, E., Neri, J., Turchi, G. P. How to Improve the Practice of Blood Sampling: The Role of the Interactive and Relational Aspects to Prevent Fainting. Iranian Journal of Public Health, 52(3), 665-666

9) 2022 - Pinto, E., Alfieri, R., Orrù, L., Dalla Riva, M.S., & Turchi, G.P. Forward to a methodological proposal to support cancer patients: the dialogics' contribution for the precision care. Medical Oncology, 10.1007/s12032-021-01644-1

10) 2022 -Iudici A., Girolimetto R., Bacioccola E., Faccio E., Turchi G.P. Implications of Involuntary Psychiatric Admission Health, Social, and Clinical Effects on Patients. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001448

11) 2022 - Turchi G.P., Fabbian A., Alfieri R., Da Roit A., Marano S., Mattara G., Pilati P., Castoro C., Bassi D., Dalla Riva M.S., Orrù L., Pinto E. Managing the Consequences of Oncological Major Surgery: A Short- and Medium-Term Skills Assessment Proposal for Patient and Caregiver through M.A.D.I.T. Methodology. Behavioral Sciences 2022, 10.3390/bs12030077

Research Area

The main areas of research include:

- Design, development and implementation of a tool for the automated analysis of textual data according to the cognitive references of Dialogic Science;

- Application of the theoretical-methodological framework of Dialogic Science in the field of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence: textual Big Data analysis, predictive analytics, recommender system, digital twins, etc.;

- Design and evaluation of the effectiveness and social impact of community interventions for the promotion of Social Cohesion;

- Design and evaluation of interventions through the operational tool of Dialogic Mediation within the family, criminal, community, civil and commercial spheres;

- In-depth knowledge of constructs inherent to the legal sphere such as reliability, recidivism of convicted offenders, capacity to make decisions, assessment of biological damage, living will;

- Construction of tools for evaluation in the clinical field (evaluation of illegal drug users, evaluation of the user in a surgical ward, evaluation of the prejudice of health professionals towards users;

- Dialogic Science and Quantum Computing (particularly QuantumNLP).

Thesis proposals

Experimental Theses

- Biographical Change Interventions using Dialogics Assumptions: topics of the student's choice.

- Emergency Management for Community Social Cohesion and Citizen Health (terrorism; international
conflicts; pandemics and epidemics; migration flows; phenomena of discrimination and violence).

- Implementation of innovative technologies (AI, Machine learning, NLP) for health promotion, in different areas (e.g., oncological diseases).

- Applications in the legal field:
- Assessment of parenting skills;
- Reliability of testimony;
- Capacity to testify.

- Applications in restorative justice:
- Rehabilitation of offenders;
- Configuration of the role of victim and offender and on the degree of pervasiveness of the crime
event on biographical development;
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions dedicated to the role of victim and offender.

- Social cohesion and participatory processes (e.g., promoting youth leadership, educational and
housing poverty management).

- Organizational/business processes and worker health:
- Industry 4.0 implementation;
- Work life balance;
- Increase in corporate profits while simultaneously decreasing the environmental impact of the
company's production hubs;
- Analysis of discursive configurations generating the dimension of “satisfaction” in the
occupational sphere;
- Analysis of “unemployment” and “employment” configurations;
- Comfort and productivity.

- Language as a constructor of sense realities of sense (e.g., impact of idioms in constructing
sense's reality).

- Fake news, index of persuasion.

- Definition of the measure of Dialogic Momentum and Dialogic Weight.

- Measure of dialogic identity.

- Measurement of the Minimum Unit of senseMeaning.

- Machine Learning and Dialogics: the accuracy of error measurement.

- Machine Learning and Dialogics: the definition of the algorithm for denominatingnaming discursive
repertoiries.

- Dialogics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), methodological- theoretical contribution and potential applications.

Bibliographical Thesesy

- Biographical Change Intervention using the assumptions of Dialogics: topics of the student's
choice.

- Applications in the legal field law (Assessment of parenting skills, reliability of testimony,
capacity to testify).

- Organizational/business processes and worker health:
- Industry 4.0 implementation;
- Work life balance;
- Increase in corporate profits while simultaneously decreasing the environmental impact of the
company's production hubs;
- Analysis of discursive configurations that generate the dimension of “satisfaction” in the
occupational sphere.
- Analysis of “unemployment” and “employment” configurations;
- Comfort and productivity.

- Emergency Management for Community Social Cohesion and Citizen Health (terrorism; international
conflicts; pandemics and epidemics; migration flows; phenomena of discrimination and violence.