Mentalizzazione, relazione di attaccamento e narrazione
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Riassunto: La narrazione nello sviluppo del bambino di Dolores Rollo affronta il tema della lettura condivisa fra bambino e adulto, individuando in essa “un setting sistemico” nel quale, in età prescolare, “lo sviluppo del linguaggio, l’alfabetizzazione, lo sviluppo cognitivo, socio-emotivo e della teoria della mente” trovano un contesto di interazione reciproca. Rollo attribuisce al linguaggio un ruolo preferenziale, partendo dall’ipotesi che un’esposizione precoce alle storie “sembra connettersi positivamente sia con lo sviluppo emotivo e cognitivo” sia “con le successive acquisizioni di lettura e scrittura”. Questo commento prenderà in esame il ruolo – da noi ritenuto assai più centrale – che nello sviluppo della narrazione è giocato da altri fattori. Questi ultimi interagiscono con il linguaggio e determinano lo sviluppo emotivo e cognitivo del bambino, fungendo da predittori circa il successo in interazioni efficaci più tardive oltre che nello sviluppo della narrazione. Rollo presenta prove convincenti del contributo che la lettura condivisa apporta allo sviluppo del bambino; si tratta tuttavia di una fase dello sviluppo posteriore al raggiungimento di tappe emotive, cognitive e mentalistiche che sono da situare nel quadro di una complessa interazione fra sistemi.
Parole chiave: Mentalizzazione; Attaccamento; Regolazione emotiva; Narrazione; Linguaggio.
Mentalization, Attachment, and Self-narrative
Abstract: Dolores Rollo’s The Narrative in Child Development focuses on the shared reading of a picture book, identifying “a systemic setting” in which “the development of language, literacy, the cognitive, socio-emotional and mentalistic development during the preschool years” would find a context of mutual interaction. Rollo assigns a pivotal role to language, making the hypothesis that an early exposure to stories seems to be positively correlated with both the emotional and cognitive development and the later achievements in reading and writing. In this commentary the focus will be on the much more central role that other factors play in child narrative development. These factors interact with language and determine the child’s emotional and cognitive development, predicting success in later effective interactions as well as in narrative development. Rollo offers robust evidence of the contribution that shared reading makes to child development; but it is a later stage following the acquisition of emotional, cognitive and mentalization abilities, which are to be considered in the context of a complex interaction of systems.
Keywords: Mentalization; Attachment; Emotional Regulation; Self-narrative; Language.
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