The IIW since 2002 is Consultant for the Armed Forces of Italy and every year organizes specific training on the CWS for the new Psychologist Officers and its use in the Selection proceedings.
ITALIAN NAVY
Sep ‘99 – Mar ’00: Testing of the Wartegg Software for the selection process for admission to the Naval Academy in Livorno. In consequence of the results obtained, the Italian Navy decided to use permanently the Wartegg Test in its own Selection and Careers Guidance proceedings.
Oct ‘03 – Dec ‘04: research activity – named “Global”, aimed at determining the normative data of the sample goup for the ‘Wartegg Selection’ and the ‘Wartegg Orientation’. The research carried out on about 2.300 subjects, of both sexes, has produced a new list of popular responses.
Oct ‘03-Apr ‘04: Verification of the achievement of the fixed aims reached through the Normal Training of Chief Petty Officers and notation of clusters between the expected results and those actually obtained (in co-operation with the Psychology Department of the Sapienza University of Rome).
ITALIAN ARMY
Feb-Jun ‘04: Training in Wartegg test for the National Selection and Recruitment Centre of the Italian Army – Foligno (Perugia).
May 2004: supervision and update on the Wartegg test in Selection and Career counselling for the Psychologist Officers at the Continuous Training Centre of the Italian Army in the War College of Civitavecchia (Roma).
Italian State Police:
Jan ‘05-Oct ‘06: training in psycho diagnostic techniques for Selection and Career counselling for the Psychologist Officers.
THE IIW ON ITS OWN:
Since its foundation the IIW has carried out research on various pathological forms such as autism, deafness, stuttering, gender identity disorders, learning disorders, psychosis, psychotic onset, eating disorders, on mobbing and depression. All research were presented in specific national and international publications (see references).
TRAINING
Since its foundation (1999), the IIW has carried out and continues to carry out a continuous training activity in the psychodiagnostic field aimed at individuals, health facilities or staff operating in the FFAA. Both nationally and internationally. The main ones are listed below.
ITALIAN NAVY
Since 2002 training activities consisting of annual courses and feed-back and updating activities on the developments of the CWS aimed at Psychologicist Officers and Psychiatrists who work in the context of the Selection.
ITALIAN ARMY
Since 2004, similar training activities involving the operators of the National Selection and Recruitment Center of the EI in Foligno in prevalent matters but also involving personnel from the Civitavecchia War School, the Cecchignola Center for Forensic Medicine, Rome.
State Police
2006: Didactic Training Activity on the Wartegg Test; Italian Air Force: 2009-2010: Training and subsequent supervision in the use of the Wartegg Test according to the CWS for the psychological officers of the Guidonia Selection Center, Rome.
Health Minister of Italy.
University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Urbino 2021.
UDEM, Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico: 2019: Training course for UDEM students and start of a research aimed at identifying the norm values for the Wartegg test of the Mexican population.
Therapiatalo Sointu, Helsinki, Finland: Training in the years 2018 and 2019.
Colorado Assessment Society of Denver, Colorado, USA.
Denver University, Denver, Colorado, USA: Training courses on the clinical use of the Wartegg test in the years 2016 and 2018. Other private training courses were held in this academic activity in the years 2015, 2017, and 2019.
Center for Therapeutic Assessment, Austin, Texas, USA: Training at the CWS in Austin, Texas in the years 2012, 2014.
Sahra, Stockholm, Sweden: 2017: Teacher of the I Training (63 hours) on WCS (Wartegg Crisi System) held in Stockholm, Sweden.
Southern California Center for Collaborative Assessment (SCCCA), Long Beach, California, USA 2016: Training on the CWS.
Aiped, Asociacion Argentina de Estudio and Investigacion en Psychodiagnostic, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2012: Introductory seminar to the CWS.
Spanish Council of Psychologists, Madrid, Spain: 2011: Introductory seminar to the CWS.
Italian Ministry of Youth: 2010: Training course in adolescent psychodiagnostics for young graduates in psychology operating in the clinical setting.
University of Naples Federico II: Master in psychodiagnostics in the years 2002, 2003 and 2006.
Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia: March 2001: Training Course in the use of the Wartegg Test for psychologists working in the Educational and Professional Orientation sector and Supervision activities following the aforementioned training in October 2001.
Reggio Emilia Department of Mental Health: April-May 2003: Training and Supervision didactic activity on the Wartegg Test for the Mental Health Department of the Reggio Emilia AUSL.
Finnish Ministry of Labor – FIOH Helsinki May 2002 and May 2003: 1st and 2nd Workshop, on the new method of use and interpretation of the Wartegg test in Italy with particular reference to the “Wartegg Orientation” software.
USERS OF THE IIW SOFTWARES
Psychology Department. Sapienza Universiy, Rome.
Center of Neurology and Medical Psychology of the State Police. Rome
Selection Center, Italian Navy. Ancona
Presidency of the Ministers Council, Rome
General Staff Office of the Italian Navy General Staff – Rome Selection Department. Rome
Military Center of Forensic Medicine of Caserta. Caserta
Permanent Training Center of E.I. at the War School. Civitavecchia (RM)
National Selection and Recruitment Center of the E.I. Foligno (PG)
Reggio Emilia Department of Mental Health
Center for Therapeutic Assessment, Austin, Texas, USA
Denver University, Denver, Colorado, USA
ASUR Marche, Ancona
WestCoast Children’s Clinic, Berkeley, California, USA
Children’s Medical Center Dallas, Texas, USA
Southern California Center for Collaborative Assessment (SCCCA), Long Beach, California, USA
Vona Mental Health Clinic, Minneapolis, USA
Terapiatalo Sointu, Helsinki, Finlandia.