Decoding to explore the childhood mind

For the purposes of the teachings of “Child Neuropsychiatry” and “Preventive Medicine and Forensic Psychopathology” the decoding exercise was effective because all the participants showed an increase in the interest of the basic knowledge and acquired awareness of pro- fessional skills. Through metaphors, anecdotes, narration of clinical cases, on adolescence, childhood, developmental age, knowledge of mind, emotional awareness, and emotional tools it is possible to overcome the widespread “bottlenecks” in making medical aspects understan- dable in the educational and pedagogical context. Continuous practice leads to strengthening the potential for an effective collaboration in order to promote group work, acceptance and support, for both students in the subjects of developmental age especially for the aspects of emotional protection, and for educational relationships within the local territory.