The meeting with the expert is a space for dialogue with the keynote speaker on current issues in his area of expertise. In a warm and relaxed atmosphere, attendees can participate by asking questions to the expert and sharing with the audience their experience and opinion on different issues. Undoubtedly, it is the ideal framework for debate and exchange of views among clinical and health child and adolescent psychology.

Professor Alan E. Kazdin is Professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry at Yale University, USA. He chairs the Yale Parenting Center, which provides psychological care to children and their families, and devotes a great effort to achieve a greater transfer of scientific knowledge about clinical child psychology to the healthcare field. He has more than 750 scientific publications and 49 books on psychological intervention with children and adolescents, which makes him one of the most prolific authors in the academic field of psychology worldwide. In 2008, he was president of the American Psychological Association (APA). Dr. Kazdin is a world-renowned expert in the field of child behavior therapy. He has devoted much of his career to the treatment of aggressive and antisocial behaviors in children and adolescents. One of his most recent works is "The everyday parenting toolkit: The Kazdin method for easy, step-by-step, lasting change for you and your child." In the area of child behavior therapy, he has studied the efficacy of animal-assisted therapy, online interventions, family therapy, behavior problems in autism, challenges and future lines in child and adolescent psychotherapy, etc.