ELISA DELVECCHIO

UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA. ITALY

Elisa Delvecchio, Ph.D., is associate professor in Clinic Psychology at the Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences and Education at the University of Perugia (Italy), where she teaches “Psychodynamic assessment of children and adolescents”, “Developmental psychopathology”, “Family assessment and intervention planning” and “Disaster psychology”. She is the coordinator of the “Psychology and Cultures Lab” at the International Human-being Research Centre (IHRC) – University of Perugia. She coordinates a Research Program of Great National Interest (PRIN) granted by the Ministry of University and Research titled Problematic Social Media use among Italian mid-Adolescents: from the identification of risk/protective factors to the co-design and evaluation of a self-help app. Moreover, she is involved as coordinator/researcher in others EU and national projects aimed to promote well-being and inclusion of vulnerable groups.  

Her main research interests focus on the risk/protective of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and cultural factors for anxiety and depressive disorders in children and adolescence. She is interested in the assessment of emotional and cognitive features in children with chronic and mental diseases using standardized symbolic play tasks. She is working on the dissemination and evaluation of the Super Skills for Life intervention programme in Italian children. Furthermore, she studies the role of the attachment relationships and their measurement across life. 

She has authored or co-authored more than 75 articles in international peer-reviewed scientific journals. She has clinical experience in the contexts of individual and group therapy with adolescents and adults. She serves as a psychologist at the clinical centre of the University of Perugia.