[Biography, english version]

[Biography, english version]

[Biography, English version]

Antonio Capafons-Bonet, Ph.D., is Emeritus professor (Universitat de València, Spain) and specialist in psychological treatments and hypnosis. He is, as well, Clinical Psychologist, and author of different national and international publications on various topics related to hypnosis and psychological treatments. Antonio Capafons-Bonet has been director/adviser of the Clinic of Psychology of the Universitat de València (Fundació Lluis Alcanyís) from 12-13-2016 up to 06-11-2025. He is currently researching on the evaluation and modification of attitudes towards hypnosis, on the clinical applications of the Valencia Model of Waking Hypnosis, and the psychometric properties and international adaptations of the Valencia Scales of Attitudes and Beliefs to Hypnosis, all of which he is the creator. His research and professional trajectories in the field of hypnosis have been awarded by the division 30 (Society of Psychological Hypnosis) of the American Psychological Association (2007 -scientific research- and 2011 -professional applications-). Also, he along with other authors was awarded by the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis with the Clark Hull Prize in 2012 for the publication of the adaptation of the Valencia Scale of Beliefs and Attitudes towards Hypnosis, Client version, using an USA’s sample. Likewise, the National Evaluation Committee of the Research Activity has approved six sexennial periods of scientific research, that endorse 36 years of investigation on hypnosis and psychological treatments. He is Fellow of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and member of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis, constituent societies of the International Society of Hypnosis, and of the European Society of Hypnosis. He has been founder and currently is Head of the Psychological Hypnosis Working Group of the Official Psychology Association of the Valencian Community (Spain). He is, as well, founding member and current vice president (after 8 years being president) of the Association for the Advancement of Experimental and Applied Hypnosis. He is also founding member and has been president of the Spanish Society for the Advancement of Clinical and Health Psychology, Century XXI. He is also founding member of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS). Finally, he is an Honorary Member of the Association of Psychology of Las Palmas (Spain), and Honorary Member of Tri Hita Karana Research Center (THK Research Center) Bali (Indonesia).

Ausiàs Cebolla i Martí, graduated in Psychology from the Universitat de València (1996) and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Valencia (2007). He currently works as a full professor in the Faculty of Psychology, attached to the Department of personality, evaluation and psychological treatment of the Universitat de València. Member of the research group IPSITEC (https://www.ipsitec.com/) since 2007. His areas of research are mindfulness and meditation (both in terms of effectiveness in interventions and research on mechanisms), virtual reality, positive psychology, and healthy lifestyles. He has participated in local, state, and international research projects. He has collaborated in multiple scientific publications in high impact journals and has participated in national and international conferences. He is especially interested in establishing bridges between meditation and positive psychology. In this line, he has co-designed the Contemplative practices-based well-being program. 

Professor of the Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Tractaments, at the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy of the University of Valencia. He is a member of the PsicAP-Psychology in Primary Care (AP) research group, which has been one of the most important initiatives to evaluate the effectiveness of psychological treatments for emotional disorders in AP in Spain. This clinical assessment will be carried out in more than 22 AP centers in 8 autonomous communities, to evaluate the treatment of these disorders in AP centers with evidence-based psychological techniques. They will evaluate more than 1,700 patients, including more than 1,000 patients, they will manage to treat more than 300 patients in each group, and they will achieve a target of 200 patients in each group over 12 months, making it one of the major mental health projects carried out in the AP in Spain. It will be responsible for the comprehensive management and coordination at the state level of more than 200 researchers, between Family Doctors and Psychologists. In recent years, he has specialized in the study of the processes of emotional regulation and the relationship with stress, anxiety and depression, assuming the leadership of the line of studies in the PsicAP Project, which allows the study of the mechanisms of change in psychological therapy, but millorar-ne l'effectiveivitat i l'efficiència. In addition, it develops a line of evaluation of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of psychological therapies within the AP field, together with other members of the PsicAP team.

In December 2020, the MAPFRE Foundation will grant, through the Competitive Regime, a Research Grant Ignacio H. Larramendi 2020 to the project: “Assessment of the Telefónica Psychological Care Program developed during the COVID-19 crisis” with the Principal Investigator, which will allow the construction of the his own research group. In 2022, a project will be granted to the 2021 call of the Ministry of Science in Innovation – Knowledge Generation Projects – which will begin at the end of 2022 focused on an effective ACA. This study is titled "Study of effectiveness and mechanisms of change in the transdiagnòstic psychological treatment for emotional disorders in primary care. A Stepped Wedge clinical assessment. Vitudes Pérez Jover, from the Miguel Hernández University, with principal investigators. In this study a new version of the PsicAP protocol to 2 AP centers in the Valencian Community (València and Alacant), with the objective of evaluating the feasibility of this PsicAP program effectiveness in real practice, with a pragmatic and effective ACA with a Stepped Wedge design (or staggered falca), which has recently been granted. CIAICO23 Project As a member of the team, a new version of this ECA, in the adolescent population, in this case with Dr. Paula Samper as a PI (CIAICO/2023/059), for an amount of 81,300 euros. The most relevant thing is that, as of 12/09/2024, the Principal Investigator has been awarded a Public Private Collaboration project (PCPP23), titled “Primary Care Digital Mental Health Ecosystem (Medical Device)” Objective Assessment and Comprehensive Psychological Care for patients with Anxiety about results and resources mitjançant úss d'Intel·ligència Artificial i Psicometria d'ultima-generation.”, for a quantity of 802,263 euros. Furthermore, he recently completed a 3-month research stay at University College London, after being awarded a José Castillejo Scholarship. This status has allowed us to obtain an Honorary Research Fellow contract from this prestigious university.

Currently, he is the Director of the Psychology Research Group in Primary Care Centers of the Valencian Community (PsiCAP-CV - GIUV2024-616).

María Roncero Sanchis holds a Degree in Psychology from the University of Valencia (2006) and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Valencia (2011) with a mention of “European Doctorate” and an extraordinary doctoral award. She is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments at the University of Valencia. She is part of the research and treatment group for obsessions and compulsions (I'TOC). She has focused her research career on the study of eating disorders, including obesity and orthorexia, and the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since beginning her research career, she has participated in more than 17 competitive R&D&I research projects at the national and regional level, leading four of them. In addition, she has collaborated on various international studies, mainly with Dr Janet Treasure (King's College, London) and Dr Guy Doron (Interdisciplinary Centre, IDC, Herzliya). She has more than 60 national and international publications in scientific journals, 15 book chapters, and more than 100 conference presentations. She has been teaching at various universities since 2008, including the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló and the University of Zaragoza. She has collaborated on more than 10 educational innovation projects, leading four of them, and has published various teaching materials. Since 2018, she has been the coordinator of the Training Area of the University of Valencia's employment service, UVocupació. She is currently the principal investigator, together with Gemma García-Soriano, of the Ministry of Science and Innovation's Knowledge Generation 2024 project ‘Increasing awareness and reducing barriers in the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum: Designing eHealth interventions for families, professionals and society’ (Ref. PID2024-157543OB-I00).

María Teresa Cortés Tomás joined the University of Valencia in 1992 with a research fellowship in the Department of Basic Psychology, where she has developed her entire academic and research career. She obtained her PhD from the University of Valencia in 1996 and has served as an Associate Professor since 2001.

In the field of research, she leads the group APPrAd: Psychosocial Aspects of the Addictive Process (GIUV 2021-504). The group has more than fifteen years of research experience devoted to studying the addictive phenomenon, with the aim of deepening its understanding, improving its assessment and detection, and developing effective prevention and intervention strategies. Its work began with the psychosocial analysis of botellón (collective drinking gatherings), which led to a specific research line focused on Binge Drinking. Since then, the group has contributed to the conceptual clarification of this pattern, the development of assessment instruments, and the study of its psychosocial determinants—such as personality, motives for consumption, coping behaviors, social context, family background, and polydrug use—incorporating a gender perspective. It has also designed tools to assess the psychosocial consequences of consumption and guide intervention according to severity.

The group has likewise developed and evaluated preventive programs addressing alcohol, vaping/tobacco, and cannabis use among young people, in collaboration with various public and private institutions. In recent years, it has incorporated a new research line on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), in response to the increase in alcohol consumption among women.

Throughout her career, she has served as principal investigator in numerous national (including those funded by the National Plan on Drugs) and regional projects, as well as in agreements and contracts with various public and private organizations. These projects have fostered knowledge transfer, through the development of applied products and resources, and the publication of findings in high-impact scientific journals. She is also the Executive Editor of the journal Adicciones, indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and Vice President of the Spanish Scientific Society for the Study of Alcohol and Alcoholism (Socidrogalcohol).

In the field of university management, she served as Vice Dean for Internships at the Faculty of Psychology from 2007 to 2021.

Dr. Pedro R. Gil-Monte was born in Tobarra (Albacete, Sapina). He iis the Director of the Group of Psychosocial Research on Organizational Behaviour (Unidad de Investigación Psicosocial de la Conducta Organizacional) (UNIPSICO) at University of Valencia, Spain. Currently he is Full Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Social Psychology at that university. He is an active research in the field of Occupational Health Psychology with over two hundred publications including scientific articles, chapters and books. Dr. Gil-Monte has developed the “Spanish Burnout Inventory” (SBI) to evaluate the levels of job burnout and the “UNIPSICO Questionnaire” to evaluate psychosocial risks at work and their consequences on workers health. Dr. Gil-Monte actively participates in research projects granted by public funds (Spanish Government), and as external adviser in education –e.g., universities- health organizations –e.g, hospitals- and companies working in other economic sectors. He serves as member of the editorial board of national and international journals of Psychology, Psychiatry, Public Health, Public Environmental Occupational Health, Management and Public Administration. He is a member of national and international scientific associations such as American Psychological Association (APA), European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EA-OHP), European Association on Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP), Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP), International Coaching and Leadership Association (ICLA), Spanish Scientific Association of Social Psychology (SCEPS), Valencian Society of Psychology (SVP), Academic Division of the Spanish Society of Psychology, Researchers Net on Psychosocial Factors at Work (RIFAPT A.C, Mexico). Awards and distinctions: Government of Jalisco (Mexico, 2008), which recognizes his collaboration to evaluate psychosocial risks in prison employees. RIFAPT (2010), for his contributions to the development of occupational mental health in Latin America. Fidélitas University (Costa Rica, 2010), which recognizes his contributions to Psychology. Chilean Society of Work and Organizational Psychology (SCHIPTO, 2016), recognizing his relevant contributions and research in Work and Organizational Psychology. In addition, as Director of UNIPSICO Dr. Gil-Monte has been awarded with the “Distinction 2014 to the development of researches on occupational risks prevention (Generalitat Valenciana, government of the autonomous community of Valencia). Research Interest. His research primarily involves job stress and its consequences on workers health and organizational productivity. The focus of this research has been directed at psychosocial risks at work, job burnout, bullying and depression. In addition, his interest has involved developing psychological tests and questionnaires to evaluate job burnout and psychosocial factors and risk at work.

Assistant Professor of the Department of Methodology of the the Behavioral Sciences of the Faculty of Psychology at the Universitat de València, of which I have been director between 2011 and 2018. My research interests have focused both on methodological aspects such as basic and applied. In the methodological, highlight the participation in the development of normative databases of fragments and stems of Spanish words (with their corresponding indicators) to be used in experimentation with tasks of verbal stimulus completion. It is also important to mention my participation in the development of short forms of different versions of some of the Wechsler scales to assess intellectual performance in both children (WISC) and adults (clinical and  non clinical, WAIS). Basic research has focused on the experimentation on the functioning of different aspects of human memory (working memory, implicit memory, ...) in both normal and clinical populations. Applied research has been focused on schizophrenia patients with the aim of developing and applying programs to improve their cognition and social functioning.