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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).