UNIQUE LINE OF RESEARCH

• Clinical and Health Psychology 

Description: The fundamental objective of this line of research in clinical and health psychology is the study of health promotion and well-being, as well as the knowledge of mental disorders and their treatment. The latter is addressed both from the classic therapeutic models and their subsequent developments, as well as from more current ones that emphasize the process of change and are based on evidence.

Within the field of Clinical and Health Psychology, research in psychobiology of stress and health, lifestyles and health, promotion of well-being, promotion of health behaviors from different areas, including sports, health and quality of life, biopsychosocial aspects of illness, stress, coping and health should be highlighted. Gender and health, chronic pain, health psychology and fibromyalgia, health psychology and morbid obesity, psycho-oncology, coping with chronic, severe or life-threatening illness and assessment and intervention in caregivers of dependent people, personality disorders, personality, trauma and survival, Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, normal and complicated grief: predictive factors (risk and protective), psychopathology of emotional disorders, eating disorders and obesity, personality and drugs, interpersonal violence: psychosocial determinants and consequences, coping and solution strategies, adoption, rehabilitation and insertion of schizophrenic patients, the study of the process of change in linguistic assessment therapy, the assimilation of problematic experiences, evaluation and change of beliefs and attitudes towards hypnosis: dissemination of scientific hypnosis and the Valencia model of awake hypnosis and its clinical applications. Design and validation of cognitive-behavioral treatment programs for emotional disorders, eating disorders and obesity.