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On November 8, 2024, the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology will hold its 1st Research Conference in the Sala de Graus. This hybrid event will offer an attendance certificate.

The thesis defense will take place next November 4th. 2024 at 11:30 a.m. in the Sala de Actos (B7/1056) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Last December, the position of the Dialogue Table for the Prevention of Eating Disorders, coordinated by the Public Health Agency of Catalonia, on the practice of taking anthropometric measurements in children and adolescents in educational centers was published, authored by Bujalance Arguijo, Manera Bassols, Salvador Castell, and Sánchez Carracedo (2023).

In March 2024, the Research and Communication Working Group (GTRiC) was born in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology of the UAB. The creation of the GTRiC is an initiative of professors Susana Subirà and Ana Barajas, Director and Secretary, respectively, of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. The coordination of the team has been delegated to Prof. Juan Vicente Luciano, who has a team of predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers from the department.

The main mission of the GTRiC is to promote and disseminate the research of our department through various initiatives and actions. We are currently working on the selection of the best article of the month published by the teaching staff, the organization of quarterly scientific seminars taught by staff of the department and the annual celebration of a scientific day of research in clinical and health psychology. We take this opportunity to advance that the first annual day will take place on Friday, November 8, 2024 (we will soon give more information about this event).

In short, with these initiatives, the GTRiC is expected to contribute significantly to the dynamization and dissemination of quality research that is currently being carried out in our department and that is a priority objective for the current Department Management.

A Master's degree dissertation on the effects of the Way of St. James on mental health and wellbeing receives an honourable mention.

A study coordinated by the UAB discovers that low cognitive performance in patients with recent-onset psychosis is an obstacle to bringing about changes in attributional biases following metacognitive intervention.

The defense of the thesis took place on December 21th, 2023 at 17:00 p.m. in the Sala de Grados (B7/052) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Defense of the doctoral thesis of Pilar Torrecilla González

UAB researchers demonstrate that predictive processing is coded in the brain on specific frequency bands and provide causal evidence that the process can be modulated ‘at will’. The study opens the door to the possibility of developing non-invasive therapies capable of restoring the balance of the system of predictions when it is affected by conditions related to mental health.

The Government of Catalonia conferred the Creu de Sant Jordi Award to physician and psychologist Edelmira Domènech, former professor of the UAB Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. The award was given to her "for her important contributions in the field of psychiatry, where her role in pioneering the area of child psychiatry stands out".