Paola Bastianoni is Professor of Dynamic Psychology (M-PSI/07) at the University of Ferrara, Faculty of Literary Studies and Philosophy.
She is director of the Course:
- "Maltreatment and Child Abuse" at the University of Ferrara (since 2007 to 2010).
- “Child rights and child protection” at the University of Ferrara
Psychodynamic, psychosocial and clinical teaching activity in the university institutional courses and master at the University of Bologna, Salento, Bari, Padova (since 2000 to 2010).
Training activities and clinical supervision on individual and group’s dynamics in therapeutic contexts (since 1987).
Psychodynamic and psycho-social training in educative contexts (since 1988).
National and international research methodology training (since 1993 to 2003).
She took part to courses on Adult Attachment Interview (Rome, 2009) and Lausanne Trilogue Play (Padua, 2011).
She has long been involved in assessing interventions designed for deprived children and victims of child abuse in the family. More recently she has been involved in the forms of psychosocial response for the emerging needs of immigrant children and their families, with particular focus on analysing contexts of everyday life such as schools, families and local services.
She has recently been working on the organization of daily family life (routines, rituals, rules) seen as risk or protection factor for adolescent subjects. The basic theory in this area is that of Developmental Psychopathology (Cicchetti, 1990; Rutter, 1991) which studies both normal and at risk populations using a contextual approach and paying particular attention to psychosocial factors.
Prevailing research interests: application of clinical-dynamic theoretic models for the analysis of specific social and cultural processes; analysis of the basic constructs about familiar structures in a dynamic, clinical and psycho-social approach; parenting and attachment theory; supporting parenting; training and clinical supervision in therapeutic and educational context; identity; psychopathology of eating disorders; methodologies for the dynamic and clinical analysis of interaction processes; analysis of the narrative productions with the application of clinical and dynamic constructs; understanding the psychological and psychosocial children "at risk" with particular attention to maladaptive outcomes such as late at school, eating disorders and relationship difficulties.
She is currently a member of the AIP.
She is also on the editing board of the following journals:
1-Psicologia Scolastica
2-European Journal of School Psychology