Research interests

Positive and negative body image in adolescents.

Adult and adolescent clinical psychology.

Risk and protective factors of psychopathology in adolescents and young adults, with a specific interest in the study of transdiagnostic vulnerability factors (e.g., intolerance of uncertainty and emotion dysregulation).

Psychiatric emergencies in adolescence: diagnostic-therapeutic approach to severe personality disorders, affective disorders, social withdrawal, and suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury.

Prevention and assessment of the main psychological disorders in adolescence and adulthood.