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Renato Vignati

Adjunct professor

Department of Education Studies "Giovanni Maria Bertin"

Research

Keywords: Helping relationship; Psychology of Emotion; • Sexual and Relational Assessment; Abuse, treatment pathology, multiproblematic family Psicologia cognitiva

Over the years, psychological research and investigations have been carried out on the following topics:

  Psychology of emotions and health: the study of the main emotions in the incidence that are produced in the context of behaviors, learning and competitive performance and motor activities
  The helping relationship: the fundamental characteristics of a helping relationship in the social and health professions, in the vision of Humanistic Psychology and the Person-Centered Approach of Carl Rogers, in particular the factor of empathy, also in the light of the discovery of the system of mirror neurons
  Learning processes: the analysis of the dynamics that govern learning, in relation to Klement Polàcek's research focused on the processes that govern the fundamental learning processes and strategies
  Cognitive processes: the main cognitive processes in theory and application
  Cognitive transfer: the investigation on the ability to transfer in learning, an innovative and creative resource
  Child abuse and the pathology of care: ill-treatment and educational violence against minors, with reference to the practices of black pedagogy and multi-problem families
  Sexual and relational assessment: the clinical investigation of human sexuality and the main dysfunctions, in singles and in couples, and in particular of infertility in couples
  The mystification: the main communication and relational distortions that occur in the family against the background of the theme of madness and total institutions, in relation to the research of Ronald D. Laing and the school of Palo Alto

   Narrative psychology: the narrative paradigm applied to the cognitive process and to the practices of psychology and the helping relationship, in clinical contexts.