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  • Austria - Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Vienna
  • Belgium - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven
  • Bulgaria - Global Initiative on Psychiatry, Sofia
  • Czech Republic - Centre for Mental Health Care Development, Prague
  • Finland - National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki
  • Germany - Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf
  • Greece - University Mental Health Research Institute, Athens
  • Hungary - Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC), Budapest
  • Italy - University of Verona, Verona
  • Lithuania - University of Vilnius, Vilnius
  • Netherlands - Stichting Kenniscentrum Rehabilitatie, Amsterdam
  • Romania - Romanian Association of Community Psychiatry, Bucharest
  • Slovakia - Integra o.z., Michalovce
  • Turkey - Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul
  • United Kingdom - King's College London, London
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University of Verona - Department of Medicine and Public Health - Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Verona, IT

The Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology has a long lasting tradition of combining research, teaching and clinical activities in an integrated way. For these reasons, it was firstly designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre in 1987 and it has been reconfirmed ever since.

Clinically, the institution is responsible of a comprehensive community mental health service (CMHS) for an area of 100,000 population, with both intramural and extramural facilities fully coordinated and providing continuity of care. Facilities include a psychiatric ward in the general hospital, liaison psychiatry, a community mental health centre, residential hostels, an outpatient department and other community-based facilities, the Service of Psychosomatics and Clinical Psychology, and the Service of Psychotherapy.

Mission Statement

The Institution believes its principal responsibility is to the more disturbed and disturbing individuals, to whom it attempts to provide care in the least restrictive environment, i. e., with a minimum use of the hospital.

Continuity of care is facilitated by the same staff members' working both in the intramural and extramural programs ("single staff" module).

The main research activities of the institution include: Patterns of Care, Cost Evaluation, Outcome Studies, Clinical Psychopharmacology and Drug Epidemiology, Brain Imaging and Neuropsychology, Clinical Psychology and Communication in Medicine.

Education and training is offered to undergraduate and post-graduate students: thanks to the combination of academic credentials and commitment to operate in the community the institution provides students with the opportunity to obtain up-to-date education, and to receive their training in settings identical to those that they will find in their professional life.

Team Members

• Lorenzo Burti, MD, Professor of Psychiatry
Honorary Senior Registrar, Director of Psychotherapy Unit. Project coordinator.
Clinical activities: former head of a community clinical team, later of the day and residential care programs.
Teaching activities: president of graduate curriculum in psychiatric rehabilitation and vice-president, postgraduate curriculum in science of rehabilitation.
Research activities: psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia, community mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, psychiatric rehabilitation, consumer-run collaborative programs, health promotion, prevention and treatment of physical co-morbidity in schizophrenia.


• Antonio Lasalvia, MD, specialist in Psychiatry
Senior Registrar, National Health Service.


• Cinzia Papa, MD, Psychologist
specialised in cognitive behavioral psychotherapy and trainer training (master). Professional expertise in clinical psychology (group and individual) and occupational psychology.


• Irene Fiorini, MD, Psychologist

Contact

Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology
Piazzale L.A.Scuro, 10
37134 Verona
ITALY
Phone: +39 - 045 - 8127442
Fax: +39 - 045 - 8124997
www.psychiatry.univr.it