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Débora Pérez and Olga Pont participated as speakers at the 4th Williams Syndrome Update Conference, held on 19 September 2026 at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB).

Article of the Month: Paranoia and Social Anxiety, Similarities and Differences in Everyday Life

Richard Bentall delivers a seminar on trauma and psychosis for the PhD Programme in Clinical and Healthy Psychology

Valeria Lavín defends her doctoral thesis on the combined influence of genes and the environment on mental health

 The thesis defense will take place next, September, 18 2026 a les 12:30h at the  Sala de Graus (HSP/116) Sant Pau.

The project Avaluació del treball autònom en l’era de la IA generativa: del producte al procés (Projecte Athena) will be implemented during the 2026-27 academic year in the course Personality and Individual Differences.

Professor Danilo Moggia, from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), participated in the 57th International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), held in Osaka, Japan. During the conference, he presented new research on network psychometrics and took part in a panel discussion on the role of unified theories of human behaviour in psychotherapy research.

The “Article of the Month” initiative, promoted by the Research and Communication Committee of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, has selected the study “Stigmatizing attitudes and misconceptions about obesity among Spanish healthcare professionals”, publicat a la revista PLOS One". 

The Secretariat of Public Health of the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia has published No Body Left Out of the Game, a new tool developed in the framework of the Child Obesity Prevention and Treatment Program in Catalonia (POICAT) with the objective of promoting a practice of physical and sports activity free of stigma due to weight. Professor David Sánchez-Carracedo, from the Department of Clinical Psychology and Health at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​has collaborated in the revision of the document.

Professor Adrián Pérez Aranda, from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), participated in the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) World Conference 2026, held in Lyon, France, where he presented a scientific poster on the relationship between self-esteem, self-compassion, and well-being.