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14th Congress of the Spanish Association for the Study of Eating Disorders (AEETCA) and the 18th Congress of the Hispanic-Latin American Chapter of the Academy for Eating Disorders.

Next Thursday, December 12, 2024, the seminar "Keys to Success in Teaching Innovation" will be held, organized by the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology.

The 1ert Research Seminar of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology allowed to share the advances in research of the different lines of the department. The day was marked by the presentations of young researchers who had a curious audience receptive to science.

On November 8, 2024, the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology will hold its 1st Research Conference in the Sala de Graus. This hybrid event will offer an attendance certificate.

The thesis defense will take place next November 4th. 2024 at 11:30 a.m. in the Sala de Actos (B7/1056) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Last December, the position of the Dialogue Table for the Prevention of Eating Disorders, coordinated by the Public Health Agency of Catalonia, on the practice of taking anthropometric measurements in children and adolescents in educational centers was published, authored by Bujalance Arguijo, Manera Bassols, Salvador Castell, and Sánchez Carracedo (2023).

In March 2024, the Research and Communication Working Group (GTRiC) was born in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology of the UAB. The creation of the GTRiC is an initiative of professors Susana Subirà and Ana Barajas, Director and Secretary, respectively, of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. The coordination of the team has been delegated to Prof. Juan Vicente Luciano, who has a team of predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers from the department.

The main mission of the GTRiC is to promote and disseminate the research of our department through various initiatives and actions. We are currently working on the selection of the best article of the month published by the teaching staff, the organization of quarterly scientific seminars taught by staff of the department and the annual celebration of a scientific day of research in clinical and health psychology. We take this opportunity to advance that the first annual day will take place on Friday, November 8, 2024 (we will soon give more information about this event).

In short, with these initiatives, the GTRiC is expected to contribute significantly to the dynamization and dissemination of quality research that is currently being carried out in our department and that is a priority objective for the current Department Management.

A Master's degree dissertation on the effects of the Way of St. James on mental health and wellbeing receives an honourable mention.

A study coordinated by the UAB discovers that low cognitive performance in patients with recent-onset psychosis is an obstacle to bringing about changes in attributional biases following metacognitive intervention.

The defense of the thesis took place on December 21th, 2023 at 17:00 p.m. in the Sala de Grados (B7/052) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities