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CIRO DE VINCENZO
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Assegnista di ricerca
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Università degli studi Padova
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Ciro De Vincenzo has a BS in "Psychological Sciences and Techniques" (2014) from the University of Naples "Federico II" (110/110 cum laude) and an MS in "Clinical Dynamic Psychology" (2017) from the University of Padua (110/110 cum laude).
In 2019, he got the license to become a professional psychologist (Registration No.: 11298) from the Order of Psychologists Veneto (OPPV), Roll A.
In 2018, he started a Ph.D. in "Social Sciences" at the FISPPA Department of the University of Padua. He got his degree in May 2022.
He has authored 30+ peer-reviewed papers, covering pandemic grief, refugee psychosocial care, and pet-loss assessment. His scholarship has accrued 205 citations and an h-index of 8 on Google Scholar (Scopus: 116 citations, h-index 6; ResearchGate: 151 citations)Curriculum Vitae_Ciro D…. Dr De Vincenzo is Associate Editor for Trends in Psychology (since 2025) and the Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology (since 2024)Curriculum Vitae_Ciro D…, and a regular reviewer for leading international journals in health and cultural psychologyCurriculum Vitae_Ciro D…. He presents widely at European and North-American conferences, fostering a robust global networkCurriculum Vitae_Ciro D….
He served, from January 2021 to May 2022, as a Senator representing Ph.D. students at the Academic Senate of the University of Padua and he was a member of the Working Group of the "Commission for the Application of the Principles of the Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers". Finally, from April 2021 to May 2022, he was a member of the Presiding Body of the Student Council at the University of Padua.
In addition, he is a member of several professionalizing and civic organizations: the Italian Association of Phenomenological Psychology (AIPF), the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP), the Association of European Qualitative Research in Psychology (EQuiP), the Association of Doctoral and Doctoral Students in Italy (ADI), Mediterranea Saving Humans (MSH), ResQ -People Saving People.
He is principal investigator of “Legature d’Espressione” (Con i Bambini Foundation, 2025-2028) and coordinator of “PSI-CO” (Intesa Sanpaolo Charity Fund, 2025-2026), both centred on mental-health empowerment for at-risk adolescents and marginalised communities.
In his research activities, he has been interested in the following areas:
- Death Studies or end-of-life studies;
- Border Studies;
- Migration Studies;
- Memory Studies;
- Trauma Studies;
- Historical-critical perspectives in European and North American psychology;
- Critical, post-modern, and post-liberal psychological theory;
- Historical-critical perspectives on qualitative research methodology in the social and psychological sciences.
Notices
Office hours
Tuesday from 9:00 to 11:00
at Consorzio Universitario Rovigo CUR viale Porta Adige 45 - Rovigo
Si chiede allo studente ed alla studentessa di anticipare e confermare il ricevimento inviando una mail all'indirizzo: ciro.devincenzo@unipd.it. Inoltre, ulteriori date/orari di ricevimento possono essere concordate via mail (stesso indirizzo) in base alle necessità dello studente e della studentessa. Infine, vi è la possibilità, in base ai bisogni individuali, di svolgere ricevimenti online, previo appuntamento concordato per email. [I kindly ask the student to anticipate and confirm the meeting during office hours by emailing: ciro.devincenzo@unipd.it. In addition, further office hours dates/times can be arranged via email (same address) according to the students' needs. Finally, based on individual needs, there is the possibility to conduct online office hours meetings, subject to an appointment agreed upon by email].
Publications
De Vincenzo, C., Garolla, A., Delinna, S., Pizzolato, L., & Testoni, I. (2025). Experiences and narratives of mandatory psychological assessment in Trans and Nonbinary people: An Italian qualitative analysis. BMC psychology, 13(1), 342. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02675-3
Testoni, I., Vischio, A., Ciappa, C., Gentile, M. & De Vincenzo, C. (2025). Social psychological and spiritual discomfort: Legitimization of the need for transcendence and psychological listening. Pastoral Psychology. 10.1007/s11089-025-01225-3 (advanced onine publication)
Testoni, I., Vischio, A., De Bona, D., Gentile, M. & De Vincenzo, C. (2025). Believing in possession: Social psychological distress and need for transcendence in seeking psychological and pastoral support. Pastoral Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-025-01217-3 (advanced online publication)
De Vincenzo, C., Zamperini, A., Tronchin, E. B., & Testoni, I. (2024). Experiencing death and grief at the border: A sociocultural psychological analysis of activists’ struggles at the European and Central-American border. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2024.2352000
De Vincenzo, C., Cena, L., Trainini, A., Nieddu, C., Iacona, E., Ronconi, L., & Testoni, I. (2024). Perinatal loss and parents’ grief amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-method research. Behavioral Sciences, 14(4), 339. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14040339
Sani, L., Cape, C., Merheb, J., Poulin, N., Lassagne, B., Canet, G., Lallemant, M., Cherblanc, J., De Vincenzo, C., Testoni, I., Canellopoulos, L., Kaufmann, N. T., & Bacqué, M. F. (2024). The Absence of Funeral Rites as a Risk Factor for the French Bereaved Population. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228241276570
De Vincenzo, C., Biancalani, G., Sani, L., Bacqué, M., Novelletto, L., Scussolin, D., & Testoni, I. (2024). The impact of COVID-19 on grief: A quantitative and qualitative analysis in Italy. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228241248534
De Vincenzo, C., Modugno, R. & Stocco, N. (2024). A Critical Sociocultural Understanding of Evidence-Based Research and Practice Paradigm in Contemporary Psychology. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 58(1), 160-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-023-09798-5
Zamperini, A., N’Guessan, P., De Vincenzo, C., & Menegatto, M. (2024). Role conflicts and management strategies in social workers working for refugees. Ricerche Di Psicologia, (2), 7-32. https://doi.org/10.3280/rip2023oa17126
Zamperini, A., De Vincenzo, C., Freschi, G., & Menegatto, M. (2024). Exploring the psychosocial experiences of Afghan refugees in Italy: A qualitative study. Community Psychology In Global Perspective, 10(1/1), 65-88. doi:10.1285/i24212113v10i1p65
De Vincenzo, C., & Zamperini, A. (2023). Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border: Cultural psychological dimensions of memory and mourning in Lampedusa. Culture & Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x231219449
De Vincenzo, C., Marian, I., Piol, S., Keisari, S. & Testoni, I. (2023). Self-help groups for caregivers: The experience of caregivers of older adults living in nursing homes. Behavioral Sciences, 13(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13060485
Research Area
The lecturer adopts a sociocultural and historical-critical psychosocial research perspective. In addition, he employs a qualitative methodological framework.
Specifically, he deals with the following lines of research (which may intertwine with each other becoming a broader research area):
- Studies on contemporary international migration and migration in Europe: the policies that regulate regimes of international mobility, with particular attention to the social representations they convey and the psychosocial context they create; the experiences of territorial communities of border or transit, with particular attention to the semiotic field they inhabit; transfrontieralist experiences and practices of border contestation;
- Studies on end-of-life, traumatic grief, and delegitimized grief: experiences and models of intervention in the management of life's terminal moments; personal and social experiences of delegitimization of traumatic grief experiences and experiences of re-humanization;
- Studies on psychosocial and collective memory;
- Studies on the history of European and North American psychology from critical, epistemological, and post-modern/post-liberal perspectives;
Thesis proposals
1. Violence, violations and activism at geographic and urban borders
2. Psychology of end-of-life and dying
3. Sociopolitical psychology
