Ines Testoni is Associate Professor of Social Psychology (M-PSI/05), at the FISPPA Department (University of Padua) – Registered Psychologist and Psychotherapist and research fellow at the Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, University of Haifa, Israel. She is member of many scientific associations and networks, among which: Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP); CIRSG Interdepartmental Research Centre (Univeristy of Padova); International Council of Psychologists (ICP); World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP); Italian Association of Psychology of Religion (SIPR). She is member of the directive of Ases (Association of Studies of Emanuele Severino) and of BNE (Bereavement network in Europe), and member of the Centre for Studies of Human Services (CISSPE) and of the international Fepto Research Committee (The Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations). She was scientific director of 10 international conferences. Since 2008, she is Director and coordinator the Post-Graduate Master: “Death Studies & the End of Life: Studies on Death and Dying”. She tought in the international course: “How to enhance group interaction” Local Development, Coimbra network. She was visiting Professor at Universidade De Caxias do Sul (UCS), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest. She is referee of many national and international scientific journals, co-editor in chief of the journal "Gli Argonauti". She was president or member of juries for 30 university competitions. She leaded many national project, was part of an international project between Italy and Brazil, was coordinator and scientific director of two European projects (Daphne III, Justice and Grundtvig-Lifelong Learning).
The fields of research are the following. First area - Death Studies: social psychology of health and psycho-thanatology – death education – anticipatory mourning; theory of adult attachment and mourning/grief processing; grief processing counselling and therapy; social constructs of the representation of death; representations of death and social constructs of the dynamics of youths self-harm behaviors: drug addiction, anorexia and suicide; psychosocial factors of suicide; Terror Management Theory, Near Death Experiences. Second area - Gender studies and gender based violence: domestic violence, treatment of victims and perpetrators. Third area - Psychodrama and sociodrama: intervention and support to cope with death and dying and to cope domestic violence; psychodrama and educational preventive practices against gender based violence, psychodrama and death education.
She is author of many national and international operas: about 100 article, 30 contribute in collective books, 10 volumes and has edited 10 volumes.

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