Professor Stevan Hobfoll
Dr. Stevan Hobfoll has authored and edited 12 books, including TRAUMATIC STRESS, THE ECOLOGY OF STRESS, STRESS CULTURE AND COMMUNITY, and THE IMPERFECT GUARDIAN (an historical novel set in Eastern Europe at the time of WWI). In addition, he has authored over 250 journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. He has been a frequent workshop leader on stress, war, and terrorism, stress and health, and organizational stress. He has received over $18 million in research grants on stress. Dr. Hobfoll is currently the Judd and Marjorie Weinberg Presidential Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Rush Medical College in Chicago, joining Rush in 2008. His current research focuses on trauma in zones of conflict and on the connection between stress and biological-health outcomes in women’s lives.
Dr. Hobfoll was a Senior Fellow of the Center for National Security Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. Formerly at Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Universities, and an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces, he remains involved with the problem of stress in Israel. Dr. Hobfoll was cited by the Encyclopædia Britannica for his contribution to knowledge and understanding for his Ecology of Stress. He was co-chair of the American Psychological Association Commission on Stress and War during Operation Desert Storm, helping plan for the prevention of prolonged distress among military personnel and their families, a member of the U.S. Disaster Mental Health Subcommittee of the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB), and a member of APA’s Task Force on Resilience in Response to Terrorism. Dr. Hobfoll published the first randomized clinical trial on the prevention of HIV/AIDS in women. He has been a consultant to several nations, military organizations, and major corporations on problems of stress and health.
Noa Vilchinsky, PhD
Dr. Noa Vilchinsky is a Senior lecturer and the head of the Psycho-cardiology Research Lab Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. She is also a certified rehabilitation psychologist, who worked many years with individuals and families coping with cardiac illnesses. Her main fields of research are psycho-cardiology, dyadic coping with chronic illness, PTSD in illnesses, caregiving in health challenges, attitudes toward people with disabilities, and the importance of being treated with dignity within the medical setting. Her co-authored book: "Caregiving in the Illness Context" was published in 2016 by Palgrave-McMillan.
Bogdan Zawadzki (born 1957), Ph.D. (1992), Professor of psychology, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology, 00-183 Warsaw, Stawki 5/7, Poland (e-mail: Bogdan.Zawadzki@.psych.uw.edu.pl). 140 publications from psychology of individual differences - psychology of temperament, behaviour genetics, cross-cultural psychology, psychological diagnosis, and clinical psychology, printed in European Journal of Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, European Psychologist, Psychological Assessment, European Psychiatry as well as in Polish scientific journals (like Polish Psychological Bulletin, Current Issues in Personality Psychology, Annals of Psychology, Polish Psychiatry) or as a chapters in edited books, including chapters in prestigious handbooks, edited by G. J. Boyle, G. Matthews & D. H. Saklofske (2008), Handbook of personality theory and assessment: Personality measurement and assessment. Los Angeles: Sage Publ. (Strelau, J., & Zawadzki, B. Temperament from a psychometric perspective: Theory and measurement, vol. 2, pp. 347-368) and by M. Zentner & R. Shiner (2012), The handbook of temperament. New York: The Guilford Press (Strelau, J,. & Zawadzki, B. Activity as a temperament trait (pp. 83-104). Two monographs (“Temperament – genes and environment: Intrapopulation and interpopulation comparisons”, Gdansk: GWP, 2002 and “Personality inventories. Strategies and procedure of development”, Warszawa: Scholar, 2006) and five handbooks to personality inventories. The last papers were devoted to the problem of factors (including personality traits) influencing the onset of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in victims of natural disasters and traffic accidents as well as effectiveness of psychotherapy of PTSD.
Professor Bogdan Zawadzki
Abstract of Keynote Speech
Agnieszka Popiel MD, PhD, psychiatrist, psychotherapist (PTTPB, SITCC, EABCT), psychotherapy supervisor (PTTPB), has been involved with cognitive-behavioral therapy in clinical and research practice, organizational work and teaching for many years.
Clinical and research area: treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder – efficacy, effectiveness and predictors of outcome. Co-chair of a clinical programs TRAKT - studies on efficacy of treatments for PTSD in car accident victims. Clinical supervisor at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotraumatology at the Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
Organizational work: Member of Working Group of Training Standards of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT). Initiator and past president of the Polish Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy (1999-2005, 2007-2009), National Representative at EABCT since 2000, member of the: scientific committees of the EABCT congresses in Prague (2003) and Marrakech (2013), International Scientific Support Group for the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapis in Berlin 2019.
Teaching: Chair of 4-year postgraduate studies in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland. Invited workshops, trainings and clinical supervisions in Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania.
Author of over 60 congress presentations, 30 published articles, 13 book chapters. Co-author of the handbook Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. Theory and practice (2008), co-editor of the handbook Supervision in CBT (2013).
Agnieszka Popiel PhD
Albert Sesé PhD
Albert Sesé (MD and PhD) (Spain, 1970) is a professor of the Department of Psychology of the Balearic Islands University. He held various academic management positions for 12 years; vice-dean of the Faculty of Psychology from May 2004 till November 2006, and Full Dean from November 2006 to October 2016. According to Spanish 2017 university rankings, the Faculty of Psychology of the Balearic Islands University is the best Psychology higher education center in Spain, and it has the best records in research (published papers and grants). He also regularly participates in expert panels for quality management in academic institutions of higher education. His teaching expertise area is Methodology of Behavioral and Health Sciences, and specifically Psychometrics. His teaching career started at 1995 in the University of Valencia and continued to the present in the Balearic Islands University. Prof. Sesé teaches degree, master, and doctorate level subjects such us applied and advanced statistical modeling, fundamentals of methodological designs, and of course, basic and advanced psychometrics.
Dr. Sesé obtained the First Extraordinary Award of the Bachelor of Psychology (1994), the Spanish National Award on Psychology (1995), and the Extraordinary Award of Doctorate in 2004. He also was the Early Career Award of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society in 2008, the “X Ramon Bayes Sopena Award” of the Medical Sciences Academy in 2014, and he was nominated as the best Psychologist in Spain in 2016.
His dedication to research in Psychology is well represented by a large number of impacted publications, competitive projects and grants. He has been recognized with three six-year periods of excellent research by the "Spanish Agency for Evaluation and Foresight”. He has obtained 32.50 score in Researchgate.netscientists’ database (Percentile 90%). Currently his main dedication is focused on the study of evidence-based practice in Psychology, the study of anxiety and attitudes toward statistics, adolescents drug consumption and prediction models of suicidal behavior in university students. He also is member of the PhD Psychology Program Board in the Balearic Islands University.
As major affiliations, Dr. Sesé is an individual member of the European Association of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, the International Test Commission, the Royal Psychometric Society, and since July 2016 is the President of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR).
Siobhán HOWARD, PhD
Dr Howard graduated with her PhD in psychology from the School of Psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) in 2009 and subsequently completed three years of post-doctoral work in the Centre for Research on Occupational and Life Stress, NUI Galway. In 2011, she took up the position of lecturer in psychology at the Department of Psychology, Mary Immaculate College, and in 2018, was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Limerick (UL), where she is an active member of the Health Research Institute, the Centre for Social Issues Research, and the SASH laboratory at UL. Her work on Type D personality and cardiovascular reactions to stress has been funded by the Irish Research Council and the Royal Irish Academy. Dr Howard served as secretary to the STAR board from 2012 to 2016.
Erica Frydenberg, PhD
Erica Frydenberg PhD is an educational, clinical and organizational psychologist who has practiced extensively in the Australian educational setting. She is a Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor in psychology in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society She has authored and co-authored over 150 academic journal articles and chapters in the field of coping, developed psychological instruments to measure coping in children, adolescents and adults and authored and co-authored 22 books on topics ranging from early years through to adolescence and parenting. She has received numerous Australian Research Council and philanthropic grants, been engaged as a consultant with organizations such as National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Department of Education, Catholic Education Authority and Victorian Assessment and Curriculum Authority. She was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group Stress and Coping in Education, the University of Melbourne Medal for Research Excellence Faculty of Education Award and the University of Melbourne Knowledge Transfer Award. In 2013 she was the recipient of the Life-time Career Award of the Stress Anxiety Research Society, an international body of researchers and practitioners. Her 2017 publications include Coping and the Challenge of Resilience published in London by Palgrave Macmillan and an edited volume with Andrew Martin and Rebecca Collie, Social and Emotional Learning in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, published by Springer Nature in Singapore. In 2018, her latest book, Adolescent Coping: Promoting Resilience and Well-beingis published in London by Routledge.
