Research lines

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POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY TO PROMOTE WELLNESS AND HEALTH
To study processes involved in wellness, and developing and studying different Positive Interventions through ICTS to promote positive emotions.
PROMOTION OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLES
Provide strategies to achieve a better promote quality of life and physical and mental well-being to people,through interventions promoting healthy lifestyles.
EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Implementation, validation and disemination of intervention programmes to family and patients with personality disorder. Studying variables in order to protect suicide and non-suicidal self-harm .

BODY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
To analyze alterations in embodiment in certain psychopathological disorders. (e.g., eating disorders), to analyze psychological effect of te body manipulation from embodied cognition theories in emotional disorder; and to assess and change mental representations of the body altered by eating disorders through the virtual reality.

MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION
Investigate the impact of practising Mindfulness over different psychological aspects such as attention, control of emotions or values.
PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS THROUGH ICTS

Design applications (web platforms, virtual reality, mobile systems) which will serve as therapeutic tools at the development and tratment of the psychological disorders.