PAROLIN LAURA ANTONIA LUCIA

Role
Full Professor  
Academic disciplines
Dynamic Psychology (PSIC-04/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
CLINICAL AND DYNAMIC PSYCHOLOGY (11/PSIC-04)
Email
[email protected]
Office phone
0264483796
Room:
  • U06, Floor: 4, Room: 4070
Reception hours

Student office hours by appointment via email.

 

👩🏻‍💻 For thesis requests, please fill out the form available at the following link.

Research

Research areas

  • Multimethod assessment: performance-based personality tests, questionnaires, and scales.
  • Validation of instruments for the assessment of mentalization skills in developmental age.
  • Psychodynamics of behavioral addictions: personality, mentalization, and epistemic trust in emerging adulthood.
  • Psychological Bonus - Research on the effectiveness of psychological interventions on the Italian population (adults and adolescents).
  • EASY Project (Emotional Awareness for Supporting Youths): research on emotional regulation and mentalization in adolescence (Experience Sampling Methodology and longitudinal collection).

  • Validation study of the MAIA-2 in clinical adolescent populations.

 

Publications

  • Lo Coco, G., Kivlighan, D., Benzi, I., Zarbo, C., La Tona, A., Smeriglio, R., et al. (2026). Cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression dynamics predict changes in distress across psychotherapy: Findings from the PsyCARE study. PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH, 1-13 [10.1080/10503307.2026.2632043]. Detail

  • Benzi, I., Midgley, N., Ensink, K., Parolin, L., Fonagy, P., Locati, F. (2026). Mapping the Adolescent Mind: Profiles of Reflective Functioning and Epistemic Trust in Adolescent Psychopathology. JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENCE [10.1002/jad.70160]. Detail

  • Benzi, I., La Tona, A., Zarbo, C., Carone, N., Liotti, M., Smeriglio, R., et al. (2026). The Impact of Government-Funded Brief Psychological Interventions on Mental Health: A Longitudinal Evaluation of the Italian “Psychological Bonus” Policy. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL [10.1007/s10597-026-01657-y]. Detail

  • Benzi, I., Fontana, A., Carone, N., Locati, F., Parolin, L., Ensink, K. (2026). Pathology of the self: a network analysis of personality functioning, narcissistic vulnerability, mentalizing, and epistemic trust across trauma profiles. BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER AND EMOTION DYSREGULATION, 13(1 (December 2026)) [10.1186/s40479-026-00335-5]. Detail

  • Benzi, I., Barlattani, A., Carone, N., Tracchegiani, J., Fontana, A., Ensink, K., et al. (2026). When the body speaks for the mind: A parallel–serial mediation model of trauma, epistemic trust, reflective functioning, and somatic symptoms in emerging adults. PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA [10.1037/tra0002179]. Detail

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