Former collaborators

PhD in Psychology with a master’s degree in Methodology of Behavioral and Health Sciences.

I collaborated as an undergraduate student at the Animal Behavior Laboratory of the Faculty of Psychology of the UNED since 2005. Later, I obtained a PhD fellowship in 2010, and carried out the experiments of my doctoral thesis, that is based on the development and maintenance of excessive patterns of behavior using rodents as animal models.

Due to my training in Methodology, I acquired advanced skills in research methods and experimental design, as well as quantitative or qualitative data analysis, and wide experience in Meta Analysis, Psychometry, and Clinical Epidemiology, among other subjects.

I also received additional training in advanced mathematical models applied to behavior during my PhD training after several academic stays at the Animal Behavior Laboratory of the Arizona State University (ASU), in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, and at the School of Psychology from the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal.

After obtaining my PhD degree, I completed my postdoctoral training between 2016 and 2018 working on a project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), at the Western University of Health Sciences, in Pomona, California, USA, where I investigated mechanisms associated with the interaction between diabetes and addiction to nicotine in animal models under the supervision of Professor Arbi Nazarian.

In August 2018, I was hired by the faculty of Psychology of UNED, in Madrid, Spain, as an Assistant Professor of the department of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, where I am developing my own research line on modeling data from the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and Meta Analysis.

She is a Nurse and Midwife and she has requested the specialty in community nursing.

PhD Student in Health Psychology program at UNED, she researches in personal meaning of pregnant people in relation to breastfeeding.

She currently works as a midwife in 12 Octubre Hospital in Madrid. She is resident tutor and a docent at the Midwifes teaching unity of the Community of Madrid.

She is a vocal member of National Commission of the Specialist Midwifes of the Health Ministry and president of the Federation of Associations of Midwives in Spain (FAME).

She has extensive experience in health research, with a large contribution in national and international conferences and papers/publications in scientific journals.

Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with clinic specialist, official Master’s Degree in 3rd therapies generation, Master’s Degree in Research Psychology, Specialist Diploma in Legal and Forensic Psychology.

PhD in Psychology, with a thesis dedicated to study of self in a constructivist manner, following the Kelly’s Personal Constructs Psychology .

He has complementary training in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness, Systemic Family Therapy, Expert in therapies with virtual reality, online psychological intervention, Mentalization Based Therapy.

Currently, he develops his activity in private practice as a Psychologist with Health Licensing and Forensic Specialist, with a therapeutic model focused on integrative therapy oriented by personality.

Pedro Ramírez Lafuente holds a Bachellor’s Degree in Psychologist by Complutense University in Madrid, and Master’s Degree in Psychology Research by UNED. He is currently an associate professor at the Cardenal Cisneros University Centre, attached to the University of Alcalá, where he teaches the subjects of Addiction Psychology (degree in Psychology) and Drug Addiction Prevention (degree in Social Education). He is also a teacher in the General Health Psychology Master Degree and directs 4 Final Degree Projects.

His professional experience, both in the public and private spheres, has focused on working with minors and families in different contexts, highlighting the attention to families with problems of addictions, multi-problems, intra-family violence and child abuse. He has worked as a Psychologist and Deputy Director of the Child Care Centre (CAI) of the Madrid City Council, Psychologist of the Comprehensive Family Attention Service (SAIF) of the Las Rozas City Council of Madrid and Psychologist of the Family Intervention Service (SIF ) of the Mancomunidad 2016. Previously, he has worked as a Psychologist and coordinator of an outpatient centre for the treatment of Addictions, a Psychologist in the Specialist Group on Addictive Behaviours (GECA) and as a Psychologist of the Psychological Care Service of the University School of Technical Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (EUAT-UPM).

Marlena is a Psychologist with health qualification and develops her activity mainly in the clinical and health areas in her private practice, also collaborating as an external psychotherapist in the Applied Psychology Service of the UNED and in the Pichón Riviére Service. Her psychotherapeutic approach is eclectic, integrating psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, humanist and constructivist theories, among others.

Regarding the docent areas, she is a professor-tutor of Psychological Evaluation in an associated Centre of the UNED Madrid, coordinator and speaker in different courses of University Extension of the UNED, and professor in the course of Expert in Psychotherapeutic Intervention in Gender Violence of the AEFDP.

Marlena has studied a Bachellor’s Degree in Psychology from the UNED and the Official Master’s Degree in Psychology Research at the same University. She also has several postgraduate degrees such as: Specialist in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, and Expert in: Group Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Couples Therapy, Personality Disorders, Diagnostic Evaluation through Projective Techniques, Psychotherapeutic Intervention in gender violence.

He is currently doing a PhD in Health Psychology at UNED, investigating the relationship between attachment and the construction of internal models of the Self and The Other, is a member of the Editorial Board of the Intersubjective Journal and has participated in several Psychology congresses where he has presented works related to his doctoral thesis and clinical practice.

Licenced  in Medicine and Surgery at the medical school from the University of Seville. I am registered as a general practitioner (Certification from the spanish ministry of health). I have been working as a General Practices (GP) for more than 25 years in the National Health System. Due to my concern for a fully comprehensive and holistic patient care I studied psychosomatic medicine (San Jorge University: Expertise in Psychosomatic Medicine and Clinical Psychology), which has led me to develop into psychological and social aspects of the person, with greater insight in the causes of illness and their consequences with a holistic, integral and humane therapeutic approach.  I had Degree in Psychology from National Distance Education University (UNED) in Madrid and I have complemented  the degree with a Master of Brief  Psychotherapy, Specialisation in Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, Couples and Family Therapy, among others.   As a teacher, I have trained GP and Medical undergraduates at the Medical School from the University of Alcala. I also teach in the Psychosomatic Clinic at the Association for the promotion and development of psychotherapy.   As a researcher I have participated in various multicenter studies, highlighting the PsiCAP study for the Treatment of emotional disorders in Primary Health Care.  Currently I’m developing a career as a Psychotherapist in the health area in private consultation.  Have become a member of GICUNED group since June 2020.

Former collaborator

Juan Herran-Alonso holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Psychology Research from UNED (Spain). He also completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for depression and anxiety at the University of Southampton (UK). Currently, he is undertaking a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). He has extensive experience in various areas of clinical work such as psychological intervention in intellectual disabilities, children, adolescents and adults, multidisciplinary evaluation of neurodevelopmental disorders, and applied functional analysis.

He has a special interest in the area of cognitive structure within Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory, and has published several papers on the predictive and construct validity of various cognitive differentiation indices derived from repertory grids. For future projects, Mr Herran-Alonso is interested in developing valid measures of the cognitive integration process, as well as in working towards a unified model of the structure of construct systems, susceptible of computer simulation.