Psicologa e psicoterapeuta sistemico-relazionale, è ricercatrice confermata in Psicologia Clinica e Professore aggregato all’Università degli Studi di Bergamo. È membro dei Collegi didattici del Dottorato in Psicologia Clinica e della Laurea Magistrale in Psicologia Clinica, presso cui insegna “Tecniche del colloquio clinico con l’individuo, la famiglia e i gruppi” e “Psicologia Clinica (corso avanzato)”.
Svolge da anni attività di ricerca in ambito clinico, principalmente nel campo della psicopatologia e della psicoterapia. I suoi interessi di ricerca si concentrano in particolare sul legame tra le semantiche familiari e la psicopatologia, l’analisi semantica della conversazione terapeutica, i fattori specifici di cambiamento nelle psicoterapie sistemico-relazionali. Ha alle spalle diverse pubblicazioni ed esperienze professionali, in particolare nel campo dei disturbi alimentari e dell’obesità, conseguite collaborando con diversi centri specializzati in Italia e all’estero.
È vice-direttore del CISAlpino Institute for Comparative Studies in Europe(CCSE), Centro di Ricerca di studi comparati, con sede presso l’Università degli Studi di Bergamo e membro co-fondatore dell’European Family Therapy Research Group (EFTRG).
È Co-Editor di In Mind– Italian chapter: una rivista on-line e peer-review dedicata alla psicologia clinica e sociale (http://it.in-mind.org/content/in-mind).
Recent publications
Ugazio V., Pennacchio R., Fellin L., Guarnieri, S. & Anselmi. P. (2020). Explaining symptoms in systemic therapy. Does triadic thinking come into play? Frontiers in Psychology-Psychology for Clinical Settings https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00597
Fellin, L. C., Callaghan, J. E., Alexander, J. H., Mavrou, S. & Harrison‐Breed, C. (2019). Child's Play? Children and Young People's Resistances to Domestic Violence and Abuse. Children and Society, 33: 126-141. doi:10.1111/chso.12302
Fellin, L. C., Callaghan, J. E., Alexander, J. H., Harrison-Breed, C., Mavrou, S., & Papathanasiou, M. (2019). Empowering young people who experienced domestic violence and abuse: The development of a group therapy intervention. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 24(1), 170–189. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104518794783
Callaghan, J.E.M., Fellin, L.C. & Alexander, J.H. (2019). Promoting Resilience and Agency in Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence and Abuse: the “MPOWER” Intervention. Journal of Family Violence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-018-0025-x
Alexander, J., Callaghan, J. & Fellin, L. (2018). Genograms in research: participants’ reflections of the genogram process. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1-21. 10.1080/14780887.2018.1545066.
Smith, L, Callaghan, J.E.M, & Fellin, L. (2018). “Why do we do it?!” A study investigating experiences and understanding of motivations of Samaritan volunteers. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2018.1546378
Childs-Fegredo, J. & Fellin, L. (2018). 'Everyone should do it': client experience of receiving adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy - an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 18(3), 319-331. (10.1002/capr.12178).
McAllister, L., Callaghan, J. & Fellin, L. (2019). Masculinities and emotional expression in UK Servicemen: “Big boys don’t cry”? Journal of Gender Studies, 28:3, 257-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2018.1429898
Galbusera, L., Fellin, L.C., & Fuchs, T. (2019). Toward the recovery of a sense of self: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of patients' experience of body-oriented psychotherapy for schizophrenia. Psychotherapy Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2017.1321805.
Callaghan, J., Fellin, L.C., Mavrou, S., Alexander, J. & Sixsmith, J. (2017). The Management of Disclosure in Children’s Accounts of Domestic Violence: Practices of Telling and Not Telling. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26: 3370 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0832-3
Callaghan, J.E.M., Fellin, L.C., Alexander, J.H., Mavrou, S., & Papathanaasiou, M. (2017). Children and Domestic Violence: Emotional Competencies in Embodied and Relational Contexts. Psychology of Violence http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/vio0000108
Callaghan, J., Fellin, L. C. & Warner-Gale, F. (2017). A critical analysis of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services policy in England. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 22, 1(1), 109-127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104516640318
Callaghan, J.E.M., Alexander, J.H., & Fellin, L.C. (2016). Children’s embodied experience of living with domestic violence: ‘‘I’d go into my panic, and shake, really bad’’, Subjectivity, 9, 399–419. doi:10.1057/s41286-016-0011-9;
Dann, C., Callaghan, J.E.M, & Fellin, L. (2016). Tattooed female bodies: Considerations from the literature. Psychology of Women Section Review, 18(1).
Callaghan, J.E.M., Alexander, J.H., Fellin, L.C., & Sixsmith, J. (2016). Children’s experiences of domestic violence and abuse: siblings’ accounts of relational coping. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi:10.1177/1359104515620250
Callaghan, J. E. M., Alexander, J. H., Sixsmith, J. & Fellin, L. C. (2018). Beyond “witnessing”: Children’s Experiences of Coercive Control in Domestic Violence and Abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi: 10.1177/0886260515618946
Callaghan, J., Gambo, Y., & Fellin, L., (2015). Hearing the Silences: Adult Nigerian Women’s Accounts of Early Marriages. Feminism & Psychology, 25(4), 506-527. doi:10.1177/0959353515590691
Ugazio V., Negri A., & Fellin L., (2015). Freedom, Goodness, Power and Belonging: The Semantics of Phobic, Obsessive- compulsive, Eating, and Mood Disorders. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 28(4), 293-315, doi:10.1080/10720537.2014.951109
Galbusera, L., & Fellin, L. (2014). The intersubjective endeavour of psychopathology research: methodological reflections on a second person perspective approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(1150). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01150
Callaghan, J., Fellin, L. C. & Alexander, J. (2017). Children’s experiences of domestic violence: a teaching and training challenge. In: Newnes, C. and Golding, L. (eds.) Teaching Critical Psychology: International Perspectives. UK: Routledge pp. 219-237.
Callaghan, J.E.M., Fellin, L. & Alexander, J. (2017). Beyond Vulnerability: Working with children who have experienced domestic violence. In C. Brownlow, L. O’Dell and H. Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist (Eds). Different Childhoods. London: Routledge.
Ugazio, V., & Fellin, L., (2016). Family Semantic Polarities and Positionings. A semantic analysis. In Borcsa, M. & Rober, P. (Eds.). Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy: Discursive qualitative methods. Springer International Publishing. 10.1007/978-3-319-23306-2
Alexander, J., Callaghan, J., Sixsmith, J. and Fellin, L. (2016). Children’s corporeal agency and use of space in situations of domestic violence. In: Horton, J., Evans, B. and Skelton, T. (eds.) Play, Recreation, Health and Well Being; Vol. 9 of Skelton, T. (ed.) Geographies of Children and Young People. Singapore: Springer. pp. 1-21.
Callaghan, J., Fellin, L., & Alexander, J., (2016). Looked After Children: Mental Health and Use of Space. In Horton, J and Evans, B. (eds). Play, Recreation, Health and Well Being, Vol. 9 of Skelton, T. (ed.) Geographies of Children and Young People. Springer Singapore.
