Simona Scaini, PhD in Developmental Psychopathology. Dal dottorato di ricerca in poi, la sua attività di ricerca si è focalizzata primariamente sull’interazione tra elementi ambientali e genetici nell’influenzare l’eziologia delle manifestazioni internalizzanti ed esternalizzanti in età evolutiva.
Nel 2012 ha svolto un periodo di lavoro presso il laboratorio di Genetica del Comportamento di Thalia Eley al Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre (MRC)- Institute of Psychiatry –King’s College London in qualità di visiting student. E’ stata assegnista di ricerca e docente a contratto presso l’Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele dove ha insegnato in diversi corsi tra cui ‘Psicologia dello Sviluppo’, ‘Psicologia e Neuroscienze nello Sviluppo’.
Revisore per diverse riviste internazionali peer-reviewed. NARSAD Young Investigator Award 2015.
Lavora, inoltre, come psicologa psicoterapeuta, occupandosi di diagnosi e trattamento di psicopatologie internalizzanti ed esternalizzanti in bambini ed adolescenti.
Interessi di ricerca
Psicologia e Psicopatologia dello Sviluppo, con particolare attenzione all’eziologia e al trattamento dei disturbi internalizzanti
Eventi di vita stressanti e psicopatologia
Genetica del Comportamento applicata a disturbi in età evolutiva
Pubblicazioni
Caputi, M., Pesenti, B., Perego, G., & Scaini, S. La Relazione tra Stili Genitoriali e Ansia Sociale Filiale in Età Evolutiva: Una Rassegna della Letteratura. In Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 26(3), 289-310, (2020)
Forresi, B., Soncini, F., Bottosso, E., Di Pietro, E., Scarpini, G., Scaini, S., … & Righi, E. Post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional and behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents 2 years after the 2012 earthquake in Italy: an epidemiological cross-sectional study. In European child & adolescent psychiatry, 29(2), 227-238. (2020)
Scaini, S., Caputi, M., Ogliari, A., Oppo, A. The relationship among attributional style, mentalization, and five anxiety phenotypes in school age children. In Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1-15, (2020)
Giannese F, Luchetti A, Barbiera G, Lampis V, Zanettini C, Knudsen GP, Scaini S, Lazarevic D, Cittaro D, D’Amato F, Battaglia M. Conserved DNA Methylation Signatures in Early Maternal Separation and in Twins Discordant for CO 2 Sensitivity. Scientific reports, 2018; 8 (1), 2258.
Scaini S, Palmieri S, Caputi M. The Relationship between Parenting and Internalizing Problems in Childhood. In Parenting-Empirical Advances and Intervention Resources. InTech 2018.
Scaini S, Rancoita PMV, Martoni RM, Omero M, Ogliari A, Brombin C. Integrating dimensional and discrete theories of emotions: a new set of anger and fear eliciting stimuli for children, J Genet Psychol, 2017; 178(5), 253-261.
Scaini S., Belotti R., Battaglia M, Ogliari A. A genetically informed study of the covariation between childhood anxiety dimensions and social competence. J Child Fam Stud, 2017; 26 (9), 2519-2528.
Caputi M, Pantaleo G, Scaini S. Do feelings of loneliness mediate the relationship between sociocognitive understanding and depressive symptoms during late childhood and early adolescence? J Genet Psychol, 2017; 178(4):207-216.
Battaglia M., Michelini G., Pezzica E., Ogliari A., Fagnani C., Stazi M. A., … & Scaini S. Shared genetic influences among childhood shyness, social competences, and cortical responses to emotions. J Exp Child Psychol., 2017; 160, 67-80
Scaini S, Ogliari A, De Carolis L, Bellodi L, Di Serio C, Brombin C (2017). Evaluation of mother-child agreement and factorial structures of the SCARED questionnaire in an Italian clinical sample. Front Psychol. 2017; 8: 242.
Scaini S, Ogliari A, Brombin C. Physiological response to negative emotions in children with anxious symptoms: many steps still to be taken. Avicenna Journal of Neuro Psych Physiology, 2016;3(3):e42845.
Scaini S., Belotti R., Ogliari A., Battaglia M. A comprehensive meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioral interventions for social anxiety disorder in children and adolescents.. J Anxiety Disord. 2016;42:105-112.
Chiung M, Fiore F, Ogliari A, Sassaroli S, Rainero G, Scaini S. The role of Temperament and Parental style in predicting Desire Thinking and Anger Rumination. Ann Depress Anxiety. 2015;2(2):1043.
Scaini S, Pezzica E, Belotti R, Colonna S, Ogliari A. The Nature of Covariation between Separation Anxiety Symptoms and Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms in Developmental Age. Ann Depress Anxiety. 2014; 1(4):1-6.
Scaini S, Belotti R, Ogliari. A Genetic and environmental contributions to social anxiety across different ages: a meta-analytic approach to twin data. J Anxiety Disord.2014;28(7):650-6.
Scaini S, Battaglia M, Beidel DC, Ogliari A: A Meta-Analysis of the Cross-Cultural Psychometric Properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C). J Anxiety Disord. 2012;26(1):182-8.
Scaini S, Ogliari A, Eley TC, Zavos H, Battaglia M: Genetic And Environmental Contributions To Separation Anxiety: A Meta-Analytic Approach To Twin Data. Depress Anxiety. 2012;29(9):754-61.
Battaglia M, Zanoni A, Taddei M, Giorda R, Bertoletti E, Lampis V, Scaini S, Cappa S, Tettamanti M: Cerebral responses to emotional expressions and the development of social anxiety disorder: a preliminary longitudinal study. Depress Anxiety. 2012;29(1):54-61.
Ogliari A, Scaini S, Kofler MJ, Lampis V, Zanoni A, Pesenti-Gritti P, Spatola C, Battaglia M, Beidel DC: Psychometric properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C) in a sample of Italian school-aged children from the general population. Eur J Psychol Assess. 2012; 28:51-59.
Spatola C, Scaini S, Pesenti-Gritti P, Medland SE, Moruzzi S, Ogliari A, Tambs K, Battaglia M: Gene-environment interactions in panic disorder and CO₂ sensitivity: Effects of events occurring early in life. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2011;156(1):79-88.
Pesenti-Gritti P, Scaini S, D’ippolito C, Fagnani C, Battaglia M: A Genetically Informed Study of the Covariation Between the CBCL/6-18 DSM-Oriented Problem Scales and the Competence Scales. Behav Genet. 2011;41(4):522-32.
Ogliari A, Tambs K, Harris JR, Scaini S, Maffei C, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Battaglia M: The relationships between adverse events, early antecedents, and carbon dioxide reactivity as an intermediate phenotype of panic disorder. A general population study. Psychother Psychosom. 2010; 79:48-5.