Federica Cavazzoni

Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer at the Department of Psychology in Milan at Sigmund Freud University, Research Fellow in Clinical and Dynamic Psychology at the University of Milan-Bicocca.

Federica Cavazzoni graduated with honors in Clinical Psychology from the University of Padua. She gained extensive experience through internships and projects in the fields of mental health, human rights, and violence related to war and conflict settings, both in Italy and abroad. She earned her PhD from the University of Milan-Bicocca, where her research focused on the impact of political and colonial violence on children, exploring their survival, resilience, and agency strategies. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting scholar at Birzeit University (Ramallah) and An Najah University (Nablus) in Palestine where she conducted her fieldwork, as well as Columbia University in New York.

Following her PhD, she continued as a research fellow at the University of Milan-Bicocca, expanding her work on the dynamics of oppression and resistance through an intersectional lens. Her research also includes feminist studies, with a particular emphasis on how political violence affects women in contexts of war and colonial occupation. Currently, she is also engaged in studying well-being and distress within academic environments, focusing on gender dynamics and intersectional oppression in the Italian academic system.

Research interests

  • Impact of political and colonial violence
  • Survival, resilience, and agency strategies in conflict settings
  • Oppression from an intersectional perspective
  • Aspects of well-being and distress within academic contexts
  • Impact of gender inequalities in academic institutions

Publications

  • Cavazzoni, F., & Veronese G. (2017). Theater of resistance. Il teatro come forma di resistenza in bambini e adolescenti in Palestina. Educazione Interculturale, 15(2), http://doi.org/10.14605/EI1521703.
  • Cavazzoni, F., Siracusa, V., Castagner, V., Balibrea, Y., Manduri, D. (2017). “Arrivals”: Narrating Migration through Images. The Use of Images in Post-Traumatic Therapy. Proceedings, 1(9), http://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1090882
  • Veronese, G., Cavazzoni, F., Antenucci, S. (2018). Narrating hope and resistance: A critical analysis of sources of agency among Palestinian children living under military violence. Child Care Health and Development, 44(6), 863-870. http://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12608.
  • Veronese, G., Cavazzoni, F., Russo, S., Sousa, C. (2019). Risk and Protective Factors Among Palestinian Women Living in a Context of Prolonged Armed Conflict and Political Oppression. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-14, http://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519865960.
  • Veronese, G., Pepe, A., Cavazzoni, F., Obaid, H., & Perez, J. (2019). Agency via Life Satisfaction as a Protective Factor from Cumulative Trauma and Emotional Distress among Bedouin Children in Palestine. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY.https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01674.
  • Veronese, G., Pepe, A., Obaid, H., Cavazzoni, F., & Perez, J. (2020). Agency and life satisfaction in Bedouin children exposed to conditions of chronic stress and military violence: A two-wave longitudinal study in Palestine. Clinical child psychology and psychiatry, 25(1), 242-259.
  • Cavazzoni, F., Fiorini, A., & Veronese, G. (2020). Alternative Ways of Capturing the Legacies of Traumatic Events: A Literature Review of Agency of Children Living in Countries Affected by Political Violence and Armed Conflicts. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 1-12.
  • Veronese, G., Cavazzoni, F., Cavalera, C., et al., (2020). Rapid Response to Managing mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers during covid-19 pandemic. BMJ.
  • Veronese, G., & Cavazzoni, F. (2020). “I Hope I Will Be Able to Go Back to My Home City”: Narratives of Suffering and Survival of Children in Palestine. Psychological Studies, 65(1), 51-63.
  • Veronese, G., Sousa, C., Cavazzoni, F., & Shoman, H. (2020). Spatial agency as a source of resistance and resilience among Palestinian children living in Dheisheh refugee camp, Palestine. Health & Place, 62.
  • Cavazzoni, F., Fiorini, A., Veronese, G. (2021). Well-being and Life Satisfaction in Children living in contexts of political violence: a narrative literature review. Child and Youth Care Forum, 52(1), 1-24.
  • Veronese, G., Pepe, A., Cavazzoni, F., Obaid, H., Yaghi, S. (2021). Measuring agency in children: The development and validation of the War Child Agency Assessment Scale – Palestinian version (WCAAS-Pal). Current Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02449-1.
  • Cavazzoni, F., Fiorini, A., Sousa, C., & Veronese, G. (2021). Agency operating within structures: a qualitative exploration of agency amongst children living in Palestine. Childhood, 28(3),363-379.
  • Veronese, G., Cavazzoni, F., Jaradah, A., Yaghi, S., Obaid, H., & Kittaneh, H. (2021). Palestinian children living amidst political and military violence deploy active protection strategies against psychological trauma: how agency can mitigate traumatic stress via life satisfaction. Journal of child health care, 1-14.
  • Veronese, G., Sousa, C., & Cavazzoni, F. (2021). Survival and Resilience Among Palestinian Women: A Qualitative Analysis Using Individual and Collective Life Events Calendars. Violence Against Women, 27(6-7), 900-917.
  • Cavazzoni, F., Fiorini, A., & Veronese, G. (2021). When agency turns into a risk factor: a literature review of the negative consequences of children’s agentic behaviors on their physical and psychological well-being. Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380211048450
  • Cavazzoni, F., Kittaneh, H., Veronese, G. (2021). Spatial agency among children living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank: a qualitative investigation of space and place as risk and protection factors from political and military violence. The Lancet, 398. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01507-5.
  • Pepe, A., Cavazzoni, F., Addimando, L., Jaradah, A., Obaid, H., & Veronese, G. (2021). Wellbeing, symptoms of trauma, and personal resources in Palestinian professional helpers: a cross-sectional quantitative survey. The Lancet, 398, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01530-0.
  • Veronese, G., Cavazzoni, F., Fiore, F., Pancake, R. (2021). Fear of COVID-19 mediates the relation between mental distress and at-risk health behaviours in Italian adults. MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 9(3), 1-19, http://doi.org/10.13129/2282-1619/mjcp-3145.
  • Cavazzoni, F., Ghafri, E., Obaid, H., Veronese, G., Fiorini, A., & Jaradah, A. (2022). The protective role of children’s agency: towards critical understanding of agency amongst children living in the context of armed conflict and political violence. The Lancet, 399, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01136-9
  • Veronese, G., Pepe, A., Cavazzoni, F., Kittaneh, H., Obaid, H., Mohamed, M. A. O., & Viejo, J. M. P. (2022). Agency and life satisfaction in Bedouin children in occupied Palestinian territory: a cross-lagged longitudinal study. The Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01157-6.
  • Veronese, G., Cavazzoni, F., Russo, S., Ayoub, H. (2022). Structural violence and sources of resistance among Palestinian children living under military occupation and political oppression. Journal of International and intercultural communication, 15(4), 391-413.
  • Veronese, G., Cavazzoni, F., Vigliaroni, M., Pancake, R. (2022). Human insecurity and mental health among young Nigerien IDPs: a qualitative exploration of the role of quality of life as a risk and protective factor. Journal of human rights and social work, 7(1), 46-58.
  • Veronese, G., Montali, L., Cavazzoni, F., Mattiuzzi, D. (2022). Toward a culture-informed conceptualization of child agency in a context characterized by political and military violence. A qualitative exploration throughout experts’ voices. Child Indicators Research, 15(4), 1379-1403.
  • Cavazzoni, F., Fiorini, A., Shoman, H., Diab, M., & Veronese, G. (2022). The role of gender and living context in shaping Palestinian children’s agency and well-being. Gender, Place & Culture, 29(2), 222-247.
  • Cavazzoni, F., Fiorini, A., Veronese, G. (2022). How Do We Assess How Agentic We Are? A Literature Review of Existing Instruments to Evaluate and Measure Individuals’ Agency. Social Indicators Research, 159(3), 1125-1153, http://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02791-8.
  • Cavazzoni, F., Pancake, R., Veronese G. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Quality of Life. An exploratory study during the first outbreak in Italy. Psychological Report.
  • Veronese, G., Cavazzoni, F., Fiorini, A., Shoman, H., Sousa, C. (2022). Human (in)security and psychological well-being in Palestinian children living amidst military violence: a qualitative participatory research using interactive maps. Child Care Health and Development, 48(1), 159-169, http://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12917.
  • Veronese, G., Cavazzoni, F., & Pepe, A. (2023). Trajectories of quality of life and mental health during the Covid-19 lockdown and six months after in Italy. A longitudinal exploration. Journal of Public Health, 1-11.
  • Cavazzoni, F., Veronese, G., Sousa, C., Ayoub, H., & Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. (2023). Critical consciousness from a Palestinian feminist, decolonial perspective: A collective exploratory inquiry. Feminism & Psychology.
  • Veronese, G., Bdier, D., Obaid, H., Mahamid, F., Crugnola, C. R., & Cavazzoni, F. (2023). Hope and life satisfaction in Palestinian children victim of military violence: The predictive role of agency, potentially traumatic experiences and symptoms of trauma. Child Abuse & Neglect, 146, 106520.
  • Veronese, G., Mahamid, F., Obaid, H., Bdier, D., Cavazzoni, F. (2024). Positive and negative effects of child’s agency on trauma symptoms and psychological difficulties in war-like conditions. The mediating role of hope and life satisfaction. JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH , http://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2332801

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