Basic Information

Name: Lidia Del Piccolo
Title: Professor
Institution: University of Verona
Discipline: Psychology
Years of experience: 30

Research

Primary methodological research approach:

• Emotion

Focus of research in communication and healthcare:

• Sequence analysis

Description

Three keywords describing expertise and interest:

1. helth provider-patient communication
2. VR-CoDES

Description of field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

Lidia contributed to the creation and standardization of different measures that evaluate emotional expression and doctor-patient communication during medical consultations (the Verona Medical Interview Classification System, VR-MICS; the Verona patient-centered Communication Evaluation Scale, VR-COPE; the Verona Coding for Emotional Sequences, VR-CODES), which she also applied in research. She also published numerous papers in applied clinical psychology and psychotherapy.

Brief biography: