Dr Francisco Jose Eiroa-orosa

Biography

Dr Francisco Jose Eiroa-Orosa joined UEL in 2013 as a Senior Lecturer in Positive Psychology and International Humanitarian Psychosocial Consultation. He completed his psychology degree at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) while working with children in social risk, adolescents in juvenile detention centres and people with intellectual disabilities. His degree dissertation concerned social change and mental health in the context of the Eastern and Central European political transformation in the early ï¾’90s. He completed a Masters in Clinical and Health Psychology, mainly focused in clinical practice, at the same university. During this time he joined the research group in psychosocial psychotraumatology at the University Hospital La Paz in Madrid in the project Development and evaluation of systems for assessing the impact of extreme life experiences on world views, self-concept and identity of survivors (the VIVO project) in collaboration with the Community Action Group. He also completed a Master of Advanced Studies in the Department of Social Psychology at the Distance University of Spain (UNED) concerning the impact of traumatic events in world views with a positive psychological approach. Francisco made further training in clinical practice and research in mental health in the University Hospital Eppendorf, in Hamburg, Germany. He also joined the Centre for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research of the Hamburg University, where he participated in the German model project of heroin-assisted treatment of opioid dependent patients. His PhD issertation, defended at the University Hospital Vall dï¾’Hebron at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he has been working as a psychologist for four years, addressed heroin assisted treatment from a psychosocial point of view.

Research Interest

psychosocial psychotraumatology , Psychology, mental health