Sonia Graziano

She is the Director of the Harvard Italian Team. She is a Psychologist, specialized in Clinical Psychology. She completed her education at Sapienza University of Rome. In 2007, she attended the Department of Psychiatry, Traumatic Stress Service London Health Sciences Center - University of Western Ontario. In 2009, she completed the “Mastery in Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate Program” organized by HPRT. In 2010, she coordinated the training of Primary Care General Practitioner in L’Aquila (Italy) after the earthquake. From 2011 to 2013, she attended the HPRT organization at Harvard University in Boston as a research fellow. In 2017, she coordinated a training organized by HPRT after the Earthquake of Central Italy, and she was a project consultant through the Sapienza University of Rome. She is a research fellow at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome, in the Unit of Clinical Psychology. The goal of her research is to study the effects of stress and traumatic experiences on the development of children, adolescents, adults and families, primarily in chronic diseases using a family systems perspective.

Dr. Graziano worked in community healthcare, child and adolescent services, as well as in private practices. During the past years she worked with the following organizations in Mental Health in Italy: Unit of Clinical Psychology at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital; Santa Lucia Foundation; Gemelli Hospital; Caritas in a project about asylum seekers, slave trafficking victims, women and minors.