Centre for Treatment of Childhood Communication and Emotional-behavioural Disorders (CTCCE)

Affiliated Research areas

• Mental disorders
• Health care, including care for the ageing population
• Medical technologies and tools (including genetic tools and biomarkers) for prevention, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of diseases
• Public health and epidemiology
• Social integration, exclusion, prosocial behaviour
• Social aspects of teaching and learning, curriculum studies, education and educational policies
• Cognitive basis of human development, developmental disorders; comparative cognition
• Personality and social cognition; emotion
• Clinical and health psychology
• Neurocognitive psychology
• Attention, perception, action, consciousness
• Learning, memory; cognition in ageing
• Language learning and processing (first and second languages)

Scientific Areas

• Health Care and Social Work
• Clinical Psychology
• Speech and Language Pathology

Keywords

• Diagnostics
• counseling and medical therapy
• psychotherapy
• art therapy
• Speech and Language Therapy

Summary

The main activities carried out by the Center are:
• treatment of child developmental disorders: communication, emotional and behavioral;
• internships for students trained to become speech therapists and psychologist;
• field research;
• Counseling parents of children with developmental disorders

The Center's team conducts research in the field of: cognitive functions, social factors and psychological aspects of developmental disorders, influence of technology on the cognitive development of children, preparation of therapy programs, preparation of technologies to support children with developmental disorders and testing their effectiveness, preparation of programs to support parents of children with developmental disorders.