Enjoy Life with idiopathic Scoliosis during Adolescence

Enjoy Living with Idiopathic Scoliosis during Adolescence aims at being a practical tool to improve and enrich the daily work of Physical Therapists, Medical Doctors, Orthopedic Technicians and Psychologists in the area of Idiopathic Scoliosis. In fact, Idiopathic Scoliosis and its treatments can bring to light important challenges, not only for the adolescents and their families, but also for the professionals who take care of these patients. How can we support them? What are the right words we can use to calm down an anxious parent? What can we say when our patient is crying? How can we promote a healthy body image in an adolescent? These questions and more are discussed in this book, which offers useful information and research to support these techniques which come from psychology, neuroscience and humanities, to make the journey in the fascinating world of adolescence. Considering that "Every problem is an opportunity in disguise" (President John Adams), as professionals we can give our support to our patients who live an idiopathic and so inexplicable condition. Several strategies and creative ideas are described to help our patients through their adolescence, finding the path of resilience.

Elisabetta D'Agata is an expert psychologist in the field of scoliosis, strongly motivated in her work by her personal experience as a patient.
Born in Sicily, Italy, where she got her university degree in Psychology, she moved to Barcelona, Spain and has been living there for 13 years. This is where she completed her European PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology, studying the Quality of Life of Adolescent Patients with Idiopathic Scoliosis (2011).
After working in the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (Barcelona, 2012-2018), Elisabetta D'Agata is now an independent researcher, author of several scientific articles and a reviewer for prestigious scientific journals. She has actively participated in SOSORT (Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment) Congress since 2009.
As a clinical psychologist and a European certified Specialist in Psychotherapy (EuroPsy), she trained in Somatic Psychotherapy (Biosynthesis, CPSB). She has managed the Adolescent Scoliosis Group for emotional and body expression for 5 years and she has been working in her private practice (including patients with scoliosis) since 2011.
She enjoyed giving classes in some important and specific educational programs organized by ISICO (World Master Course), Scoliosis and Spine Online Learning, Vall d'Hebron Hospital. She is a teacher in Courses for Physical Therapists, as well as a supervisor of Physical Therapists (University of Girona, Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona, Private Centers of PTs).
She also loves art, nature and traveling.

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