PREVI's Psychology Clinical Center

We are a team of professional psychotherapists and researchers devoted to the development and promotion of health form Psychology. We count on different collaboration agreements with the University Jaume I at Castellón, University of Valencia, and Polytechnic University of Valencia.

We undertake the psychological assessment and psychological treatment from a cognitive-behavioral perspective, which underlines how persons interpret reality and how they give meaning to the events that surround them.

The strategies of assessment and treatment used at PREVI's Psychology Clinical Center are supported by rigorous scientific research. In the field of Clinical Psychology, and following the statements of outstanding researchers such as Hans Eysenck and Stanlye Rachman, there is a special emphasis in the psychological treatments backed by a sound empirical evidence.

In order to do so, a group of experts belonging to the Clinical Psychology Division (12th Division) of the American Psychological Association (APA, 1993) elaborated a report on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures (Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures, 1993) that recognizes the existence of effective psychological treatments and the need of identify them and use them. The original report, published in 1995 (Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures, 1995) was revised and updated in two occasions (Chambless et al., 1996, 1998). Currently, there is a list of empirically validated treatments for different psychological disorders. However, such a list is not definite yet, which means that the research task has just begun.

PREVI's group follows that line and offers empirically validated treatments for different psychological disorders, insofar as they are available.

Furthermore, we use top technology to create virtual environments for the treatment of particular disorders. These virtual environments have been clinically validated and tested in controlled studies to prove their effectiveness.