Francesco Dell'Orco

Francesco Dell’Orco is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, university lecturer, and trainer with over fifteen years of clinical, academic, and professional experience. He is an expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and process-based models, with a specific focus on psychological flexibility, emotion regulation, and work with adolescents, young adults, and adults. He conducts private clinical practice and supervision and is a co-founder of Centro Interazioni Umane, a center dedicated to clinical work, training, and the dissemination of behavioral sciences. He is a university lecturer at eCampus University, where he teaches techniques and models of psychotherapy, and at IULM University of Milan, where he teaches mindfulness and the psychology of communication. Over the years, he has designed and delivered training programs for public and private organizations on topics such as work-related stress, burnout, psychological flexibility, emotion regulation, and psychological emergency, collaborating with institutions including ASST Lodi, ASST Lecco, the Legislative Assembly of Emilia-Romagna, Saint-Gobain, Fondazione Opera Santa Rita, and Alcon. He holds a PhD in Human Interactions from IULM University of Milan, a specialization in Psychotherapy from the Humanitas School, a Master’s degree in Emergency Psychology from the Catholic University of Milan, and a degree in Psychology from the same university. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of ACT-Italia and actively contributes to the dissemination of ACT in Italy through training, scientific, and outreach activities. He is the editor of the Italian editions of The Thriving Adolescent and Getting Unstuck in ACT and a co-author of publications on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, psychological flexibility, and interventions in developmental age, as well as a contributor to national and international scientific books and journals.

MAIN AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and process-based models

Psychological flexibility and change processes

Emotion regulation and the management of complex emotions

Clinical intervention with adolescents and young adults

Developmental psychology and interventions in developmental age

Work-related stress, burnout, and organizational well-being

Mindfulness and experiential practices in psychotherapy

Clinical supervision

Emergency psychology and interventions in critical contexts

Application of behavioral sciences in clinical, educational, healthcare, and organizational settings

Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.

Dell’Orco F., Scagnelli M. (2012). Analisti del comportamento: orientarsi in una professione emergente. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilietes, Vannini, 10 (1)

Dell’Orco F., Pozzi F. (2012). L’analisi del comportamentale applicata alla clinica. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilietes, Vannini 10 (2)

Dell’Orco F, (2013). Timidezza addio: la costruzione di un training multimediale per lo sviluppo di abilità sociali. Cent’Anni di Comportamentismo, Franco Angeli: Milano

D. Ferroni Bast, D. Barnes-Holmes, G.Presti, F. Dell’Orco, D. Carnevali, A. Oppo, R. Kovac e I. Linares (2013). Una procedura per la valutazione della cognizione implicita (IRAP) come misura degli effetti di un training basato sull’Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Cent’Anni di Comportamentismo, Franco Angeli: Milano

C. Corti, F. Dell'Orco, C. Pignataro, F. Pozzi, A. B. Prevedini e P. Moderato (2013). An acceptance-based training for interpreters: increasing psychological flexibility in the booth. Cent’Anni di Comportamentismo, Franco Angeli: Milano

Dell’Orco, F., Pergolizzi, F., Pozzi, F., Ristallo, A. Rolfi, L., Porcari, S., Prevedini, A.B.,Schweiger, M. & Moderato, P. (2016). Strategie innovative per l'intervento comportamentale con i giovani. In, S. Soresi (a cura di), Le funzioni del counselling: criticità, prospettive ed applicazioni, Padova: La.R.I.O.S

Moderato, P., Prevedini, A.B., Dell’Orco, F. & Periodizzi, F. (2018). Terapie psicologiche a orientamento comportamentale in età evolutiva. In, A.M. Persico (a cura di), Manuale di neuropsichiatria infantile e dell'adolescenza, Roma: Società Editrice Universo.

Presti, G., Squatrito, V., Messina, C., Leuzzi, M., Modica, A., Carnevali, D., Dell’Orco, F., Moderato, P. (2017). La Relational Frame Theory in Presti G, Comportamento Verbale e Cognizione. Un’analisi contestualista-comportamentale, La Moderna Edizioni, Enna.

Oppo A., Prevedini A., Dell’Orco F., Dordoni, P. Presti G, Gillanders, D, Moderato P. (2019). Fusione e Defusione. Adattamento e proprietà psicometriche della versione italiana de Cgonitve Fusione Questtionaiere (I -CFQ). Piscolterapia Cognitivo Comportamentale, 25(1), 53 - 73

Moderato P, Presti G., Dell’Orco (2020). ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Hogrefe, Firenze Moderato, L., Lazzeroni, D., Oppo, A., Dell’Orco, F., Moderato, P., & Presti, G. (2021). Acute stress response profiles in health workers facing SARS-CoV-2. Frontiers in Psychology, 12.

Presti, G., Carnevali, D., Dell’Orco, F., & Ristallo, A. (2022). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with children. In Lucena-Santos, P., Carvalho, S. A., Pinto-Gouveia, J., Oliveira, M. S., & Pistorello, J. (Eds.). (2022). Manual Internacional de Fundamentos Teóricos e Práticos da Terapia de Aceitação e Compromisso [International Handbook of Theoretical and Practical Foundations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy]. Camaquã, RS: Editora Fênix Sefarad.

Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.