Elisabetta Conte, PhD, is a researcher at the Department of Human Sciences at the University of Bergamo (Bergamo, Italy), teaching typical and atypical developmental psychology. She is also a registered psychologist. She is a member of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP) and the European Network for Social and Emotional Competence (ENSEC). She previously worked as a research fellow and contract lecturer at the Department of Human Sciences for Education, University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy). Her main research areas concern the development and promotion of social-emotional competencies in early childhood, preschool, and school years. She is also interested in adults’ well-being and socialization practices in family and extra-family contexts. She has participated in national studies on these topics, as well as in three European Erasmus+ KA3 projects (“Learning to Be”, “PROMEHS”, and “Teaching to Be”) on social and emotional learning, well-being, and mental health at school. She has published many articles about these topics and presented research findings at national and international conferences.
University of Bergamo
Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Department of Human and Social Sciences