About us

LAG is a laboratory of the University of Pavia that combines scientific research, training, proposals for effective interventions and service offerings to support the well-being of children and families.

LAG is official Italian provider for the Video-Feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline - VIPP-SD (for parents of children up to 6 years of age) and for the intervention CONNECT Parent Group (for parents of adolescents).

Our vision:
"The institutions increasingly see the provision of qualified assistance to children as a way to ensure their well-being. Recommendation (2002 ) 8 on assistance to children daytime, the Council of Europe defines the qualified assistance to children as an important factor that contributes to social cohesion, to the extent that it helps to promote the social, emotional , intellectual and physical of all children and gives them the opportunity to make their voices heard about issues that affect them."

(Council of Europe - Explanatory Report of Recommendation R (2006) 19 of the Committee of Ministers to member states concerning the policies to support parents)

Lavinia Barone

DIRECTOR

Since 2000, associate professor at the University of Pavia, where she teaches in the graduate programs in psychology. Author of more than 100 publications in national and international newspapers.

Expert in the evaluation of attachment, where she followed specialized training and certifications for the following instruments:

Adult Attachment Interview
Hostile / hellpssness AAI coding sytem
Strange Situation Procedure
Manchester Child Attachment Story
Emotional Availability Scales-EAS
Video-feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Disciplines-VIPP-SD

Founding member and Vice-President of the Society for Emotion and Attachment Study, an international company, part of the International Consortium for research and action based on attachment theory : http://www.seasinternational.org

University of Pavia

University of Pavia, founded in 1361, is one of the oldest in Europe. Today it offers, in the seats of Pavia and Cremona, 89 graduate programs; is proposed as a Research University, takes part in international projects and is included in the network work with major college in the world, promotes research in interdisciplinary dialogues with companies.

The University of Pavia is a measure of a student campus, with over 24,000 members, 16 university colleges where boys and girls live and grow together, exchange ideas and projects, to better prepare their future.

1,200 foreign students enrolled at the University of Pavia, who attend undergraduate courses, degree courses and PhDs. Then you add the Erasmus students, over 300 each year, and the main European universities choose to spend one or more quarters in Pavia.