JOAN BADIA i CARDÚS – President
Specialization in Clinical Psychology. Full-time clinician in public healthcare, primarily serving children and adolescents, particularly in community settings (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Centers and Day Hospitals). Manager and pioneer of projects contributed to the Network. Collaborations with the Universities of Barcelona (UB) and Girona. Various publications and presentations.
JUDITH MARTÍN I SALA – Secretary
Psychoanalyst. Licensed in Clinical Psychology. I have been working in child and adolescent mental health clinics within the public and community mental health network for over 25 years, currently at the CSMIJ Joan Obiols of Badalona Serveis Assistencials. I practice as a teacher and supervisor for CRAES (DGAIA) teams for children and adolescents in foster care. Various publications and presentations in the field of mental health.
SÍLVIA VENTURA i MAS
For twenty years, a judge in the Court of Incapacities in Barcelona. Professor for University Masters programs and professional training at ICAB Barcelona and the General Council of the Judiciary. Author of the book “The Mad in Catalonia 1850-2000” and numerous articles and presentations. Patron of the Mental Illness Foundation of Catalonia.
Jordi Marfà Vallverdú
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Worked in a psychiatric institution from 1980 to 1995. Coordinator of CSMA in Badalona from 1995 to 2021. Experience in individual, group, and Open Dialogue clinical work.
ASUN PIÉ BALAGUER
Doctorate in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona and a degree in Social Education from Ramon Llull University. She is a professor/researcher in the Psychology and Education Sciences program at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She has 10 years of experience in direct service in the social and educational field and 15 years dedicated to research and teaching. Her research area is feminist disability studies.
Maria Jesus Rufat
Psychologist specializing in clinical psychology, psychotherapist. Professor and supervisor in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (Personality Disorders Institute of New York). Coordinator of the Cross-Cutting Treatment Program linked to 5 care facilities in the Public Mental Health Network (CPB), for patients with BPD. Professor on the Postgraduate Program in BPD at UIC. Professor and supervisor of the Transference-Focused Therapy Course. Member of the TLP Barcelona Group.
ALICIA ROIG SALAS
Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist. Director of the CSMAS of Horta and Guinardó (Barcelona). Coordinator of the Commission on Legislation and Human Rights for 10 years (1980-1990) at AEN (Madrid). Member of CEDEP Europe: European Committee on Ethics, Law, and Psychiatry since its foundation. Advisor on numerous Justice and Mental Health Commissions. President of the CEA of the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation until 2020 (member since then).
ANGEL MARTINEZ-HERNAEZ
Professor and Director of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) at Rovira i Virgili University. He has been a visiting researcher and/or professor at various universities in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. In 2020, he was awarded the ICREA Acadèmia prize.
MERCEDES SERRANO MIGUEL
Doctor of Social Anthropology and Social Worker. Professor in the Degree of Social Work at the University of Barcelona and in the Postgraduate Program in Collective Mental Health at Rovira i Virgili University.
FERNANDO VIDAL
ICREA Research Professor (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) at the Research Center on Medical Anthropology (MARC) of Rovira i Virgili University. After a long career in the field of the history of the human sciences, she took a new direction and currently coordinates a research project on the lived experience of illness. Her latest book (with F. Ortega) is ’¿Somos nuestro cerebro? La construcción del sujeto cerebral“ (Alianza, 2021).
ESTHER FRANCISCO SALAS
Metgessa, Psychiatry Specialist. Member of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SCPiSM), associate of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents (SEPYPNA). More than a decade of professional practice in the public sector, mainly community-based and child/adolescent.
MARTA CONSUEGRA
Doctor of Biomedicine with over 10 years of research experience. Researcher and professor of science and health communication at the University of Barcelona. Documentalist and screenwriter for La2 de TVE's science program “El cazador de Cerebros” and freelance science writer for various print and audiovisual media.
Montserrat Hierro Fernandez
Judge in different judicial districts of Barcelona and Terres de l’Ebre. Prosecutor in Terres de l’Ebre and Tarragona. The last 9 years in the Children's Section of the Tarragona Prosecutor's Office. Associate Professor at URV. Lecturer in Master's programs at the Tortosa Bar Association. Member of the Observatory of Children's and Adolescents' Rights of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Collaboration on the Protocol for action against Gender Violence. Presentations and outreach on legal topics, especially related to children and gender violence.
