Assistant Director II Division of the Psychology Service
Polizia di Stato Italiana
Roma, Lazio, Italy
Dr. Giovanni Ippolito, Primo Dirigente Psicologo of Italian Police, is currently Director of II Division of Servizio di Psicologia (Psychology Office) at Central Health Direction of Polizia di Stato. He coordinates all police psychologists in their activities throughout the country, in order to promote well-being and distress prevention among police officers, and in order to manage Emergency Psychology interventions for all italian police offices.
In his past career, Dr. Ippolito has also been a Polizia di Stato policeman, carrying out operational activities.
He held various teaching positions at Polizia di Stato schools. He also worked in territorial offices alongside policemen, where he carried out psychological support activities for them, with the purpose of improving their operational effectiveness.
Dr. Ippolito has also designed and implemented several prevention activities about violence against women and he has created a project against child abuse through the use of specifically created images by a technique called V.I.E.P.I. (verbalizzazione involontaria evocata per immagini – involuntary evoked verbalization by images).
Saturday, October 19, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET