Marie Rose Moro

University of Paris
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – University of Paris (France)

• Consultant for the psychiatric programs for an international medical humanitarian organisation : Doctors without Borders (MSF)
She has developed since 1989 and coordinates mental health care and research programs for infants, adolescents, and families who experience severe trauma in war-torn countries and in crisis situations.
• Director of the Department of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny – Paris (France)
She is head of a clinic for psychopathology in toddlers, infants, and adolescents in a northern suburb of Paris with a highly multicultural population (families from the Maghreb, Subsaharian Africa, the West Indies, Eastern Europe, Asia). A pupil of Serge Lebovici, she continues the work he started with toddlers and their parents (therapy and prevention). She has opened a “language center” for school-age children and created a place of service and therapy for adolescents. For twenty years, she has been developing a transcultural clinic which tries to adapt our mental health care settings, techniques, and research methods to immigrant families and their children.
• Director of the Child and Adolescent Research Center Serge Lebovici “Children and adolescents in transcultural contexts ”  University of Paris 13
• Main research topics 
• Transcultural situations: the effects on babies, infants, adolescents and families 
• PTSD in babies, infants and adolescents 
• Parents-early infants interactions
• Main clinical topics 
• Traumas in babies and children
• Language disorders, bilinguism
• Addictions among young adolescents
• High risks children and families (social and cultural risks) 
• She has published more than 120 articles in French, Spanish, English and chapters in collective books.
• She has written more than 12 Books in French and Italian.
• Avicenne, l'andalouse. Devenir thérapeute en situation transculturelle, Pensée sauvage, 2004.
• Enfants d’ici venus d’ailleurs. Naître et grandir en France, Paris, La Découverte, 2002, 2004.
• Psychothérapie transculturelle des enfants de migrants. Paris, Dunod, 1998, 2001.
• Parents en exil. Psychopathologie et migrations, Paris, P.U.F., 1994, 2000.
She is editor of a new transcultural review created in 2000: « L’autre. Clinique, Cultures et Sociétés » {The Other. Clinics, Cultures and Societies}
• She has done more than 150 communications in French, English and Spanish in France, in Europe, in Africa, Canada, USA…