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Celeste Sangiorgio

Research Assistant Professor

Behavioral Health
College of Health Sciences and Technology

585-475-5152
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Celeste Sangiorgio

Research Assistant Professor

Behavioral Health
College of Health Sciences and Technology

Bio

Celeste Sangiorgio is an early career psychologist who studies the stability of personal beliefs and skills across relationships and settings, with a focus on how virtual spaces reinforce or diminish beliefs and skills. Her doctoral research focused on assessing effectiveness of digital platforms that target aggressive behaviors. Her present work continues this research by creating and assessing effectiveness of interactive games and simulation tools in virtual spaces embedded in digital treatment platforms (e.g., interactive puzzles and games, gamified coping skills, communication skill rehearsal in hypothetical and personalized vignettes). In addition to her research work, Celeste has experience in psychotherapy practice, including crisis work and advocacy (specifically: sexual assault, human trafficking, and intimate partner violence; eating disorders) and various presenting needs across the lifespan (i.e., Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and other complex needs).

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Book Chapter
Sangiorgio, Celeste. "What is Love? Triss, Don’t Hurt Me." Psychgeist of The Witcher. Ed. Rachel Kowert. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon ETC Press, 2023. 92-119. Print.
Full Length Book
Sangiorgio, Celeste. Effectiveness Of eHealth Interventions for Externalizing Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis. Queens, NY: St. John's University, 2021. Web.
Journal Paper
Sangiorgio, Celeste, Sarah Blackstone, and Lynn Herrmann. "College student attitudes and strategies for intervention with a hypothetical peer exhibiting disordered eating." International Journal of Eating Disorders 54. 8 (2021): 1486-1492. Web.
Sangiorgio, Celeste, et al. "Sexual Motivations and Ideals Distinguish Sexual Identities within the Self-Concept: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis." Social Sciences 3. 2 (2014): 215-226. Web.

In the News

  • June 12, 2023

    seven researchers posing for a photo outside of R I T's clinical health sciences center.

    RIT and FDA test digital therapy/avatar to treat addiction, reduce intimate partner violence

    Researchers from five colleges at RIT are testing a new way to deliver mental health therapy to people struggling with alcohol/drug addiction and aggressive behavior. RIT is running a randomized clinical trial with the Food and Drug Administration to test the therapy platform “RITchCBT” as a tool for treating people whose substance use disorders have led to intimate partner violence.