Celeste Sangiorgio
Research Assistant Professor
Celeste Sangiorgio
Research Assistant Professor
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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In the News
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June 12, 2023
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.
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September 17, 2024
Sangiorgio presented panels at PAX East and PAX West
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March 27, 2024
Sangiorgio is panelist at PAX East conference
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March 11, 2024
Sangiorgio to edit book on Final Fantasy VII
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July 13, 2023
Sangiorgio contributes chapter to ‘Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Witcher’