Gianluca Daffi

Gianluca Daffi is a psychologist and an adjunct Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano and Brescia. He has been collaborating for years with the Centro Studi Erickson in Trento, where he serves as the Scientific Director for the Game Trainers® programme — a professional role he created in 2018.

Daffi is the creator of Giocare per Crescere, a line of games designed to enhance executive function skills through play. He has authored numerous publications on challenging behaviours in childhood and adolescence, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), and educational strategies for managing students with behavioural difficulties.

Since 2001, alongside his academic career, he has also been teaching in a vocational training centre for young people in compulsory education, where he experiences the power of games as an educational tool.

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