PERSONAL INFORMATION
Telephone: +36 20 459 8568
Email: sandorpiros@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2010 – present Semmelweis University, Doctoral School of Mental Health Sciences, Budapest
2004-2009 Károli Gáspár University, Faculty of Psychology, Budapest
2002-2004 Szent István University, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Budapest
1997- 2002 Hungarian-English Dual Language School, Balatonalmádi
SPECIALIZATIONS
2013 Pediatric Sleep Training, Southampton, UK (by Catherine Hill, MD)
2011- 2014 Certified coder and user of the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task (MCAST) attachment assessing tool, Prof. Jonathan Green, Oslo, Norway
2009-present Method specific dynamic child therapist training – EGO Klinika
2009 NLP practitioner (Gyula Bíro EANLPt country referent)
2008 -2012 Certified Focusing therapist (Klara Ladányi)
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2012-2014 National Scientific Research Fund (OTKA-K105367; Neurophysiological indicators of emotional and cognitive maturation of the human brain in the mirror of emerging and developing dreams in children)
2011-2013 Bial Foundation: Bursaries for Scientific Research 2010/2011 (No. 55/10) (The developmental and psychophysiological emergence of dreams and nightmares: state dependent and state-independent fronto-cortical disconnectivity.)
2010-2014 Hungarian State Fellowship for PhD studies, Semmelweis University
2008 Student’s Scientific Fellowship: Self-directedness, Cooperation, Self-transcendence: the correlation between Cloninger’s Character dimensions, IQ, and patterns of sleep spindles.
Research leader: Dr. Róbert Bódizs, Semmelweis University, Institute of Behavioural Sciences
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Sándor P., Szakadát, S, Kertész, K. and Bódizs R. (2016). The development of cognitive and emotional processing as reflected in children’s dreams: active self in an eventful dream signals better neuropsychological skills. Dreaming. Accepted manuscript.
Simor, P., Gombos, F., Szakadát, S., Sándor, P., Bódizs, R.. (2016) EEG spectral power in phasic and tonic REM: Different patterns in young adults and children. Journal of Sleep Research. Accepted manuscript.
Sándor P., Szakadát, S, Kertész, K. and Bódizs R. (2015). Content analysis of 4 to 8 year-old children’s dream reports, Frontiers in Psychology, 6/534.
Sándor, P., Szakadát, S. and Bódizs, R. (2014). “Ontogeny of dreaming: A review of empirical studies.” Sleep medicine reviews, 18: (5) pp. 435-449.
Sándor, P., Bódizs, R. (2014). „Gyerekek álmai: módszerek és eredmények a gyerekálmodás kutatásában Freudtól napjainkig – kritikai áttekintés” Psychiatria Hungarica 29:(3) pp. 257-272.
Ruggeri, K., Banasik, N., Bock, L., Cosma, A., Ensor, O., Romila, C. I., Sándor, P., Üzümcüoğlu, Y. (2011). An Exploratory Study of Multicultural Education Development in Eastern Europe and Turkey. Research in Social Change, 3(2).
Simor P, Köteles F, Sándor P, Petke Z, Bódizs R. (2011). Mindfulness and dream quality: The inverse relationship between mindfulness and negative dream affect. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 52:(4) pp. 369-375.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014- present Developing emotional-social skills in underprivileged ethnic children in a rural kindergarten – professional voluntary activity at BAGázs Public Benefit Organization – program development, program leading and professional volunteer training.
2013- present Assistant lecturer at Semmelweis University in Medical psychology (English and Hungarian language classes)
2009-present Child psychologist, Family and Child Welfare Center, Vecsés
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Hungarian Native
- English Advanced (C1)
- Italian Intermediate (B2)
RESEARCH INTEREST
- Dreaming and electrophysiology of the brain
- Cognitive and affective development
- Clinical child psychology and sleep disorders
11/01/2016