PhD in Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM; 2014), Master's Degree in Psycho-Oncology (UCM) (2008). He began his teaching career at the UCM in 2013 as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology at that university. She is a general health psychologist. Since 2007 she has been a psychologist at the Palliative Care Unit of the Virgen de la Poveda Hospital, part of the Madrid Health Service. Her main fields of specialisation are palliative care and psycho-oncology. She has devoted her efforts to contrasting clinical procedures, assessing spiritual needs and managing specific symptoms such as insomnia. In particular, over the last 10 years he has worked on two main lines of research:

• Assessment of insomnia in palliative care: focused on the search for tools for the assessment of insomnia in patients in the final phase of life and the associated psychological clinic and possible interventions to be developed.
• Spiritual needs: focused on the assessment of spiritual needs in end-of-life patients and health care personnel. The main objectives are to determine and delimit this type of needs and the specific weight they have in the end-of-life situation for symptom control.

e-mail: ceibanez@ucm.es  

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8795-6870 

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