Psychologist
Fundación de la Hemofilia de la Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Silvina Graña is a Psychologist, with a specialization in Clinical Psychology. She has worked at the Foundation of Hemophilia in Argentina with children, teenagers and their families since 1994. She has been coordinating workshops and meetings with teenagers and their families at the Foundation and its branches for 30 years.
She leads the Ibero-American Psychosocial group and is the vice-chair of the WFH Psychosocial Committee.
She has been a speaker and facilitator of workshops since 2001 in Latin-American countries and a reviewer of the Haemophilia journal since 2018.
Silvina is the head of the Accompanying Parents Program, a volunteer group of parents with children with hemophilia. She has written a booklet for schools with this group. In addition, she is the author of “Let me tell you a Story”, a collection of books for children related to hemophilia and comprehensive care, and “My special friend, Pancho”, a video for teenagers. She writes articles regularly in the magazine Conocernos, a publication of the Fundacion de la Hemofilia Argentina.
Her working field includes:Individual and family psychotherapy, Follow-up for families, Assistance to hospitalized patients, School advice, Preventive and psycho-educational programs, Outings, Camps and Women support groups.