Rossana has a graduation in Psychology from the Federal University of Paraná (1982), Specialization in Special Education from the Federal University of Paraná (1991), Master’s in Education from the Federal University of São Carlos (1995), Ph.D in Education from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1995). Post doctorate in Deinstitutionalization (2002), carried out at the Dipartimento di Salute Mentale – Centro Collaboratore OMS per la Ricerca e la Formazione, Trieste-Italy (2011), under the supervision of Dr. Giuseppe D’Acqua. Assistant Professor at the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP). Collaborating researcher at the Dipartimento di Salute Mentale di Trieste – Italy. Experience in the field of Mental Health and Special Education. Member of the Focus-phenomenology and Daily Life Study and Research Group; Member of the Laboratory for Teaching and Research in Psychopathology, Drugs and Society (LePsis). Board Member of the International Mental Health Collaborating Network (IMHCN). She undertook a Research Internship (2018) at the Trieste Mental Health Territorial Crisis Team – Dipartimento di Salute Mentale – under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Mezzina and Dr. Serena Goljevscek. From 2019 to the present day, she has been developing the project: A model of community mental health: Intensive home treatment and support for psychiatric crisis management. In her studies, she works with the Basaglian theoretical framework. In the field of mental health, she has been studying Severe Psychotic Crisis and Deinstitutionalization, specifically working with children and youth mental health.