The risks inherent to being a doctor or a nurse in palliative care are well known. Since palliative care is a context in which professionals are exposed to specific risks and challenges, self-care is important to promote a better practice and prevent burnout. However, little research has been conducted to determine the impact palliative care setting has in clinical psychologists. It is necessary to explore the ...
O EMPOWER-Grief é uma intervenção cognitivo-comportamental baseada na aceitação, destina-se a pessoas que vivenciam o luto após a perda de um ente querido. Desenvolvido para prevenir a Perturbação de Luto Prolongado (PLP), o programa visa reduzir o evitamento experiencial, comum entre as pessoas em luto, através da exposição regulada ao distress e estratégias baseadas na aceitação. O EMPOWER-Grief por seis sess...
The COVID-19 pandemic substantially impacted the mental health of the general population and particularly vulnerable individuals and groups. A wealth of research allows for estimating this impact and identifying relevant factors contributing to or mitigating it. The current paper presents and synthesizes this evidence into a multiaxial model of COVID-19 mental health impacts. Based on existing research, we prop...
Recalled parental emotion socialisation has been associated with psychological distress in adulthood. Since emotional schemas develop from interpersonal interaction and can result in pathological reactions, they can be an important mechanism. The present study analyses the mediator role of emotional schemas in the relationship between recalled parental emotion socialisation and psychological distress. A communi...
Awareness of ethics codes and professional guidelines is crucial to a professional role in psychotherapy practice. Psychotherapy practice is increasingly heterogeneous, and there is much discussion about their effectiveness for clients. In some countries, psychotherapy is an autonomous profession. In others, is part of the professional features of psychologists and psychiatrists, and it is possible to find othe...
Com o aparecimento da COVID-19 as pessoas tiveram que lidar e se adaptar à nova realidade tal como aos seus impactos a nível psicológico, em particular o stress. O suporte social percebido e a flexibilidade psicológica são componentes que podem influenciar positivamente o stress provocado pelo contexto da pandemia. Esta investigação foi realizada com uma subamostra portuguesa do estudo COVID-IMPACT (Gloster et ...
A Perturbação de Jogo e a Perturbação de Jogo pela Internet são as únicas perturbações aditivas comportamentais reconhecidas até ao momento, cujos avanços na investigação são resultado da preocupação crescente da comunidade científica para o impacto destas problemáticas na saúde pública mundialmente. Desse modo, o principal objetivo deste estudo foi caracterizar, através de medidas quantitativas, duas amostras ...
ABSTRACT: Background Identifying common factors that afect public adherence to COVID-19 containment measures can directly inform the development of ofcial public health communication strategies. The present international longitu‑ dinal study aimed to examine whether prosociality, together with other theoretically derived motivating factors (selfefcacy, perceived susceptibility and severity of COVID-19, perceive...
This study aims to contribute to the study of emotional schemas, through the adaptation of the Leahy Emotional Schema Scale (LESS) to Portuguese. The LESS is a 50 item self-report with 14 theoretical dimensions, representing concepts, evaluations, attributions of emotions, and strategies of emotion regulation (Leahy in Cognit Behav Pract 9(3):177–190, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1077-7229(02)80048- 7). Trans...
Personality Belief Questionnaire is an instrument based on cognitive behavioral theory, focused on core beliefs associated with personality disorders. This paper refects a preliminary psychometric study of the (European) Portuguese version of the Personality Belief Questionnaire-Short Form (PBQ-SF-PT) in a non-clinical sample. In a cross-sectional design 344 individuals (M age=32.56, SD=11.28) were assessed wit...