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Delivering Group Lifestyle Triple P through digital practice: A case study with...

The purpose of the current study was to explore the delivery of the Group Lifestyle Triple P (GLTP) parent group programme through digital practice. Eight mothers of obese children aged 6–11 were recruited from a university hospital. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study sought to characterise the perceived changes throughout the intervention and explore the outcome measures on children’s BMI z-score, weigh...

Traumatic experiences in chronic illness: Reports of adolescents with scoliosis...

The experience of chronic illness is a stressful life event that can lead to a set of traumatic experiences with intense and long-lasting psychosocial effects still poorly understood. Expressive writing is particularly powerful in disclosing the in-depth meaning of human experiences, also creating opportunities for insight and reorganization of traumatic experiences. The present study analyzed the traumatic exp...

Quality-of-life outcomes of a weight management program for adolescents based o...

To compare motivational interviewing (MI) with conventional care regarding the health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) of adolescents with overweight/obesity. Methods: RCT with parallel design, involving two groups: intervention group (MI group [MIG]) and control group (conventional intervention group [CIG]). The intervention included three 30-minute interviews 3 months apart. Outcome: Change in Pediatric Qualit...

Proposal of a Portuguese Tool for Quality Assessment of Genetic Counselling: a ...

Introduction: The lack of tools for quality assessment of genetic counselling is recognized in national and international studies. The correlation of quality of healthcare practice with greater satisfaction of patients and affected families is also well established. The present study describes the development and validation of the first Portuguese scale for quality assessment of genetic counselling practice. It...

Contextos educativos e desenvolvimento: Visão e obra de Joaquim Bairrão

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v23i2.323; Apresentação do número DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v23i2.323

Students' and teachers' motivation: A reciprocal and relational process

This text was written to integrate a special issue in honour of Professor Joaquim Bairrão, who argued for an ecologically valid psychology of education in Portugal, which included an increased focus on the role of the social and interpersonal processes that make up the social context of schooling. Along with the spirit of his claim, this article highlights the usefulness of an integrated approach to motivation ...

Adaptação da escala genérica do Inventário Pediátrico de Qualidade de Vida - Pe...

Promoting Academic Success: a case study relative to the Chemistry Department o...

The present paper presents the broad lines of a plan for educational intervention in order to improve the situation detected in the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, the main characteristic of which was the great “volatility” of its students. The idea is to act in the various aspects of the most important dynamic system in the department (its first degree in Chemistry), using...