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Validity of the de Jong Gierveld loneliness scale in Portugal population: psych...
Areosa, Timóteo; Lima, Margarida Pedroso; Custódio, Susana; Caetano, Tânia; Gierveld, J. De Jong; Dixe, Maria dos AnjosAgeing is a life-span complex process. In current cohorts, the final years of life are often marked by increased cognitive, functional, and relational decline due to a range of socioeconomic, biological, and personal factors. As a result, individuals are more susceptible to social isolation and loneliness. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has further intensified the need to assess feelings of loneliness a...
Tracking narrative change in post-intervention focus groups for teachers: an ex...
Silva, Joana Ribeiro da; Batista, João; Fernández-Navarro, Pablo; Ferreira, Helena; Palmeira, Lara; Albuquerque, Isabel; Galhardo, Ana; Cunha, MarinaReliable and systematic qualitative methodologies to assess participants’ change after group interventions are scarce. This study outlines a methodolo5gical approach to use in focus groups, allowing the elicitation and coding of participants’ change talk after a group intervention. A Change Elicitation Script for Focus Groups was developed and its viability for evoking participants’ discussion around change was...
Building compassionate schools: Pilot study of a compassionate mind training in...
Matos, Marcela; Albuquerque, Isabel; Cunha, Marina; Lima, Margarida Pedroso; Galhardo, Ana; Maratos, Frances A.; Gilbert, Paul; Palmeira, LaraMounting research has supported the beneficial effects of compassion-based interventions for improving psychosocial and physiological well-being and mental health. Teachers present a high risk of professional stress, which negatively impacts their mental health and professional performance. It is crucial to make compassion cultivation a focus in educational settings, supporting teachers in coping with the schoo...
Nurturing compassion in schools: A randomized controlled trial of the effective...
Matos, Marcela; Albuquerque, Isabel; Galhardo, Ana; Cunha, Marina; Lima, Margarida Pedroso; Petrocchi, Nicola; McEwan, Kirsten; Maratos, Frances A.Schools are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis, with teachers reporting high levels of stress and burnout, which has adverse consequences to their mental and physical health. Addressing mental and physical health problems and promoting wellbeing in educational settings is thus a global priority. This study investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of an 8-week Compassionate Mind Training pr...
Positive Development Based on the Teaching of Personal and Social Responsibilit...
Martins, Paulo; Gonzalez, António-José; Lima, Margarida Pedroso; Faleiro, João; Preto, LuísFrom the standpoint of the school settings, sport participation constitutes a key strategy concerning the manifestation of positive behaviors that result from the development of personal and social responsibility. Based on the TPSR model, the goal of this study was to evaluate the effects of an intervention geared toward teaching life skills through sport to youngsters who had been committed. The participants w...
Nurturing compassion in schools: A randomized controlled trial of the effective...
Matos, Marcela; Albuquerque, Isabel; Galhardo, Ana; Cunha, Marina; Lima, Margarida Pedroso; Palmeira, Lara; Petrocchi, Nicola; McEwan, KirstenObjectives Schools are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis, with teachers reporting high levels of stress and burnout, which has adverse consequences to their mental and physical health. Addressing mental and physical health problems and promoting wellbeing in educational settings is thus a global priority. This study investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of an 8-week Compassionate Mind ...
Educação ao longo da vida e edificação da sociedade do conhecimento: O caso das...
Oliveira, Albertina Lima; Lima, Margarida Pedroso; Lima, J J PedrosoO presente capítulo apresenta as Lojas de Saber, enquanto projeto contextualizado na educação ao longo da vida, destinado a proporcionar oportunidades educativas às pessoas de todas as gerações, a partir dos valiosos saberes de quem se encontra na situação de reformado/a e se revê na missão de educar. Após uma breve análise crítica das forças dominantes na sociedade atual, de pendor neoliberal, os autores centr...
Building Compassionate Schools: Pilot Study of a Compassionate Mind Training In...
Matos, Marcela; Palmeira, Lara; Albuquerque, Isabel; Cunha, Marina; Lima, Margarida Pedroso; Galhardo, Ana; Maratos, Frances A.; Gilbert, PaulObjectives Mounting research has supported the beneficial effects of compassion-based interventions for improving psychosocial and physiological well-being and mental health. Teachers present a high risk of professional stress, which negatively impacts their mental health and professional performance. It is crucial to make compassion cultivation a focus in educational settings, supporting teachers in coping wit...
Studying the efficacy of psychodrama with the hermeneutic single case efficacy ...
Gonzalez, António José C. A.; Martins, Paulo Daniel Fernandes; Lima, Margarida PedrosoThroughout the last decades, scientific and therapeutic communities have made common efforts to collect reliable information concerning the efficacy of psychotherapies. One of these initiatives has, recently, involved the psychodrama community and its desire to achieve progress in the validation of this therapy. Based on Robert Elliott's Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design, we followed five participants (th...
Pedagogical Interaction and Learning Performance as Determinants of Academic Ac...
Costa, Cesário; Cardoso, Ana Paula; Lima, Margarida Pedroso; Ferreira, Manuela; Abrantes, José LuísThis investigation aims to relate teacher competencies, student-student interactions and learning performance, and its direct and indirect effects on academic achievement of high school students. A quantitative research was carried out, involving a representative sample of 1986 students attending Secondary Education Schools located in the central region of Portugal. The results obtained through the structural m...