Maria do Céu Teixeira Salvador

University of Coimbra | UC · Research Centre of the Study and Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention

Perceived everyday discrimination is a transversal phenomenon with a negative impact on people’s health. This study aimed to explore the factor structure and psychometric properties of three versions of the Everyday Discrimination Scale, with three different samples: the European Portuguese validation (EDS-PT, considering any reason for discriminat...

Introduction: Stigma assessment is particularly important due to the strong relationship between stigma and mental health, including sexual minorities. There is no measure of stigma consciousness for the Portuguese sexual minority population. Methods: The present study aimed to explore the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Stigma...

Sexual Minority (SM) individuals who are victims of stigma have reported higher levels of traumatic shame experiences and psychopathology symptoms (depression and social anxiety) when compared to heterosexual individuals. Self-compassion and social support have been described as protective factors. This study aimed to explore the mediating role of...

Clark and Wells' model for social anxiety proposed several maintenance factors for social anxiety (SA), which is assumed to exist in a continuum from normative to pathological levels (i.e., Social Anxiety Disorder-SAD). Based on these premises, we used a cross-sectional design to investigate pathways linking those maintenance factors to SA, in adol...

Clark and Wells’ model for social anxiety proposed several maintenance factors for social anxiety (SA), which is assumed to exist in a continuum from normative to pathological levels (i.e., Social Anxiety Disorder – SAD). Based on these premises, we used a cross-sectional design to investigate pathways linking those maintenance factors to SA, in ad...

Test anxiety (TA) is one of the most common difficulties for secondary school students, with a negative impact in performance, mental health and well-being, and involving high levels of shame, self-criticism, and experiential avoidance. TA may also be conceptualized through an evolutionary and contextual approach to human suffering. To the best of...

Homophobic experiences with traumatic characteristics related to shame are more frequent among sexual minority (SM) than heterosexual individuals. Concurrently, SM individuals present higher levels of psychopathology and transdiagnostic processes (e.g., shame) than heterosexual individuals. Self-compassion has been identified as a protective mechan...

The book Psychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition (1968) is widely acclaimed as the masterwork of Joseph Wolpe, a great pioneer in the development of behavioural therapy, and is considered one of the most influential books in the history of clinical psychology. In this article, a brief biography of Wolpe is followed by a critical review of the book t...

Introduction: Gender and sexual minority groups are often victims of daily discrimination. Trans people are a gender minority group that often experiences prejudice and discriminatory social treatment. The Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS) was designed to assess perceived discrimination experiences in people’s daily lives. In Portugal, the EDS wa...

In a cisheteronormative culture, gender and sexual minorities (GSMs) may experience additional challenges that get in the way of a meaningful life. It is crucial that clinicians are mindful of these challenges and cognizant about the specificities of clinical work with GSMs. This article points out how societal structure interferes with mental heal...

Este trabalho investigou a eficácia da Terapia Focada na Compaixão (TFC) nos sintomas da perturbação de ansiedade social (PAS) na adolescência, com base em dados recolhidos ao longo da intervenção. A TFC contribuiu para o bem-estar psicológico em várias populações, mas é escassa a evidência sobre a sua eficácia no tratamento da PAS em adolescentes....

INTRODUCTION: Experiences of homophobic discrimination can be experienced across different sexual orientations and may have adverse effects on mental health, particularly on depressive symptoms. Shame is associated with depressive symptoms whereas self-compassion emerges as a protective factor against psychological distress. This study explored, i...

INTRODUCTION: The Minority Stress Model conceptualizes four stigma processes that explain increased levels of psychopathology in sexual minorities compared to heterosexual individuals. These processes range from distal to proximal: Discrimination is a distal process, and Perceived Stigma, Concealment and Internalized Homophobia are proximal process...

This study examined the test–retest reliability, consensual, convergent and divergent validities, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and accuracy of the Portuguese version of the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime version (K-SADS-PL). Eighty-nine children/a...

Background: Early shame experiences have traumatic characteristics and are related with mental health outcomes. Furthermore, gender-related sociodemographic characteristics (gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity) seem to be associated with mental health indicators. However, to the best of our knowledge, no research explored how traumatic...

Background: Early shame experiences have traumatic characteristics and are related with mental health outcomes (Matos & Pinto-Gouveia, 2010). Furthermore, gender-related sociodemographic characteristics (gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity) seem to be associated with mental health indicators (e.g. Ross et al., 2018). However, to the bes...

Early memories of warmth and safeness (EMWS) have been negatively associated with fears of compassion. Social anxiety (SA) and depression have been positively associated to early critical or negligent experiences with parents and peers and with fears of compassion. Some studies have shown, with other variables, that the paths to SA and to depressio...

Early memories of warmth and safeness(EMWS) have been negatively associated with self criticism and fears of compassion(FC) Early critical or negligent experiences (with parents and peers) and self criticism have been positively associated with social anxiety(SA) Nevertheless, no studies established a relationship between EMWS, FC, Sel criticism an...

Early memories of warmth and safeness(EMWS) have been negatively associated with self-criticism and fears of compassion. Early critical or negligent experiences (with parents and peers) and self-criticism have been positively associated with social anxiety. Nevertheless, no studies established a relationship between EMWS, Fears of compassion, Sel-c...

Social anxiety (SA) is characterized by clinically significant fear of the negative evaluation of others, resulting in high anxiety or avoidance in social situations [1]. Early critical, dismissive or negligent experiences with parents and peers have been associated with SA [2]. Early memories of warmth and safeness (EMWS) [3] have been negatively...

This study consisted in a secondary data analysis collected from inmates who participated in an independent randomized controlled trial, testing the effects of the Growing Pro-Social (GPS) Program. The current study assessed Personality Disorders as moderators of the GPS effects in cognitive malfunctioning, emotion regulation strategies and prison...

This study evaluated whether Arnarson and Craighead's (2009, 2011) developmentally based behavioral and cognitive program that prevented the initial episode of depressive disorders among Icelandic adolescents could be adapted to prevent depressive disorders among “at-risk” Portuguese adolescents. One hundred sixty-eight Portuguese mid-adolescents (...

Objectives: This randomized controlled trial aimed to assess the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioral group program, Growing Pro-Social (GPS), in reducing anger, shame and paranoia over time in Portuguese male prison inmates. Methods: Participants were randomized to the GPS treatment (n = 121) or control group (n = 133). The State-Trait Anger Expres...

Early critical, dismissive or negligent experiences with parents and peers have been associated with social anxiety (SA). Early memories of warmth and safeness (EMWS) have been negative associated with self-criticism and fears of compassion. Self-criticism and SA are also strongly associated. However, to the best of our knowledge, no studies have y...

This paper describes a secondary data analysis collected from inmates who participated in an independent randomized controlled trial, testing the efficacy of the Growing Pro-Social (GPS) Program. The current study aimed to test the program’s ability to increase, on one hand, cognitive reappraisal (adaptive emotion regulation strategy) and, on the o...

Different ways of relating to oneself are linked with distinctive mental health outcomes: shame and self-criticism underpin a variety of psychological disorders, while self-compassion stands as a resource or protective factor related to psychological well-being, resilience and positive development. Despite the fact that compassion-based interventio...

Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is embedded in an evolutionary, functional analysis of psychopathology, with a focus on affiliative, caring and compassion processes. CFT has been applied in a number of adult settings, but its clinical applications in child and adolescent psychopathology and psychotherapy have not been systematically explored. This...

Objective: This randomized controlled trial aimed to assess the efficacy of a structured cognitive-behavioral group program, Growing Pro-Social (GPS), in reducing cognitive distortions and early maladaptive schemas over time in male prison inmates. Method: A total of 254 participants were recruited from nine Portuguese prisons and allocated to rec...

Apresenta-se um caso clínico de Perturbação Esquizoide de Personalidade, (PEP) concomitante com Perturbação Depressiva Major, episódio recorrente, moderada. A escolha deste caso resulta dos desafios específicos que as perturbações da personalidade colocam à intervenção psicológica, dos quais se notabilizam, em relação à PEP, falta de interesse no r...

This study examined the relationships between anxiety/dependence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) involving the frequency of and attitudes towards its use and personality dimensions in a sample of Portuguese adolescents. The sample consisted of 322 subjects aged between 12 and 18 years. The Portuguese version of the scale Use and...

Etiological research regarding adolescent depression is relatively recent and longitudinal studies are needed to explicate the mechanisms by which risk and protective factors impact the development of depression. This investigation evaluated the effects of time 1 predictors (e.g., depressive symptoms, life events, subjective well-being, and emotion...

Background: Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is characterized by a marked fear or anxiety in situations where the individual might be exposed to the possible scrutiny by others. Post-Event Processing (PEP), which refers to a post-mortem rumination wherein the subject reviews critically and with detail what went wrong in the social event, is considered...

Modified measures of Fear of Negative Evaluation and Fear of Positive Evaluation were examined among Portuguese adolescents. These measures demonstrated replicable factor structure, internal consistency, and positive relationships with social anxiety and avoidance. Gender differences were found. Implications for evaluation and intervention are disc...

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most prevalent mental health disorders in adolescence and tends to be a chronic, stable condition that severely disrupts long-term functioning. Despite this, SAD is under-recognized and undertreated, in part due to it being underestimated by parents and teachers. Accurate detection and diagnosis are neede...

The goal of this pilot study was to assess the efficacy of a cognitive–behavioral program in reducing cognitive distortions and schemas in prison inmates. The Angry Cognitions Scale and the Young Schema Questionnaire was answered by a treatment and control group, and the treatment effects were tested using ANCOVA with baseline as covariate and cond...

Objectives: This study’s main goal was to assess the efficacy of a structured cognitive-behavioral group program, Growing Pro-Social (GPS), in reducing anger, paranoia and external shame in male prison inmates. Methods: In this randomized trial, a treatment group (n=24) was compared to a control group (n=24) and both groups were assessed at pre- a...

The Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory - brief report (SPAI-B) is a questionnaire for adolescents developed from the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI), one of the most studied and used instruments for the assessment of social anxiety in adults which additionally presents excellent psychometric properties. The present study analyzed the fa...

Contrasting with the invalidation social phobia with an early beginning may have, research on cognitive-behavioural conceptualization and treatment in children and adolescents with social phobia is scarce. In our presentation, we will propose a new treatment protocol for adolescents with social phobia, based on the most widely accepted conceptualiz...

Although it has been long thought that it could not be possible for a child to experience panic, the existence of Panic Disorder in children and adolescents is nowadays unquestionable. This disorder presents a chronic course, high interference and high comorbidity with other psychiatric and medical conditions. Due to these factors, there has been a...

This study describes the development, factor structure, psychometric properties, and validity of the Social Anxiety and Avoid-ance Scale for Adolescents (SAASA). Two subscales assessing discomfort and avoidance of typical social situations faced by adolescents constitute the SAASA. Both subscales revealed good internal consistency and temporal stab...

A) destina-se a avaliar as experiências de ansiedade social dos adolescentes no contexto das relações com os pares. Neste estudo apresentam-se as características psicométricas e a estrutura factorial da versão portuguesa. Numa amostra de 522 jovens entre os 12 e os 18 anos de idade, do distrito de Coimbra, os resultados mostram que a escala possui...

No presente trabalho é descrito o desenvolvimento e características psicométricas de um novo instrumento de auto-avaliação dos medos sociais para adolescentes. A EAESSA é composta por duas sub-escalas que avaliam o desconforto e evitamento provocado por situações sociais típicas da vida dos adolescentes. Ambas as sub-escalas revelam urna boa consis...

The present study presents the development and validation of the Social Interaction and Performance Anxiety and Avoidance Scale (SIPAAS), a self-report questionnaire to assess the level of distress and avoidance in a wide range of performance and social interaction situations, and the Social Phobia Safety Behaviours Scale (SPSBS), a self-report que...