Marta Salla

Marta Salla
University of Barcelona | UB · Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment

PhD

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September 2015 - present
University of Barcelona
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Publications (33)
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Interpersonal perceptions have an impact on the quality of couple relationships but we want to examine the putative moderating role of gender considering personal meanings as the target of perception. We employed the Couple's Grid to measure interpersonal perception based on personal constructs and the Actor–Partner Interdependence Model (pooled re...
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Background Despite the burden associated to depression, current standards of care are still limited in scope and effectiveness. In addition, therapy outcomes have frequently focused solely on symptoms, leaving patients’ wellbeing relatively unaddressed. Aims The objective of this study was to test whether two cognitive therapies increased subjecti...
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Introduction Depressive symptoms are common in patients with Fibromyalgia (FM), a chronic and disabling pain syndrome. Psychological interventions are mostly focused in negative thinking and behavioural activation. However, several studies suggest that personal identity is also affected by FM. Objectives We aimed to examine the effects of Personal...
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Introduction The long-lasting effects of trauma on mental health and the cumulative effect during the lifetime is one of the great interest in research and applied psychology. However, the effect of cumulative trauma in combination with cognitive biases, such as cognitive rigidity (“all-or-nothing” thinking pattern), on the severity of depression h...
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Background/Objective Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome that depressive symptoms can aggravate. The aim of the present study was to test the efficacy of Personal Construct Therapy (PCT), an approach that emphasizes identity features and interpersonal meanings as the focus of the treatment of depressive symptoms, in women with fibromyalgia. Me...
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Beck’s cognitive model is one of the most popular for explaining depression. In a previous work, we assessed the presence of some of the cognitive features of Beck’s model (negative view of self and others, dichotomous thinking, low flexibility of thinking) in a clinical sample of patients with depressive symptoms by comparing them with controls. T...
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Antecedentes: los tratamientos psicológicos han mostrado su eficacia, efectividad y eficiencia para el abordaje de los trastornos mentales; no obstante, considerando el conocimiento científico generado en los últimos años, no se dispone de trabajos de actualización en español sobre cuáles son los tratamientos psicológicos con respaldo empírico. El...
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Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Adults: A Selective Review. Background: Psychological treatments have shown their effi cacy, effectiveness, and effi ciency in dealing with mental disorders. However, considering the scientifi c knowledge generated in recent years, in the Spanish context, there are no updating studies about empirically su...
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Antecedentes: los tratamientos psicológicos han mostrado su efi cacia, efectividad y efi ciencia para el abordaje de los trastornos mentales; no obstante, considerando el conocimiento científi co generado en los últimos años, no se dispone de trabajos de actualización en español sobre cuáles son los tratamientos psicológicos con respaldo empírico....
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A constructivist view of the cognitive system contemplates the possibility of meaning conflicts or dilemmas involving self-identity. Patients’ contradictions between verbal discourse and actual behaviors (e.g., agreeing with the therapist to carry on an action and then not doing it), or between behaviors (e.g., to dismiss a romantic partner and the...
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Introduction. A negative self-concept has been established as one of the key psychological features of depression. However, several studies have shown that a particular kind of cognitive conflict, implicative dilemma, is highly prevalent in depression. Objectives. This study aimed to gauge the relative significance of both aspects, self-negativity...
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Highlights • Interventions focusing on self-discrepancies could be applied transdiagnostically to psychosis and depression. • Women with psychosis might be the group most affected by feelings of resentment. • Women with psychosis or depression may benefit from working therapeutically with the use of more modulated ‘‘shades of grey’’ in evaluation...
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Disturbances in personal identity are recognized in psychosis and depression. However, it is not known whether these disruptions share common processes across clinical groups, or whether there are unique alterations by group or between men and women within each clinical group. To advance on this question, we compared personal identity dimensions in...
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Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a debilitating syndrome, more prevalent in women, which is aggravated by the presence of depressive symptoms. In the last decade, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has demonstrated to reduce such depressive symptoms and pain in these patients, but there are still a considerable number of them who do not respond to...
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Background Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is aimed to counteract cognitions and behaviours that are considered as dysfunctional. The aim of the study is to test whether the inclusion of a non-counteractive approach (dilemma-focused intervention, DFI) in combination with CBT group therapy will yield better short- and long-term outcomes than an...
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In this paper we illustrate the potential of the repertory grid technique as an instrument for case formulation and understanding of the personal perception and meanings of people with a diagnosis of psychotic disorders. For this purpose, the case of James is presented: A young man diagnosed with schizophrenia and personality disorder, with severe...
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Objective The objective of this paper is to assess the reliability and validity of the Spanish translation of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation – Outcome Measure, a 34-item self-report questionnaire that measures the client’s status in the domains of Subjective well-being, Problems/Symptoms, Life functioning, and Risk. Method Six hundred...
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Background: Since long ago it has been asserted that internal conflicts are relevant to the understanding and treatment of mental disorders, but little research has been conducted to support the claim. The aim of this study was to test the differential efficacy of group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) plus an intervention focused on the dilemma...
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The importance of loss and bereavement for depression has been established in the literature. Objectives. To identify the prevalence of different kinds of losses among participants and to explore their perception of having overcome (or not) those losses and of their possible relationship with depressive symptoms (if any). Method. An incidental samp...
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The Multi-Center Dilemma Project has studied the notion of implicative dilemma as a constructivist conceptualization of internal conflict in which desired change in a personal construct implies undesired change in another construct. This form of conflict has been operationalized using the interpersonal repertory grid and it has been considered as a...
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In the study of human relationships, interest in interpersonal construction is increasing because of its implications for the quality of the couple's relationship. The processes involved in construing self and others may play a key role. However, a precise methodology to study those processes has not yet been developed. The aim of this article is t...
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The importance of loss and bereavement for depression has been established in the literature. Objectives. To identify the prevalence of different kinds of losses among participants and to explore their perception of having overcome (or not) those losses and of their possible relationship with depressive symptoms (if any). Method. An incidental samp...
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Objectives The notion of intrapsychic conflict has been present in psychopathology for more than a century within different theoretical orientations. However, internal conflicts have not received enough empirical attention, nor has their importance in depression been fully elaborated. This study is based on the notion of cognitive conflict, underst...
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Combining group CBT with an individual dilemma-focused intervention: A case study Montesano, A., Feixas, G., Salla, M. & Compañ, V. Group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a well-established treatment for depression. However, personal dilemmas with respect to improvement are not typically addressed in CBT. Kelly ́s Personal Construct Theory (PC...
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Background Depression is one of the more severe and serious health problems because of its morbidity, disabling effects and for its societal and economic burden. Despite the variety of existing pharmacological and psychological treatments, most of the cases evolve with only partial remission, relapse and recurrence. Cognitive models have contribute...
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Background. The notion of mental or intra-psychic conflict has been present in psychopathology for over a century throughout different theoretical orientations. However, internal conflicts have not been defined in measurable, operational terms, nor has their importance in depression been described. This paper is based on the notion of cognitive con...
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La noción de conflicto mental o intrapsíquico ha sido central en varias teorías psicológicas (p. ej., psicoanálisis) e incluso fuera del ámbito clínico (p. ej., en conceptos como el de disonancia cognitiva). Sin embargo, estos conflictos no han sido definidos en términos operacionales o mensurables. Tampoco ha sido descrita la importancia de estos...
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La noción de conflicto mental o intrapsíquico ha sido central en varias teorías psicológicas (p. ej., psicoanálisis) e incluso fuera del ámbito clínico (p. ej., enconceptos como el de disonancia cognitiva). Sin embargo, estos conflictos no hansido definidos en términos operacionales o mensurables. Tampoco ha sido descrita la importancia de estos co...

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