Teacher
Vitor Bruno Faustino Almeida

Resume

Bruno Faustino is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Life Sciences of the Lusofona University (FPCV-ULHT). He has a degree in Psychological Sciences (FPUL), a Master in Clinical and Health Psychology (FPUL), a Master in Applied Neuropsychology (FPCV-ULHT) and a PhD in Clinical Psychology (FPUL). Post-graduate in Psychotherapy by the Portuguese Association of Behavioral, Cognitive and Integrative Therapies (APTCCI). Author of the Transtheoretical Integrative Metamodel based on Psychotherapy and Neurobiology (2021). He is a scientific reviewer in several international scientific journals and has authored more than 50 scientific articles. He has several participations, posters and oral communications in conferences and scientific events related to Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychopathology, Neuropsychology and Neurosciences.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Ciências Psicológicas
• Mestrado
  Mestrado em Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde
• Pós-Graduação
  Neuropsicologia Clínica
• Doutoramento
  Psicologia Clínica
• Mestrado
  Neuropsicologia Aplicada
• Pós-Graduação
  Avaliação e Reabilitação Neuropsicológica
• Pós-Graduação
  Psicoterapia Cognitivo-Comportamental e Integrativa
• Título de especialista
  Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde
• Título de especialista
  Neuropsicolologia
• Pós-Graduação
  Introdução à Bioestatìstica - IV Curso
• Outros
  Abordagens Atuais no Ensino Superior
• Outros
  Working with Empathy and Emotions in Psychotherapy: An Experiential Workshop
• Outros
  Case Formulation for Personality Disorders: How to Foster Therapist Responsiveness
• Outros
  The Therapist Self-care, The Therapeutic Relationships That Works and Therapist Responsiveness
• Doutoramento
  Psicologia
• Mestrado
  Neuropsicologia Aplicada
• Mestrado
  Psicologia

Publicações

Artigo em revista

• 2024-01-17, Introducing a Neuroscience-Based Assessment Instrument: Development and Psychometric Study of the Neural Networks Symptomatology Inventory, Psychological Reports
• 2023-12-31, Relating Personality Traits to Neurocognitive Domains, International Journal of Psychology and Neuroscience
• 2023-10-30, Development and Preliminary Analysis of a Scale to Assess Client Characteristics that Influence Clinical Decision-Making, Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
• 2023-10-16, The effect of emotional regulation difficulties on sexual and psychological distress using repetitive negative thinking as a mediator, The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2023-09-22, Psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire in a community sample of the Portuguese population, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
• 2023-09-21, Early maladaptive schemas, emotion regulation difficulties and alexithymia: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2023-09-02, Brief Form of the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales: Preliminary Psychometric Properties in a European Portuguese Community Sample, Psychological Reports
• 2023-08-08, Change detection versus change localization for faces, houses, and words, Perception
• 2023-05-22, Dialectical Core Schemas Mediate the Relationships Between Dissociative Experiences and Symptomatology in a Community Sample, Psychological Reports
• 2023-05-15, Exploring relationships between executive functions and maladaptive cyclical patterns in a transdiagnostic sample, Applied Neuropsychology: Adult
• 2023-01-10, Exploring Factor and Correlational Analysis of the Portuguese version of the Unconditional Self-Acceptance Questionnaire-Revised
• 2022-12-31, Research Agenda on Complex Neural Networks Approach to Psychopathology, International Journal of Psychology and Neuroscience
• 2022-12-16, Affective neurobiological systems underlie emotional needs, interpersonal motivations and life themes from a biopsychosocial and contextual perspective, Current Psychology
• 2022-06-09, Correction to: The relationships between reading fluency and different measures of holistic word processing, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
• 2022-05-12, The relationships between reading fluency and different measures of holistic word processing, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
• 2022-04-26, Rethinking Leahy’s Emotional Schema Scale (LESS): Results from the Portuguese Adaptation of the LESS, Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
• 2022-03-21, Path analysis from COVID-19 Perceptions to Psychological Health: The roles of Critical Distance and Mastery, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2022-03-20, Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the Personality Belief Questionnaire—Short Form in a Community Sample, Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
• 2022-02-16, Change detection vs. change localization for own-race and other-race faces, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
• 2022-02-07, Emotional processing difficulties scale-revised: preliminary psychometric study, Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies
• 2022-02, Minding my brain: Fourteen neuroscience-based principles to enhance psychotherapy responsiveness, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2022-01-11, Maladaptive and Adaptive Cognitions About the Self and Others: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Brief Core Schemas Scales, Psychological Reports
• 2022-01-05, Early Maladaptive Schemas and COVID-19 Anxiety: The mediational role of Mistrustfulness and Vulnerability to Harm and Illness, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2022, The relationships between word reading and different measures of holistic word processing, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
• 2022, The relation between holistic processing as measured by three composite tasks and face processing: A latent variable modeling approach, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
• 2021-08-30, COVID-19 Inventory and Mental Health: Preliminary Analysis, American Journal of Psychotherapy
• 2021-06-04, Psychological inflexibility as a transdiagnostic construct: relationships between cognitive fusion, psychological well-being and symptomatology, Current Psychology
• 2021-03-20, Emotional schemas mediate the relationship between emotion regulation and symptomatology, Current Psychology
• 2021-02-28, Neurocognition applied to psychotherapy: A brief theoretical proposal based on the complex neural network perspective, Applied Neuropsychology: Adult
• 2021-01-14, Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 related social distancing on loneliness, psychological needs and symptomatology, Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome
• 2020-12-22, Factor Structure and Convergent Validity of the Portuguese version of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems – 32, Journal of Relationships Research
• 2020-12-01, Self-assessment of patterns of subjective experience: development and psychometric study of the States of Mind Questionnaire., Research in psychotherapy (Milano)
• 2020-11-30, Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience, Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística
• 2020-09-08, Transdiagnostic perspective on psychological inflexibility and emotional dysregulation, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
• 2020-09-08, Normative scores of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in a sample of the adult Portuguese population, Applied Neuropsychology: Adult
• 2020-06-08, Relationships between emotional processing difficulties and early maladaptive schemas on the regulation of psychological needs, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2020-02-19, Holistic word processing is correlated with efficiency in visual word recognition, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
• 2020, Relationships between emotional schemas, mindfulness, self-compassion and unconditional self-acceptance on the regulation of psychological needs, Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome
• 2019-12-07, Early Maladaptive Schemas and Cognitive Fusion on the Regulation of Psychological Needs, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
• 2019-10-24, Metacognitive self-assessment scale: psychometric properties and clinical implications, Applied Neuropsychology: Adult
• 2019-07-05, Holistic face processing is penetrable¿…¿depending on the composite design, Visual Cognition
• 2019-06-07, Psychometric and Rash Analysis of the UCLA Loneliness Scale-16 in a Portuguese Sample of Older Adults, Psychological Studies
• 2019-05-06, Diagnostic precision of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in assessing cognitive deficits in substance use disorders, Applied Neuropsychology: Adult
• 2019-03-14, Schematic Functioning, Interpersonal Dysfunctional Cycles and Cognitive Fusion in the Complementary Paradigmatic Perspective: Analysis of a Clinical Sample, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
• 2019-01-02, Hemispheric asymmetry in holistic processing of words, Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition
• 2019, Domínios Esquemáticos, Dificuldades Emocionais e Necessidades Psicológicas: Análise Preliminar do Estudo com Indicadores Comportamentais, Revista Portuguesa de Psicossomática
• 2017-06-20, The Word Composite Effect Depends on Abstract Lexical Representations But Not Surface Features Like Case and Font, Frontiers in Psychology

Tese / Dissertação

• 2021, Doutoramento, Evidence-based clinical decision-making : Conceptual and empirical foundations for an integrative psychological and neurobiological transtheoretical metamodel
• 2018, Mestrado, Características psicométricas do Wisconsin Card Sorting Test em várias amostras da população portuguesa
• 2016, Mestrado, Funcionamento esquemático, ciclos interpessoais disfuncionais e fusão cognitiva na perspetiva do modelo de complementariedade paradigmática

Capítulo de livro

• 2023, A Brief Overview of Integrative And Transtheoretical Approaches To Intervening In Emotional Dysregulation, Understanding Emotional Regulation
• 2022, A State-Trait Approach to Self-Compassion: Is It a Schema or a State of Mind?

Artigo em conferência

• Domínios esquemáticos e dificuldades emocionais na regulação das necessidades psicológicas: Um estudo com indicadores comportamentais, V Congresso Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicossomática: Uma homenagem a José António Barata
• 2016, The effect of virtual reality-based serious games in cognitive interventions

Resumo em conferência

• 2023-04, A Cor, a Tela e o Pintor - Tonalidades da Experiência Afetiva em Psicoterapia, V Jornadas de Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde da EPCV-CUL
• 2022-09, Pressões Biopsicossociais, Esquemas Fundamentais Dialéticos, Padrões Cíclicos Recorrentes e Redes Neuronais Complexas: Fundamentos para uma Metateoria, 5º Congresso OPP - Tempo da Psicologia
• 2019-12, A eficácia das intervenções baseadas em videojogos na promoção de competências em pessoas com deficiência intelectual”., IV Encontro ODDH - Deficiência, Políticas Públicas e Direitos Humanos
• 2019, Relação entre esquemas precoces mal-adaptativos e as dificuldades de processamento emocional na regulação das necessidades psicológicas: um estudo do processamento afetivo subliminar com ERP´s, V Congresso Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicossomática: Uma homenagem a José António Barata
• 2019, Esquemas Precoces Mal-adaptativos e Dificuldades Emocionais na Regulação das Necessidades Psicológicas: Estudo experimental com indicadores comportamentais., V Congresso Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicossomática (SPPS)
• 2018-11, Funcionamento Esquemático, Ciclos Interpessoais Disfuncionais e Fusão Cognitiva na Regulação da Satisfação das Necessidades Psicológicas: Implicações para a Prática Clínica, I Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Terapias Comportamentais, Cognitivas e Integrativas (APCCI)
• 2018, Esquemas Precoces Mal-Adaptativos e Inflexibilidade Psicológica enquanto obstáculos à Regulação da Satisfação das Necessidades Psicológicas: Modelos de Mediação numa Amostra Clínica, II Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Psicopatologia no ISCTE
• 2017, Características psicométricas do Wisconsin Card Sorting Test em várias amostras da população portuguesa: Análise preliminar , IV Jornadas de Neuropsicologia Aplicada na EPCV-CUL
• 2016, Os efeitos dos “Jogos Sérios” na Estimulação Cognitiva: um estudo de Metanálise, III Jornadas de Neuropsicologia Aplicada na EPCV-CUL

Poster em conferência

• 2023-10, Adaptation of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (IERQ) to European Portuguese , European Association for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapies
• 2023-07, Preliminary psychometric study of the Emotional Processing Difficulties Scale-Revised , International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy - IsEFT Conference
• 2023-06, Minding my brain: Fourteen neuroscience-based principles to enhance psychotherapy responsiveness, 54th International Annual Meeting 2023 of the Society for Psychotherapy Research
• 2023-06, Factor Structure of the Standardized Assessment of Personality: Abbreviated Scale (SAPAS) in a Community Sample, 4th International Annual Meeting 2023 of the Society for Psychotherapy
• 2022-09, As Crenças da Personalidade na população portuguesa: Estudo preliminar do Questionário de Crenças da Personalidade Forma Reduzida, 5º Congresso OPP - Tempo da Psicologia
• 2022-09, Análise SWOT preliminar do 1º Curso Avançado de Terapia Focada nos Esquemas no Instituto CRIAP, 5º Congresso OPP - Tempo da Psicologia
• 2019-11, Holistic processing measures in word recognition: Do they reflect a common underlying mechanism?, 5th Meeting of the Mind-Brain College of the University of Lisbon
• 2019-07, Portuguese version of the Leahy Emotional Schema Scale (LESS), World Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy Conference
• 2019-06, Transtheoretical self-stances to inform integrative case conceptualization: the role of mental states and cognitive fusion on the regulation of psychological needs, XXXV Anual Conference to Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration
• 2019-06, Affective neuroscience research and integrative psychotherapy: associations between subliminal emotional reactions, emotional processing difficulties and early maladaptive schemas, XXXV Anual Conference to Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration
• 2019-05, Holistic Word Processing Predicts Word Recognition Efficiency, 14th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Experimental Psychology
• 2019-05, An experimental study of psychophysiological and behavioural indicators of nonconscious emotional reactions in a clinical sample, XVI Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN2019)
• 2019-03, Rastreio Neuropsicológico e Estudo das Associações entre Metacognição e Sintomatologia em Indivíduos com Perturbação de Consumo de Substâncias: Estudo Exploratório Preliminar, V Congresso Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa da Psicossomática: Re-Pensar a Psicossomática
• 2018-11, “Partial or complete?”: Task design matters when studying holistic face processing penetrability, 4th Annual Student's Meeting of the Mind-Brain College
• 2018-06, Holistic word processing is less penetrable than holistic face processing, I Workshop on Cognitive Science of Culture
• 2017-10, The right perception: Hemispheric lateralization is the same for the holistic processing of faces and words, 3rd PhD Students Meeting of the Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa
• 2017-10, The resilience of words over faces: Differences in the perceptual disruption of holistic processing, 3rd PhD Students Meeting of the Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa
• 2016-10, Reabilitação Neuropsicológica na Esquizofrenia: um estudo de revisão, I Encontro de Psiquiatria da Casa de Saúde da Idanha
• 2015, Princípios Gerais de Mudança e Aliânça Terapêutica, Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa
• 2014, Modelo Genérico de Psicoterapia, Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa