Docente
Sara Magalhães Pinto De Albuquerque

Resume

Sara Albuquerque has a master's degree in Clinical and Health Psychology - Sub-area of specialization in Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Psychological Health Disorders and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra. She has published several articles in scientific journals and book chapters with focus on grief processes, individual and marital adjustment after the loss of a child, dyadic coping, post-traumatic growth, continuing bonds and, recently, on the impact of the pandemic in the grief processes, both in children and adults. She has the specialization of grief therapy (SPEIL - Portuguese Society for Studies and Intervention in Grief) and has training in Third Generation Therapies with Children, E.M.D.R. and Intervention in Crisis and Trauma (by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation). She is currently the coordinator and a clinical psychologist of the Grief Consultation at the PIN Clinical Center - at all stages of life (in Lisbon), whose action focuses mainly on the assessment and intervention with children, adolescents and adults, in grief by death and chronic illnesses and divorce situations. She is also an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona and gives several workshops on grief and emotional regulation.

Graus

• Mestrado integrado
  Psychology
• Doutoramento
  Clinical Psychology - Family Psychology and Family Intervention
• Especialização pós-licenciatura
  Professional Certification of Grief Therapist

Publicações

Artigo em revista

• 2022-07-27, Parental Attributions: Mothers Voices in Economically and Socially Disadvantaged Contexts, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• 2022-05-26, Do Maternal Self-Criticism and Symptoms of Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Mediate the Effect of History of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms on Mother-Infant Bonding? Parallel–Serial Mediation Models, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2021-02-12, COVID-19 and Disenfranchised Grief, Frontiers in Psychiatry
• 2021-01-26, "In the Same Storm, but Not on the Same Boat": Children Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic., Frontiers in psychiatry
• 2020-10-01, Operationalizing dignity therapy for adolescents., Palliative & supportive care
• 2020-04-02, Psychometric studies of the Portuguese version of the Continuing Bonds Scale-16 in a sample of bereaved parents, Journal of Loss and Trauma
• 2020-04-01, Adapting the Portuguese dignity question framework for adolescents: ages 10-18., Palliative & supportive care
• 2018-12-26, Interactive Processes in Grief and Couples' Adjustment After the Death of a Child, Journal of Family Issues
• 2018-03, Posttraumatic growth in bereaved parents: A multidimensional model of associated factors., Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
• 2018-01-02, Dyadic coping mediates the relationship between parents´ grief and dyadic adjustment following the loss of a child, Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
• 2017-07-15, Parents' Positive Interpersonal Coping After a Child's Death, Journal of Child and Family Studies
• 2017-06-01, Meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents: Individual and dyadic processes, PLOS ONE
• 2016-08-22, Resilience, parental stress and burden of parents of children diagnosed with congenital anomaly, Psychologica
• 2016-01, Couple's Relationship After the Death of a Child: A Systematic Review, Journal of Child and Family Studies
• 2013-11-12, Quality of life and psychopathological symptomatology in parents of children diagnosed with congenital disability/anomaly: The importance of resilience characteristics, Análise Psicológica
• 2013-03-24, Psychometric studies of the Portuguese version of the Family Impact Scale (FIS), Laboratório de Psicologia
• 2012, Family impact and adjustment of parents of children diagnosed with congenital anomaly: influence of child determinants, Archives of Clinical Psychiatry (São Paulo)

Tese / Dissertação

• 2018, Doutoramento, We are brothers in arms: Individual and interpersonal determinants and processes in the adjustment of bereaved parents.
• 2011-07, Mestrado, Individual and relational adaptation of parents after a diagnosis of disability in the baby

Livro

• 2022, Luto, trauma e autocuidado , Albuquerque, Sara

Capítulo de livro

• 2023, Specialized online intervention in bereavement: specificities, challenges and opportunities., Death and Grief in the Hospital and Healthcare Context
• 2023, Parenting Pre-adolescent Children in a Time of Pandemic Covid-19: From Stress to Adaptation, Children at Risk and in Danger: Contexts, Research and Intervention , 6, Edições Sílabo
• 2023, Grief and psychopathology in childhood and adolescence: disguises and specificities, Death and Grief in the Hospital and Healthcare Context, Editora dos Editores
• 2023, Grief and Divorce, Sentidos: The Big Book of Developmental and Behavioral Disorders, 2
• 2023, Communication between Parents and Children in Divorce, Marriage and Divorce in America: Issues, Trends, and Controversies.
• 2022, Psychological Intervention in Grief: Conceptualization and intervention in childhood grief, Psychological Intervention in Bereavement , Pactor, Edições de Ciências Sociais, Forenses e da Educação, do Grupo LIDEL - Edições Técnicas
• 2022, Luto complicado: concetualização, avaliação e intervenção. , Intervenção Psicológica no Luto, Pactor, Edições de Ciências Sociais, Forenses e da Educação, do Grupo LIDEL - Edições Técnicas
• 2022, Grieving together: Dyadic trajectories and reciprocal relations in parental grief after child loss. , Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research Series, Facing Death: Familial Responses to Illness and Death.
• 2022, Death of a child, Marriage and Divorce in America: Issues, Trends, and Controversies.
• 2017, Portuguese couples. , Couples coping with stress: A cultural perspective., Routledge
• 2016, Adult Resilience Scale, Family assessment instruments: Vol. II Vulnerability, stress and adaptation, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra

Artigo em conferência

• 2020-11, Specificities of spirituality in bereavement processes, II Conferência Internacional de Psicologia da Religião e Espiritualidade: Adversidade, Emoções e Espiritualidade
• 2014-11, A study on the role of dyadic coping and marital adjustment in parental grief response and psychopathological symptomatology after the death of a child., IX Iberoamerican Congress of Psychology/2nd Congress of the Portuguese Psychologists Association
• 2013, Psychometric studies of the Portuguese version of the Positive Contributions Scale in a sample of parents of children with congenital anomaly., VIII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
• 2013, Disability and parenting: The influence of perceptions of positive parental contributions on perceived burden and quality of life., Atas do II Congresso Ibero-Americamo / III Luso-Brasileiro de Psicologia da Saúde.

Poster em conferência

• 2015-06, Does dyadic coping mediate the relationship between parental grief and posttraumatic growth after the loss of a child? , XIV Conferência da European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
• 2015, The oscillation process in dual processing coping in the face of the loss of a child: What contribution does the marital relationship make?, II Congress of Psychology of Lusófona University
• 2015, Psychometric studies of the Dual Coping Inventory in a sample of bereaved parents. , III Congresso Internacional do CINEICC/ III Nacional Congresso da APTC
• 2014-05, Loss of a child: A study on the determinants of parental grief response., III Congress Grief in Portugal
• 2013, Resilience as a mediator between perceived burden and quality of life among parents of children with a disability, 27th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society
• 2013, Research Project: Dyadic interdependence after the death of a child: Influence of individual and interpersonal factors on individual and marital adjustment., II Congresso O Luto em Portugal
• 2013, Quality of life and psychopathological symptoms in parents of children diagnosed with congenital anomaly: The importance of resilience characteristics, Congresso 1st reSEARCH Coimbra
• 2011, Adaptation of the Impact on Family Scale for the Portuguese population: Psychometric characteristics, VIII Congresso Iberoamericano de Avaliação Psicológica/XV Conferência Internacional de Avaliação Psicológica: Formas e Contextos