Teacher
Sara 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 (magazine)

• 2023, Grupos terapêuticos de luto: para que servem?, Sapo lifestyle
• 2020, “O meu pai é só um entre tantos outros”. Luto por COVID-19, luto desautorizado?, Sapo lifestyle
• 2020, COVID-19: Estigma vs. (auto)compaixão. Como queremos ser lembrados?, Sapo lifestyle
• 2019, Porque (não) choro? Luto, género e diferentes expressões, Estrelas & Ouriços
• 2018, Quando um filho tem cancro: adaptação individual e familiar, ESTRELAS&OURIÇOS
• 2017, Luto e acontecimentos de Vida: O que ninguém nos diz, Sapo lifestyle

Pré-impressão

• 2024-05-01, Dropout in higher education: sociodemographic, economic, and psychosocial factors in the post-pandemic era.

Artigo em revista

• 2026-02-28, Relational Needs in Grief Scale: Development and Psychometric Validation, Behavioral Sciences
• 2026-02-19, Work–Family Conflict, Parental Mental Health, and Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties, Children
• 2026-02-16, Development and initial validation of the grief training needs assessment scale (GTNAS), Death Studies
• 2026, Latent Profiles of Big Five Personality Traits in First Responders: Associations with PTSD, Psychological Distress, Social Support, Attachment, and Emotion Regulation Strategies., Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
• 2025-12-17, Worlds apart: using technology to alleviate grief-related loneliness in young people, Mental Health and Digital Technologies
• 2025-12-06, The Impact of Mothers’ Perceptions of Partners’ Emotional Distress on Mother-Infant Bonding: Mediating Effects of Maternal Depression and Anxiety, Maternal and Child Health Journal
• 2025-12-03, Guilt and Unfinished Business in Bereavement: Rumination as a Pathway to Prolonged Grief and Trauma, Journal of Clinical Medicine
• 2025-10-23, Supporting At-Risk Families: The Role of Intervention in Family Recovery and Reunification, Child & Family Social Work
• 2025-09-16, Developing a scale to measure social dynamics in funeral ceremonies: A mixed methods approach, Death Studies
• 2025-09-04, Healthcare professionals’ understanding of addiction, treatment and recovery, Social Work in Health Care
• 2025-07-17, Empower-Grief for Relatives of Cancer Patients: Implementation and Findings from an Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial, Behavioral Sciences
• 2025-07-08, Predictors of higher education dropout intention in the post-pandemic era: The mediating role of academic exhaustion, PLOS One
• 2025-04-07, Bereavement support guidelines for caregivers in palliative care: a scoping review, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2025-02-28, Effectiveness of Empower-Grief for relatives of palliative care patients: Protocol for an exploratory randomized controlled trial, Clinical Psychology in Europe
• 2025-02-19, Decoding Prejudice: Understanding Patterns of Adolescent Mental Health Stigma, Journal of Clinical Medicine
• 2025-02, Protecting mothers against posttraumatic stress symptoms related to childbirth: What's the role of formal and informal support?, Midwifery
• 2025, Students at Risk: sociodemographic variables and university dropout, Educação & Realidade
• 2024-12-31, WeARTolerance: Evaluating the impact of an arts-based program to reduce mental health-related stigma in young people, PLOS ONE
• 2024-10-16, Navigating grief in unprecedented times: risk factors in the wake of pandemic loss and end-of-life care, Psychology, Health & Medicine
• 2024-10-11, Does Meaning-Making Mediate COVID-19 Restrictions’ Impact on Grief and Psychological Symptoms?, OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
• 2024-07-08, A Virtual Reality Simulation to Examine the Relationship Between Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Decision-Making in First Responders, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
• 2024-06-26, Emotional Regulation, Adult Attachment Orientations, and Risk of COVID-19 Infection: Virtual Reality Simulation, COVID
• 2024-05-20, Grief and Sexual Intimacy: Exploring Therapists’ Views of Bereaved Clients, International Journal of Sexual Health
• 2024-04-10, Validation of the Portuguese version of the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES) in a sample of bereaved individuals, Death Studies
• 2024-01-22, Addiction interprofessional experiences of care: Stress, coping and transformation, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
• 2024, Parents' Perception of Parental Alienation and Children's Adjustment Problems: The Mediating Role of Parents' Psychological Distress.
• 2024, Parent's Perception of Parental Alienation scale: Validation and psychometric properties
• 2024, Effectiveness of Empower-Grief for relatives of palliative care patients: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial, Clinical Psychology in Europe.
• 2023-11-15, I could not give him the funeral he deserved¿: The role of alternative mourning rituals during the pandemic, Current Psychology
• 2023-10-26, Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS): Psychometric study of validation of the Portuguese version, Death Studies
• 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
• 2019-10-07, Portuguese Version of the Continuing Bonds Scale–16 in a Sample of Bereaved Parents, Journal of Loss and Trauma
• 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
• 2016, Resiliência, stresse parental e sobrecarga de pais de crianças com diagnóstico de anomalia congénita [Resilience, parenting stress and burden in parents of children with a diagnosis of congenital anomaly]. , Psychologica
• 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

Capítulo de livro

• 2025, When being at university (also) means leaving home: Can family support make a difference to dropout intentions?, Psychological Applications and Trends
• 2025, Public and Private University Students : A comparative analysis of sociodemographic, Academic, Economic, and Psychological variables. , Psychological Applications and Trends
• 2024, Understanding experiences of discrimination among individuals with mental health challenges: An online qualitative inquiry. , International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience , 26
• 2024, Predictors of Student Dropout in the Post-Pandemic Era: Do They Differ Among Diverse Student Groups? , Avances en Ciencias de la Educación y Aplicaciones en otras Áreas, III
• 2024, Dropout in higher education: Sociodemographic, economic, and psychosocial factors in the post-pandemic era., The Social Observatory. Fundação La Caixa, The Social Observatory. Fundação La Caixa
• 2024, Bereaved parents' relationship following drug-related death loss: (What) can we learn from relationship research? , The Routledge International Handbook of Drug-Related Death Bereavement, 1, Routledge
• 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, 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.
• 2021, Luto complicado: conceptualização, avaliação e intervenção, Intervenção psicológica no luto, Pactor, Edições de Ciências Sociais, Forenses e da Educação do Grupo LIDEL - Edições Técnicas
• 2017, Portuguese couples. , Couples coping with stress: A cultural perspective., Routledge
• 2016, Dyadic coping in Portuguese couples, Couples coping with stress: A cross-cultural perspective., Routledge
• 2016, Adult Resilience Scale, Family assessment instruments: Vol. II Vulnerability, stress and adaptation, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra

Relatório

• 2024-02-16, EMPOWER-Grief: Reforçar e Mobilizar o Potencial para o Bem-Estar e Resiliência Emocional Prevenção no Luto no Luto

Artigo em conferência

• Understanding experiences of discrimination among individuals with mental health challenges : an online qualitative inquiry
• Public and Private University Students: a comparative analysis of sociodemographic, academic, economic, and psychological variables, International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2025
• O abandono no ensino superior português na era pós-pandemia: fatores sociodemográficos, económicos e psicossociais, XIII Congresso Ibero-americano de Psicologia e
  6º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses
  
  
• Estudos psicométricos da versão portuguesa da Escala de Contribuições Positivas, VIII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
• Analysis of mental health-related stigma: Patterns of personal concealment and discrimination., 3as Conferências Internacionais em Psicologia Clínica e da Saúd
• A study on the role of dyadic coping and conjugal adjustment in parental grief response and psychopathological symptoms after the death of a child. [PT - original title: Um estudo sobre o papel do coping diádico e ajustamento conjugal na resposta de luto parental e sintomatologia psicopatológica após a morte de um filho]
• 2025-04, When being at university (also) means leaving home: Can family support make a difference to dropout intentions?. , International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2025 (InPACT 2025)
• 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.

Resumo em conferência

• 2024-10-15, Predictors of Student Dropout in the Post-Pandemic Era: Do They Differ Among Diverse Student Groups?, 12th international Congress on educational Sciences and Development,
• 2023-03, Impact of restrictive measures imposed by COVID-19 pandemic on end-of-life, death and grief, IV International Congress CINEICC
• 2023-03, Does meaning-making mediate the impact of restrictive measures imposed by COVID-19 pandemic on prolonged grief and psychological symptoms?, IV International Congress CINEICC

Poster em conferência

• 2025, The relationship between emotional well-being and academic adaptation difficulties in university students: The role of academic self-efficacy and perceived course value , 55th EABCT Congress 2025, Glasgow, Scotland
• 2024-02-01, Avaliação e intervenção no risco de perturbação de luto prolongado em cuidadores familiares em cuidados paliativos: Estudo prospetivo randomizado, 15º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde
• 2024-02, Intervenção no Risco de Perturbação de Luto Prolongado em Cuidados Paliativos, 15º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde
• 2024, WeARTolerance: Programa baseado nas artes para reduzir o estigma em relação à saúde mental em jovens , ]. Conferência Criar Ciência e Fazer Inovação made in Lusófona (3.ª Edição)
• 2024, Vínculos digitais: Explorando as fronteiras éticas da inteligência artificial na intervenção psicológica durante o luto , II Congresso da InLuto e IV Congresso Luso Brasileiro de Luto, Lisboa, Portugal.
• 2024, Validação portuguesa da Social Connectedness Scale numa amostra de estudantes do ensino superior. , XIII Congresso Ibero-Americano e 6º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Lisboa, Portugal.
• 2024, O impacto das formas alternativas de homenagem na relação entre luto, trauma e atribuição de sentido à perda. , II Congresso da InLuto e IV Congresso Luso Brasileiro de Luto,
• 2024, Grief rumination: The mediating link between guilt, pending issues, and bereavement outcomes. , European Grief Conference, Dublin, Ireland
• 2024, Exploring the therapeutic role of alternative forms of tribute practices in bereavement: A longitudinal study during the pandemic, European Grief Conference, Dublin, Ireland
• 2024, Empower-Grief: Aumentando o acesso a intervenções psicológicas no luto., XIII Congresso Ibero-Americano and 6º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses
• 2024, EMPOWER: Reforçar e mobilizar o potencial para o bem-estar e resiliência emocional, Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde (CNPS)
• 2024, Avaliação e intervenção no risco de perturbação de luto prolongado em cuidadores familiares em cuidados paliativos: Estudo prospetivo randomizado, 15º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde
• 2023, Medical support during pregnancy and mother-infant bonding: A serial multiple mediation model of satisfaction with childbirth and postpartum posttraumatic stress symptoms. , IV Congresso Internacional do CINEICC
• 2017, Moderating effect of individual coping on the association between grief and dyadic coping among bereaved parents, 7th Stress and Coping Conference, Milan, Italy.
• 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. , 1st reSEARCH Coimbra in Health Sciences
• 2013, Estudos psicométricos da versão portuguesa da Escala de Contribuições Positivas numa amostra de pais de crianças com anomalia congénita, VIII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
• 2012, Family impact and quality of life of parents of children with a diagnosis of congenital anomaly: The mediating role of parenting stress., 19th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research
• 2011, Adaptação da Escala de Impacto Familiar (Impact on Family Scale) para a população portuguesa: Características psicométricas, VIII Congresso Iberoamericano de Avaliação Psicológica/XV Conferência Internacional de Avaliação Psicológica: Formas e Contextos
• 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