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Diogo Lamela

Resume

Diogo Lamela holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minho and is currently an Associate Professor in Developmental Psychopathology and Child Clinical Psychology at Lusófona University – Porto University Center. He serves as the Deputy Director of the Digital Human-Environment Interaction Lab and Deputy Director of the Clinical Psychology Program at Lusófona University. His research focuses on the multifaceted aspects of child maltreatment, examining developmental and clinical processes within the context of intimate partner violence, coparenting dynamics, and high-conflict divorces. Diogo Lamela has authored more 60 articles in international journals and has been involved as PI or researcher in several funded research projects. Diogo Lamela is actively engaged in international research networks focusing on child abuse, child protection, and coparenting. This involvement is evident in submissions for European funding, cross-cultural research, and contributions to research outputs and advocacy effects for child maltreatment surveillance and clinical care guidelines for child maltreatment survivors in Europe. He serves on the editorial boards of international and national journals, participates in advisory boards for research projects, and is an expert for the European Commission in the Citizens, Equality, Rights, and Values Programme, specifically in the prevention and combat of gender-based violence and violence against children. He currently is PI of the Portuguese team of HORIZON-funded project on administrative data for assessing and improving access to health and social care services for maltreated children in Europe. Diogo Lamela contributes significantly to knowledge translation activities, notably as a scientific supervisor for multidisciplinary teams supporting courts in child protection and civil guardianship procedures (Porto Social Security Institute – Ministry of Labor, Solidarity, and Social Security).

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Psicology (Clinical Psychology) (Degree equivalence with Bologne Integrated Master Title)
• Doutoramento
  Psicologia
• Outros
  Child Maltreatment Data Collection Short Course
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  Modified Strange Situation procedures for preschoolers
• Outros
  Attachment Story Completion Task (Bretherton & Ridgeway, 1990)
• Outros
  The Alarm Distress Baby Scale
• Outros
  Couple Interaction Task (Collins, Hennighausen, Madsen & Roisman, 1998)
• Outros
  Intimate Relationship Interview
• Outros
  Teacher in Higher Education Training Certificate
• Outros
  Psychological Networks Amsterdam Winter School 2021 – The online edition
• Outros
  Translating Child Sexual Abuse Research to Practice
• Outros
  Compassion Focused Therapy for Difficult Emotions
• Outros
  Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in focus: navigating processes, procedures, and future directions
• Outros
  An introduction to the Acceptance Commitment model
• Outros
  Using Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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  Therapy interferring behaviour in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Outros
  Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT Web2.0)

Publicações

Preprint

• 2025-02-26, Electroencephalographic signatures during pregnancy and their role on parenting-related measures: a scoping review protocol

Journal article

• 2026-04-25, Perceived Social Support Amplifies the Association Between Harsh Parenting and Children’s Externalizing Symptoms, Child Abuse & Neglect
• 2025-12, Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries, Scientific data
• 2025-10-23, Do white matter microstructural alterations associated with childhood maltreatment explain psychopathology in early adulthood?—a longitudinal neuroimaging study, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• 2025-05, Perinatal anxiety and depressive symptoms and parenting behavior during the first 3 years postpartum: A systematic review, Depression and Anxiety
• 2025-05, Hospitalisations for physical abuse in infants and children less than 5 years, 2013–2021: a multinational cohort study using administrative data from five European countries, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
• 2025-04-25, Harsh Parenting and Children's Externalizing Symptoms in Families experiencing Intimate Partner Violence: Moderation by Maternal Social Support
• 2025-04-19, The Portuguese version of the Prenatal Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: A psychometric study with expectant mothers, Attachment & Human Development
• 2025-04, Psychometric properties of the Fear of Birth Scale in women in the perinatal period: A multicountry study, Journal of Affective Disorders
• 2025-03, Defining child maltreatment for research and surveillance: an international, multi-sectoral, Delphi consensus study in 34 countries in Europe and surrounding regions, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
• 2025-02, History of mental health problems moderates the association between partner support during childbirth and women's mental health in the postpartum period, Midwifery
• 2025-01-19, Prenatal couple relationship satisfaction, romantic attachment, and childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms, Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
• 2025-01, Perinatal Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms and Maternal Parenting Behavior During the First Three Years Postpartum: A Systematic Review, Depression and Anxiety
• 2025, Corrigendum to “Psychometric properties of the Fear of Birth Scale in women in the perinatal period: A multicountry study” [J. Affect. Disord. 374 (2025) 365–380, (S0165032725000801), (10.1016/j.jad.2025.01.063)], Journal of Affective Disorders
• 2024-12, A scoping review of participatory approaches in child maltreatment research across Europe, Child Abuse & Neglect
• 2024-08-16, Mothers’ Adverse Childhood Experiences Moderate the Association between Maternal Anger and Children’s Externalizing Symptoms, Children
• 2024-08-14, Cigarette Smoking in Women Victims of Police-Reported Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Childhood Maltreatment, Type of Partner Abuse, and Psychological Distress Symptoms, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
• 2024-07-30, Assessing mother’s childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder during the first year postpartum: a systematic review, Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
• 2024-06-06, Measurement invariance of the Coparenting Relationship Scale (CRS) across 10 countries., Journal of Family Psychology
• 2024-04, Clinical care of childhood sexual abuse: a systematic review and critical appraisal of guidelines from European countries, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
• 2024-02-04, Addressing the Complex Links between Psychopathy and Childhood Maltreatment, Emotion Regulation, and Aggression—A Network Analysis in Adults, Behavioral Sciences
• 2024-01, Mother-child reporting discrepancies of child physical abuse: Associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms, Child Abuse & Neglect
• 2024, The Tokophobia Severity Scale: A Psychometric Multicountry Study with childbearing-age Women
• 2024, Psychometric properties of the Tokophobia Severity Scale in women in the perinatal period: A multicountry study, Midwifery
• 2024, Partner's support during childbirth and women's mental health problems during the postpartum period, Midwifery
• 2024, Factors associated with fear of childbirth during pregnancy, Midwifery
• 2023-12, Consensus building on definitions and types of child maltreatment to improve recording and surveillance in Europe: protocol for a multi-sectoral, European, electronic Delphi study, BMJ Open
• 2023-10-09, The effect of parenting behaviours on adolescents' rumination: a systematic review of longitudinal studies, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• 2023-06, Current issues and challenges in the definition and operationalization of child maltreatment: A scoping review, Child Abuse & Neglect
• 2023-05-19, The influence of maternal reflective functioning and parenting behavior on infant development in the context of perinatal intimate partner violence: a study protocol, BMC Psychology
• 2023-02-09, Childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and mother-infant neurophysiological and behavioral co-regulation during dyadic interaction: study protocol, BMC Psychology
• 2023-01, Determinants of personal growth and life satisfaction in divorced adults, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2023, Discrepancies in Mother-Child Reports of Child's Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence: Associations with Externalizing Symptoms, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
• 2022, Programas mediados pela tecnologia para promoção de literacia em saúde mental em adolescentes: revisão sistemática, Saúde e Sociedade
• 2021-07-03, The Psychometric Properties of a Portuguese Version of the Trait-Meta Mood Scale: an Attachment Framework, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
• 2020-11, Systematic review of the factor structure and measurement invariance of the patient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and validation of the Portuguese version in community settings, Journal of Affective Disorders
• 2020-03, Are measures of marital satisfaction valid for women with depressive symptoms? The examination of factor structure and measurement invariance of the Couple Satisfaction Index-4 across depression levels in Portuguese women, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2020-01-02, Coparenting and Relationship Satisfaction in Mothers: The Moderating Role of Sociosexuality, Archives of Sexual Behavior
• 2020, Personal stigma, determinants of intention to use technology, and acceptance of internet-based psychological interventions for depression, International Journal of Medical Informatics
• 2019-05-14, Shelter Versus Living with Abusive Partner: Differences Among Mothers and Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence, Journal of Child and Family Studies
• 2019-01-01, Helicopter Parenting Instrument, Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnostico y Evaluacion Psicologica
• 2019, Working Alliance Inventory for Children and Adolescents (WAI-CA): Development and Psychometric Properties, European Journal of Psychological Assessment
• 2019, Helicopter parenting instrument: Initial psychometric studies with emerging adults,Helicopter Parenting Instrument: Estudos Psicométricos Iniciais com Adultos Emergentes, Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnostico y Evaluacion Psicologica
• 2018-11-02, A moderated cumulative model of personality adjustment in divorced adults: implications for counselling, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
• 2018-09-27, Validação psicométrica da Escala da Relação Coparental em mães portuguesas, Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana
• 2018-09, Childhood physical maltreatment with physical injuries is associated with higher adult psychopathology symptoms, European Psychiatry
• 2018, Typologies of intimate partner violence-maternal parenting and children's externalizing problems: The moderating effect of the exposure to other forms of family violence, Child Abuse and Neglect
• 2018, A Cumulative Risk Model of Child Physical Maltreatment Potential: Findings From a Community-Based Study, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
• 2017-05, Cognitive-Affective Depression and Somatic Symptoms Clusters Are Differentially Associated with Maternal Parenting and Coparenting, Journal of Affective Disorders
• 2017-04, Parents’ Marital Status and Child Physical Abuse Potential: The Mediation of Depression Symptoms, Journal of Child and Family Studies
• 2017, Clinical supervision, clinical outcomes and self-efficacy in clinical psychology trainees: A sistematic review,Supervisão clínica, outcomes clínicos e autoeficácia em psicólogos estagiários: Uma revisão sistemática, Interamerican Journal of Psychology
• 2016, Typologies of Post-divorce Coparenting and Parental Well-Being, Parenting Quality and Children's Psychological Adjustment, Child Psychiatry & Human Development
• 2016, Coparenting after marital dissolution and children's mental health: a systematic review, Jornal De Pediatria
• 2014, The Portuguese Version of the Psychological Adjustment to Separation Test-Part A (PAST-A): A Study with Recently and Non-recently Divorced Adults, Journal of Happiness Studies
• 2014, Psychometric properties of the portuguese version of the posttraumatic growth inventory short form among divorced adults, European Journal of Psychological Assessment
• 2013, Versão Portuguesa da Escala de Ansiedade Filial, Revista Kairós Gerontologia
• 2013, Perfis de Vinculação, Aliança Parental e Ajustamento Familiar: Diferenças no Ajustamento Psicológico em Pais Recém-divorciados. , Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
• 2013, Parents' physical victimization in childhood and current risk of child maltreatment: The mediator role of psychosomatic symptoms, Journal of Psychosomatic Research
• 2013, Medida da aliança parental: validação portuguesa e construção de uma versão reduzida, Archives of Clinical Psychiatry (São Paulo)
• 2013, Attachment, coparenting and family adjustment profiles in newly divorced parents: Differences in psychological adjustment,Perfis de vinculação, coparentalidade e ajustamento familiar em pais recém-divorciados: Diferenças no ajustamento psicológico, Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica
• 2013, Attachment, Coparenting and Family Adjustment Profiles in Newly Divorced Parents: Differences in Psychological Adjustment, Psicologia-Reflexao E Critica
• 2012, Comunicação entre os profissionais de saúde e o idoso: uma revisão da investigação, Psicologia & Sociedade
• 2011-03, Perspectiva social sobre os discursos opressores da deficiência na universidade, Psico
• 2011, Post-divorce representations of marital negotiation during marriage predict parenting alliance in newly divorced parents, Sexual and Relationship Therapy
• 2011, Child adjustment to separation or divorce of parents, Revista De Psiquiatria Clinica
• 2011, Ajustamento da criança à separação ou divórcio dos pais, Archives of Clinical Psychiatry (São Paulo)
• 2010-03, Modelos teóricos das relações coparentais: revisão crítica, Psicol. estud.
• 2010, Preliminary efficacy evaluation of a group intervention program for divorced parents,Pais por Inteiro: Avaliação preliminar da eficácia de uma intervenção em grupo para pais divorciados, Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica
• 2010, Adjustment to divorce and co-parental relations: Contributions from the theory of attachment,Adaptação ao divórcio e relações coparentais: Contributos da teoria da vinculação, Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica
• 2010, Adaptação ao divórcio e relações coparentais: Contributos da teoria da vinculação, Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
• 2009-08, Pesquisa em Ética e Deontologia na Gerontologia: Reflexões para o desenvolvimento de um código deontológico em Portugal, Rev. bras. geriatr. gerontol.
• 2009-04-01, Desenvolvimento após o divórcio como estratégia de crescimento humano, Journal of Human Growth and Development
• 2009, “PApi - Pais por Inteiro” Programa de intervenção em grupo para o ajustamento pessoal e a promoção da coparentalidade positiva em pais divorciados, Análise Psicológica
• 2009, Therapeutic Alliance Parents-Therapist As An Indicator Of The Quality Of The Relationship. Therapy Between Child and Therapist, Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento
• 2009, Theory and efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder,Teoria e eficácia da terapia comportamental dialética na bulimia nervosa e no transtorno da compulsão alimentar periódica, Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria
• 2009, Psychosocial adjustment and physical health in children of divorce, Jornal de Pediatria
• 2009, Aliança terapêutica pais-terapeuta como indicador da qualidade da relação terapêutica entre criança e terapeuta, Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento

Book chapter

• 2025, Perinatal co-parenting, Assessment of the co-parenting relationship: Multi-method instruments and procedures , UNICOPLI
• 2025, Co-parenting in high-conflict divorces: Conceptual and empirical foundations for evidence-based child welfare assessment and intervention, Assessment of the co-parenting relationship: Multi-method instruments and procedures , UNICOPLI
• 2020, Crianças expostas a violência interparental [Children exposed to interparental violence], Psicologia da Justiça, Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses
• 2020, Crianças Expostas a Violência nas Relações Íntimas numa perspetiva da Psicopatologia do Desenvolvimento. , A Prática Profissional da Psicologia da Justiça, 1ª, Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses
• 2015, Parentalidade e coparentalidade: Conceitos básicos e programas de intervenção [Parenting and coparenting: concepts and intervention programs], Clínica Universitária de Psicologia: Contributos para a prática psicológica, Universidade Católica Editora
• 2013, Cuidados filiais na meia-idade: O impacto da ansiedade filial, Cuidadores informais de pessoas idosas: Caminhos de mudança, Universidade de Aveiro

Conference paper

• Neurophysiological markers of cardiac interoceptive processing in first-time expectant mothers
• Links between perinatal mental health problems and mother-infant bonding difficulties: A network analysis
• Fear of childbirth: sociodemographic, obstetric, and mental health factors
• Envelhecimento e sabedoria: Só a idade não basta, Congresso Português de Avaliação e Intervenção em Gerontologia Social
• Adaptação ao divórcio: PApi - grupo de intervenção para a promoção da qualidade de vida em pais divorciados, Congresso Nacional Saúde e Qualidade de Vida
• 2015-11, Post-divorce coparenting profiles and parental well-being, parenting quality and children’s psychological adjustment, I Internacional Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology with Children and Adolescents
• 2014-09, Father’s coparenting during the transition to parenthood, 7th European Society of Family Research Congress
• 2011-11, Modelos teóricos de relaciones coparentales: Una revisión crítica, I Congresso Internacional sobre Divorcio y Separación
• 2011-05, Divorcio, separacion y los niños: Un enfoque psicobiolgico, I Congresso Internacional sobre Divorcio y Separación
• 2010, In the best interest of parents and children: Promoting the psychological adjustment of separated/divorced parents and their children, Congreso Internacional sobre Avances en Tratamientos Psicológicos

Conference abstract

• 2023-10-06, Prenatal mental health problems and fear of childbirth
• 2023-10-06, History of adverse obstetric experiences and prenatal mental health problems

Conference poster

• 2026-02-26, Tavares, D., Fidalgo, D., Sousa, M., Alves, F., Morais, A., Jongenelen, I., Lamela, D., Alves, S., Costa, R., & Pinto, T. M. (04 Feb 2026). The moderating role of previous mental health problems in the association between partner support during childbirth and postpartum mental health outcomes. 1st TREASURE International Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom,, 1st TREASURE International Conference
• 2026-02-04, The moderating role of previous mental health problems in the association between partner support during childbirth and postpartum mental health outcomes
• 2026-02-04, Tavares, D., Fidalgo, D., Sousa, M., Alves, F., Morais, A., Jongenelen, I., Lamela, D., Alves, S., Costa, R., & Pinto, T. M. (04 Feb 2026). Maternal adverse lifetime experiences and infant temperament: The role of prenatal PTSD symptoms. 1st TREASURE International Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 February 2026.
• 2026-02-04, Tavares, D., Fidalgo, D., Sousa, M., Alves, F., Morais, A., Jongenelen, I., Lamela, D., Alves, S., Costa, R., & Pinto, T. M. (04 Feb 2026). Childbirth satisfaction is associated to postpartum mental health: Clinical utility of the BSS-R. 1st TREASURE International Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 February 2026.
• 2026-02-04, Morais, A., Pinto, T., Sousa, C., Alves, S., Costa, R., Jongenelen, I., & Lamela, D. (04 Feb 2026). Dimensions of Perinatal Affective Symptoms: Item-Level Modeling of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and State Anxiety Inventory. 1st TREASURE International Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom., 1st TREASURE International Conference
• 2026-02-04, Maternal adverse lifetime experiences and infant temperament: the role of prenatal PTSD symptoms.
• 2026-02-04, Infant effortful control
• 2026-02-04, Dimensions of perinatal affective symptoms
• 2026-02-04, Childbirth satisfaction is associated to postpartum mental health
• 2026-02-04, Alves, F., Antunes, C., Lamela, D., Pinto, T. M., Alves, S., Costa, R. & Jongenelen, I. Infant Effortful Control: the role of depression symptoms, mother-fetal/infant bonding difficulties, and coparenting. 1st TREASURE International Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 February 2026., 1st TREASURE International Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom
• 2025-11-26, Potentially traumatic lifetime experiences and maternal-fetal bonding difficulties: the mediating role of prenatal mental health problems, VI Encontro Anual 2025 do Grupo de Língua Portuguesa da Sociedade Marcé “Saúde Mental Perinatal: Ciência e Prática para um Futuro mais Saudável”
• 2025-11, Prenatal Maternal Depression, Bonding Difficulties, and Postnatal Coparenting as Predictors of Infant Effortful Control at Six Months
• 2025, Prenatal maternal depression, bonding difficulties, and postnatal coparenting as predictors of infant effortful control at six months, 11th International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology with Children and Adolescents
• 2023-12-12, Prenatal depression symptoms are associated with fear of childbirth during pregnancy
• 2023-12-12, Exclusive breastfeeding moderates the association childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and mother-infant bonding difficulties
• 2023-12, Exclusive breastfeeding moderates the association between childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and mother-infant bonding difficulties: Preliminary findings from the INTERSECT Portuguese study, V Encontro Anual do Grupo de Língua Portuguesa da Sociedade Marcé
• 2023-09, History of adverse obstetric experiences and fear of childbirth during pregnancy
• 2023-05-06, Perinatal anxiety and depression and birth-related post-traumatic stress disorder: Prevalence and determinants in a cohort of portuguese women, 17th World Congress on Public Health
• 2014-09, Experiências adversas precoces e dinâmicas de regulação emocional em jovens adultos, I Congresso Intermunicipal de Comissões de Proteção de Crianças e Jovens (CPCJ)
• 2008, Therapeutic alliance with children and adolescents and their parents: Results using the Portuguese WAI version for children and adolescents (WAI-CA). , 39º Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research

Dataset

• The Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the Child Abuse Potential Inventory, (516542013-289)
• Posttraumatic Growth Inventory Short Form--Portuguese Version
• A Cumulative Risk Model of Child Physical Abuse Potential in a Portuguese Community Sample, (516542013-288)

Other output

• 2023, Perinatal anxiety and depression and birth-related post-traumatic stress disorder, prevalence and determinants in a cohort of portuguese women
• 2023, Appraisal of Published Guidelines in European Countries Addressing the Clinical Care of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Systematic Review