Teacher

Resume

Sérgio Andrade Carvalho holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology since 2021, and a MSc in Clinical and Health Psychology since 2011, by the University of Coimbra (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences). Since 2022, he is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CINEICC) under an Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC 4th Ed) contract (2021.01871.CEECIND). He is an Invited Assistant Professor at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra (FPCEUC). From 2021-2022, he was a full time Assistant Professor at Lusófona University (School of Psychology and Life Sciences), and a part-time Assistant Professor at Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique (UPT). He is an integrated researcher at CINEICC, and a collaborator researcher at Digital Human-Environment Interaction Lab (HEI-Lab). His main research topics include 1) the risk and protective role of psychological processes underlying the development and maintenance of psychopathology, in different clinical presentations, including chronic illness - special focus on Chronic Pain; 2) development and efficacy test, in controlled trials, of face-to-face and online evidence-based psychological programs in promoting mental health, reducing psychopathology, and developing pain management and emotional regulation skills, based on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Interventions, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Compassion-Based Interventions. He has co-authored more than 40 articles in peer reviewed international journals with impact factor (majority Q1 and Q2), 19 of which as first author, with 1296 citations since 2019 (google scholar h-index: 22). He co-authored 4 book chapters, co-edited 2 books, and several conference abstracts, paper, and poster presentations. He has received 6 awards and/or honors from international organizations (e.g., Association for Contextual Behavioral Science). He has participated as research team member of 10 funded projects (4 as co-applicant), including 2 Horizon. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Chronic Pain; eHealth; Mindfulness; Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy; Contextual-Behavioral Science; Group Intervention; Weight Loss Maintenance; Behavioral Change; LGBT; Compassion; Psychological Flexibility; Psychopathological symptoms; Obesity; Binge Eating.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Psychological Sciences
• Mestrado integrado
  Clinical and Health Psychology
• Doutoramento
  Clinical Psychology

Publicações

Magazine article

• 2015, Estratégias de mindfulness na abordagem do doente com dor crónica, Dor
• 2014, Befree: contextualização e desenvolvimento de um programa de intervenção em grupo para a ingestão alimentar compulsiva e Obesidade, Revista Factores de Risco

Journal article

• 2024-03-22, (Self)tainted love: Shame and self-criticism as self-discriminatory processes underlying psychological suffering in sexual minority individuals, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
• 2023-05, To feel safe inside and out: The effect of self-compassion and social safeness underlie the relationship between parental invalidation and borderline features in sexual minority adults, Psychology & Sexuality
• 2022-08-30, The Positive Mental Health Literacy Questionnaire - PosMHLit, Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
• 2022-08-30, Beyond the Centrality of Shame: How Self-Concealment and Fear of Receiving Compassion From Others Impact Psychological Suffering in Transgender Adults, Journal of Homosexuality
• 2022-07-22, Usability Study of the iACTwithPain Platform: An Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion-Based Intervention for Chronic Pain, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2022-03-29, Self-Compassion and Mental Health in Sexual and Gender Minority People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, LGBT Health
• 2022-02, Corrigendum: The LIFEwithIBD Intervention: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Face-to-Face Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion-Based Intervention Tailored to People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Frontiers in Psychiatry
• 2022-01-12, Critical issues in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with gender and sexual minorities (GSMs), The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist
• 2021-12-22, Self-compassion in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic pain: a pilot study, Scandinavian Journal of Pain
• 2021-12-03, A Theory- and Evidence-Based Digital Intervention Tool for Weight Loss Maintenance (NoHoW Toolkit): Systematic Development and Refinement Study, Journal of Medical Internet Research
• 2021-09-03, The COVID-19 Pandemic Strain: Teleworking and Health Behavior Changes in the Portuguese Context, Healthcare
• 2021-08-19, The LIFEwithIBD Intervention: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Face-to-Face Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion-Based Intervention Tailored to People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Frontiers in Psychiatry
• 2021-08-05, A pilot randomized controlled trial of online acceptance and commitment therapy versus compassion-focused therapy for chronic illness, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2021-04, Efficacy of online-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis, The Journal of Pain
• 2021-02, Efficacy of an ACT and compassion-based eHealth program for self-management of chronic pain (iACTwithPain): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2021-02, A systematic review of self-compassion in chronic pain: from correlation to efficacy. , The Spanish Journal of Psychology
• 2021-01, Self-as-context and depressive symptoms in the general population: A further analysis of the Self Experiences Questionnaire, Current Psychology
• 2020-08-23, Perceived validation and criticism in pain: development of a new measure in chronic pain, European Journal of Pain
• 2020-07, Above and beyond emotional suffering: the unique contribution of compassionate and uncompassionate self-responding in chronic pain, Scandinavian Journal of Pain
• 2019-12-19, Self-Compassion and Depressive Symptoms in Chronic Pain (CP): A 1-Year Longitudinal Study, Mindfulness
• 2019-10-24, Obstacles to social safeness in women with chronic pain: The role of fears of compassion, Current Psychology
• 2019-07-09, Cognitive fusion and depressive symptoms in women with chronic pain: A longitudinal growth curve modelling study over 12 months, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2018-11-26, Rumination and valued living in women with chronic pain: How they relate to the link between mindfulness and depressive symptoms, Current Psychology
• 2018-10-31, Development and Evaluation of a Global Burnout Index Derived from the Use of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory in Portuguese Physicians, Acta Médica Portuguesa
• 2018-10-30, Pain and Depressive Symptoms: Exploring Cognitive Fusion and Self-Compassion in a Moderated Mediation Model, The Journal of Psychology
• 2018-08-13, Mindfulness, selfcompassion, and depressive symptoms in chronic pain: The role of pain acceptance, Journal of Clinical Psychology
• 2018-07, The utility of the Valuing Questionnaire in Chronic Pain, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
• 2018-01-18, Is the widely used two-factor structure of the Ruminative Responses Scale invariant across different samples of women?, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
• 2018, Propriedades Psicométricas da Escala de Cuidado do Questionário de Experiências de Cuidado e Abuso na Infância (Childhood Experiences of Care and Abuse ¿ CECA.Q), Psychologica
• 2017-09-14, External Shame as a Mediator between Paranoia and Social Safeness in Psychosis, Clinical Psychologist
• 2017-08, Finding the link between internalized weight-stigma and binge eating behaviors in Portuguese adult women with overweight and obesity: The mediator role of self-criticism and self-reassurance, Eating Behaviors
• 2017-05, Body-Image Acceptance and Action Questionnaire: Its deleterious influence on binge eating and psychometric validation, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
• 2017-04-03, Psychological Flexibility and Self-Compassion in Gay and Heterosexual Men: How They Relate to Childhood Memories, Shame, and Depressive Symptoms, Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling
• 2017-04, An implementation trial of ACT-based bibliotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
• 2017-01-25, BEfree: A new psychological program for binge eating that integrates psychoeducation, mindfulness, and compassion, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2017-01, Understanding the effect of attachment styles in paranoid ideation: The mediator role of experiential avoidance, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
• 2017-01, Psychological distress, burnout and personality traits in Dutch anaesthesiologists, European Journal of Anaesthesiology
• 2017-01, Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire: Exploring measurement invariance across three groups of Brazilian women and the role of cognitive fusion as a mediator in the relationship between rumination and depression, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
• 2016-11-22, Self-Compassion and Emotional Intelligence in Adolescence: A Multigroup Mediational Study of the Impact of Shame Memories on Depressive Symptoms, Journal of Child and Family Studies
• 2016-11-15, Incorporating psychoeducation, mindfulness and self-compassion in a new programme for binge eating (BEfree): Exploring processes of change, Journal of Health Psychology
• 2016-11, Stressors in anaesthesiology, European Journal of Anaesthesiology
• 2016-10-07, Self-Criticism and Depressive Symptoms Mediate the Relationship Between Emotional Experiences With Family and Peers and Self-Injury in Adolescence, The Journal of Psychology
• 2016-07, New developments in the assessment of weight-related experiential avoidance (AAQW-Revised), Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
• 2015-11-15, Preliminary results of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) brief group intervention for psychosis, International Journal of Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health
• 2015, Shame Memories and Depression Symptoms: The Role of Cognitive Fusion and Experiential Avoidance, International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy
• 2014-12-10, Forms of Self-Criticising/Attacking & Self-Reassuring Scale: Psychometric properties and normative study, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
• 2013-07-23, Memories of Shame Experiences with Others and Depression Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Experiential Avoidance, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy

Book

• 2023, Manual Internacional da Terapia de Aceitação e Compromisso: O Livro Essencial da ACT [International Handbook of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The essential book of ACT], 1, Paola Lucena-Santos; Sérgio A. Carvalho; José Pinto-Gouveia; Margareth da Silva Oliveira; Jacqueline Pistorello, Editora Fênix Sefarad
• 2023, Eutanásia: Questões e Reflexões [Euthanasia: Issues and Reflections], 1, Diogo, João Emanuel; Ana Figueiredo Sol; Sá, Alexandre Franco de; Sérgio A. Carvalho, Editora D'Ideias

Book chapter

• 2024, ACT with older adults after stroke, Innovations in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Acquired Brain Injury, Taylor & Francis
• 2023, Ciência Psicológica na Morte Medicamente Assistida: uma reflexão sobre decisão, avaliação e intervenção [Psychological science in Medically assisted dying: a reflection on decision, assessment, and intervention], Eutanásia: Questões e Reflexões [Euthanasia: Issues and Reflections], 1, 1, Editora D'Ideias
• 2020, Design and Usability of an E-Health Mobile Application, Design, User Experience, and Usability. Case Studies in Public and Personal Interactive Systems, Springer
• 2016, Not ashamed to love. The Compassion Focused Therapy approach to the treatment of shamed-based difficulties in sexual minorities, Mindfulness and Acceptance for Gender and Sexual Minorities, Context Press

Edited book

• 2021, Editora Fênix Sefarad

Manual

• 2021, COMP.ACT: Programa de Intervenção Psicológica para a Dor Crónica [COMP.ACT: Psychological Intervention Program for Chronic Pain]

Conference paper

• 2019-06, iACTwithpain - building an online platform for helping Chronic Pain Patients, 2019 5th Experiment Conference (exp.at'19)

Conference abstract

• 2021-11, Preliminary findings from the adaptation of Brief Cope to Portuguese adolescents, 14th International Congress of Clinical psychology
• 2021-05, iACTwithPain: Presenting an ACT and compassion-based online intervention to improve self-management in chronic pain, International Conference of Cognitive Psychotherapy
• 2021-05, LIFE with IBD: Preliminary results on the efficacy of a contextual behavioural intervention for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. , International Conference of Cognitive Psychotherapy
• 2020, iACTwithPain: Desenvolvimento e teste de eficácia de uma intervenção online baseada em ACT e compaixão para a autogestão da dor crónica [iACTwithPain: Development and test of efficacy of na online intervention based in ACT and compassion for the self-management of chronic pain], XIV Congresso Nacional de Psiquiatria [XIV Portuguese Congress on Psychiatry]
• 2019-07, Accepting with compassion in chronic pain: testing the effect of explicit self-compassion exercises on the efficacy of an ACT group intervention (COMP.ACT), ACBS World Conference 17
• 2018-09, COMP.ACT: testing the effect of explicit self-compassion exercises on the efficacy of an ACT group intervention for chronic pain, 48th Annual Congress of EABCT
• 2018-07, Cognitive Fusion and Obstacles to Valued Living: Beyond Pain-Specific Events in Chronic Pain, ICBM2018: 20th International Conference on Behavioral Medicine
• 2016-11, Low intensity psychological intervention for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, ACBS UK/Ireland Chapter
• 2015-09, What lies beneath shame? An empirical investigation about shame memories in a mixed clinical sample. , 45th Annual EABCT Congress
• 2015-09, BEfree – An acceptance, mindfulness and compassion group programme for binge eating in obesity., 45th Annual EABCT Congress
• 2015-07, Psychological flexibility and self-compassion: An antidote against shame in homosexual men, ACBS World Conference 13
• 2015-07, BEfree – A group programme for Binge Eating in Obesity: preliminar results. , ACBS World Conference 13

Conference poster

• 2024-02-01, Mental health literacy in people with chronic pain: a scoping review protocol, 15º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde
• 2023-10, A pilot randomized controlled trial of an internet-based intervention for sexual distress in LGB+ individuals: Study Protocol , European Association for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapies (EABCT), Antalya, Turkey.
• 2023-09, Fatores relacionados com o distress sexual em pessoas LGB+: uma proposta de scoping review, Encontro Nacional Sociedade Portuguesa de Sexologia Clínica (SPSC), Lisbon, Portugal
• 2023-07-05, SIYA-PT: An Internet-based CBT intervention to boost low self-esteem, Ciência 2023 - Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal
• 2023-04-01, Emerging adults' subjective experience of self-esteem: Interviews with a demographically diverse sample, IV Congresso Internacional do CINEICC
• 2023, Manão A. A., Carvalho S. A. & Pascoal P. M. (2023, 15-17 Dec) Sexual distress in LGB+ people: A proposal for a scoping review, 24th World Meeting on Sexual Medicine
• 2022-09-10, Empathy, compassion and attitudes towards transgender individuals: a preliminary analysis in a community sample of portuguese adults, 52nd European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (Barcelona, Spain)
• 2022-09-10, Binge eating and emotional (dys)regulation in a portuguese community sample: the protective role of self- compassion and committed action, 52nd European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (Barcelona, Spain)
• 2022-09-09, Study protocol for the Randomized Controlled Trial of the Mind programme: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and compassion-based intervention for women with breast cancer, 52nd European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (Barcelona, Spain)
• 2022-09, One-year predictors of symptoms of PTSD, anxiety and depression in SARS-CoV-2 survivors: Psychological flexibility and major life events as main predictive factors, EABCT 2022
• 2022-05-27, A influência das expectativas e catastrofização na dor do trabalho de parto, ASTOR 29º Congresso Medicina da Dor
• 2018-10, Early memories of shame and lack of safeness and warmth, shame and depressive symptoms in gay and heterosexual men: The mediator effect of self-compassion, 7th International Conference on Compassion Focused Therapy
• 2018-09, eBEfree: An app-delivered programme based on mindfulness, values and compassion for binge eating – Study protocol., 48th EABCT Congress
• 2018-09, Experiencing and Embodying The Compassionate Self: The Impact of Practice Quality in a Compassion Training Program, 48th EABCT Congress
• 2018-09, Building Compassionate schools: promoting socio-emotional skills with teachers, 48th EABCT Congress
• 2017-09, Validation of the Portuguese version of The Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale (PIPS) in samples from general and chronic pain populations, 47th EABCT Congress
• 2017-09, Examining the Attentional Control Scale (ACS) in a clinical and non clinical samples: confirmatory factor analysis and psychometric proprieties. , 1th Mindulness, Compassion and Psychotherapy and its applications in different contexts Congress
• 2017-06, Testing the Efficacy of a Low Intensity Internet Therapy for Chronic Illness (@LIIT-CI): The Specific Contributes of Mindfulness and Explicit Compassion Practices, ACBS World Conference 15
• 2015-09, Preliminary results from KG-free: A compassionate mindfulness & acceptance group training for overweight and obese women, 45th Annual EABCT Congress
• 2015-09, Measuring worry in adolescence: The validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Children (PSWQ-C) for Portuguese population, 45th Annual EABCT Congress
• 2015-09, Exploring the role of weight dissatisfaction, shame and self-disgust in eating behaviors: A male and female comparison , 45th Annual EABCT Congress
• 2015-07, Psychological processes in obese or overweight women with and without binge eating: an exploration of their differences. , ACBS World Conference 13
• 2014-09, When the threat-defense system blocks feelings of safeness in Psychosis, 44th Annual EABCT congress
• 2014-09, ACT for Psychosis: An efficacy study of a group intervention, 44th EABCT congress
• 2013-11, The Portuguese version of The Drexel Defusion Scale: preliminary results, ACT/Contextual Behavioural Science Conference UK/Ireland Chapter