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A comunicação entre o casal no contexto do cancro da mama

A longitudinal study about the body image and psychosocial adjustment of breast cancer patients during the course of the disease

scientific article published on 21 May 2010

A longitudinal study on emotional adjustment of sarcoma patients: the determinant role of demographic, clinical and coping variables.

scientific article published on 4 August 2011

AJUSTAMENTO PSICOSSOCIAL NA INFERTILIDADE: UM ESTUDO COMPARATIVO DE CASAIS INFÉRTEIS, CASAIS A REALIZAR TRATAMENTOS DE REPRODUÇÃO MEDICAMENTE ASSISTIDA E CASAIS PRESUMIDAMENTE FÉRTEIS

Adaptação parental ao nascimento de um filho: Comparação da reactividade emocional e psicossintomatologia entre pais e mães nos primeiros dias após o parto e oito meses após o parto

Adaptação psicossocial na obesidade pediátrica: Um estudo com pais, crianças e adolescentes

Adaptive and maladaptive grief responses following TOPFA: actor and partner effects of coping strategies

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Adult Attachment and Dyadic Adjustment: The Mediating Role of Shame

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Adult attachment insecurity and dyadic adjustment: The mediating role of self-criticism

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Anxiety and depression in sarcoma patients: emotional adjustment and its determinants in the different phases of disease

scientific article published on 29 July 2010

Are patients at risk for psychological maladjustment during fertility treatment less willing to comply with treatment? Results from the Portuguese validation of the SCREENIVF.

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Assessing Attachment to Parents and Peers in Middle Childhood: Psychometric Studies of the Portuguese Version of the People in My Life Questionnaire

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Assessing Hyperactivation and Deactivation Strategies of the Caregiving Behavioral System: Psychometric Studies of the Portuguese Version of the Caregiving System Scale

scientific article published on 29 May 2017

Assessing adult attachment across different contexts: validation of the Portuguese version of the experiences in Close Relationships-Relationship Structures questionnaire.

scientific article published on 30 August 2014

Assessing infertility stress: re-examining the factor structure of the Fertility Problem Inventory ⬇️

scientific article published on November 17, 2011

Assessing paediatric health-related quality of life within a cross-cultural perspective: Semantic and pilot validation study of the Portuguese versions of DISABKIDS-37

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Assessing quality of life in middle-aged and older adults with HIV: psychometric testing of the WHOQOL-HIV-Bref

scientific article published on 4 May 2014

Attachment and Mental Help-Seeking in the Perinatal Period: The Role of Stigma

scientific article published on 27 April 2017

Attachment in patients with mental health disorders: Associations with patient and partner’s adjustment

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Avaliação breve da psicossintomatologia: Análise fatorial confirmatória da versão portuguesa do Brief Symptom Inventory 18 (BSI 18)

Avaliação da qualidade de vida na infecção por VIH/SIDA: Desenvolvimento e aplicação da versão em Português Europeu do WHOQOL-HIV-Bref

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Be a Mom, a Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Postpartum Depression: The Enhancement of Self-Regulatory Skills and Its Association With Postpartum Depressive Symptoms

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Be a Mom: Formative Evaluation of a Web-Based Psychological Intervention to Prevent Postpartum Depression

Caregiving burden and parent-child quality of life outcomes in neurodevelopmental conditions: the mediating role of behavioral disengagement

scientific article published in December 2014

Caregiving burden and uplifts: a contradiction or a protective partnership for the quality of life of parents and their children with asthma?

scientific article published on 2 March 2015

Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes: links between family cohesion, perceived impact, and parental adjustment

scientific article published on 9 September 2013

Changes in marital congruence and quality of life across the transition to parenthood in couples who conceived spontaneously or with assisted reproductive technologies

scientific article

Characteristics of primiparous women of advanced age and their partners: a homogenous or heterogenous group?

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Childbearing Motivations Scale: Construction of a New Measure and its Preliminary Psychometric Properties

Childbearing across borders: Fertility and parenthood attitudes and decisions among breast cancer survivors in USA and Portugal.

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Childbearing motivational patterns of primiparous women of advanced age and their partners

Clinical determinants of parents' emotional reactions to the disclosure of a diagnosis of congenital anomaly

scientific article published on February 2013

Cognitive correlates of women's postpartum depression risk and symptoms: the contribution of dysfunctional beliefs and negative thoughts

scientific article published on 29 March 2019

Comportamentos extra-diádicos nas relações de namoro: Diferenças de sexo na prevalência e correlatos

Congruence of the Marital Relationship During Transition to Parenthood: A Study with Couples Who Conceived Spontaneously or Through Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Correction to: Assessing Adult Attachment Across Different Contexts: Validation of the Portuguese Version of the Experiences in Close Relationships–Relationship Structures Questionnaire

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Couple-Focused Interventions for HIV-Serodiscordant Couples During Transition to Motherhood

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Decision-making trajectories leading to termination of an unplanned pregnancy: specificities among adolescent and adult women

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Depression Literacy and Awareness of Psychopathological Symptoms During the Perinatal Period.

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

Development and psychometric properties of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Instrument (WHOQOL-100) in Portugal.

scientific article published on 8 May 2009

Do 8- to 18-year-old children/adolescents with chronic physical health conditions have worse health-related quality of life than their healthy peers? a meta-analysis of studies using the KIDSCREEN questionnaires

scientific article published on 04 May 2019

Does Hope Matter? Associations Among Self-Reported Hope, Anxiety, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents with Cancer.

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Does infertility history affect the emotional adjustment of couples undergoing assisted reproduction? the mediating role of the importance of parenthood.

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Does the association between mindful parenting and adolescents’ dispositional mindfulness depend on the levels of anxiety and depression symptomatology in mothers?

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Does the small fit them all? The utility of Disabkids-10 Index for the assessment of pediatric health-related quality of life across age-groups, genders, and informants

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Dyadic coping and dyadic adjustment in couples with women with high depressive symptoms during pregnancy

Dysfunctional beliefs towards motherhood and postpartum depressive and anxiety symptoms: Uncovering the role of experiential avoidance

scientific article published on 06 June 2018

EHPS 2013 Abstracts

Erratum to: The Disability Paradox Revisited: Quality of Life and Family Caregiving in Pediatric Cerebral Palsy

scholarly article by Carlos Carona et al published 17 September 2013 in Journal of Child and Family Studies

Establishing priorities for psychological interventions in pediatric settings: A decision-tree approach using the DISABKIDS-10 Index as a screening instrument.

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Estudos psicométricos da versão Portuguesa da Escala de Impacto Familiar (EIF)

Estudos psicométricos da versão em Português Europeu do índice de qualidade de vida EUROHIS-QOL-8

Examining a developmental approach to health-related quality of life assessment: Psychometric analysis of DISABKIDS generic module in a Portuguese sample

Examining the Links Between Perceived Impact of Pregnancy, Depressive Symptoms, and Quality of Life During Adolescent Pregnancy: The Buffering Role of Social Support ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2014

Examining the links between perceived impact of breast cancer and psychosocial adjustment: the buffering role of posttraumatic growth ⬇️

scientific article published on February 8, 2011

Exploring the link between maternal attachment-related anxiety and avoidance and mindful parenting: The mediating role of self-compassion

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Exploring the paths between dysfunctional attitudes towards motherhood and postpartum depressive symptoms: The moderating role of self-compassion

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Factor structure and psychometric properties of the European Portuguese version of a questionnaire to assess quality of life in HIV-infected adults: The WHOQOL-HIV-Bref ⬇️

scientific article published on November 22, 2011

Factors associated with quality of life in middle-aged and older patients living with HIV.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Family Cohesion and Health-Related Quality of Life of Children with Type 1 Diabetes: The Mediating Role of Parental Adjustment

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Family Rituals and Quality of Life in Children With Cancer and Their Parents: The Role of Family Cohesion and Hope.

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Family cohesion and psychopathological symptoms in pediatric obesity: Is there an indirect effect?

Family rituals when children have cancer: A qualitative study

scientific article published on 12 July 2018

Family rituals, financial burden, and mothers' adjustment in pediatric cancer.

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Family routines and rituals in the context of chronic conditions: a review.

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

Female cancer patients' perceptions of the fertility preservation decision-making process: An exploratory prospective study

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Gender and Age Differences in Quality of Life and the Impact of Psychopathological Symptoms Among HIV-Infected Patients ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Grief following termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality: does marital intimacy foster short-term couple congruence?

article published in 2012

Growing After Breast Cancer: A Controlled Comparison Study With Healthy Women

How can mindful parenting be related to emotional eating and overeating in childhood and adolescence? The mediating role of parenting stress and parental child-feeding practices

scientific article published on 24 March 2019

Impacto do cancro do osso e tecidos moles no ajustamento emocional e qualidade de vida

Impacto familiar e ajustamento de pais de crianças com diagnóstico de anomalia congênita: influência dos determinantes da criança

Individual and gender differences in mindful parenting: The role of attachment and caregiving representations

Infidelity in Dating Relationships: Gender-Specific Correlates of Face-to-Face and Online Extradyadic Involvement

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Is Mindful Parenting Associated With Adolescents' Emotional Eating? The Mediating Role of Adolescents' Self-Compassion and Body Shame

Is Mindful Parenting Associated with Adolescents' Well-being in Early and Middle/Late Adolescence? The Mediating Role of Adolescents' Attachment Representations, Self-Compassion and Mindfulness

scientific article published in February 2018

Is body shame a significant mediator of the relationship between mindfulness skills and the quality of life of treatment-seeking children and adolescents with overweight and obesity?

scientific article published on 6 December 2016

Is positive mental health and the absence of mental illness the same? Factors associated with flourishing and the absence of depressive symptoms in postpartum women

scientific article published on 24 October 2020

Is the link between posttraumatic growth and anxious symptoms mediated by marital intimacy in breast cancer patients?

scientific article published on 22 May 2015

Knowledge and attitudes about postpartum depression in the Portuguese general population

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Mapping the caregiving process in paediatric asthma: Parental burden, acceptance and denial coping strategies and quality of life

scientific article published on 6 February 2015

Marital Relationship, Body Image and Psychological Quality of Life among Breast Cancer Patients: The Moderating Role of the Disease’s Phases

Maternal Attachment and Children’s Quality of Life: The Mediating Role of Self-compassion and Parenting Stress

Maternal adjustment to the birth of a child: Primiparity versus multiparity

Medical information concerning an infant's congenital anomaly: Successful communication to support parental adjustment and transition.

scientific article published on 4 September 2015

Men's Intentions to Recommend Professional Help-Seeking to Their Partners in the Postpartum Period: the Direct and Indirect Effects of Gender-Role Conflict

scientific article published on 19 October 2019

Mental health and work in a national survey of farm managers in the United States

abstract published in 2008

Mothers' and fathers' attachment and caregiving representations during transition to parenthood: an actor-partner approach

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Network support and parenting in mothers and fathers who conceived spontaneously or through assisted reproduction

article published in 2011

O domínio SRPB (Spirituality, Religiousness and Personal Beliefs) do WHOQOL: O estudo com grupos focais para validação da versão em Português europeu do WHOQOL-SRPB

O papel do ajustamento diádico na sintomatologia psicopatológica e qualidade de vida de doentes com perturbação psiquiátrica e dos parceiros saudáveis

Optimizing the Decision-Making Process About Fertility Preservation in Young Female Cancer Patients: The Experience of the Portuguese Centre for Fertility Preservation

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Oxytocin and depression in the perinatal period-a systematic review.

scientific article published on 13 June 2016

PERSONAL COMPETENCIES, SOCIAL RESOURCES, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT OF PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN OF ADVANCED MATERNAL AGE AND THEIR PARTNERS.

scientific article published on 31 August 2015

Parental Psychological Distress and Confidence After an Infant’s Birth: The Role of Attachment Representations in Parents of Infants with Congenital Anomalies and Parents of Healthy Infants

scientific article published on 01 June 2013

Parental attachment insecurity and parenting stress: The mediating role of parents' perceived impact of children's diabetes on the family.

scientific article published on 14 July 2016

Parental investment in couples who conceived spontaneously or with assisted reproductive techniques

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Parental psychological distress and quality of life after a prenatal or postnatal diagnosis of congenital anomaly: a controlled comparison study with parents of healthy infants.

scientific article published on 28 December 2011

Parenting Stress and Quality of Life in Pediatric Obesity: The Mediating Role of Parenting Styles

Parenting an Infant with a Congenital Anomaly: How are Perceived Burden and Perceived Personal Benefits Related to Parenting Stress?

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

Parenting an infant with a congenital anomaly: An exploratory study on patterns of adjustment from diagnosis to six months post birth.

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Parents' Romantic Attachment Predicts Family Ritual Meaning and Family Cohesion Among Parents and Their Children With Cancer.

scientific article published in January 2017

Pathways for psychological adjustment in breast cancer: a longitudinal study on coping strategies and posttraumatic growth.

scientific article published on 11 April 2012

Patient centred care in infertility health care: direct and indirect associations with wellbeing during treatment

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Patterns of parental emotional reactions after a pre- or postnatal diagnosis of a congenital anomaly

Perceptions of Influencing Factors and Satisfaction With the Timing of First Childbirth Among Women of Advanced Age and Their Partners

Positive experiences of patient-centred care are associated with intentions to comply with fertility treatment: findings from the validation of the Portuguese version of the PCQ-Infertility tool.

scientific article published on 2 July 2013

Poster and oral presentations (In alphabetical order by first author)

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Predictive validity of the Postpartum Depression Predictors Inventory-Revised (PDPI-R): A longitudinal study with Portuguese women

scientific article published on 17 November 2018

Preliminary Psychometric Testing of the Postpartum Depression Predictors Inventory-Revised (PDPI-R) in Portuguese Women

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Prevalence and correlates of emotional distress in HIV/HCV coinfection.

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Prevalence and correlates of psychological distress of middle-aged and older women living with HIV.

scientific article published on 19 January 2017

Prevalence and factors associated with fertility desires/intentions among individuals in HIV-serodiscordant relationships: a systematic review of empirical studies

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Preventing adolescent pregnancy: biological, social, cultural, and political influences on age at first sexual intercourse.

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Preventing and Treating Women’s Postpartum Depression: A Qualitative Systematic Review on Partner-Inclusive Interventions

scholarly article by Stephanie Alves et al published 9 October 2017 in Journal of Child and Family Studies

Psychological and quality of life outcomes in pediatric populations: a parent-child perspective

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Psychometric Properties of the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale in a Sample of Portuguese Mothers

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Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the Child Post-traumatic Cognitions Inventory in a Sample of Children and Adolescents Following a Wildfire Disaster

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Psychometric characteristics of the Inventory of Attitudes toward Seeking Mental Health Services: a study of women during the perinatal period

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Psychometric properties of the European Portuguese version of the Perceived Risk of HIV Scale in the general population and HIV-uninfected partners from sero-different couples

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL-100) in Portuguese patients with sarcoma.

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Psychometric study of the European Portuguese version of the PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module.

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Psychosocial Adjustment and Marital Intimacy Among Partners of Patients with Breast Cancer: A Comparison Study with Partners of Healthy Women ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Psychosocial adjustment after induced abortion and its explanatory factors among adolescent and adult women

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

Psychosocial adjustment during the transition to parenthood of Portuguese couples who conceived spontaneously or through assisted reproductive technologies

scientific article published in June 2010

Psychosocial adjustment of couples to first-time parenthood at advanced maternal age: an exploratory longitudinal study

Qualidade de vida de mulheres com cancro da mama nas diversas fases da doença: o papel de variáveis sociodemográficas, clínicas e das estratégias de coping enquanto factores de risco/protecção

Quality of Life and Adjustment in Youths with Asthma: The Contributions of Family Rituals and the Family Environment ⬇️

scientific article published on September 20, 2012

Quality of life and emotional distress among HIV-positive women during transition to motherhood

scientific article published in November 2012

Quality of life and psychological functioning in pediatric obesity: the role of body image dissatisfaction between girls and boys of different ages

scientific article published on 10 May 2014

Quality of life assessment in HIV-infection: validation of the European Portuguese version of WHOQOL-HIV.

scientific article published in February 2011

Quality of life in pediatric asthma patients and their parents: a meta-analysis on 20 years of research

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Quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS: a cross-country comparison study of Finland and Portugal

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Quality of life of sarcoma patients from diagnosis to treatments: predictors and longitudinal trajectories.

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Relational and reproductive trajectories leading to adolescent pregnancy in Portugal: a national and regional characterization

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Relational contexts in adjustment to pregnancy of HIV-positive women: relationships, social support and personal adjustment

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Relational factors of vulnerability and protection for adolescent pregnancy: a cross-sectional comparative study of Portuguese pregnant and nonpregnant adolescents of low socioeconomic status

scientific article published in January 2005

Reliability and validity of the European Portuguese version of the quality of life index EUROHIS-QOL-8 in HIV-infected patients

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Reproductive and relational trajectories leading to pregnancy: Differences between adolescents and adult women who had an abortion.

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

Risk Knowledge and Psychological Distress During Pregnancy Among Primiparous Women of Advanced Age and Their Partners

scientific article published on 5 September 2014

Self-Compassion and Dispositional Mindfulness Are Associated with Parenting Styles and Parenting Stress: the Mediating Role of Mindful Parenting

Self-criticism, negative automatic thoughts and postpartum depressive symptoms: the buffering effect of self-compassion

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Será que valeu a pena? A avaliação da experiência do tratamento de procriação medicamente assistida pelos casais inférteis e ajustamento psicossocial um ano após o tratamento

Similarities amid the difference: caregiving burden and adaptation outcomes in dyads of parents and their children with and without cerebral palsy

scientific article published on 3 January 2013

Social nesting: changes in social network and support across the transition to parenthood in couples that conceived spontaneously or through assisted reproductive technologies

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Social support and adaptation outcomes in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Social support and adjustment in patients with sarcoma: the moderator effect of the disease phase.

scientific article published in January 2012

Social support and social networks in pregnancy and HIV-infection: an approach of Convoy Model

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Sociodemographic, sexual, and reproductive variables associated with pregnancy among adolescents from low socioeconomic background

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

Sociodemographic, sexual, reproductive and relationship characteristics of adolescents having an abortion in Portugal: a homogeneous or a heterogeneous group?

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The Association Between Self-Critical Rumination and Parenting Stress: The Mediating Role of Mindful Parenting

article published in 2018

The Disability Paradox Revisited: Quality of Life and Family Caregiving in Pediatric Cerebral Palsy

scholarly article by Carlos Carona et al published 19 September 2012 in Journal of Child and Family Studies

The Indirect Effect of Family Cohesion on Children’s Weight Status Through Maternal Quality of Life and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms

The Indirect Effect of the Mindful Parenting of Mothers and Fathers on the Child’s Perceived Well-Being Through the Child’s Attachment to Parents

The Portuguese DISABKIDS Asthma Module: a global index of asthma-specific quality of life for children and adolescents

scientific article published on 14 February 2014

The Portuguese version of the body image scale (BIS) - psychometric properties in a sample of breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 4 November 2009

The Role of Attachment Anxiety and Attachment Avoidance on the Psychosocial Well-being of Infertile Couples

scientific article published on 24 May 2017

The Role of Dyadic Coping on the Marital and Emotional Adjustment of Couples With Infertility

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The association between self-consciousness about appearance and psychological adjustment among newly diagnosed breast cancer patients and survivors: The moderating role of appearance investment ⬇️

scientific article published on December 24, 2011

The indirect effect of contextual factors on the emotional distress of infertile couples

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The relationship between dyadic coping and dyadic adjustment among HIV-serodiscordant couples

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

The role of appearance investment in the adjustment of women with breast cancer

scientific article published in September 2010

The role of emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between attachment representations and depressive and anxiety symptoms in the postpartum period

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

The role of mindful parenting and children's weight in mothers' child-feeding practices

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

The role of satisfaction with social support in perceived burden and stress of parents of six-month-old infants with a congenital anomaly: Actor and partner effects

scientific article published on 21 May 2014

The time is now: An exploratory study regarding the predictors of female cancer patients' decision to undergo fertility preservation

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Trauma Following Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality: Is This the Path From Guilt to Grief?

Vulnerabilidade de género e outras dimensões de influência na adaptação ao VIH/SIDA e à gravidez e maternidade

What protects at-risk postpartum women from developing depressive and anxiety symptoms? The role of acceptance-focused processes and self-compassion

scientific article published on 26 December 2018

Why the (dis)agreement? Family context and child-parent perspectives on health-related quality of life and psychological problems in paediatric asthma

scientific article published on 5 May 2014

Women's intentions of informal and formal help-seeking for mental health problems during the perinatal period: The role of perceived encouragement from the partner

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Women's use of online resources and acceptance of e-mental health tools during the perinatal period

scientific article published on 3 August 2016

Women׳s help-seeking behaviours for depressive symptoms during the perinatal period: Socio-demographic and clinical correlates and perceived barriers to seeking professional help.

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