Teacher
Cláudia P. Pires

Resume

Cláudia P. Pires. Invited Assistant Professor in Psychology at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga, Coimbra, Portugal. Also affiliated to the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal. PhD in Clinical Psychology (2024), MSc in Clinical Psychology - Cognitive-Behavioural Interventions (2015), and BSc in Psychological Sciences (2013) from the University of Coimbra. Advanced training in contextual therapies (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy and Mindfulness Based Interventions) in adults and adolescents. Member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists and the Portuguese Association of Behaviour Therapy (APTC). Research interests focused on anxiety disorders, adolescent development and clinical functioning, neurobiological and evolutionary approach to human characteristics, behaviour and difficulties, and on contextual, experiential and compassion-based psychological interventions.

Graus

• Mestrado
  M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology
• Pós-Graduação
  Advanced and Specialized Training Course in Third Wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
• Outros
  Compassion Focused Therapy: Clinical Skills
• Outros
  Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for people who overeat
• Outros
  Dyslexia Advanced Course
• Outros
  Assessment and Diagnostic of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• Outros
  Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Etiology and Assessment
• Outros
  Certificate of Proficiency in English
• Doutoramento
  PhD in Clinical Psychology
• Outros
  Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) 8-week course
• Outros
  Cultivating the compassionate self to work with shame memories
• Licenciatura
  B.Sc. in Psychological Sciences
• Outros
  Compassion Focused Therapy for Difficult Emotions
• Pós-Graduação
  Third-Wave Therapies with Children and Adolescents
• Pós-Graduação
  Affirmative Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions with the LGBTQIA+ population

Publicações

Journal article

• 2023-03-01, The Efficacy Of A Compassion, Acceptance And Mindfulness-based Pilot Intervention For Adolescents’ Test Anxiety: A Case Study Using The Academic Program, Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies
• 2020, Assessing psychological flexibility in test situations: The Test Anxiety Acceptance and Action Questionnaire for Adolescents, Revista de Psicopatología y Psicología Clínica
• 2019-01-22, Styles of Leadership, Fears of Compassion, and Competing to Avoid Inferiority, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2018-12-11, Does the recall of caregiver eating messages exacerbate the pathogenic impact of shame on eating and weight-related difficulties?, Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity

Conference abstract

• 2019-11, Ansiedad ante los exámenes: Por el camino de la compasión, 5th International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology on Children and Adolescents
• 2015, Test Anxiety: An approach based on Clark and Wells Cognitive Model for Social Anxiety Disorder, 45th Congress of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies

Conference poster

• 2023-10, The AcAdeMiC program: Study protocol for a new acceptance, mindfulness, and compassion-based intervention to adolescents with test anxiety , 12th International CFT Conference: Compassion through life’s journey
• 2023-10, Compassion, acceptance, and mindfulness-based intervention for adolescents’ test anxiety (AcAdeMiC): a non-randomized mixed-method feasibility study, 12th International CFT Conference: Compassion through life’s journey
• 2023-07, Acceptance of test anxiety symptoms and self-compassion as mechanisms of change of school-related and general mental health outcomes in a psychotherapeutic intervention for adolescents , ACBS World Conference 21
• 2022-09, The efficacy of a compassion, acceptance, and mindfulness-based pilot intervention for adolescents’ test anxiety: A case study , 52nd Congress of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies
• 2020-09, Psychological flexibility and test anxiety: The mediating role of shame and self-criticism, 50th Virtual Congress of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT)
• 2019-11, Understanding and overcoming test anxiety: A new comprehensive model and group intervention based on acceptance, mindfulness and compassion for test-anxious adolescents, PsihDay - III Mostra de Doutoramento em Psicologia
• 2019-11, Clark and Wells Cognitive Model for Social Anxiety Disorder: Does it apply to Test Anxiety?, 5th International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology on Children and Adolescents