Teacher
Inês M. Tavares

Resume

Inês M. Tavares is an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University, Porto (Portugal). Tavares holds a PhD in Psychology by the Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Tavares is a Registered Clinical Psychologist (Portuguese Board of Psychologists) and a trained clinical sexologist (Portuguese Society of Clinical Sexology) and couples' therapist (ICEEFT). She held a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University (Canada) and at the University of British Columbia (Canada), from 2022-2024. Tavares has developed research in the following topics: male and female sexual health, pregnancy and postpartum sexuality, dyadic research, longitudinal research, and experimental sex research. Currently, Tavares supervises Master and Doctoral level students. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Graus

• Mestrado
  MSc Clinical and Health Psychology
• Doutoramento
  PhD in Psychology
• Título de especialista
  Registered Sexual Therapist
• Título de especialista
  Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist

Publicações

Preprint

Journal article

• 2025-02-06, Empathic accuracy for a partner’s negative affect is associated with couples’ daily sexual well-being., Journal of Family Psychology
• 2024-12-30, Psychological and interpersonal dimensions of sexual function and dysfunction: recommendations from the fifth international consultation on sexual medicine (ICSM 2024), Sexual Medicine Reviews
• 2024-08, Connecting through touch: Attitudes toward touch in pregnancy are associated with couples’ sexual and affectionate behaviors across the transition to parenthood, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
• 2024, Using network analysis to model associations between psychological symptoms, sexual function, and sexual distress in women, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
• 2023-10-31, Mapping the contributions of dyadic approaches to couples’ psychosocial adaptation to prostate cancer: a scoping review, Sexual Medicine Reviews
• 2023-06-04, The Role of Men's Sexual Beliefs on Sexual Function/Dysfunction: A Systematic Review, The Journal of Sex Research
• 2023-04, Changes in Intimacy and Sexuality During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of Data from a Survey on Partnered Individuals in Eight European Countries, Sexuality and Culture
• 2023-03-01, Longitudinal associations between mindfulness and changes to body image in first-time parent couples, Body Image
• 2023-01-31, Longitudinal associations between relational and sexual well-being in couples transitioning to parenthood, Family Process
• 2023-01-01, I-SHARE Brazil questionnaire: adaptation from Portuguese to Brazilian Portuguese, O Mundo da Saúde
• 2022-12-02, Biopsychosocial predictors of couples' trajectories of sexual function and sexual distress across the transition to parenthood, Archives of Sexual Behavior
• 2022-05-01, Psychometric Validation of the Sexual Distress Scale in Male and Female Portuguese Samples, The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2022-03-14, A Longitudinal Study on Maternal Depressive Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Strict Lockdown Measures and Social Support, International Journal of Public Health
• 2022-02-12, Is Expectant Couples' Similarity in Attitudes to Sex during Pregnancy Linked to Their Sexual Well-being? A Dyadic Study with Response Surface Analysis, The Journal of Sex Research
• 2022-01, Sexual Health and the Pandemic Crisis: Testing the Role of Psychological Vulnerability/Protective Factors on Sexual Functioning and Sexual Distress During a Critical Life Period in Portugal, Archives of Sexual Behavior
• 2022, Sexual health and the pandemic crisis: Testing the role of psychological vulnerability/protective factors on sexual functioning and sexual distress during a critical life period in Portugal, Archives of Sexual Behavior
• 2022, Psychometric validation of the Sexual Distress Scale in male and female Portuguese samples, Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2022, Changes in intimacy and sexuality during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of data from a survey on partnered individuals in eight European countries, Sexuality & Culture
• 2022, A longitudinal study on maternal depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of strict lockdown measures and social support, International Journal of Public Health
• 2021-07, The Relationship Between COVID-19 Confinement, Psychological Adjustment, and Sexual Functioning, in a Sample of Portuguese Men and Women, The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2021-03, Validation of the Maternal and Partner Sex During Pregnancy Scales (MSP/PSP) in Portugal: Assessing Dyadic Interdependence and Associations with Sexual Behaviors, Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2021, The relationship between COVID-19 confinement, psychological adjustment, and sexual functioning, in a sample of Portuguese men and women, Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2021, Adapting to uncertainty: A mixed-method study on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on expectant and postpartum women and men., Frontiers in Psychology
• 2020-05, The Role of Cognitive Processing Factors in Sexual Function and Dysfunction in Women and Men: A Systematic Review, Sexual Medicine Reviews
• 2020, Cognitive-Affective Factors and Female Orgasm: A Comparative Study on Women With and Without Orgasm Difficulties, Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2019-09, Sexual well-being and perceived stress in couples transitioning to parenthood: A dyadic analysis, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
• 2018-03, Sexual Inhibition is a Vulnerability Factor for Orgasm Problems in Women, The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2018, A review of infrared thermography as applied to human sexual psychophysiology, International Journal of Psychophysiology
• 2017-05, Psychological Individual Trait Features as Moderators of Female Orgasm Occurrence, The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2017-05, Orgasm Likelihood in Women as Predicted by Different Sexual Activities, The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2017-05, Above and Beyond Genital Sexual Stimulation: Evidence Towards a Cognitive-Affective Conceptualization of Female Orgasm, The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• 2017, Cognitive-affective dimensions of female orgasm: the role of automatic thoughts and affect during sexual activity

Book chapter

• 2023, Sexual Dysfunctions, Tasman’s Psychiatry, 5, Springer
• 2019, Sexual Thoughts Questionnaire, Handbook of Sexuality Related Measures, Routledge
• 2019, Sexual Modes Questionnaire, Handbook of Sexuality Related Measures, Routledge
• 2019, Sexual Dysfunctional Beliefs Questionnaire, Handbook of Sexuality Related Measures, Routledge
• 2019, Questionnaire of Cognitive Schema Activation in Sexual Context, Handbook of Sexuality Related Measures, Routledge

Online resource

• 2022, Gravidez em Tempos de COVID-19, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yd30oB6q8Q

Conference paper

• The prostate cancer journey: A dyadic perspective on sexuality, XVII PhD Meeting in Psychology
• Identification of high-risk versus low-risk couples based on prenatal and postnatal biopsychosocial predictors of sexual well-being trajectories across the transition to parenthood. , Congress of the International Academy of Sex Research
• Covid-19 and couples’ work life balance during the pandemic: Preliminary results from a COST European Sexual Medicine Network action project on intimacy and long-term relationships during the pandemic, EWOVA’s (European Women Rectors Association)
• 2023, The silent power of touch: Attitudes toward touch are linked to couples’ sexual and affectionate behaviors across the transition to parenthood. , Meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research

Conference poster

• 2024, Feasibility and acceptability of STORK: A novel online prevention program for new parent couples’ sexual well- being , Annual Meeting of the International Association for Sex Research
• 2023-09-24, Experiência de orgasmo em relações sexuais com pessoas parceiras: Uma scoping review de dados diádicos [Orgasm Experience in Partnered Sexual Relationships: A Scoping Review of Dyadic Data], Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Sexologia [National Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Sexology]
• 2023-09-22, O impacto da experiência subjetiva de orgasmo no bem-estar sexual e relacional dos casais: Abordagem diádica transversal e longitudinal [The impact of the subjective orgasm experience in couples' sexual and relational wellbeing: A dyadic cross-sectional and longitudinal approach], Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Sexologia [National Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Sexology]
• 2023-02, Contributions of dyadic approaches to the psychosocial adaptation of couples to prostate cancer: A scoping review protocol, ESSM congress 2023
• 2023, Contributions of dyadic approaches to the psychosocial adaptation of couples to prostate cancer: A scoping review protocol., European Society for Sexual Medicine
• 2023, Biopsychosocial predictors of sexual wellbeing in the transition to parenthood. , Meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research
• 2022, The Portuguese version of the Sexual Distress Scale: Psychometric properties in male and female samples. , Congress of the European Society for Sexual Medicine
• 2022, A dyadic study on the bidirectionality of changes in sexual and relationship well-being across the transition to parenthood, Meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research,
• 2021, Does similarity matter? A dyadic analysis of similarity in attitudes to sex during pregnancy and expectant couples’ sexual satisfaction and sexual distress, Congress of the International Academy of Sex Research
• 2019, Why positive sexual experiences matter: Sexual health is associated with lower postpartum stress in primiparous couples, Congress of the European Society of Sexual Medicine
• 2019, Cleaning procedures of genital measures in Sexlabs: Current practices and emerging challenges, Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health
• 2018, The role of the insular cortex in eye movements and genital response during visual erotic stimulation: A functional connectivity fMRI study, Annual Meeting of International Academy of Sex Research
• 2018, The Portuguese versions of the women’s and men’s sexual self-schema scales: validity and reliability psychometric properties, World Meeting of the International Society for Sexual Medicine
• 2018, A critical review of the application of infrared thermography to human sexual psychophysiology: Are we ready for prime time?., Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research
• 2017, Psychological individual trait features as moderators of female orgasm occurrence, Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health
• 2017, Orgasm likelihood in women as predicted by different sexual activities, Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health
• 2017, Above and Beyond Genital Sexual Stimulation: Evidence Towards a Cognitive-Affective Conceptualization of Female Orgasm, Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health
• 2016, The relationship between sexual stimulation and female orgasm: the mediator and moderator roles of psychological variables, Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research

Other output

• 2022-08-30, Mapping the contributions of dyadic approaches to couples' psychosocial adaptation to cancer, This is the registration of a scoping review protocol entitled "Mapping the contributions of dyadic approaches to couples¿ psychosocial adaptation to cancer". The goal of this scoping review is to examine the evidence and provide a comprehensive overview of the contributions of dyadic approaches to the psychosocial adaptation of couples to cancer.