Teacher
Diogo Carreiras

Resume

Diogo R. V. Carreiras completed his Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Coimbra in 2014. In 2023, he successfully completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the same institution. He holds recognition as a Clinical Psychologist accredited by the Portuguese Psychologists Association and serves as a Professor at Lusófona University (Porto) and Miguel Torga Higher Education (Coimbra) in Portugal. Additionally, he is a Researcher at HEI-Lab (Digital Human-Environment Interaction Lab) and CINEICC (Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention of the University of Coimbra). Diogo has authored 28 published articles in specialized journals, and his contributions extend to 3 book chapters. His work in the field has earned him 7 distinguished awards and distinctions. Over the past few years, he has demonstrated his commitment to the growth of aspiring psychologists by supervising 19 internships in clinical psychology and 15 master's thesis. His primary research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including Personality Disorders, Adolescence, Borderline Personality Symptomatology, Third Wave Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies, LGBTQ+ population, and the intricate processes of Emotional (Dys)Regulation.

Graus

• Mestrado
  Master in Psychology
• Doutoramento
  PhD in Clinical Psychology
• Pós-Graduação
  Human Resources Management
• Outros
  Formação Pedagógica Inicial de Formadores (CCP)

Publicações

Artigo em revista

• 2024-11, Illness Stigma and Shame in People With Chronic Illnesses vs. SARS-CoV-2 Survivors: Associations With Psychological Distress Through Psychological Flexibility and Self-Compassion, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
• 2024-11, Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an ACT and compassion-based intervention for women with breast cancer: Study protocol of two randomized controlled trials, Trials
• 2024-08-27, One-year predictors of PTSD symptoms, anxiety, and depression in SARS-CoV-2 survivors: psychological flexibility and major life events as main predictive factors, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2024-08, The Portuguese Version of the Societal Attitudes Towards Autism (SATA): Psychometric Properties, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Reliability, British Journal of Special Education
• 2024-08, Prosociality and Mental Health Indicators in Portuguese Adolescents – Validation of Prosocialness Scale, Análisis y Modificación de Conducta
• 2024-07, BI-REAL: A 12-session DBT skills group intervention adapted for bipolar disorder – A feasibility randomised pilot trial, Journal of Affective Disorders
• 2024-07, Adaptation of the Portuguese Version of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory for Adolescents: Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties, Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnostico y Evaluacion Psicologica
• 2024-04-18, Does self-compassion protect adolescents with NSSI from developing borderline features? A two-wave longitudinal study, Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health
• 2024, Validation of the Bipolar Recovery Questionnaire (BRQ) in a Portuguese sample: recovery in People with Bipolar Disorder , Acta Médica Portuguesa
• 2024, Benchmarks for Dialectical Behavioural Therapy intervention in Adults and Adolescents with Borderline Personality Symptoms, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
• 2023-11-22, Cognitive-behavioural therapy as a comprehensive treatment for personality disorders, BJPsych Advances
• 2023-09-18, Everyday Discrimination Scale: Dimensionality in a Portuguese community sample and specific versions for sexual and gender minority, Current Psychology
• 2023-08-18, Development of the Clinical Interview for Bipolar Disorder (CIBD): Rational and experts panel evaluation, Journal of Neurology, Neurological Science and Disorders
• 2023-08-15, Stigma Consciousness Questionnaire (SCQ-PT): Validation in a Portuguese Sample of Sexual Minorities, Sexuality Research and Social Policy
• 2023-07-10, Dominant Affective Temperaments and its variance among people with depression, bipolar disorder, and a non-clinical sample: Validation of the Affective Temperament Questionnaire (ATQ), Análise Psicológica
• 2023-06-02, Measuring self-disgust in adolescence: Adaptation and validation of a new instrument for the Portuguese adolescent population, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
• 2023-05-14, The Clinical Interview for Borderline Personality Disorder for Adolescents (CI-BOR-A): Development, acceptability and expert panel evaluation, Personality and Mental Health
• 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
• 2023-02, Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder: Portuguese validation of the Brief QoL.BD questionnaire, Journal of Psychiatry & Mental Disorders
• 2022-12, Shame-based experiences of homophobic bullying and mental health: The mediating role of self-compassionate actions, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• 2022-08, Emotions at the surface: A validation study of the emotional reactivity scale for the Portuguese population, Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Comportamental e Social
• 2022-06, Trajectories of borderline features in adolescents: A three-wave longitudinal study testing the effect of gender and self-disgust over 12 months, Personality and Individual Differences
• 2022-02-03, Health-Related Behaviors and Perceived Addictions: Predictors of Depression During the COVID Lockdown, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
• 2022, Uncovering borderline features in a community sample of Portuguese adolescents, Revista de Psicopatología y Psicología Clinica
• 2022, Portuguese adolescents' perception of the Covid-19 pandemic: Gender differences and relation with psychopathological symptoms, Psicologia - Teoria e Prática
• 2021-12-28, What stands between self-disgust and borderline features?, Psychologica
• 2021-09-23, Which self-compassion components mediate the relationship between adverse experiences in childhood and borderline features in adolescents?, European Journal of Developmental Psychology
• 2020-08-19, Validation of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C) and for Parents (BPFS-P) for the Portuguese Population, Journal of Child and Family Studies
• 2020-05-21, O efeito da impulsividade, autoaversão e autocompaixão nos traços borderline na adolescência: Estudo das diferenças entre sexos [The effect of impulsivity, self-aversion, and self-compassion on borderline traits in adolescence: Study of sex differences], Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Comportamental e Social
• 2019-02, The Clinical Interview for Psychotic Disorders (CIPD): Preliminary results on interrater agreement, reliability and qualitative feedback, Psychiatry Research

Capítulo de livro

• 2022, Are we far from the shallow now? The influence of female pop stars on youth mental health, História Interdisciplinar da loucura, psiquiatria e saúde mental - XII
• 2019, Défice cognitivo e demência [Cognitive impairment and dementia], Trajetos do envelhecimento: perspetivas teóricas e empíricas, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
• 2017, Mindfulness and negative symptoms of Psychosis: a review and discussion on an integrative theoretical model, Mindfulness. Past, Present and Future Perspectives, 00-00., New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Artigo em conferência

• 2019, Traços borderline na adolescência: Estudo prospetivo do desenvolvimento da Perturbação Borderline da Personalidade [Bordeline traits during adolescence: a prospesctive study abouth the development of Borderline Personality Disorder](Abstract)

Resumo em conferência

• 2024, Efficacy of the Mind programme vs a support group intervention: Preliminary results from a RCT in breast cancer, ACBS World Conference 2024
• 2021-11, Self-compassion and its components in explaining borderline traits in adolescence, 2nd International Congress on Intervention in Health and Well-being (2nd ICHWBI2021) and the 1st International Conference on Human Kinesiology (1st ICOHK)
• 2021-04, The role of self-compassion in the relationship between pain and depression in palliative patients
• 2019-12-18, Traços borderline na adolescência: Estudo prospetivo do desenvolvimento da Perturbação Borderline da Personalidade [Borderline features in adolescence: Prospective study about the development of Borderline Personality Disorder]
• 2016, Life satisfaction and psychopathology in Institutionalized elderly people: The results of an adapted Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program
• 2013, The impact of a mindfulness-based intervention in diabetic patients' anxiety.

Poster em conferência

• 2025-05, The influence of hair loss on mental health: The role of body shame and self-compassion in people with alopecia, II Jornadas em Psicologia: Práticas e Aplicações
• 2025-03-28, Saúde Mental em Jovens do Brasil e Portugal: O Efeito da Reatividade Emocional e da Flexibilidade Psicológica, I Congresso Internacional de Saúde Mental no Jovem Adulto
• 2025-03-28, Childhood adversity and discrimination in sexual minoritized youth: What role does social safeness play in depression?, I Congresso Internacional de Saúde Mental no Jovem Adulto
• 2024-10, Reasons for study enrolment, refusal and dropout in the mind project, an RCT of two psychological interventions for women with breast cancer, XIV Congresso Nacional de Psico-oncologia/ III Congresso Luso-brasileiro de Psico-oncologia
• 2024-09, The impact of DBT training on burnout and attitudes towards BPD: A comparative pre-post analysis across two studies, 7th Conference of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders
• 2024-09, Psychological flexibility mediates the association between perceived health state and depressive symptoms in women with breast cancer, 25th International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) World Congress of Psycho-oncology
• 2024-09, Feasibility, acceptability, and effects of a support group intervention for women with breast cancer: Preliminary results, 25th International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) World Congress of Psycho-oncology
• 2024-09, Evaluation of efficacy of the mind programme against a support group intervention: preliminary results from a randomized controlled trial in women with breast cancer, 25th International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) World Congress of Psycho-oncology
• 2024-09, Efficacy of psychotherapies and other non-pharmacological treatments on sleep of adult patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: preliminary results of a systematic review, 27th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society
• 2023-03-31, The Clinical Interview for Bipolar Disorder (CIBD): Expert panel evaluation, IV International Congress of CINEICC
• 2023-03-31, Study protocol for the RCT of the Mind programme: An ACT intervention in breast cancer, IV International Congress of CINEICC
• 2023-03-28, Early memories of warmth and safeness with peers and borderline personality features in adolescents: The mediator role of self-disgust, 31st European Congress of Psychiatry
• 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
• 2022-09, Negative emotional memories and suicidality: The mediating role of entrapment, moderated by self-compassion and distress tolerance, EACBT 2022
• 2022-06, The contribution of distress tolerance and psychological flexibility for suicidality in trans people, 3rd edition of the International Conference on LGBT+ Psychology and Related Fields
• 2022-06, Mental health of young trans adults: How the transition process influences satisfaction with life, 3rd edition of the International Conference on LGBT+ Psychology and Related Fields
• 2022-06, Discrimination and Gender Identity: Validation of the Everyday Discrimination Scale in Portuguese Trans People, 3rd edition of the International Conference on LGBT+ Psychology and Related Fields
• 2022, Routine outcomes from UK DBT programmes: A national benchmarking project, ISITDBT 27th Annual Conference
• 2021-11, A two-wave longitudinal study about borderline features and self-harm: Feelings of self-disgust as risk factor for adolescent girls, PsihDay - IV Mostra de Doutoramento da FPCEUC
• 2021-06, Self-harm, shame and borderline features in adolescents: The mediating role of self-compassion, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science World Conference
• 2021-04, Moderator role of self-compassion in the relationship between borderline features and suicide ideation in adolescents, 29th European Congress of Psychiatry
• 2021-04, Aversão pelo Eu: Estudo das propriedades psicométricas da Escala Multidimensional da Autoaversão para Adolescentes [Self-Disgust: Study of the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Self-Disgust Scale for Adolescents], 12.º Congresso Internacional de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente
• 2020-10, Preliminary results of the Clinical Interview for Borderline Personality Disorder for Adolescents (CI-BOR), 50th Annual Congress of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies
• 2020-09, The mediating role of self-compassion in the relationship between traumatic experiences of homophobic bullying and social anxiety in sexual minorities, 50th Annual Congress of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies
• 2020-09, The evolution of borderline features in adolescents in 6 months: Mediator effect of self-compassion and self-disgust, 50th Annual Congress of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies
• 2019-07, Moderator effect of self-compassion between adverse experiences in childhood and borderline traits., 9th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies
• 2019, Traços borderline na adolescência: O seu efeito mediador na relação entre o autodano e a ideação suicida quando controlado o efeito da depressão [Borderline features in adolescence: Mediating effect on the relationship between self-harm and suicidal ideation when controlling for the effect of depression], 2.ª Jornadas da Unidade de Psicologia Clínica do CHUC
• 2019, Estudo de Validação da Escala de Traços de Personalidade Borderline para Adolescentes (ETPB-A) e para Pais (ETPB-P) na população portuguesa [Validation of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C) and Parents (BPFS-P) for the Portuguese population]], 10.º Congresso Internacional de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente
• 2019, Caracterização dos Traços Borderline em Adolescentes Portugueses da População Geral [Characterization of Borderline Traits in Portuguese Adolescents from the General Population], 10.º Congresso Internacional de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente
• 2018, Validation of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C) in a non-clinical adolescent Portuguese sample, 48th Annual Congress of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Bulgaria
• 2018, Traços borderline na adolescência: Estudo prospetivo do desenvolvimento da Perturbação Borderline da Personalidade [Borderline features in adolescence: Prospective study about the development of Borderline Personality Disorder], 9.º Congresso Internacional de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente, Lisboa
• 2018, Traços borderline na adolescência: Estudo prospetivo do desenvolvimento da Perturbação Borderline da Personalidade [Borderline features in adolescence: Prospective study about the development of Borderline Personality Disorder], 4.º Congresso Internacional da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Braga
• 2017-04, Empowerment with Psychotic Symptoms Scale (EWPSS): exploratory study of the scale’s psychometric properties, European Congress of Psychiatry
• 2017-04, Assessing Suicide Risk with the Clinical Interview for Psychotic Disorders (CIPD): preliminary reliability and validity of the Suicide Risk Scale for Psychosis (SRS-P), European Congress of Psychiatry
• 2017, Satisfação com a vida e psicopatologia em idosos institucionalizados: Eficácia de um programa adaptado para a redução do stress baseado no mindfulness da baseline até aos 12 meses [Life satisfaction and psychopathology in institutionalized elderly: Efficacy of a stress reduction program based on mindfulness adapted from baseline to 12 months], III Congresso Nacional Conversas de Psicologia, Coimbra
• 2016-11-05, Satisfação com a vida e a psicopatologia em idosos institucionalizados: Eficácia de um programa adaptado par a redução do stress baseado no Mindfulness ¿ da baseline até aos 12 meses, 3rd National Congress of Psychology Conversations/ 2nd International conference of Active Ageing
• 2016, A toxicidade do eu: Desenvolvimento e análise fatorial exploratória da Escala Multidimensional da Autoaversão (EMA) [The toxicity of the self: Development and exploratory factor analysis of the Multidimensional Self-disgust Scale], III Congresso Internacional do CINEICC, Coimbra
• 2015-11-05, Eficácia de um programa para a redução do stress baseado no mindfulness no aumento da satisfação com a vida do idoso institucionalizado, 2nd National Congress of Psychology Conversations/ 1st International conference of Active Ageing
• 2014, Self-disgust and entrapment: How they interact for depression? Overview and an exploratory study in a non-clinical sample, 44th Congress of the European Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies: CBT: Bridging the gap between science and practice, Netherlands