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- Pathways from paranoid conviction to distress: exploring the mediator role of Fears of Compassion in a sample of people with psychosisPublication . Martins, MJ; Castilho, P; Carvalho, CB; Pereira, AT; Carvalho, D; Bajouco, M; Madeira, N; Santos, V; Macedo, A
- Perfeccionismo e perturbações do espectro obsessivo-compulsivo: resultados preliminaresPublication . Maia, BR; Pereira, AT; Soares, MJ; Bos, SC; Cabral, AS; Valente, J; Macedo, A; Pocinho, F; Azevedo, MH
- Perfectionism in obsessive-compulsive and eating disordersPublication . Maia, BR; Soares, MJ; Gomes, A; Marques, M; Pereira, AT; Cabral, AS; Valente, J; Bos, SC; Pato, ML; Pocinho, F; Azevedo, MH; Macedo, AOBJETIVO: Este estudo tem dois objetivos principais. Primeiro, avaliar as dimensões do perfeccionismo no transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo e nos transtornos alimentares em comparação com duas amostras controle: psiquiátrica (depressão/ansiedade) e não clínica. Segundo, avaliar se o perfeccionismo é um traço de personalidade especificamente relacionado com estas diferentes condições clínicas. MÉTODO: 39 pacientes com transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo, 24 com transtornos alimentares, 65 com um diagnóstico de depressão e/ou ansiedade (todos estes pacientes encontravam-se em regime de ambulatório) e 70 controles não clínicos completaram a versão portuguesa da Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. RESULTADOS: Comparativamente à amostra não clínica, todas as amostras clínicas apresentaram níveis significativamente mais elevados na Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale total, no Perfeccionismo Auto-Orientado e no Perfeccionismo-Socialmente-Prescrito. Não houve diferenças estatisticamente significativas no Perfeccionismo-Auto-Orientado e na Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale total nas três amostras clínicas. No entanto, a amostra com transtornos alimentares apresentou níveis significativamente mais elevados de Perfeccionismo-Socialmente-Prescrito, comparativamente à transtornos alimentares e à amostra psiquiátrica (depressão/ansiedade). CONCLUSÃO: O perfeccionismo revelou estar associado a uma grande variedade de condições psicopatológicas. Contudo, as diferenças encontradas entre a amostra de transtornos alimentares, de transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo e a psiquiátrica no Perfeccionismo-Socialmente-Prescrito necessitam de investigação subsequente no sentido de clarificar a especificidade desta dimensão com os transtornos alimentares.
- Personality, cognitive emotion regulation and insomniaPublication . Amaral, AP; Bos, SC; Soares, MJ; Pereira, AT; Marques, M; Madeira, N; Nogueira, V; Bajouco, M; Macedo, A
- Social Cognition, Negative Symptoms and Psychosocial Functioning in Schizophrenia.Publication . Madeira, N; Caldeira, S; Bajouco, M; Pereira, AT; Martins, MJ; Macedo, AAlthough functional recovery could be advocated as an achievable treatment goal, many effective interventions for the treatment of psychotic symptoms, such as antipsychotic drugs, may not improve functioning. The last two decades of cognitive and clinical research on schizophrenia were a turning point for the firm acknowledgment of how relevant social cognitive deficits and negative symptoms could be in predicting psychosocial functioning. The relevance of social cognition dysfunction in schizophrenia patients’ daily living is now unabated. In fact, social cognition deficits could be the most significant predictor of functionality in patients with schizophrenia, non-redundantly with neurocognition. Emerging evidence suggests that negative symptoms appear to play an indirect role, mediating the relationship between neurocognition and social cognition with functional outcomes. Further explorations of this mediating role of negative symptoms have revealed that motivational deficits appear to be particularly important in explaining the relationship between both neurocognitive and social cognitive dysfunction and functional outcomes in schizophrenia. In this paper we will address the relative contribution of two key constructs—social cognitive deficits and negative symptoms, namely how intertwined they could be in daily life functioning of patients with schizophrenia.
- Why should we screen for perinatal depression? Ten reasons to do itPublication . Pereira, AT; Soares, MJ; Bos, S; Marques, M; Maia, B; Valente, J; Nogueira, V; Roque, C; Madeira, N; Pinto de Azevedo, MH; Macedo, AIn this paper we review some of the best available evidence to argue that screening for perinatal depression should be systematically conducted since pregnancy. Our view is organized in ten topics: (1) perinatal depression high prevalence; (2) its potential negative consequences, including maternal, conjugal, foetal, infantile, and child effects; (3) its under-detection and treatment; (4) its stigma; (5) the professionals and women misconceptions related to perinatal depression; (6) the availability of valid and short self-report screening instruments for perinatal depression and (7) their acceptability; (8) the increase in recognition, diagnosis, and treatment rates in comparison with routine practice; (9) the opportunity, given the large number of contacts that women have with health professionals in the perinatal period; and (10) perinatal depression screening potential cost-effectiveness.