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Be a Mom Coping with Depression Be a Mom Coping with Depression: A blended a blended cognitive–behavioral intervention for the treatment of postpartum depression Contact: Mariana Branquinho |
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BeAMom BeAMom is a web-based psychological intervention designed to promote maternal mental health (by preventing postpartum depression and promoting wellbeing) in the postpartum period. BeAMom is a self-guided short-term intervention, developed upon the third-generation CBT-approaches (self-compassion and acceptance and commitment therapies) applied to the specificities of the perinatal context. It has a modular set-up that is updated weekly, with each of the 5 modules addressing 1 or 2 specific thematic contents (e.g., emotions, cognitions, social support). In each module, participants will be provided with psychoeducational content (text format, audio, video and animations) and therapeutic strategies, with interactive and feedback tools to support learning. The concept and content of the BeAMom was developed by the research team and the technical development was conducted by our technology company partner, Redlight Software. Contact: Ana Fonseca |
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Incredible Years – P This program mainly aims to promote mental health in preschoolers (between 3-6 years-old) by training parents to use positive parenting strategies, including playing with children, praising and rewarding, setting limits effectively, handling misbehavior in respectful ways, and strengthening parent-child relationships. The program is implemented in group weekly sessions involving up to 12 parents and led by two facilitators with certified training. A strong emphasis is put on a collaborative approach, including active learning methods, such as role-play, video modeling, homework assignments and group discussion directed to the identification of social learning principles. Contact: Maria João Rama Seabra Santos, Maria Filomena Gaspar |
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Incredible Years – TCM This program is a classroom-based intervention designed to promote 3-8-year-old children’s socio-emotional skills and self-regulation and to reduce conduct problems by strengthening teacher strategies of classroom management and home-school communication. The program is implemented in monthly workshops and focuses on contents such as: a) promoting positive relationships with children and family and the pro-active teacher; b) the importance of positive attention, encouragement and praise; c) using incentives to motivate children; d) reduction of inappropriate behaviors; e) negative consequences; f) promoting social skills and problem-solving. The workshops are led by facilitators with a certified training, using a collaborative approach as well as active and experiential methods, like role-play and group discussion triggered by vignettes of teacher-children interactions. Contact: Maria Filomena Gaspar, Maria João Rama Seabra Santos |
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Mindful Moment Mindful Moment is an online psychological intervention that aims to help mothers in the postpartum period to better cope and regulate their parenting stress and develop mindful parenting skills. It is a self-guided program with 6 modules that includes cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness and compassion-based techniques. Contact: Daniela Ventura Fernandes; Helena Moreira; Maria Cristina Canavarro |
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UP-C The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children (UP-C) is a transdiagnostic and emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral group intervention for children (7-13 years) with emotions disorders (i.e., anxious and/or depressive). It aims to reduce the intensity and frequency of strong and aversive emotional experiences in children, by helping them learn how to confront those emotions and respond to them in more adaptive ways. It includes cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness techniques for parents and children. Contact: Brígida Caiado; Helena Moreira; Maria Cristina Canavarro |
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Detetives das Emoções In-Out” [Emotion Detectives In-Out] The blended Unified Protocol for Children (bUP-C) is a blended intervention for children (7-13 years) with emotions disorders (i.e., anxious and/or depressive) and their parents. It based on the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and integrates face-to-face and online sessions for parents and children into one treatment protocol. It is a transdiagnostic and emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy, designed to help children reduce the intensity and frequency of strong and aversive emotional experiences through cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness techniques. Contact: Helena Moreira |
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PU-C Stepped-Care O Protocolo Unificado para Crianças Stepped-Care é um programa de intervenção stepped-care (em duas etapas) para pais e crianças entre 7 e 13 anos com sintomatologia clinicamente significativa/diagnóstico principal de perturbação de ansiedade e/ou de humor. O protocolo de intervenção baseia-se no Protocolo Unificado para o Tratamento Transdiagnóstico das Perturbações Emocionais das Crianças (PU-C), uma abordagem transdiagnóstica que integra componentes da intervenção cognitivo-comportamental e técnicas de mindfulness e que visa ajudar as crianças a reduzir a intensidade e frequência de experiências emocionais fortes e aversivas, bem como ajudar os pais a reduzir a frequência de comportamentos que reforçam as dificuldades das crianças (e.g., criticismo, superproteção) e a desenvolver novos comportamentos mais funcionais. Contact: Ana Carolina Góis; Helena Moreira; Maria Cristina Canavarro |
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Mind the Mom Mind the Mom is a brief psychological intervention, delivered through a mobile app, which aims to promote mental health of women who are pregnant through the pandemic of COVID-19. The preliminary studies of its efficacy are undergoing. Mind the Mom is a self-guided intervention, with a modular structure, with each of its five modules addressing a theme (psychoeducation about stress and incertitude caused by the pandemic and the importance of stress management and selfcare, emotion recognition and coping, automatic and negative cognitions and coping, mindfulness and self-compassion and communication). Pregnant participants are given information, exercises, and therapeutic strategies, by means of text, animations, video, and audio content. The content was developed by the research team; Hyp was the technology company responsible for the software development. Contact: Anabela Araújo Pedrosa |
