Marina Cunha

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Prof. Auxiliar

Instituto Superior Miguel Torga

Portugal

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Professor Auxiliar Marina Cunha is a faculty member at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga in Portugal. Her research areas include self-compassion, psychological flexibility, and mental health issues among adolescents and older adults. Recent publications focus on the impact of social fears, the role of social media in marginalized communities, and the intersection of connection during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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MindKindful-P e MindKindful-Kids

Open Date: 2018-10-01

Close Date: 2020-01-01

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eBEfree: An ICT adaptation of BEfree: An app-delivered programme-based on mindfulness, values and compassion for binge eating

Open Date: 2018-09-01

Close Date: 2021-09-01

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eBEfree: An ICT adaptation of BEfree: An app-delivered programme-based on mindfulness, values and compassion for binge eating

Open Date: 2018-09-01

Close Date: 2021-09-01

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Compassionate Schools: Development and efficacy study of a compassion based intervention to promote teachers and children wellbeing

Open Date: 2017-05-01

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Inequalities in childhood obesity: the impact of the socioeconomic crisis in Portugal from 2009 to 2015 [Desigualdades na obesidade infantil: o impacto da crise socioeconómica em Portugal de 2009 a 2015]

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2020-10-01

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Cláudia Rute Carlos Ferreira

University of Coimbra

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The Core Social Fears Scale for Adolescents: Psychometric appraisal based on community and clinical samples

Self-Compassion as a Mediator of the Longitudinal Link Between Parent and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms

Adaptação e validação do Índice Personalizado de Flexibilidade Psicológica numa amostra da população portuguesa

Social Media in the LGBTQ+ Community: Development and Validation Study of the Social Media Relevance Scale LGBTQ+

Beyond surviving: the power of human connection and activities in dealing with COVID-19 lockdown

Navigating body image flexibility: Psy-Flex scale for body image and its utility in differentiating severity levels of disordered eating and body dysmorphia symptomatology

PLAYwithHEART: Non-Randomized Feasibility Trial of a Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Compassion-Based Programme for Adolescent Athletes

Promoting Teachers’ Wellbeing Using a Compassionate Mind Training Intervention: Exploring Mechanisms of Change

Beyond fight or flight: The protective role of pre‐pandemic meditation practice against anxiety and perceived stress

Assessing psychological flexibility and mental health in adults: The Psy-Flex European Portuguese version

Mindfulness and Psychological Inflexibility in Portuguese Adolescent Athletes: A Novel Framework for Understanding the Link Between Shame and Sports Anxiety

Assessing Self-Compassion in Older Adults: Factorial Structure of the Self-Compassion Scale and Invariance Across Sex at Birth

The Portuguese version of the societal attitudes towards autism (SATA) scale: Psychometric properties, confirmatory factor analysis and reliability

Lifespan perspective on self-compassion: Insights from age-groups and gender comparisons

The Forms of Self-Criticising & Self-Reassuring Scale - Short Form for Adolescents: Psychometric Properties in Clinical and Non-Clinical Portuguese Samples

Fertility Awareness Project: Contributo de um focus group com adolescentes portugueses

Next-generation sequencing of 12 obesity genes in a Portuguese cohort of patients with overweight and obesity

Fertility and fertility preservation knowledge in Portuguese women

Avaliação da (in)flexibilidade psicológica na população portuguesa: Validação da versão breve do Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI-24)

Assessing psychological flexibility in adolescents: Validation of PsyFlex-A

How athletes' perception of coach-related critical attitudes affect their mental health? The role of self-criticism

Measuring self-disgust in adolescence: Adaptation and validation of a new instrument for the Portuguese adolescent population

The Clinical Interview for Borderline Personality Disorder for Adolescents (CI-BOR-A): Development, acceptability and expert panel evaluation

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

Does self-compassion protect adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury from developing borderline features? A two-wave longitudinal study

How to measure compassion in coaches? The validation of a new scale to assess the compassion coaches’ experience towards their athletes

Collaborators (20)

Cláudia Rute Carlos Ferreira

Ana Xavier

Andreia A. Manão

António Rosado

Licínio Manco

Hugo Senra

Margarida P. de Lima

Ana Galhardo

Maria do Céu Salvador

Diogo Carreiras

Filipa Nogueira

Paula Vagos

Paula Castilho

Lara Palmeira

Ilda Massano-Cardoso

paul Gilbert

José Pinto-Gouveia

Cristina Padez

Mariana Martins

Frances Maratos

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