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Research paper thumbnail of Para lá do sintoma... Intervenção em grupo para adolescentes com sintomatologia ansiosa = Beyond symptom… Group intervention for adolescents with anxious symptomatology

Revista de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente, May 25, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Ansiedade na adolescência e famílias : um tratamento cognitivo – comportamental em grupo

Research paper thumbnail of Bariatric Surgery in Youth and Adolescents: The Experience of an Outpatient Obesity Clinic in a Central Hospital in Portugal

Obesity in children and adolescents is a huge Public Health burden. Lifestyle modification interv... more Obesity in children and adolescents is a huge Public Health burden. Lifestyle modification interventions in in some youth with severe obesity show only marginal effectiveness. As a result of the significant prevalence rate of severe comorbidities and substantial long-term health risks associated with pediatric obesity, bariatric surgery has emerged as an option for adolescents with severe obesity and/or serious weight-related comorbidities who have experienced insufficient responses with other treatments. Weight loss surgery should be conducted in the context of a multidisciplinary program. The purposes of this report were to analyze retrospectively the impact of bariatric surgery in body mass index (BMI) and improvements of comorbidities in severely obese adolescents followed at the Obesity Pediatric Outpatient Clinic of Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte (CHLN) between 2012-2016. Twelve adolescents underwent bariatric procedure during this period. The most prevalent comorbidities were...

Research paper thumbnail of Pediatric Psychology in Emergency Services: a Clinical Practice to Follow in Hospital Context

The Psychologist: Practice & Research Journal, 2020

SiSince the beginning of 2016, the team of the Emergency Service (SU) of the Pediatric Department... more SiSince the beginning of 2016, the team of the Emergency Service (SU) of the Pediatric Department of the Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte (HSM-CHULN), counts with another valence in its intervention plan. Traditionally specialized in an approach of organic pathology, the service is now composed of a specialized intervention of Pediatric Psychology. This paper has the purpose of review, deepen and disclose (i) the psychological intervention model that is used in the SU, focused on babies, children and adolescents, as well as on direct/indirect support to families, at a Physical and Mental Health levels, (ii) the developed work in stress management of the emergency team and (iii) the performance of psychologists in the emergency context, as a way to update the intervention protocols within this practice according to international guidelines. The intervention carried in this SU, in situations of emergency, urgency or crisis, resort from strategies t...

Research paper thumbnail of Para lá do sintoma... Intervenção em grupo para adolescentes com sintomatologia ansiosa = Beyond symptom… Group intervention for adolescents with anxious symptomatology

Revista de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente, May 25, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Ansiedade na adolescência e famílias : um tratamento cognitivo – comportamental em grupo

Research paper thumbnail of Bariatric Surgery in Youth and Adolescents: The Experience of an Outpatient Obesity Clinic in a Central Hospital in Portugal

Obesity in children and adolescents is a huge Public Health burden. Lifestyle modification interv... more Obesity in children and adolescents is a huge Public Health burden. Lifestyle modification interventions in in some youth with severe obesity show only marginal effectiveness. As a result of the significant prevalence rate of severe comorbidities and substantial long-term health risks associated with pediatric obesity, bariatric surgery has emerged as an option for adolescents with severe obesity and/or serious weight-related comorbidities who have experienced insufficient responses with other treatments. Weight loss surgery should be conducted in the context of a multidisciplinary program. The purposes of this report were to analyze retrospectively the impact of bariatric surgery in body mass index (BMI) and improvements of comorbidities in severely obese adolescents followed at the Obesity Pediatric Outpatient Clinic of Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte (CHLN) between 2012-2016. Twelve adolescents underwent bariatric procedure during this period. The most prevalent comorbidities were...

Research paper thumbnail of Pediatric Psychology in Emergency Services: a Clinical Practice to Follow in Hospital Context

The Psychologist: Practice & Research Journal, 2020

SiSince the beginning of 2016, the team of the Emergency Service (SU) of the Pediatric Department... more SiSince the beginning of 2016, the team of the Emergency Service (SU) of the Pediatric Department of the Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte (HSM-CHULN), counts with another valence in its intervention plan. Traditionally specialized in an approach of organic pathology, the service is now composed of a specialized intervention of Pediatric Psychology. This paper has the purpose of review, deepen and disclose (i) the psychological intervention model that is used in the SU, focused on babies, children and adolescents, as well as on direct/indirect support to families, at a Physical and Mental Health levels, (ii) the developed work in stress management of the emergency team and (iii) the performance of psychologists in the emergency context, as a way to update the intervention protocols within this practice according to international guidelines. The intervention carried in this SU, in situations of emergency, urgency or crisis, resort from strategies t...

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