Education
Foundational Workshop in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for Advanced Certification as Schema Therapist -Schema Therapy Scotland
(2023-2023)
University of Porto, Portugal — Doctoral Degree in Psychology (in cotutelle)
(ongoing)
Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich, Germany – Doctoral Degree in Psychology (in cotutelle)
(ongoing)
University of Porto, Portugal – Integrated Master in Psychology – Specialisation in Clinical and Health Psychology
(2012 – 2017)
Dissertation: “Is Emotion Regulation Adaptive? Linking
Parental Work-Related Emotional Exhaustion to Emotion Regulation in Children”
Certifications
Interpersonal Schema Therapy /Schema Therapy for Couples
Trainer: Eckhard Roediger – IST Frankfurt
(Sep 2023 – Dec 2023)
Schema Therapy for Children and Adolescents
Trainer: Christof Loose – Terapia de Esquemas Mexico
(Aug 2023 – Dec 2023)
Foundational Training for Individual Schema Therapy
Trainer: Susan Simpson – Schema Therapy Scotland
(Apr 2023 – Sep 2023)
Professional Training Course
Guidelines for Supervision Practice – 10th edition
(2023-2023)
Professional Training Course Interprofessional Communication and Sharing of Information – 49th edition
(2022 – 2022)
Professional Training Course Psychological Intervention with Alcohol-related Problems – 47th edition
(2022 – 2022)
Introductory Course in Jungian Psychology
(2020-2021)
Professional Training Course Psychological Intervention with LGBTQ People – 1st edition
(2020 – 2020)
Professional Training Course Provision of Psychology Services Mediated by Information and Communication Technologies – 1st edition
(2020 – 2020)
Professional Training Course Personal and Professional Marketing – 36th edition
(2020 – 2020)
Projects
Researcher – Learning to coparent: A longitudinal, cross-national study on construction of coparenting in transition to parenthood (CopaGloba)— (2019-2023)
Consortium of the University of Jyväskylä and JAMK University of Applied Sciences in close collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and international partners from Japan (University of Toyo) and Portugal (University of Porto).
Main Researcher – (In)Congruence: The Role of Perceived Choice in Work-Family Reconciliation and Family Dynamics
University of Porto, Portugal
Invited Researcher – (In)Congruence: The Role of Perceived Choice in Work- Family Reconciliation and Family Dynamics — (2019)
Deutsches Jungendinstitut e.V., Germany
Researcher – Contextual dimensions, quality of relationship with caregiver and self-determination in adolescents living in a residential care setting (2017)
University of Porto, Portugal
Researcher – (RE)CONCILIAR: Impact of Work-Family Reconciliation in Parenting and Child Development (2015)
University of Porto, Portugal
Researcher – Individual, familial and extrafamilial predictors of social competence in adopted children (2013)
University of Porto, Portugal
Publications
Mónica Costa; Beatriz Melim; Semira Tagliabue; Catarina Pinheiro Mota; Paula Mena Matos. “Adolescent’s attachment, quality of the relationship with caregivers and emotion regulation: A longitudinal study in residential care”. Journal of adolescence (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12057
Mónica Costa; Beatriz Melim; Semira Tagliabue; Catarina Pinheiro Mota; Paula Mena Matos. “Predictors of the quality of the relationship with caregivers in residential care”. Children and Youth Services Review 108 (2020):
doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104579
Beatriz Melim; Marisa Matias; Tiago Ferreira; Paula Mena Matos. “Parent’s and Children’s Emotion Regulation and the Work-Family Interface”. Journal of Marriage and Family (2019)
doi:10.1111/jomf.12597
Participation in Scientific Events
Oral communication: Melim, B., Ito, D., Tammelin, M., Garraio, C., Ferreira, T., Matos, P. M., Malinen, K., Yabunaga, C., Matias, M (2022). “Expecting our first baby”: Expectations on the division of domestic labour and care in prospective
coparenting – A qualitative and cross-national study
Simpósio
9th Conference of the International Academy of Family Psychology. Online.
Oral communication: Melim, B., Garraio, C., Ferreira, T., Matos, P. M., Matias, M. (2022). À espera do primeiro filho: Representações sobre a divisão de tarefas na antecipação da coparentalidade – Um estudo qualitativo e internacional. Simpósio
Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia. Vila Real, Portugal.
Oral communication: Melim, B., Marisa, M., Matos, P., Walper, S. (2022) Co-Constructing Family: Attitudes and Domestic Work in the Transition to Parenthood. Conference 14 Years of pairfam – Résumé and Outlook of the German Family Panel, Munich, Germany
Oral communication: Melim, B., Garraio, C., Ferreira, T., Matos, P. M., Matias, M. (2022). Becoming Co-Parents: Dyadic Perspectives on Cooperation, Childcare, and Domestic Labor for Prospective Parents. CONFERÊNCIA “Trabalho Reprodutivo, Cuidados e Serviço Doméstico” (Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Oral communication: Melim, B., Garraio, C., Ferreira, T., Matos, P. M., Matias, M. (2021). Becoming Co-parents: Findings from a qualitative dyadic analysis. CopaGloba Webinar: First Step of Coparenthood: Findings from International Research on New Parents.
Oral communication: Melim, B., Matias, M., & Matos, P. M. (2020). Gender role attitudes and (un)paid labor: A study of young German couples’ profiles before and after parenthood
European Association for Research on Adolescence, Porto, Portugal
Oral communication: Melim, B., Matos, P. M., Walper, S. (2020). Navigating through emotions during the pandemic: Individual, relational and contextual correlates
European Association for Research on Adolescence, Porto, Portugal
Oral communication: Melim, B. (2018). Is Emotion Regulation Adaptative? Linking Parental Work-Related Emotional Exhaustion to Emotion Regulation in Children.
University of Porto, Portugal, Youth Research Meeting
Poster communication: Melim, B., Matias, M., Ferreira, T., & Matos, P.M. (2018). Parent’s and Children’s Emotion Regulation and the Work-Family Interface.
European Society on Family Relations, Porto, Portugal
Poster communication: Costa, M. Melim, B., Tagliabue, S., Mota, C. P. & Matos, P. M. (2018). Predictors of the quality of the relationship with caregivers in residential care.
European Association for Research on Adolescence, Ghent, Belgium
Poster communication: Costa, M. Melim, B., Tagliabue, S., Mota, C. P. & Matos, P. M. (2018). Adolescent’s attachment, quality of the relationship with caregivers and emotion regulation: A longitudinal study in residential care.
European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents, Porto, Portugal
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