Emotion regulation and chronic illness
The roles of acceptance, mindfulness, and compassion in physical and mental health
Researcher(s)
Duration
01/01/2015 - 31/12/2018
Funding
FCT - Individual Fellowship
This PhD project had two main aims:
- to prospectively analyse the impact of emotion regulation processes (e.g., experiential avoidance/acceptance, cognitive fusion) on physical and mental health outcomes in patients with chronic health conditions (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease; cancer);
- to develop, apply, and assess the efficacy of an acceptance, mindfulness, and compassion-based psychotherapeutic intervention for cancer patients – the MIND programme.
