I am a psychologist, professor and researcher interested in: a) religious values and their role in the mental health (MH) of immigrants; b) health professional’s perceptions and coping on the relationships between religiosity and MH; c) whether and how vocational training courses address or not the theme of religiosity and its relation to MH; d) Criteria used by MH professionals to distinguish between spiritual experience and psychopathology; e) phenomenology of religious value and MH
Communications/website, Meeting/ASS (Advanced Studies Seminar), Publications/CUP series, Research/philosophy, Research/Psychiatry; Research/ Psychology/psychology of religion; Research/religiosity/religious values, Services/person-centered, Services/teamwork;
Communication skills, Decision theory, Evidence-based practice, Ethics, Medical humanities/religiosity/immigration.
Global health, Mental health/General, Mental health/psychology/psychiatry, Mental health/immigrants, Service user, Social care, Well-being, Immigration and mental health
For a paper on religiosity and mental health among immigrants in Brasília please see:http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/IJMHSC-05-2015-0015
For the programmes of the III International Seminar “Society, Culture and Mental Health” and III International Seminar on “Social Representations”, session on “Religious (in)tolerance in the contemporary world: Repercussions on health and human relationships,” please see: https://iiisaudementalers.wixsite.com/resmec/programacao
For the programmes of the XI International Workshop on “Psychology and Religious Sense”, session on“Religious, spiritual and anomalous experiences and their challenges to the mental health”, please see:http://www.pucrs.br/eventos/inst/psicologiareligiao-2/