Marta Helena de Freitas

Project Partner: Marta Helena de Freitas
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Marta Helena de Freitas
Helena Catholic University of Brasília Brazil

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

Preferred Contact

Location

Based in

Brazil

Working in

Brazil

Areas of interest in VBP

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;

Related areas of interest

Communication skills, Decision theory, Evidence-based practice, Ethics, Medical humanities/religiosity/immigration.

Areas of healthcare expertise:

Global health, Mental health/General, Mental health/psychology/psychiatry, Mental health/immigrants, Service user, Social care, Well-being, Immigration and mental health

Publications

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


Read More

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/