Ph.D. Student
Health Team
Margarida Ferreira de Almeida is a psychologist and a Ph.D. Fellow at Ispa – Instituto Universitário. In 2022, she finished her Master’s Degree in Psychology with a systematic review and meta-analysis on meaning in life and posttraumatic growth in cancer patients. She was the co-author of two book chapters on psychological adjustment and interventions for posttraumatic growth. Currently her research focus is the process of adjustment to end of life and bereavement, through meaning-making and posttraumatic growth. Her PhD research project “Finding Meaning in Loss: Meaning-Making and Posttraumatic Growth in Adjustment to Grief” is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, with the reference 2023.00702.BD. Other research interests include psycho-oncology, palliative care, bereavement, meaning in
life and spirituality.
Supervised at WJCR by: Isabel Leal
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Ramos, C., Nunes, R., & Almeida, M. (2023). Interventions for Enhancing Posttraumatic Growth Following a Physical Disease. In R. Berger (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of osttraumatic Growth (pp. 527-541). Routledge.
Almeida, M., Ramos, C., Maciel, L., Basto-Pereira, M., & Leal, I. (2022). Meaning in life, meaning-making and posttraumatic growth in cancer patients: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 995981. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.995981
Contacts
E-mail: margarida.almeida@ispa.pt
CiênciaVitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/3718-06D6-3335
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2268-2423
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Margarida-Almeida
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