Paula Vagos

Paula Vagos is an Assistant Professor and researcher in Psychology at Universidade de Aveiro. She mostly investigates social behaviors in adolescence, including social anxiety and avoidance, assertiveness, and aggression. She intends to address the psychological processes underlying psychopathology as well as develop, implement, and assess the efficacy of psychological interventions aimed at those processes, considering both second wave and third wave cognitive therapies. Her most recent interests concern mental health stigma and how to overcome it in diverse communities, and the principles of acceptance and commitment therapy as applied to parenthood. She has published several works on those subjects, namely regarding psychological assessment, and understanding and promoting adaptive psychosocial functioning in adolescence.