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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology

Curriculum vitae

Susanna Subirà Álverez

University Professor

Director of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology 

Teaching

  • Adult Psychopathology (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology)

  • External Internships (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology)

  • Professional Experiences in Assessment, Intervention and Research (Master's Degree in General Health Psychology

  • Master's Degree in Research in Clinical and Health Psychology

  • Doctorate in Clinical and Health Psychology.

Research

  • Researcher in the field of Gender Psychopathology
  • Member of the Vulnerability, Psychopathology and Gender research group (SGR/1411; SGR/1798)
  • Member of the research group Cognition and Gender: Implications for Mental Health (COGen-HM; 2021 SGR/00534).

Selection of recent publications

  • Suicide Attempts during Pregnancy and Postpartum: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2024). Maternal and child health journal. 28 - 9, pp. 1443 - 1453. 2024.
  • Mothers who kill their children: A systematic review of perinatal risk factors (2022). Maltrattamento e Abuso all'Infanzia. 2, p. 33-61 29 p.
  • Acceptability and participation predictors for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial to test a smoking cessation intervention after discharge from mental health wards (2022). Drug and alcohol dependence. 234, pp. 390 - 395.
  • Personality traits as a risk factor for postpartum depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022). Journal of affective disorders. 298 - A, pp. 577 - 589.
  • An active cognitive lifestyle as a potential neuroprotective factor in Huntington's Disease (2019) .Neuropsychologia. 112, pp. 116 - 124. 2019.
  • Course of a major postpartum depressive episode: A prospective 2 years naturalistic follow-up study (2019). Journal of Affective Disorders.245, pp. 965 - 970.
  • Effectiveness of a telephone-based intervention for smoking cessation in patients with severe mental disorders: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2019).Trials. 20, pp.
  • Specific patterns of brain alterations underlie distinct clinical profiles in Huntington's disease (2019). NeuroImage: Clinical. 23, pp.
  • The role of personality dimensions, depressive symptoms and other psychosocial variables in predicting postpartum suicidal ideation: a cohort study (2019). Archives of Women's Mental Health.
  • White matter cortico-striatal tracts predict apathy subtypes in Huntington's Disease (2019). NeuroImage: Clinical. 24.
  • Reduced striato-cortical and inhibitory transcallosal connectivity in the motor circuit of Huntington's disease patients.Human (2018). Brain Maping. 39, pp. 54 - 71.

University management

  • Coordinator of External Internships of the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy (2001-2004)
  • Secretary of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology (2006-2009)
  • Director of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology (2009-12)
  • Member of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program in Clinical and Health Psychology (2012-2022)
  • Vice-Dean of Degrees and Masters of the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy (2019-2022)
  • Coordinator of the Master's in General Health Psychology (2022-24)
  • Director of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology (2022-present)
Susanna Subirá