Curriculum vitae
Susanna Subirà Álvarez

University Professor
Director of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Short curriculum vitae
Teaching
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Adult Psychopathology (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology)
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External Internships (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology)
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Professional Experiences in Assessment, Intervention and Research (Master's Degree in General Health Psychology
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Master's Degree in Research in Clinical and Health Psychology
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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 (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 (2019-2022)
- Coordinator of the Master's in General Health Psychology (2022-24)
- Director of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology (2022-present)