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The professor and researcher from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), also affiliated with Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, presented two oral communications and three posters at the national congress held in Málaga from May 28 to 30, 2025.

The Research and Communication Committee of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology has selected “Work stress and its association with suicidal ideation, health and presenteeism during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional study in the UK health and university workforce” as the article of the month for July.

The associate professor from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the UAB, also affiliated with the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu and principal investigator of the Psychological Research in Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain group (ÁGORA Group), participated in the leading European congress on pain, held in Lyon from April 24 to 26, where he presented three studies focused on the psychological approach to chronic pain.

With the publication of “Social and occupational aspects related to persistent low back pain in women geriatric nursing assistents”, Professor Albert Feliu Soler reaches the milestone of 100 articles published in journals indexed in SCOPUS.

Professor David Sánchez-Carracedo, from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), presented the study Weight Bias and Disordered Eating: A Longitudinal Study in Spanish Adolescents at the International Congress on Eating Disorders (ICED) 2025, held in San Antonio, Texas (USA), on May 30th, during a dedicated session on stigma.

The Research and Communication Committee of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology has selected “The effect of cumulative trauma and polarised thinking on severity of depressive disorder” as the article of the month for June.

Dr. Neus Vidal Barrantes from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at UAB analyzes in a recent La Vanguardia article how the growing trend of using psychological terms in daily life complicates interpersonal communication.

The Research and Communication Committee of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology has selected the article “Psychological intervention in individuals with subthreshold depression: individual participant data meta-analysis of treatment effects and moderators” as May's article of the month

The event will bring together international experts in child and adolescent mental health from 8–10 September 2025 in London. Abstract submission is open until 31 May.

The Research and Communication Committee of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology has selected “Life expectancy associated with specific mental disorders and the contribution of causes of death: a population-based study in the region of Catalonia” as April’s article of the month.