Joana Alexandre
Biographic Data
| ID | 3749382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joana Alexandre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joana |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexandre |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDRE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2437-1258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Placing Social and Emotional Support at the Center of School Climate: A Scoping Review of Measures for Middle and Secondary Schools
School climate can be defined as the perceptions of students, teachers/staff, and families, and the patterns of experiences that guide their daily life at school. There are a multitude of largely consensual theoretical approaches that seek to define school climate, but similar constructs are often operationalized and measured with different designations. Additionally, there has been an increase in research, practice, and public policy on the soci…
Playgroups for inclusion: Impacts of a playgroups intervention on child development, caregiving and connectedness goals using an experimental design
Playgroups are gatherings for young children and their caregivers to engage in play-based and social activities. Evidence shows significant positive impacts for playgroup participants, including diverse families and families in socioeconomically disadvantaged circumstances. Still, weaknesses in the design of previous studies limit the validity of findings. This paper describes the impacts of a playgroups intervention between 2015–2017 targeting f…
Does school climate affect students’ social and emotional skills? The importance of relationships
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is key to an individual’s success throughout life and can be fostered in children’s daily settings. School climate has the potential to promote or hinder the development of SEL in students. However, it is not clear from previous research which specific aspects of school climate relate to which SEL skills. This study conducts a secondary data analysis of the Portuguese data from the OECD’s 2019 Study on Social a…
Can community and educational interventions designed from the ground-up promote social and emotional learning? Experimental and quasi-experimental impacts of a country-wide Portuguese initiative
Introduction Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a powerful predictor of several outcomes throughout life, such as relationships, citizenship behavior, academic and job performance, and mental and physical health. The Portuguese Gulbenkian Academies for Knowledge supported the implementation and rigorous impact assessment of community and educational interventions aiming to promote SEL in participants 0 and 25 years of age. Methods This paper …
Contributos da avaliação técnica na tomada de decisão judicial no âmbito tutelar educativo em Portugal: Uma análise documental
Este estudo propõe analisar o contributo da avaliação técnica na tomada de decisão judicial tutelar educativa nas fases pré e pós sentenciais. Para o efeito, foram consultados 30 processos judiciais tutelares educativos de 37 jovens com idades compreendidas entre os 12 e os 16 anos, tendo sido feita uma análise documental, com recurso à construção de uma grelha analítica. Os resultados indicam que os magistrados concordam com 93,3% das medidas tu…
Development and Validation of a Measure of Quality in Playgroups: Playgroups Environment Rating Scale
Playgroups are community-based services that bring together young children and their caregivers for the purpose of play and social activities. Preliminary evidence shows that playgroup impacts may be dependent on the quality of the playgroup. However, to date, there is no reliable and valid measure of playgroup quality. In this paper we describe the development and validation of the Playgroup Environment Rating Scale (PERS), a standardized observ…
Perceptions of Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Study in the Portuguese Sports Community
Child sexual abuse is a complex issue that can take place in different contexts. Sports settings have specific features which pose increased risk for sexual abuse to occur. Recently, a country-specific roadmap for effective child safeguarding in sport was launched. Considering the need to achieve a comprehensive picture of violence against children in sports settings in Portugal, we analyzed the perceptions of the sports community in Portugal reg…
Estado emocional e coping em estudantes universitários no confinamento provocado pela Covid-19
Considerando a vulnerabilidade da saúde mental dos jovens adultos, e a mudança abrupta das suas rotinas no primeiro confinamento decretado em Portugal, em março de 2020, devido à pandemia provocada pela COVID-19, este estudo analisou 1) o estado emocional de uma amostra de estudantes universitários durante o primeiro confinamento, 2) as estratégias de coping reportadas durante esse período, 3) o papel mediador das estratégias de coping no reporte…
Benefícios de um novo programa de aprendizagem socioemocional na redução da sintomatologia psicopatológica e na promoção das competências socioemocionais globais, na perspetiva das crianças
O presente estudo teve como objetivo examinar as perceções das crianças com idades compreendidas entre os 8 e os 12 anos, que participaram no novo programa de aprendizagem socioemocional "O Mundo dos Intergalácticos" de curta duração, acerca da evolução dos sintomas psicopatológicos (ansiedade, depressão e stresse) e das competências socioemocionais globais, do pré-teste para o pós-teste e follow-up (6 meses), considerando o sexo e a faixa etária…
Children’s Concepts of Well-being: Challenges in International Comparative Qualitative Research
Aventuras do Búzio e da Coral” – Benefícios do jogo de prevenção universal do abuso sexual para crianças em idade escolar
Sexual abuse is a high prevalence problematic that has a very significative and negative impact in a child or young person’s life, its family and the community. Disseminating the usage of universal prevention programs is fundamental. The aim of this study is to analyze whether the game “Vamos prevenir! As aventuras do Búzio e da Coral” (Agulhas et al., 2016), designed to be played by children between 6 and 10 years old, promotes the acquisition o…
School achievement and well-being of immigrant children: The role of acculturation orientations and perceived discrimination
Gambling Among Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Cross-Cultural Study Between Portuguese and English Youth
In spite of age prohibitions, most research suggests that a large proportion of adolescents engage in gambling, with problem gambling prevalence rates significantly higher than in adults. There is some evidence suggesting that there are cultural variables that might explain the development of gambling behaviours in this age group. However, cross-cultural studies on this field are generally lacking. The present study tested a model in which indivi…
Prevalence of Adolescent Problem Gambling: A Systematic Review of Recent Research
Validation of the Portuguese DSM-IV-MR-J
Youth problem gambling is viewed as an emergent public health issue in many countries, and is also an emerging area of public concern in Portugal. However, there is currently no Portuguese instrument that focuses specifically on the measurement of problem gambling among young people. Consequently, the present study aimed to validate the DSM-IV-MR-J for use among Portuguese adolescents and to examine its' psychometric properties. A cross-cultural …
A Prematuridade na Perspectiva das mães: Estado Psicoemocional, Autoestima e Bonding em mães Primíparas e Multíparas
A literatura tem referido que a prematuridade do bebé gera nas mães níveis mais elevados de ansiedade, sentimentos depressivos, assim como, níveis mais baixos de autoestima, comparativamente com mães de bebés de termo, o que poderá conduzir a um envolvimento emocional mais negativo com o recém-nascido. Essa vivência parece variar em função da paridade das mães (i.e., mãe pela primeira vez vs. multípara) não obstante não serem muito claras as part…
Mom, Dad It’s Only a Game! Perceived Gambling and Gaming Behaviors among Adolescents and Young Adults: An Exploratory Study
Ethnic and Clinical Characteristics of a Portuguese Psychiatric Inpatient Population
The present study examined the association between ethnicity and clinical characteristics of patients admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit in Portugal. The only ethnicity-related terms routinely recorded in the medical records were "Black" (mainly from the African Portuguese-speaking countries of Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea, Sao Tome and Mozambique) and "White." Black immigrants appeared to be over-represented, comprising 19.6% of inpatients; …
School achievement and well-being of immigrant children: The role of acculturation orientations and perceived discrimination
Perceptions of Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Study in the Portuguese Sports Community
Child sexual abuse is a complex issue that can take place in different contexts. Sports settings have specific features which pose increased risk for sexual abuse to occur. Recently, a country-specific roadmap for effective child safeguarding in sport was launched. Considering the need to achieve a comprehensive picture of violence against children in sports settings in Portugal, we analyzed the perceptions of the sports community in Portugal reg…
Ethnic and Clinical Characteristics of a Portuguese Psychiatric Inpatient Population
The present study examined the association between ethnicity and clinical characteristics of patients admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit in Portugal. The only ethnicity-related terms routinely recorded in the medical records were "Black" (mainly from the African Portuguese-speaking countries of Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea, Sao Tome and Mozambique) and "White." Black immigrants appeared to be over-represented, comprising 19.6% of inpatients; …
Ethnic and Clinical Characteristics of a Portuguese Psychiatric Inpatient Population
The present study examined the association between ethnicity and clinical characteristics of patients admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit in Portugal. The only ethnicity-related terms routinely recorded in the medical records were "Black" (mainly from the African Portuguese-speaking countries of Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea, Sao Tome and Mozambique) and "White." Black immigrants appeared to be over-represented, comprising 19.6% of inpatients; …
Mom, Dad It’s Only a Game! Perceived Gambling and Gaming Behaviors among Adolescents and Young Adults: An Exploratory Study
Validation of the Portuguese DSM-IV-MR-J
Youth problem gambling is viewed as an emergent public health issue in many countries, and is also an emerging area of public concern in Portugal. However, there is currently no Portuguese instrument that focuses specifically on the measurement of problem gambling among young people. Consequently, the present study aimed to validate the DSM-IV-MR-J for use among Portuguese adolescents and to examine its' psychometric properties. A cross-cultural …
A Prematuridade na Perspectiva das mães: Estado Psicoemocional, Autoestima e Bonding em mães Primíparas e Multíparas
A literatura tem referido que a prematuridade do bebé gera nas mães níveis mais elevados de ansiedade, sentimentos depressivos, assim como, níveis mais baixos de autoestima, comparativamente com mães de bebés de termo, o que poderá conduzir a um envolvimento emocional mais negativo com o recém-nascido. Essa vivência parece variar em função da paridade das mães (i.e., mãe pela primeira vez vs. multípara) não obstante não serem muito claras as part…
Prevalence of Adolescent Problem Gambling: A Systematic Review of Recent Research
Gambling Among Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Cross-Cultural Study Between Portuguese and English Youth
In spite of age prohibitions, most research suggests that a large proportion of adolescents engage in gambling, with problem gambling prevalence rates significantly higher than in adults. There is some evidence suggesting that there are cultural variables that might explain the development of gambling behaviours in this age group. However, cross-cultural studies on this field are generally lacking. The present study tested a model in which indivi…
School achievement and well-being of immigrant children: The role of acculturation orientations and perceived discrimination
Children’s Concepts of Well-being: Challenges in International Comparative Qualitative Research
Aventuras do Búzio e da Coral” – Benefícios do jogo de prevenção universal do abuso sexual para crianças em idade escolar
Sexual abuse is a high prevalence problematic that has a very significative and negative impact in a child or young person’s life, its family and the community. Disseminating the usage of universal prevention programs is fundamental. The aim of this study is to analyze whether the game “Vamos prevenir! As aventuras do Búzio e da Coral” (Agulhas et al., 2016), designed to be played by children between 6 and 10 years old, promotes the acquisition o…
Development and Validation of a Measure of Quality in Playgroups: Playgroups Environment Rating Scale
Playgroups are community-based services that bring together young children and their caregivers for the purpose of play and social activities. Preliminary evidence shows that playgroup impacts may be dependent on the quality of the playgroup. However, to date, there is no reliable and valid measure of playgroup quality. In this paper we describe the development and validation of the Playgroup Environment Rating Scale (PERS), a standardized observ…
Perceptions of Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Study in the Portuguese Sports Community
Child sexual abuse is a complex issue that can take place in different contexts. Sports settings have specific features which pose increased risk for sexual abuse to occur. Recently, a country-specific roadmap for effective child safeguarding in sport was launched. Considering the need to achieve a comprehensive picture of violence against children in sports settings in Portugal, we analyzed the perceptions of the sports community in Portugal reg…
Estado emocional e coping em estudantes universitários no confinamento provocado pela Covid-19
Considerando a vulnerabilidade da saúde mental dos jovens adultos, e a mudança abrupta das suas rotinas no primeiro confinamento decretado em Portugal, em março de 2020, devido à pandemia provocada pela COVID-19, este estudo analisou 1) o estado emocional de uma amostra de estudantes universitários durante o primeiro confinamento, 2) as estratégias de coping reportadas durante esse período, 3) o papel mediador das estratégias de coping no reporte…
Benefícios de um novo programa de aprendizagem socioemocional na redução da sintomatologia psicopatológica e na promoção das competências socioemocionais globais, na perspetiva das crianças
O presente estudo teve como objetivo examinar as perceções das crianças com idades compreendidas entre os 8 e os 12 anos, que participaram no novo programa de aprendizagem socioemocional "O Mundo dos Intergalácticos" de curta duração, acerca da evolução dos sintomas psicopatológicos (ansiedade, depressão e stresse) e das competências socioemocionais globais, do pré-teste para o pós-teste e follow-up (6 meses), considerando o sexo e a faixa etária…
Contributos da avaliação técnica na tomada de decisão judicial no âmbito tutelar educativo em Portugal: Uma análise documental
Este estudo propõe analisar o contributo da avaliação técnica na tomada de decisão judicial tutelar educativa nas fases pré e pós sentenciais. Para o efeito, foram consultados 30 processos judiciais tutelares educativos de 37 jovens com idades compreendidas entre os 12 e os 16 anos, tendo sido feita uma análise documental, com recurso à construção de uma grelha analítica. Os resultados indicam que os magistrados concordam com 93,3% das medidas tu…
Can community and educational interventions designed from the ground-up promote social and emotional learning? Experimental and quasi-experimental impacts of a country-wide Portuguese initiative
Introduction Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a powerful predictor of several outcomes throughout life, such as relationships, citizenship behavior, academic and job performance, and mental and physical health. The Portuguese Gulbenkian Academies for Knowledge supported the implementation and rigorous impact assessment of community and educational interventions aiming to promote SEL in participants 0 and 25 years of age. Methods This paper …
Does school climate affect students’ social and emotional skills? The importance of relationships
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is key to an individual’s success throughout life and can be fostered in children’s daily settings. School climate has the potential to promote or hinder the development of SEL in students. However, it is not clear from previous research which specific aspects of school climate relate to which SEL skills. This study conducts a secondary data analysis of the Portuguese data from the OECD’s 2019 Study on Social a…
Placing Social and Emotional Support at the Center of School Climate: A Scoping Review of Measures for Middle and Secondary Schools
School climate can be defined as the perceptions of students, teachers/staff, and families, and the patterns of experiences that guide their daily life at school. There are a multitude of largely consensual theoretical approaches that seek to define school climate, but similar constructs are often operationalized and measured with different designations. Additionally, there has been an increase in research, practice, and public policy on the soci…
Playgroups for inclusion: Impacts of a playgroups intervention on child development, caregiving and connectedness goals using an experimental design
Playgroups are gatherings for young children and their caregivers to engage in play-based and social activities. Evidence shows significant positive impacts for playgroup participants, including diverse families and families in socioeconomically disadvantaged circumstances. Still, weaknesses in the design of previous studies limit the validity of findings. This paper describes the impacts of a playgroups intervention between 2015–2017 targeting f…
Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (7 works) · Portuguese (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (3 works)