Dr. Vera Araújo-Soares - Senior Research Fellow, Robert Gordon University

Research interests

• Self care and self management, in healthy people and people with chronic illness, with a focus on enhancing self-care to prevent disease or disability and to improve general levels of health and health related outcomes.
• Development of self-regulation from infancy to adulthood.
• Theory development and theory-based interventions

Recent Publications

Araújo-Soares, V., McIntyre, T., & Figueiredo, M. (2002). Intervenção psicológica: possibilidades de colaboração entre distintos campos científicos na dor crónica [Interventions: interdisciplinary approaches to chronic pain]. Dor, 10, 10-19.

Araújo-Soares, V., McIntyre, T., & Figueiredo, M. (2002). Depressão e dor crónica: implicações para a intervenção [Depression and chronic pain: implications for intervention]. Psicologia: Teoria, Investigação e Prática, 5, 25-39.

McIntyre, T., McIntyre, S.E, Araújo-Soares, V., Figueiredo, M. and Johnston, D. (2001). Psychophysiological and psychosocial indicators of the efficacy of a stress management program for health professionals: Phase 1. In T. Cox, P. Dewe, K. Nielsen & R. Cox (Eds.). Occupational Health Psychology: Europe 2000. Nothingham: EA-OHP.

Araújo-Soares, V., & McIntyre, T. (2000). É possível viver apesar da dor!...Avaliação da eficácia de um programa de intervenção psicológica multimodal em pacientes com dor crónica [Living with pain: Efficacy evaluation of a multimodal intervention program in patients with chronic pain ]. Psicologia Saúde e Doenças, 1,101-112.

McIntyre, T., Silva, S, & Araújo-Soares, V. (1998). Health habits and health risk behaviours in Portuguese adolescents: implications for prevention programs. In Schwarzer, R. (Ed.). Advances In Health Psychology Research. CD, Berlin: Freie Universität.