Free Intervention Programs
The UPC³ offers a variety of services for the prevention and treatment of mental illness for children, adolescents, young adults, and adults. In addition to individual clinical psychology and psychiatry appointments (both online and in person), we also offer empirically validated group programs and treatments.
Our close collaboration with research at the Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive-Behavioural Intervention (CINEICC), which is highly rated by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), ensures that the treatments available at UPC³ are backed by extensive research confirming their effectiveness.
The psychotherapists at UPC³ are specialized in Clinical and Health Psychology (recognized by the Board of Portuguese Psychologists) and are certified by both national and international associations.
Ongoing
Adopt Mindful 2 Care: Dual
“Adopt Mindful 2 Care: Dual” is a group psychological intervention program for couples of adoptive parents, with at least one adopted child who are currently between 2 and 17 years old, inclusive. It consists of 9 weekly sessions, lasting 90 minutes and whose main objective is to reduce the levels of stress that parents experience in carrying out their role as mother/father and, in this way, contribute to the quality of the relationship. parents-children and for the well-being and healthy development of the child/adolescent.
Construtores de Regulação Emocional (PU-A)
Contrutores de Regulação Emocional: Protocolo Unificado para Adultos is a cognitive-behavioral group therapy program designed for adults, consisting of 12 weekly 90-minutes sessions aimed at the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders such as anxiety and depression.
Detetives das Emoções In-Out & Gato Habilidoso
The project “Detetives das Emoções In-Out & Gato Habilidoso” aims to compare the effectiveness of two psychological interventions for children experiencing anxiety symptoms. One intervention combines 15 in-person group sessions with online sessions and is called “Detetives das Emoções In-Out”; the other consists of 15 in-person group sessions only and is called “O Gato Habilidoso.”
Past
Detetives das Emoções: Protocolo Unificado para Crianças (PU-C)
“Detetives das Emoções: Protocolo Unificado para Crianças (PU-C)” is a group intervention program for children aged 6 to 12 that is designed to provide transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders (i.e. anxiety and/or depressive disorders) by working together with parents and children.