Rui C. Campos

Rui C. Campos is a psychologist, specialist in clinical and health psychology and in Psychotherapy by the Portuguese Psychologists Board. He is an associate professor with aggregation in clinical Psychology at the School of Social Sciences (Department of Psychology) at the University of Évora, where he teaches courses in Psychopathology and psychological assessment. He is also an advisor for internships in clinical psychology in the master's degree in Psychology. He received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Évora in 2007, having presented a thesis on the depressive personality and obtained the title of aggregate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Lisbon in 2016. He received training in brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy and is a member of the Portuguese Suicidology Society. He has carried out research and mainly published articles in international journals indexed in the field of Psychopathology and psychological assessment, particularly related to depressive personality and depression, on the validation of psychological assessment instruments and, especially, in the area of ​​Suicidology, namely concerning the validation of risk assessment measures, on the impact of exposure to suicide on the family and on relationship between personality, childhood trauma, psychological pain and suicidal behaviours.