Cláudia Camilo
Invited Assistant Professor
Disciplines
Clinical and Health Psychology
Family Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Taught Modules
Cognitive Behavioural Intervention with Children and Adolescents II
Research Methods in Clinical and Health Psychology
Seminar (Dissertation)
Post-Graduate Course in Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Ph.D in Psychology (2020, Iscte-IUL), I have been dedicating my research to maladaptive parenting, namely neglect, and the explanatory mechanisms of emotional and cognitive deprivation in parent-child interactions, particularly in contexts of poverty. I also have professional experience in intervention with children, young people, and families in the child protection system, and I also work as a clinical psychologist of children and adolescents.
Predictors of parenting (parental psychopathology, executive functioning, parental cognitions and emotions)
Parent-child interactions quality, responsive and sensitive parenting and child regulation and attachment (namely in high-risk contexts, and with fostered children and their biological families)
Mechanisms of change in parenting interventions
Parental involvement in child play
All4Children – The Integrated Model of Family Foster Care (MIAF) to promote high-quality child welfare practices in Portugal (CIS-Iscte), 2023-2026
Role: Team member / Researcher
Coordination: Joana Baptista (Iscte-IUL) and Stephanie Alves (Universidade Lusófona)
Funding: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2022.03592.PTDC)
Post-doctoral grant “Maternal socio-cognitions and executive functioning underlying neglectful parenting in poor families” (CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa), 2021-2023
Supervision: Maria Manuela Calheiros
Funding: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (UIDP/04527/2020) and MCTES (PIDDAC)
Social Images, organizational climate and quality of relationships in Residential Care: The design, implementation and evaluation of an intervention program (CICPSI-FPUL/ Cis-Iscte), 2019-2022
Role: Collaborator
Coordination: Maria Manuela Calheiros (Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa) and Eunice Magalhães (CIS-Iscte)
Funding: FCT/ FEDER (Project n.º 30373 – AAC 02/SAICT/2017)
Member of the Ethics Committee of CIS-Iscte
Member of the Trainee Advisory Group of the CARE Collaboration (https://carecollaboration.org)
Associated Editor of PSICOLOGIA, 2023- 2025
Revisora Ad-hoc:
• Child Psychiatry & Human Development
• Child Abuse & Neglect
• Aggressive Behavior
• Children and Youth Services Review
• Journal of Family Violence
Baptista, J., Camilo, C., Magalhães, E., Feher, A., Ramos, C., & Alves, S. (2025). Socioemotional development of infants and toddlers in the first months of foster care: A brief synthesis of 25 years of research. Infant Behavior & Development, 80, 102079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102079
Camilo, C., Garrido, M. V., Calheiros, M. M. (2023). Is it the child’s fault? Maternal attributions in child abuse and neglect. Psicothema, 35(4), 363-372. https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2022.399
Magalhães, E., & Camilo, C. (2023). Maltreatment history and psychopathology in out-of-home care: A three-level meta-analysis. European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 15(2), 89-103. https://doi.org/10.5093/ejpalc2023a10
Camilo, C., Garrido, M. V., & Calheiros, M. M (2022). Parental attitudes in child maltreatment. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37, 2920–2947. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520943724
Camilo, C., Garrido, M. V., & Calheiros, M. M (2021). Recognizing children’s emotions in child abuse and neglect. Aggressive Behavior, 47, 161–172. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21935
Camilo, C., Garrido, M. V., & Calheiros, M. M (2020). The social information processing model in child physical abuse and neglect: A meta-analytic review. Child Abuse & Neglect, 108, 104666.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104666
Camilo, C., Garrido, M. V., Ferreira, M. B., & Calheiros, M. M. (2019). How does mothering look like: A multidimensional approach to maternal cognitive representations. Journal of Family Issues, 40, 2528–2552. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X19860171
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Parenting;
Child neglect;
Parent-child interactions;
Meta-analysis.