Milena Contreras
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: M.Contreras@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room UG45, Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Qualifications
PhD, University of East Anglia, UK (2021)
MSc in Gerontology, Universidad de Jaen, Spain (2017)
BSc (Hons) degree in Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina (2015)
Responsibilities & affiliations
• Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society
• Member of the Division of Clinical Psychology, British Psychological Society
• Member of the International Neuropsychological Society
• Member of the British Neuropsychological Society
• Member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)
Project activity
Mental Capacity to Make Treatment Decisions in MND
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Does avoiding distressing thoughts and feelings influence the relationship between carer subjective burden and anxiety symptoms in family carers of people with dementia?
In:
Journal of Applied Gerontology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648231156858
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Examining the impact of different components of sleep quality on anxiety among family carers of people with dementia
(10 pages)
In:
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, vol. 36, pp. 63-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08919887221093359
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Family carers of people with dementia in Japan, Spain, and the UK: A cross-cultural comparison of the relationships between experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and carer depression
(11 pages)
In:
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, pp. 1-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08919887221130269
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Cross-cultural analysis of the role of ambivalent feelings for understanding caregivers’ depressive symptoms
In:
Aging and Mental Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2022.2116407
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Factors affecting the quality of life of family carers of people with dementia: The role of carer anxiety
(11 pages)
In:
Psychology, Health and Medicine, vol. 28, pp. 843-853
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2022.2093926
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
The psychometric properties of the Spanish Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory – Personality Questionnaire (RST-PQ) and its relationship with everyday behaviors
In:
The Spanish Journal of Psychology, vol. 25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/SJP.2022.5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)