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Research interest

• Depression heterogeneity 
• Depression relapse prevention
• Dynamic changes and relationship of symptoms in mental health using network analysis
• Psychological mechanism of depression relapse 

Research gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catalina-Nunez

Publications

Núñez C, Delgadillo J, Barkham M, Behn A. (2024). Understanding symptom profiles of depression with the PHQ-9 in a community sample using network analysis. European Psychiatry. 67(1):e50. https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2024.1756 

Labbé, N., Vaccarezza, S., Nuñez, C., Zimmermann, R., & Behn, A. (2024). Psychoeducational interventions for borderline personality disorder: A scoping review. Personality disorders, 10.1037/per0000729. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000729  

Muzard, A., Olhaberry, M., Núñez C., Vaccarezza, S., Franco, P., Moran, J., Sieverson, C., León. M.J., Apter, G. (2023). Parental personality traits and emotion regulation: its relationship with infants’ socioemotional development during the perinatal period. General Hospital Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2023.04.004 

Arocca, N. L., Vaccarezza, S., Nuñez, C., Zimmermann, R., & Behn, A. (2022). Psychoeducational Interventions for Borderline Personality Disorder: Protocol for a Scoping Review. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YKCNH 

Hernandez, C., Cottin, M., Parada, F., Labbe, N., Nunez, C., Quevedo, Y., ... & Behn, A. (2022). Watching the world from my screen: A longitudinal evaluation of the influence of a problematic use of the internet on depressive symptomatology. Computers in Human Behavior, 126, 106995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106995 

Cottin, M., Hernández, C., Núñez, C., Labbé, N., Quevedo, Y., Davanzo, A., & Behn, A. (2021). “What if we get sick?”: Spanish adaptation and validation of the fear of illness and virus evaluation scale in a non-clinical sample exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 59028. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.590283 

Barros, J., Morales, S., García, A., Echávarri,O., Fischman,R., Szmulewicz, M., Moya,C., Núñez, C., & Tomicic, C.(2020). Recognizing states of psychological vulnerability to suicidal behavior: a Bayesian network of artificial intelligence applied to a clinical sample. BMC Psychiatry 20, 138. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-02535-x 

Maino, M. D. L. P., Morales, S., Echávarri, O., Barros, J., García, A., Nuñez, C., ... & Tomicic, A. (2018). Suicide risk configuration system in a clustered clinical sample: a generalized linear model obtained through the LASSO technique. Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry. 41(2), 112–121. https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-4446-2017-0028 

Echávarri, O., Morales, S., Barros, J., Armijo, I., Larraza, D., Longo, A., ... & Moya, C. (2018). Validación de la Escala Razones Para Vivir en Consultantes a Salud Mental de la Región Metropolitana de Chile Validation of the Reasons for Living Inventory in Mental Health Patients in the Metropolitan Region of Chile. Psykhe, 27(1), 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.7764/psykhe.27.1.1153 

Morales, Barros, Echávarri, García, Osses, Moya, Maino, Fischman, Núñez, Szmulewicz y Tomicic. (2017). Acute mental discomfort associated with suicide behavior in a clinical sample of patients with affective disorders. Ascertaining critical variables using artificial intelligence tools. Frontiers in psychiatry, 8, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00007 

Barros, J., Morales, S., Echavarri, O., García, A.,Ortega, J., Asahi, T., Moya, C., Fischman, R., Maino, M., Núñez, C. (2016). Suicide detection in Chile: proposing a predictive model for suicide risk in a clinical sample of patients with mood disorders. Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria. https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-4446-2015-1877  

Morales, S., Echávarri, O., Barros, J., Armijo, I., Fischman, R., Moya, C., Maino, MP., Núñez, C. & Peñaloza, F. (2015). Vivencia - expresión de la rabia y motivos para vivir en un grupo de pacientes con riesgo suicida. Revista Iberoamericana De Psicología Y Salud. https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-4446-2015-1877

Congress Presentations

1st Meeting “Evidence for Health Decision-Making”. Department of Health Technology Assessment and Evidence-Based Health, DIPLAS, and Public Health Cabinet. Ministry of Health of Chile.

14th Latin American Congress on Psychotherapy Research (2023). Mapping the Heterogeneity of Depression: Understanding Depression Profiles using Network Analysis. Presented by Catalina Núñez and Alex Behn.

14th Latin American Congress on Psychotherapy Research (2023). Exploring Common Symptomatic Profiles in Depression using the PHQ-9: Results from an International Study with Community and Clinical Samples from the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Chile. Presented by Alex Behn, Catalina Núñez, Jaime Delgadillo, Michael Barkham, Birgit Watzke, Helen Verdeli, Thomas Probst, and Elke Humer

Society for Psychotherapy Research, 54th International Annual Meeting (2023). Dublin, Irland. Brief Paper: Exploring common symptom profiles in depression using the PHQ-9: findings from an international study with community and clinical samples from the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Chile. Alex Behn, Catalina Núñez, Michael Barkham, Jaime Delgadillo, Harry Banyard, Helen Verdeli, Birgit Watzke, Thomas Probst, Elke Humer

Society for Psychotherapy Research, 54th International Annual Meeting (2023). Dublin, Irland. Brief Paper: Mapping depression heterogeneity: Towards an understanding of symptom profiles using network analysis. Autores: Catalina Núñez, Alex Behn y Paula Errázuriz

XVI Chilean Congress of Psychology (2022). Mapping the heterogeneity of depression: Towards the understanding of symptom configuration. Authors: Núñez, C., and Behn, A.

Keynote speaker at the 'International Network for the Study of the Heterogeneity of Depression,' II Latin American Workshop on Research and Personality: Investigating Heterogeneity. September 2021.

Online Congress - VII International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. Symposium: Challenges of the COVID- 19 Pandemic in the Development of Cognitive Psychotherapies. Presentation: 'Locked In and Viewing the World Through a Screen: The Mental Health Effects of Problematic Internet Use During the Pandemic.' Hernández, C., Cottin, M., Parada, F., Labbé, N., Núñez, C., Quevedo, Y., ... & Behn, A. September 2020

14th Chilean Congress of Psychotherapy and 12th Chilean Congress of Psychotherapy Research. (2016). "Patients with Suicidal Risk: "The Experience of the Therapist Person". Authors: Tita Szmulewicz, Ronit Fischman, Catalina Núñez, Orietta Echávarri, Susana Morales, Paz Maino, Claudia Moya.

14th Chilean Congress of Psychotherapy and 12th Chilean Congress of Psychotherapy Research. (2016) Suicide panel: "Identification of protective and risk factors that distinguish consultants with suicidal behavior using LASSO type regression". Authors: Maino, M., Morales,S., Echávarri,O., Barros, B., García, A., Moya, C., Fischman, R. , Núñez,C., & Szmulewicz, T.

47th International Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Israel. (2016) “Reasons for living and suicide risk: A study with Chilean consulting sample” Armijo I, Morales S, Echávarri O., Barros J., Fischman R., Moya C., Maino MP., Núñez C., Sczmullewicz T.y García A.

46th International Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Philadelphia. United States. (2015). “A comprehensive model of suicidal behavior: Personality and family variables in adolescent and adult mental health consultants”. Morales,S., Echávarri,O., Barros,J., Fischman, R, Maino, MP., Moya, C.,Peñaloza, F., Núñez, C., & Arnol García.