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GÁMIZ SANFELIU, María Guadalupe

Professor Col.laborador
DEPARTMENT OF BASIC SCIENCIES
Department of Basic Areas
Personal Strengths

Contact

Tel. +34 932 541 800
Ext. 5240
mariagamiz@uic.es
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  • Academic training
  • Professional experience
  • Projects
    • Non-competitive
  • Publications
    • Articles
    • Book chapters
  • Subjects taught
  • Investigación en Salud
  • UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATLAUNYA
  • Master Universitario en Psicología Clínica y de la Salud
  • Universitat Ramon Llull
  • Master Universitario en Terapia Familiar
  • Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
  • Master en Psicologia Positiva Aplicada
  • Universitat Jaume I
  • Grado en Psicología
  • Universitat Ramon Llull

PhD in Psychology, INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA
Master's Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology, RAMON LLULL PRIVATE FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY
Master's Degree in Family Therapy, INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA
Degree in Psychology, RAMON LLULL PRIVATE FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY
María Gámiz is a psychologist specialized in Positive Psychology. Her scientific interest focuses on the influence of character strengths on a person's health. Specifically, she has focused on the study of forgiveness as a prosocial behavior and on the development of intervention tools, through modeling, that facilitate its growth in any area of interpersonal relationships. She began her career as a university professor in 2011 at the UIC Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and is currently responsible for the Psychosocial Sciences subject in the Nursing degree and the Skills Laboratories in the Psychology degree.
  • Spanish adaptation of the REACH intervention on forgiveness
    PI: Fernández Capo, M Start date: 23/12/2019 End date: 23/12/2020
    Financing entity: Saint Bernard Foundation
  • Forgiveness as a Personal Strength
    PI: Fernández Capo, M Start date: 01/09/2014 End date: 31/07/2016
    Financing entity: Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
  • Current psychology, The role of making a decision to forgive in the process of forgiveness: a longitudinal study
    Name: Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Fernández Capo, M; Buechner, V.; Martos-Algarra, C.; Worthington, E.; Recoder, Silvia Role: Autor Publishing date: 2021
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02421-z ISSN or title: 1046-1310
  • Current psychology, Decisional forgiveness across spanish and american samples: translation, validation, and measurement invariance of the decision to forgive scale
    Name: Recoder, Silvia; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Worthington, E.; Davis, D.; Fernández Capo, M Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 1 End page: 11
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00368-w ISSN or title: 1046-1310
  • European psychologist, Measuring Forgiveness A Systematic Review
    Name: Fernández Capo, M; Recoder, Silvia; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Gómez, J.; Worthington, E. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2017
    Start page: 247 End page: 262 Vol.: 22 No.: 4
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000303 ISSN or title: 1016-9040
  • Anales de psicología, Exploring the dimensionality and the psychometric properties of the TRIM-18 in the Spanish context
    Name: Fernández Capo, M; Recoder, Silvia; Gómez, J.; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Gual García, P; Diez, P.; Worthington, E. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2017
    Start page: 548 End page: 555 Vol.: 33 No.: 3
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesps.33.2.264461 ISSN or title: 0212-9728
  • Journal of conciousness studies, Feeling the Future Again Retroactive Avoidance of Negative Stimuli
    Name: Maier, M.; Buechner, V.; Kuhbandner, C.; Pflitsch, M.; Fernández Capo, M; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2014
    Vol.: 21 No.: 9-10
    ISSN or title: 1355-8250
  • Familia. Revista de Ciencias y Orientación Familiar, Estabilidad en el matrimonio: factores que potencian la satisfacción en la relación
    Name: Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Fernández Capo, M; Gual García, P Role: Autor Publishing date: 2013
    Start page: 87 End page: 100 No.: 42
    ISSN or title: 1130-8893
  • Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica., La presencia ignorada del cuerpo: Corporalidad y (re) construcción de la identidad.
    Name: Botella, L.; Grañó, N.; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Abey, M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2008
    Start page: 245 End page: 264 Vol.: XVII
    ISSN or title: 1851- 7951
  • Positive Psychology and Religion/Spirituality Across Cultures in Europe, Non-US North America, and South America. Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
    Name: Rossy, C.; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Recoder, Silvia; Crespo, I.; Fernández Capo, M Role: Autor Publishing date: 18/11/2022
    Start page: 227 End page: 242
    ISBN: 978-3-031-10273-8
  • Narrative Assessment in Psychotherapy: A Constructivist Approach. Personal Construct Methodology
    Name: Botella, L.; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 09/12/2011
    ISBN: 9780470770870
Course 2024-2025 - Period: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Medical Practicums 1
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 3
    • - Psychology and Profession
    • - Final Degree Project
  • Official Master
    University Master's Degree in General Health Psychology
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
Course 2023-2024 - Period: 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2024
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Medical Practicums 1
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Psychology and Profession
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 2
    • - Skills Laboratory 3
Course 2022-2023 - Period: 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2023
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    • - Medical Practicums 1
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Community Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 2
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Psychology and Profession
Course 2021-2022 - Period: 01/09/2021 - 31/08/2022
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 2
    • - Final Degree Project
Course 2020-2021 - Period: 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2021
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 2
Course 2019-2020 - Period: 01/09/2019 - 31/08/2020
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 2
Course 2018-2019 - Period: 01/09/2018 - 31/08/2019
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
Course 2017-2018 - Period: 01/09/2017 - 31/08/2018
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Risk Behaviour
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
Course 2016-2017 - Period: 01/09/2016 - 31/08/2017
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Risk Behaviour
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
Course 2015-2016 - Period: 01/09/2015 - 31/08/2016
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Risk Behaviour
    • - Community Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
Course 2014-2015 - Period: 01/09/2014 - 31/08/2015
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Risk Behaviour
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
Course 2013-2014 - Period: 01/09/2013 - 31/08/2014
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
Course 2012-2013 - Period: 01/09/2012 - 31/08/2013
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Risk Behaviour
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
  • Others
    Complementos de Formación de Criminología
    • - Introducción a la Psicología
Course 2011-2012 - Period: 01/09/2011 - 31/08/2012
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
  • Degree
    Degree in Arts
    • - Psychology
  • Others
    Complementos de Formación de Criminología
    • - Introduction to Psychology

Academic training

  • Investigación en Salud
  • UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATLAUNYA
  • Master Universitario en Psicología Clínica y de la Salud
  • Universitat Ramon Llull
  • Master Universitario en Terapia Familiar
  • Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
  • Master en Psicologia Positiva Aplicada
  • Universitat Jaume I
  • Grado en Psicología
  • Universitat Ramon Llull

PhD in Psychology, INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA
Master's Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology, RAMON LLULL PRIVATE FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY
Master's Degree in Family Therapy, INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA
Degree in Psychology, RAMON LLULL PRIVATE FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY

Professional experience

María Gámiz is a psychologist specialized in Positive Psychology. Her scientific interest focuses on the influence of character strengths on a person's health. Specifically, she has focused on the study of forgiveness as a prosocial behavior and on the development of intervention tools, through modeling, that facilitate its growth in any area of interpersonal relationships. She began her career as a university professor in 2011 at the UIC Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and is currently responsible for the Psychosocial Sciences subject in the Nursing degree and the Skills Laboratories in the Psychology degree.

Projects

Non-competitive

  • Spanish adaptation of the REACH intervention on forgiveness
    PI: Fernández Capo, M Start date: 23/12/2019 End date: 23/12/2020
    Financing entity: Saint Bernard Foundation
  • Forgiveness as a Personal Strength
    PI: Fernández Capo, M Start date: 01/09/2014 End date: 31/07/2016
    Financing entity: Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Publications

Articles

Book chapters

  • Current psychology, The role of making a decision to forgive in the process of forgiveness: a longitudinal study
    Name: Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Fernández Capo, M; Buechner, V.; Martos-Algarra, C.; Worthington, E.; Recoder, Silvia Role: Autor Publishing date: 2021
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02421-z ISSN or title: 1046-1310
  • Current psychology, Decisional forgiveness across spanish and american samples: translation, validation, and measurement invariance of the decision to forgive scale
    Name: Recoder, Silvia; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Worthington, E.; Davis, D.; Fernández Capo, M Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 1 End page: 11
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00368-w ISSN or title: 1046-1310
  • European psychologist, Measuring Forgiveness A Systematic Review
    Name: Fernández Capo, M; Recoder, Silvia; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Gómez, J.; Worthington, E. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2017
    Start page: 247 End page: 262 Vol.: 22 No.: 4
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000303 ISSN or title: 1016-9040
  • Anales de psicología, Exploring the dimensionality and the psychometric properties of the TRIM-18 in the Spanish context
    Name: Fernández Capo, M; Recoder, Silvia; Gómez, J.; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Gual García, P; Diez, P.; Worthington, E. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2017
    Start page: 548 End page: 555 Vol.: 33 No.: 3
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesps.33.2.264461 ISSN or title: 0212-9728
  • Journal of conciousness studies, Feeling the Future Again Retroactive Avoidance of Negative Stimuli
    Name: Maier, M.; Buechner, V.; Kuhbandner, C.; Pflitsch, M.; Fernández Capo, M; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2014
    Vol.: 21 No.: 9-10
    ISSN or title: 1355-8250
  • Familia. Revista de Ciencias y Orientación Familiar, Estabilidad en el matrimonio: factores que potencian la satisfacción en la relación
    Name: Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Fernández Capo, M; Gual García, P Role: Autor Publishing date: 2013
    Start page: 87 End page: 100 No.: 42
    ISSN or title: 1130-8893
  • Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica., La presencia ignorada del cuerpo: Corporalidad y (re) construcción de la identidad.
    Name: Botella, L.; Grañó, N.; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Abey, M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2008
    Start page: 245 End page: 264 Vol.: XVII
    ISSN or title: 1851- 7951
  • Positive Psychology and Religion/Spirituality Across Cultures in Europe, Non-US North America, and South America. Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
    Name: Rossy, C.; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M.; Recoder, Silvia; Crespo, I.; Fernández Capo, M Role: Autor Publishing date: 18/11/2022
    Start page: 227 End page: 242
    ISBN: 978-3-031-10273-8
  • Narrative Assessment in Psychotherapy: A Constructivist Approach. Personal Construct Methodology
    Name: Botella, L.; Gámiz Sanfeliu, M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 09/12/2011
    ISBN: 9780470770870
Course 2024-2025 - Period: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Medical Practicums 1
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 3
    • - Psychology and Profession
    • - Final Degree Project
  • Official Master
    University Master's Degree in General Health Psychology
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
Course 2023-2024 - Period: 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2024
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Medical Practicums 1
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Psychology and Profession
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 2
    • - Skills Laboratory 3
Course 2022-2023 - Period: 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2023
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    • - Medical Practicums 1
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Community Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 2
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Psychology and Profession
Course 2021-2022 - Period: 01/09/2021 - 31/08/2022
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 2
    • - Final Degree Project
Course 2020-2021 - Period: 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2021
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 2
Course 2019-2020 - Period: 01/09/2019 - 31/08/2020
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
    • - Skills Laboratory 2
Course 2018-2019 - Period: 01/09/2018 - 31/08/2019
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Skills Laboratory 1
Course 2017-2018 - Period: 01/09/2017 - 31/08/2018
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Risk Behaviour
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
Course 2016-2017 - Period: 01/09/2016 - 31/08/2017
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Risk Behaviour
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
Course 2015-2016 - Period: 01/09/2015 - 31/08/2016
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Risk Behaviour
    • - Community Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
Course 2014-2015 - Period: 01/09/2014 - 31/08/2015
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Risk Behaviour
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
Course 2013-2014 - Period: 01/09/2013 - 31/08/2014
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
Course 2012-2013 - Period: 01/09/2012 - 31/08/2013
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Risk Behaviour
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
  • Others
    Complementos de Formación de Criminología
    • - Introducción a la Psicología
Course 2011-2012 - Period: 01/09/2011 - 31/08/2012
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
    • - Communication and Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    • - Community Nursing
    Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
    • - Psychosocial Sciences Applied to Physiotherapy
  • Degree
    Degree in Arts
    • - Psychology
  • Others
    Complementos de Formación de Criminología
    • - Introduction to Psychology