Koraima Sotomayor-Enriquez (MsC, AFHEA, GMBPsS)

Thesis title: The role of mentalization and emotional regulation in risk and protective factors among community and clinical samples of young people

Biography

Background

I earned a BS in Psychology from the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador (UIDE) in 2017. After this, I worked as an accredited Psychologist in Ecuador with children and adults using evidence-based intervention. I contributed in research projects during my undergraduate studies, and later on, I continued being involved in research as an independent researcher.

In 2020, I moved to Edinburgh and, the following year, I received a MSc in Psychological Research (Supervisor: Dr Hilary Richardson) from the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Languages Sciences. Currently, I am a PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology working alongside the IMMERSE project, an interdisciplinary group of researchers implementing Mobile Mental health intervention across 4 countries in Europe. My research project focus on the role of  mentalization and emotion regulation in risk and protective factors in clinical and non-clinical samples of young people. 

Qualifications

  • MSc Psychological Research (Merit) [2020]
  • Dipl. Evidence-based Psychotherapies [2019]
  • BS Psychology (Hons) (Summa Cum Laude) [2017]

Responsibilities & affiliations

  • Contextual Mental Health Group - Member [2021,2022,2023,2024]
  • Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) [2021,2022,2023,2024]
  • PhD Student of the Centre for Applied Developmental Psychology (CADP) at the University of Edinburgh [2021,2022,2023,2024]
  • Member of Ecuadorian Association of Evidence-Based Psychology and Psychotherapy (AEPPBE) [2020,2021]
  • Associated Member of the British Neuropsychological Society (BNS) [2021]

Postgraduate teaching

  • Research Methods in Applied Psychology (2024/2025)[SEM1] - Tutor
  • Applied Developmental Psychopathology (2024/2025)[SEM1] - Tutor
  • Biological Psychology (2023/2024) [SEM2] - Tutor 
  • Evidence Based Psychological Interventions (2022/2023)[SEM2]-Tutor
  • Applied Developmental Psychopathology (2022/2023)[SEM1] - Tutor
  • Psychological Skills Placement (2022/2023) [SEM1] - Tutor
  • Biological Psychology (2021/2022) [SEM2] - Tutor

Research summary

Koraima's research focused in developmental psychopathology in young people. Her current research involves using different quantitative methodologies (including Experience Sampling Methodology) to explore the role of mentalization and emotion regulation in youth wellbeing and mental health. 

Current research interests

Mentalization, emotion regulation, transdiagnostic approaches, developmental psychopathology

Knowledge exchange

2024

  • Festival of Social Science - We are all mentalising (October 2024)
  • IMPACT Showcase (June 2024)
  • Invite Speaker at Saxe Lab (MIT) (January 2024)

2023

Affiliated research centres

Project activity

  • IMMERSE 
  • EPIC-A
  • Day-2-Day Young people's Mental Health

Invited speaker

  • Saxe Lab from MIT, Talk: The role of Mentalization in Risk and Protective factors in Young People's Mental Health, February 26, 2024

Organiser

  • HiSS PGR conference 2022-2023, "Integrative Approaches to Healthcare: design, innovation, and future steps", May 17- 18 of 2023, Bayes Centre, The University of Edinburgh. 

Participant

  • 11th International Attachment Conference, July 15th – 17th, 2024,  Université de Rouen, France [Poster Presentation]

  • SOLVING THE CRISIS IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: GLOBAL SOLUTION Across the Life Span: 5th International Mental Health Conference, June 21, 2024, University of Glasgow, UK [Poster Presentation]

  • PGR Festival - Clinical Psychology Sessions, 29 of May 2024, University of Edinburgh, UK [Short Talk]

  • Edinburgh Mental Health Conference, 22nd of April 2024, University of Edinburgh, UK  [Poster Presentation]

Papers delivered

  • Sotomayor-Enriquez, K., Di Folco, S., & Schwannauer, M. (2024, April 19). Emotion Regulation mediates the association between Hypermentalizing and Interpersonal Difficulties in Young People. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/65squ
  • Myin-Germeys, I., Schick, A., Ganslandt, T., Hajdúk, M., Heretik, A., Van Hoyweghen, I., Kiekens, G., Koppe, G., Marelli, L., Nagyova, I., Weermeijer, J., Wensing, M., Wolters, M., Beames, J., de Allegri, M., di Folco, S., Durstewitz, D., Katreniaková, Z., Lievevrouw, E., Nguyen, H.,Sotomayor-Enriquez, K… Reininghaus, U. (2024). The experience sampling methodology as a digital clinical tool for more person-centered mental health care: an implementation research agenda. Psychological medicine, 1–9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291724001454
  • Reininghaus, U., Schwannauer, M., Barne, I., Beames, J. R., Bonnier, R. A., Brenner, M., Breznoščáková, D., Dančík, D., De Allegri, M., Di Folco, S., Durstewitz, D., Gugel, J., Hajdúk, M., Heretik, A., Izáková, Ľ., Katreniakova, Z., Kiekens, G., Koppe, G., Kurilla, A., Marelli, L.,Sotomayor-Enriquez, K. … Schick, A. (2024). Strategies, processes, outcomes, and costs of implementing experience sampling-based monitoring in routine mental health care in four European countries: study protocol for the IMMERSE effectiveness-implementation study. BMC psychiatry, 24(1), 465. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05839-4
  • Sotomayor-Enriquez, K., Gweon, H., Saxe, R., & Richardson, H. (2023). Open dataset of theory of mind reasoning in early to middle childhood. Data in brief, 52, 109905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109905
  • Miniguano-Trujillo, A., Salazar, F., Torres, R., Arias, P., & Sotomayor, K. (2021). An integer programming model to assign patients based on mental health impact for tele-psychotherapy intervention during the Covid-19 emergency. Health care management science, 24(2), 286–304. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-020-09543-z

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