Reseña
Profesor Asociado de la Facultad de Psicología. Psicólogo, Licenciado en Psicología, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile; Magister en Desarrollo y Comportamiento Organizacional, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile; ; Ph. D. in Human Science, Universidad de Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Alemania.
Líneas de investigación
Desarrollo y psicopatología: Factores asociados al desarrollo, mantención y cese de trastornos psiquiátricos; Detección e intervención temprana de psicopatología; Prevención y tratamiento de conducta suicida en aolescentes y jóvenes
Contacto
dnunez@utalca.cl
Proyectos
Publicaciones
Núñez, D. Raposo de Almeida, E., Smit, A., Snippe, E., Muller, M., van den Berg, D., Veling, W., Booij, S., Wigman, J.T.W. (2025). Using daily diary data to examine the period prior to a suicide attempt: an observational single-case study. Psychiatry Research: Case Reports, 100251.
Villacura-Herrera, C. Ávalos-Tejeda, M., Gaete, J, Robinson, J., Núñez, D. (2025). The underlying dynamics of a suicidal ideation latent network model: The role of hopelessness, psychopathology, emotion regulation, and behavioural coping skills in adolescents from the general population. Journal of Affective Disorders 379, 540-548.
Hasking, P., Kiekens, G., Petukhova, M. V., Lee, S., Sampson, N. A., Albor, Y., Alhadi, A. N., …. Núñez et al. (2025). The relationships between sporadic and repetitive non-suicidal self-injury and mental disorders among first-year college students: results from the world mental health international college student initiative. Psychological Medicine.
Núñez, D., Guajardo, V., Gaete, J., Libuy, N., Mundt, A., Ibañez, C. (2022). The influence of adverse childhood experiences on suicide-related behaviors among adolescents in Chile. Archives of Suicide Research.
Núñez, D., Godoy, M.I., Gaete, J., Faúndez, M.J., Campos, S., Fresno, A., Spencer, R. (2021). The Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences-Positive scale (CAPE-P15) accurately classifies and differentiates psychotic experiences levels in adolescents from the general population. PLOS One, 16(8): e0256686.
Núñez, D., Gaete, J., Meza, D., Andaur, J., Robinson, J. (2022). Testing the effectiveness of a blended intervention to reduce suicidal ideation among school adolescents in Chile: A protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. Int. J. Environ. Res.. Public Health 2022, 19, 3947.
Langer, A., Schmidt, C., Martínez, V., Mac-Ginty, S., Fuentes, R., Núñez, D. (2024). Suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury and psychopathology in university students: Examining the moderating role of experiential avoidance. Journal of Affective Disorders Report, 16, 100734..
Núñez, D., Meza, D., Robinson, J., Gaete, J. (2024). Reframe-IT+, an indicated preventive school-based intervention, reduces suicidal ideation among adolescents in vulnerable contexts in Chile. BMC Psychology. 12:780.
Heather, W., Núñez, D. (2022). Psychotic experiences, emotion regulation, and suicidal ideation among Chilean adolescents in the general population. Frontiers in Psychiatry, Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry.
Langer, AI., Ponce, FP., Ordóñez, JL., Fuentes, R., Mac-Ginty, S., Gaete, J., Núñez, D. (2024). Psychometric evidence of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II): An Item Response Theory analysis in university students from Chile. BMC Psychology, 12, 111..
Núñez, D., Villacura-Herrera, C., Gaete, J., Meza, D.., Andaur, J., Robinson, J. (2023). Psychometric assessment of the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire Junior: A two-study validation in Spanish-speaking adolescents. Current Psychology.
Mason, A., Rapsey, C., Sapmson, N., Lee, S., Núñez, D., et al. (2025). Prevalence, age-of-onset, and course of mental disorders among 72,288 first-year university students from 18 countries in the World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 183: 225-236.
Campos, S., Núñez, D., Bravo, P., Fresno, A., & Olff, M. (2022). Preliminary evidence for internal structure, sensitivity, and specificity of a brief PTSD and complex PTSD measure in adolescents. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement. Advance online publication.
Crockett, M., Martínez, V., Mac-Ginty, S., Langer, A., Gaete, J., Núñez, D., Léniz, I. (2024). Mental health service use and barriers to help-seeking among LGBTQ+ first-year college students in Chile. Journal of LGBT Youth.
Valdés, J.M., Díaz, F.J., Christiansen, P.M., Lorca, G.A., Solorza, F.J., Alvear, M., Ramírez, S., Núñez, D., Araya, R., Gaete, J. (2022). Mental health and related factors among undergraduate students during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A cross-sectional study. Front. Psychiatry, 13:833263.
Crockett M.A., Núñez, D. Martínez, P., et al. (2025). Interventions to reduce mental health stigma in young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Netw Open;8(1):e2454730.
Villacura-Herrera, C., Pérez, J. Jones P., Núñez D. (2024). Internal Consistency and Temporal Stability of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE): A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis. Psychiatry Research.
Núñez, D., Villacura-Herrera, C., Gaete, J., Meza, D., Andaur, J., Wigman, J.T.W., Robinson, J. (2023). Initial validation of the Multidimensional Adolescent Functioning Scale (MAFS) in Spanish-speaking students from Chilean secondary schools. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes.
Fresno, A., Ramos, N., Núñez, D., Ulloa, J.L., Arriagada, J., Cloitre, M. et al. (2023). Initial validation of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) in a sample of Chilean Adults. European Journal of Psychotraumatology.
Ulloa, J.L., Núñez, D., Gaspar, P., Brass, M. (2024). Imitative inhibitory control is associated with psychotic experiences in a sample from the general population. Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Núñez, D., Villacura-Herrera, c., Celedón, k., Ulloa, J.L., Ramos, N., Spencer, R., Fresno, A. (2022). Identifying self-report measures of emotion regulation and evaluating their psychometric properties: a protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open;12:e056193.
Núñez, D., Ordóñez-Carrasco, JL., Fuentes, R., Langer, A. (2021). Experiential avoidance mediates the association between paranoid ideation and depressive symptoms in a sample from the general population. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 139: 120-124. WOS/Scopus.
Murga, C., Cabezas, R., Mora, C., Campos, S. Núñez, D. (2022). Examining associations between symptoms of eating disorders and symptoms of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation and perceived family functioning in university: A brief report. International Journal of Eating Disorders.
Villacura C., Gaete, J., Andaur, J., Meza, D., Robinson, J., Núñez, D. (2022). Evidence for validity, reliability and measurement invariance of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA) in secondary students from Chile. Current Psycholoy.
Núñez, D., Monjes, P., Campos, S., Wigman, J.T.W (2021). Evidence for specific associations between depressive symptoms, psychotic experiences and suicidal ideation in Chilean adolescents from the general population. Frontiers in Psychiatry, Psychopathology.
Crockett, M., Martínez, V., Mac-Ginty, Núñez, D., Langer, A., Gaete, J. (2024). Differences in mental health problems in LGBT+first year college students in Chile during the pandemic. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
Ramos, N., Besoain, F., Cancino, N., Gallardo, I., Albornoz, P., Fresno, A., Spencer, R., Schott, S., Núñez, D., Salgado, C., Campos, S. (2024). Development of a multiplatform tool for the prevention of prevalent mental health pathologies in adults: Protocol for a Randomized Control Trial. JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e52324.
Roest, A.M., de Vries, Y.A., Puzuelo, J.R., Petukhova, M.V., ….. Núñez, D., et al. (2025). Comorbidity and temporal associations between mental disorders among college students in the World Mental Health International College Student Initiative. Psychiatry Research, 20:351:116605.
Husky, M. M., Lee, S., Sampson, N. A., Borowski, S., Albor, Y., ….. Núñez, D., et al. (2025). Childhood adversities and their associations with mental disorders in the World Mental Health International College Student Surveys Initiative. Psychiatry Research, 351 (2025) 116585.
Crockett, M., Martínez, V., Núñez, D., Mac-Ginty, S., et al. (2025). Childhood adversities and depression according to sexual orientation and gender identity among university students in Chile. Journal of Affective Disorders 119758.
Núñez, D., Rodríguez-Delgado, J, Castillo, R.D. Yupanqui, J., Kloos, H. (2024). Beliefs and cognitive functions in first-episode schizophrenia.. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 38; 100318.
Gaete, J., Meza, D., Andaur, J., Mckay, S., Robinson, J., Núñez, D. (2025). Acceptability and feasibility of a blended school-based intervention to prevent suicidal ideation among adolescents in Chile: Results from a randomized control pilot study. Prevention Science.
Núñez, D., Villacura-Herrera, c., Celedón, k., Ulloa, J.L., Ramos, N., Spencer, R., Fresno, A. (2022). A protocol for a systematic review to identify self-report measures of emotion regulation and evaluate their psychometric properties. BMJ Open;12:e056193.
Langer, A. Núñez, D., Waardenar, K., Wigman, J. Ulloa, J.L. (2022). A Latent Profile Analysis of Psychotic Experiences, Non-psychotic Symptoms, Suicidal Ideation and Underlying Mechanisms in a Sample of Adolescents From the General Population. Frontiers in psychiatry, 13:833263.
Campos, S., Núñez, D., Pérez, C., Robinson, J. (2024). A characterization of psychopathology in Latin American adolescents: Findings from a web-based screening tool. JMIR Form Res; 8:e57038.