Scientific coordinator of Clinical Psychology and Counseling master's degree, and a researcher at CIP-UAL/UAlg, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal. With a PhD in Health Psychology, Clinical Psychologist, Child and Family Psychotherapist and with a Bachelor' Degree in Early Childhood Education, focuses on child development and family studies, namely, multi stressed families, marital adjustment, parenting, coparenting, parenting styles and child adjustment. In the past, she has participated/conducted several projects such as psychometric validation studies; youth addiction; attachment; parenting styles; transition to parenting and childbirth PTSD. Currently works on two research projects: 1) Autonomous Families: A Tailored Research & Intervention aiming to characterize and understand family functioning of vulnerable family groups (multi-stressed / assisted families) and conduct evidence-based family centered interventions. 2) Parenting, coparenting, family conflict and child adjustment: A cross-cultural study, that seeks to understand the individual and context determinants of parenting and the impact of coparenting inter-parental conflict, emotional regulation on child adjustment in different types of families (intact, separated/divorced, blended families) in several Portuguese speaking countries