COST Action CA1821 Luisa Barros PhD/Full Professor

Name, title and letters: Luisa Barros - PhD/Full Professor

Who I am and current role:

I am a Full Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon. I have a PhD in Clinical Psychology and an Aggregation Title in Health Psychology. I coordinate the Master in Child Psychopathology – Prevention and Intervention and the PhD Program in Psychology.

I am a member of the Adaptation Processes in Context Group of the Research Centre for Psychological Science and of the Scientific Committee of the PhD in Nursing, University of Lisbon. I am part of the ProChild CoLab: Against Poverty and Social Exclusion.

My main research interests focus on the relation between parenting processes and young children development and health. I lecture in the domains of Health Psychology, Pediatric Psychology, Children and Adolescent Psychopathology, at the Faculty of Psychology.

University location: Lisbon, Portugal

Email: lbarros@psicologia.ulisboa.pt

Phone:  +351-918146020

Research keywords: parenting; child health; child development; child chronic illness; health professionals psychological training