Inês Carvalho Relva, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Education and Psychology, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal. She is a research member of the Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development – CIDESD, Vila Real, Portugal, and collaborates with the Center for Research and Intervention in Education and the Center for Psychology both at the University of Porto. She is a psychologist who completed Postdoc research at the Center of Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. She has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals. Her research activity focuses on sibling violence and (cyber)bullying, family functioning, and how these factors influence child and adolescent psychosocial development. She is a current editorial board member of several international journals indexed in SCOPUS and Web of Science.
Mónica Costa has a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Porto. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, where she holds the position of deputy director of the Second Cycle in Psychology. She is also a teacher at the Piaget Institute in Viseu. She is an integrated member of the Psychology Center of the University of Porto. She has been a specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology by the Order of Psychologists since 2020. Her research interests include the topics of relational dynamics, attachment, and cognitive–emotional processes in different contexts and stages of development (e.g., family, residential care, and transition into adulthood).
Catarina Pinheiro Mota is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education and Psychology at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD). She is a psychologist with a degree in Clinical Psychology from the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde-Norte (2002), a Ph.D. in Psychology in Psychological and Family Consultation from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Porto (2008), and a post-doctorate in Psychology in Residential Care for Children and Young People at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto (2014). She was named a Psychotherapist by the Portuguese Society of Client-Centered Psychotherapy and Person-Centred Approach (2014) and a Specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology and Psychotherapy by the Portuguese College of Psychology (OPP). From 2015 to 2021, she was Director of the First and Second Cycles of Psychology at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. She has been an integrated researcher at the Psychology Centre of the University of Porto since 2010. As a coordinator and researcher of projects funded by the FCT, she has participated in many research project evaluation panels as a national and international expert. Her interests are attachment, individuation, and psychosocial adaptation of adolescents and young adults from different family configurations, especally residential care for children and young people, and psychotherapeutic intervention.
