PhD in Psychology from Universidade de Lisboa, is the coordinator of the Master’s in Psychology of Wellbeing and Health Promotion, and of the Post-
Rita Francisco
Assistant Professor
Bio
Bio
PhD in Psychology from Universidade de Lisboa, is the coordinator of the Master’s in Psychology of Wellbeing and Health Promotion, and of the Post-graduation Program on Child Protection System. She was the founding director of the CRC-W (Católica Research Centre for Psychological, Family and Social Wellbeing), between 2017 and 2023. As researcher at CRC-W, she currently coordinates the project “#EntreViagenseAprendizagens: A school-based intervention to promote well-being and healthy lifestyles among adolescents”, funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the project “Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of children and adolescents”, among others. In 2010 was a visiting researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, within the scope of the European PhD. She is a member of the editorial board of Eating and Weight Disorders and Revista Portuguesa de Psicologia. Her current research interests are eating disorders, health literacy, wellbeing and (mal)adjustment of adolescents in different social situations. She is a specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology by the Portuguese Psychologists Order. She is a consultant for the Directorate-General for Health in health literacy and well-being.
Programs:
- Pós-Graduação em Comunicação em Saúde
- Clinical and Health Psychology
- Master in Family Studies
- Master in Psychology of Wellbeing and Health Promotion
- Public Health Psychology
- Pós-Graduação em Intervenção Psicológica no Stresse Conjugal
- Pós-Graduação em Sistema de Promoção e Proteção de Crianças e Jovens - B-learning
- Undergraduate Program in Psychology
Modules / Courses:
- 3.3. Adoção de um filho
- 5.3. Ausência prolongada
- 5.4. Acontecimentos potencialmente traumáticos
- Adoção
- Comunicação e Literacia em Saúde
- Consultation-liaison Psychology
- Development and promotion of health and wellbeing in childhood and adolescence
- Dissertation Project
- Dissertation Seminar I
- Dissertation Seminar II
- Family Development I
- Family Development II
- Family Psychology
- Family Psychology
- Final Work
- Gestão Emocional e Profissional
- Health and Wellbeing Promotion
- Health Literacy and Communication
- Health Psychology
- Introduction to Research
- Marital and Family Development
- Promoting health and quality of life in adulthood
- Psicologia da Família: Fundamentos para a Mediação Familiar
- Seminar on Assessment and Intervention in Health Psychology and Wellbeing II
Areas of Research:
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