Docente
Mónica Nogueira Soares

Resume

Mónica Nogueira Soares is a psychologist, higher education lecturer, researcher, school and family mediator, trainer, and parenting educator. Since 2006, she has worked in Psychology and Education, combining psychological intervention, teacher and professional training, conflict mediation, socio-emotional education, research, and the development of educational projects, with a particular focus on school coexistence, violence prevention, socio-emotional development, and educational practices. She holds a PhD in Psychology, with research focused on conflict and violence in school contexts. She is a full member of the Portuguese Psychologists Association (Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses), which recognises her as a Specialist in Educational Psychology and in Clinical and Health Psychology. She holds postgraduate qualifications in Psychology in Primary Health Care Centres and Conflict Mediation in School Contexts, specialised training in eating disorders and family mediation, international certifications in Kids and Teen Coaching and Emotional Education, and training in Profiling. She is also certified to implement national and international parenting education programmes. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Paula Frassinetti School of Education (ESEPF), where she also serves as Director of the Bachelor’s Degree in Basic Education, with responsibilities for the scientific, pedagogical, and organisational coordination of the programme and for monitoring the quality of initial teacher education. She is an integrated researcher at the Research Centre for Developmental Psychology (CIPD) and is involved in the scientific activities of the Paula Frassinetti Research Centre (CIPAF), participating in projects on violence prevention, well-being, socio-emotional competencies, educational relationships, inclusion, and psychological development. Throughout her career, she has coordinated, monitored, and evaluated school-based and socio-educational projects addressing violence, conflict, and school indiscipline, developed within systemic and whole-school approaches. She has worked as a school psychologist, coordinated the Ser e Estar project within Matosinhos City Council, and was part of a University of Porto team supporting innovation, autonomy, and curricular flexibility processes in schools. Her professional experience also includes collaboration with the Portuguese Red Cross and ADEIMA. Conflict mediation is a core area of her professional practice. She is a certified conflict mediator under the International Mediation Institute’s Qualifying Assessment Program, with experience in school and family mediation, and is included in the list of Private Conflict Mediators of the Portuguese Ministry of Justice. She also supervises internships in Psychology and Conflict Mediation and served on the governing bodies of the National Federation of Conflict Mediation between 2021 and 2024. She has experience in the coordination and supervision of technical teams and is certified as a trainer by national training and education bodies. Her academic activity includes teaching, mentoring and supervising undergraduate and master’s students, participation in academic panels and scientific committees, organisation of scientific events, and invited presentations at national and international conferences. She is the author and co-author of scientific articles, book chapters, and other academic and technical publications, and the author of the book Education for Coexistence at School. Her work focuses on relational processes in educational contexts and on prevention, intervention, and training practices grounded in psychological knowledge and research.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Psychology
• Mestrado
  Psychology
• Doutoramento
  Psychology
• Pós-Graduação
  Psychology in Health Centers
• Especialização pós-licenciatura
  Emotional Education
• Pós-Graduação
  Conflict Mediation in Schools Contexts
• Especialização pós-licenciatura
  Family Mediation

Publicações

Artigo em revista (magazine)

• 2016, Nós e os outros, Notícias MEDIARE
• 2016, Mediação e ética, Notícias MEDIARE

Artigo em revista

• 2026-06-29, Early Childhood Educators’ Reported Social-Emotional Learning Practices in Portuguese Preschool Education: The Role of Beliefs and Training, Early Childhood Education Journal
• 2026-03-07, Associations Between Classroom Quality, Child Self-Regulation, and Psychological Adjustment in Early Childhood, Early Childhood Education Journal.
• 2025-10, Exploring teachers' attitudes towards inclusive education: Role of self-efficacy and perceived school climate, Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs
• 2024, Ubuntu e exercício profissional docente: o que mudou no Agrupamento de Escolas de Campo?, UBUNTU: Revista de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
• 2023-05-16, Effects of a Portuguese social–emotional learning program on the competencies of elementary school students, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2023, Portuguese adolescents’ attitudes towards peers with disabilities, Cadernos de Pesquisa
• 2023, Atitudes dos adolescentes portugueses face à inclusão de pares com incapacidades: papel de variáveis sociodemográficas, psicológicas e de experiência de contacto
• 2023, Atitudes dos adolescentes portugueses face aos pares com deficiência., Cadernos de Pesquisa
• 2019, Pensar e concetualizar a mediação de conflitos em contextos escolar, Revista da Federação Nacional de Mediação de Conflitos

Tese / Dissertação

• 2017, Doutoramento, Conflitualidade e violência na escola: um diagnóstico concelhio e a avaliação do impacto de uma proposta de intervenção

Livro

• 2022, Educar para relações saudáveis: a aplicação da aula de convivência em contexto escolar, Soares, M. N., ADEIMA; Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos
• 2021, Por uma nova cultura de convivência: Rubrica do blog “ComRegras” , Soares, M. N., Mónica Nogueira Soares
• 2019, A Educação para a Convivência na Escola: As conceções teóricas, a perceção dos/as alunos/as e a prevenção/intervenção, 1, Soares, Mónica Nogueira, Novas Edições Académicas

Capítulo de livro

• 2025, Relações entre pares: A mentoria como estratégia de integração de estudantes migrantes, Relações entre pares: A mentoria como estratégia de integração de estudantes migrantes, Relational Lab.
• 2025, Redes sociales y adicciones comportamentales en la adolescencia: una propuesta preventiva e inclusiva a partir del proyecto Addict to you, Educar para la paz
• 2025, Participação das crianças: a perceção dos educadores e professores quanto ao contributo das assembleias, Educar para la paz
• 2025, Mentoria entre pares com alunos migrantes: perfil dos mentores, Educar para la Paz, Dykinson
• 2025, Educação relacional na formação inicial de professores: Reflexões sobre as competências socioemocionais e a prática pedagógica, Educação relacional: A arte de educar através das relações, Relational Lab
• 2025, Educação Relacional no contexto da Educação Superior: Oportunidades e Desafios., Educação relacional: a arte de educar através das relações, Relational Lab
• 2024, Creative Education and Psychology: Connecting Minds and Technologies for Educational Success
• 2024, Child development and interactional processes in early childhood gender education.
• 2023, Dinamização de assembleias em contextos socioeducativos vulneráveis: uma experiência pedagógica no Norte de Portugal (2019/2023), Construindo uma Cultura de Paz: a Mediação de Conflitos em espaços educadores
• 2023, Don't leave for tomorrow what you can build up today ! Using early socioemotional development to foster healthy, inclusive, and successful communities, The value of difference and lifelong learning in the contemporary pedagogy., Aquilafuente:Ediciones Universidad Salamanca:

Recurso online

• 2023-01, Recursos de apoio à capacitação de professores no âmbito da Educação Inclusiva [Resources to support teacher training within the scope of Inclusive Education] - DGE
• 2023, Planificação e recursos de formação para a Inclusão. Direção-Geral de Educação..
• 2023, Planificação e recursos de formação para a Inclusão. Direção-Geral de Educação [Inclusion training planning and resources. Directorate-General for Education]

Artigo em conferência

• Mediação de conflitos: Capacitar para uma nova cultura de convivência, Iº Encontro de Mediadores Escolares
• 2023-07, Que resultados são já visíveis nas aprendizagens e no desenvolvimento dos nossos alunos? / What results do you see in our students' learning and development?, III Jornadas de Inovação Bússola 21 - Regresso ao sonho, regresso à realidade
• 2023-07, Avaliar a inovação é preciso: mas como deixar de ser sobrecarga e passar a ser um investimento? / Endorsing innovation is necessary: but how to stop being an overload and become an investment?, III Jornadas de Inovação Bússola 21 - Regresso ao sonho, regresso à realidade
• 2023, Compreender as relações e as emoções no contexto educativo, IX Seminário Internacional de Observatórios de Educação e Formação: A Redefinição da Escola Portuguesa
• 2019, Aula de convivência: Uma resposta integrada na cultura de mediação, 3º Congresso Internacional promovido pela Revista de Psicologia, Educação e Cultura: “O local e o mundo: Sinergias na era da informação”

Poster em conferência

• 2025-01, Sharenting e os limites entre a liberdade parental e o bem-estar infantil: Uma abordagem interdisciplinar