Docente
Teresa Mendes

Resume

Teresa Mendes is Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário de Lisboa and an integrated researcher at HEI-Lab – Digital Human Environment Interaction Lab. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the joint Doctoral Program of the Universities of Coimbra and Lisbon and is a Specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology and Educational Psychology accredited by the Portuguese Psychologists’ Association. Her work focuses on family and parenting processes, psychosocial adaptation, and contextual determinants shaping developmental and educational trajectories, contributing to the development and evaluation of evidence-informed family and community interventions, particularly in contexts of pediatric chronic illness, autism, and student well-being.

Graus

• Licenciate Degree
  Licenciatura em Psicologia
• Master's Degree
  Mestrado em Psicologia Clínica
• Postgraduate Program
  Supervisão em Intervenção Sistémica e Familiar
• Postgraduate Program
  Formação especializada em Intervenção Sistémica e Familiar
• Intermediate Degree
  Curso de Neuropediatria e Desenvolvimento
• Intermediate Degree
  Equações Estruturais utilizando o programa AMOS
• Intermediate Degree
  Metodologias Qualitativas na Investigação em Psicologia
• Postgraduate Program
  Curso de Estudos Avançados em Psicologia Clínica e da Família
• Intermediate Degree
  Líderes de Grupos de Pais com o Programa básico para Pais Anos Incríveis
• Intermediate Degree
  Intervenções terapêuticas em contexto de divórcio
• Intermediate Degree
  New developments in mediation and moderation
• Intermediate Degree
  Conducting mHealth research
• Intermediate Degree
  Writing effective grants: an interactive, skills-based workshop
• Intermediate Degree
  Special interest group in Epilepsy
• Intermediate Degree
  Why families matter: Translating research into practice in pediatric psych.
• Intermediate Degree
  Getting published: The ins and outs of getting a manuscript accepted
• Intermediate Degree
  Modelos de Equações Estruturais - Estudos avançados de análise de dados
• Intermediate Degree
  Pediatric psychopharmacology: new developments, evidence, controversies
• Intermediate Degree
  Cognitive and behavioral approaches to understanting and treating ADHD
• Intermediate Degree
  Advanced Assessment and tretament of attention-deficit disorders
• Intermediate Degree
  Administração e interpretação das Escalas de Wechsler para crianças
• Intermediate Degree
  Linguagem e Literacia: Intervenção Fonológica na Dislexia
• Intermediate Degree
  Ajudar crianças e pais a lidar com o divórcio
• Intermediate Degree
  CIF como referencial para a caraterização das necessidades educativas
• Intermediate Degree
  Problemas de comportamento em contexto escolar: Como lidar?
• Intermediate Degree
  Crianças vítimas de maus-tratos: Da avaliação à intervenção
• Intermediate Degree
  Adult Attachment Interview (AAI): aplicação, cotação e intepretação de entr
• Intermediate Degree
  Separation Anxiety Test (SAT): aplicação, cotação e interpretação
• Intermediate Degree
  Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade (CIF)
• Intermediate Degree
  Intervenção sistémica em jovens com comportamentos auto-destrutivos
• Intermediate Degree
  Formação de Formadores - obtenção de certificado de aptidão pelo IEFP
• Intermediate Degree
  Intervenções Cognitivo-Comportamentais na Ansiedade a Exames
• Intermediate Degree
  Terapia Cognitiva dos Distúrbios de Personalidade
• Intermediate Degree
  VIII Seminário de desenvolvimento
• Intermediate Degree
  Pelo caminho dos afetos
• Intermediate Degree
  Contruir a (in)disciplina no contexto escolar
• Intermediate Degree
  Necessidades Educativas Especiais
• Intermediate Degree
  Dilexia: Avaliação e intervenção
• Others
  Supervisão de casos clínicos em seguimento
• Others
  Formação Pessoal em Psicodrama de cariz sistémico
• Doctorate
  Clinical Psychology - Family Psychology and Family interventions
• Others
  Advanced course in Dyslexia
• Others
  Hiperatividade com Défice de Atenção: Avaliação e Intervenção
• Others
  Advanced course in "Neurpsychological assessment with Bateria de Avaliação Neuropsicológica de Coimbra (BANC)
• Others
  Encontro (in)formativo Decreto-Lei 54/2018 – Educação Inclusiva
• Others
  Reflective circle "Thinking about Mental health" in child proctive system (7h)
• Others
  Network intervention in family violence
• Others
  Workshop Enquadramento legal das CPCJ´s
• Others
  Workshop Técnicas Psicodramáticas em Terapia Familiar
• Others
  Schema Therapy for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder: Modalities, structure and challenges
• Others
  Traumatic and Complicated Loss: Facilitating Recovery and Resilience
• Others
  Internal Family Systems Therapy
• Others
  Coparenting Theory and Intervention (led by Professor Doctor Mark Feinberg, Pennsylvania State University
• Others
  Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Program (MBCT)
• Others
  Introduction to portable psychophysiological recording in a laboratory context
• Others
  Clinical supervision in Family and Couple Therapy with Prof. Dr. Daniel Sampaio
• Others
  Training in active techniques for family and couple therapists
• Others
  Families and suicidal and self-injurious behavior in adolescence
• Others
  Cycle of Webinars "What about children?", ProChild CoLAB, 2021.
• Others
  Building stories that are not very unique: Introduction to Family Intervention in contexts of promotion and protection
• Others
  Use of metaphors in couples interventions
• Others
  Affirmative and Systemic Intervention with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth and their Families
• Others
  Workshop Novas Práticas Clínicas nas condições de protecção do Covid-19
• Others
  Workshop Designing and Conducting a Meta-analysis
• Others
  Systematic Literature Review with EndNote
• Others
  From saturated stories to narrative diversity. Introduction to narrative therapy with couples
• Others
  Autism & neurodiversity: from diagnostic to intervention and transition to adulthood
• Others
  Enhancing the impact of our research on policy: personal and institutional strategies

Publicações

Preprint

• 2024-05-01, Dropout in higher education: sociodemographic, economic, and psychosocial factors in the post-pandemic era.

Journal article

• 2026-07-09, How coparenting makes a difference in maternal depressive symptoms in pediatric epilepsy: The roles of relationship burden and socioeconomic status., Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice
• 2026-04-24, The role of social support in the link between well-being and dropout intention in higher education students: a moderated mediation approach, European Journal of Psychology of Education
• 2026, Challenges and Growth Among Emerging Adult Siblings of Individuals with Autism: A Qualitative Study (under review)
• 2025-12-05, Students at Risk: sociodemographic variables and university dropout, Educação & Realidade
• 2025-08, Informing future Seasonal Influenza and Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign based on past experience: A mixed-method approach with eligible populations and healthcare professionals. , Frontiers in Public Health.
• 2025-07-08, Predictors of higher education dropout intention in the post-pandemic era: The mediating role of academic exhaustion. , PLoS One
• 2024-12, Pediatric epilepsy representations among children/adolescents and parents: The role of age, gender, and clinical variables, Epilepsy & Behaviour
• 2019-06-11, Social comparison in parents of children with chronic conditions: Results from the Portuguese version of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure, Psychology, Community & Health
• 2018, Family rituals in pediatric epilepsy: Links to parental competence and adaptation., Journal of Family Psychology
• 2017, The psychological costs of comparisons: Parents' social comparison moderates the links between family management of epilepsy and children's outcomes, Epilepsy & Behavior
• 2017, Family cohesion, stigma, and quality of life in dyads of children with epilepsy and their parents, Journal of Pediatric Psychology
• 2016, WHY ARE FAMILY RITUALS IMPORTANT FOR THE ADAPTATION OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH EPILEPSY?, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
• 2016, Family cohesion and adaptation in pediatric chronic conditions: The missing link of the family’s condition management, Journal of Child and Family Studies
• 2015, FAMILY AND ADAPTATION OUTCOMES OF CHILDREN WITH EPILEPSY: THE ROLE OF SEIZURE CONTROL AND CONDITION SEVERITY, Epilepsia
• 2015, Abstracts: Family and adaptation outcomes of children with epilepsy: The role of seizure control and condition severity. , Abstracts: Epilepsia, online Supplement, Special Issue: 31st International Epilepsy Conference
• 2014, Individual and family adaptation in pediatric epilepsy: Empirical and conceptual review, Psicologia, Saúde & Doenças
• 2011, Mães adolescentes: Adaptação aos múltiplos papéis e a importância da vinculação., Psicologia: Reflexão e crítica

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2018-06-29, PhD, The family in the context of pediatric epilepsy: Results and adaptation processes of children with epilepsy and their parents

Book chapter

• 2026, Formação de Profissionais de intervenção com grupos e comunidades (in press), Intervenção da psicologia clínica e saúde com grupos e comunidades
• 2007, Vinculação na Adolescência, Relações de Vinculação ao longo do desenvolvimento: Teoria e Avaliação, Psiquilíbrios Edições

Report

• 2024-06-25, Study on the perception of effectiveness of the Communication Campaign for the promotion of the Autumn-Winter seasonal vaccination (Estudo sobre a perceção de eficácia da Campanha de Comunicação para a promoção da vacinação sazonal Outono-Inverno) | 2023-2024, Direção de Serviços de Prevenção da Doença e Promoção da Saúde (DSPDPS) Divisão de Literacia, Saúde e Bem-Estar , https://www.dgs.pt/em-destaque/campanha-de-vacinacao-sazonal-outono-inverno-2024-2025-com-inicio-previsto-para-a-segunda-quinzena-de-setembro-pdf.aspx

Conference paper

• O abandono no ensino superior português na era pós-pandemia: fatores sociodemográficos, económicos e psicossociais, XIII Congresso Ibero-americano de Psicologia e
  6º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses
  
  
• 2025-04, When being at university (also) means leaving home: Can family support make a difference to dropout intentions?. , International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2025 (InPACT 2025)
• 2025-04, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC, ACADEMIC, ECONOMIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES, International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2025 (InPACT 2025)

Conference abstract

• 2025-08-27, Enhancing autism literacy and community engagement for inclusive living in a Portuguese council: a research project on a pilot intervention, EFTA-RELATES 2025 Conference. 27-30 august Lyon France, Confluences and controversies in systemic practice, theory and research.
• 2024-10-15, Predictors of Student Dropout in the Post-Pandemic Era: Do They Differ Among Diverse Student Groups?, 12th international Congress on educational Sciences and Development,
• 2023-11-17, Financial stress and psychological adaptation: A comparative study with families with a child with autism, VI Congreso internacional de psicologia clínica, online.
• 2023-11-17, Families with a son with autism spectrum disorder: the importance of supportive coparenting”, XVI congreso internacional de psicologia clínica, online
• 2022-09, Family rituals, parenting mutuality and quality of life in pediatric epilepsy, 14º Congresso Nacional em Psicologia da Saúde
• 2022-01, Representations about pediatric epilepsy: Differences between parents and children and association with demographic and clinical variables., 6th International Conference on Childhood and Adolescence Abstract book.
• 2022, Adherence to treatment in adolescents with epilepsy: Barriers and facilitators that make a difference., 6th International Conference on Childhood and Adolescence
• 2021-10, Parents working as a team when a child has a chronic condition: how does it make a difference?, Conference Proceedings at the EPPC 2020, European Pediatric Psychology Conference 2021
• 2018, The "unwished" guest": Families' experience of pediatric cancer, 12º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde
• 2018, Resultados da versão portuguesa da Family Management Measure com famílias com condições crónicas pediátricas , 12º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde
• 2016, Family difficulties and depressive symptoms in parents of children with epilepsy: the mediating role of parent´s social comparison orientation, 11º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde
• 2015, Stigma in pediatric epilepsy: is it a family matter? , 27º Congresso Nacional de Epileptologia
• 2015, Family and adaptation outcomes of children with epilepsy: The role of seizure control and condition severity. , 31st International Epilepsy Conference
• 2014, Family cohesion and adaptation outcomes of children with chronic health conditions and their parents: The missing link of family’s condition management, The 2014 Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference (SPPAC)
• 2008, Avaliação da adaptação à maternidade em mães adolescentes: As interfaces identidade -vinculação., Conferência de Avaliação Psicológica: Formas e Contextos

Conference poster

• 2025-08-29, Growing up with an autistic sibling: a qualitative study , EFTA-RELATES 2025 Conference. 27-30 august Lyon France, Confluences and controversies in systemic practice, theory and research.
• 2025-08-25, Evaluating Perceptions and Predictors of Seasonal Flu and COVID-19 Vaccination : A Mixed-Methods Study . European Health Psychology Society - EHPS 2025 conference, European Health Psychology Society - EHPS 2025 conference
• 2025, The relationship between emotional well-being and academic adaptation difficulties in university students: The role of academic self-efficacy and perceived course value , 55th EABCT Congress 2025, Glasgow, Scotland
• 2024-09-25, Validação portuguesa da Social Connectedness Scale numa amostra de estudantes do ensino superior, 6º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses/ XIII Congresso IberoAmericano de Psicologia, Lisboa, Portugal.
• 2018-09, Family rituals when a child has a chronic condition: Beneficts for family and individual adaptation., European Pediatric Psychology Conference 2018
• 2018, Resultados da versão Portuguesa da Family Management Measure com famílias com condições crónicas pediátricas. , 12º Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde
• 2015, Family and adaptation outcomes of children with epilepsy: The role of seizure control and condition severity., 31st International Epilepsy Conference
• 2014, Family cohesion and adaptation outcomes of children with chronic health conditions and their parents: The missing link of family’s condition management, The 2014 Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference (SPPAC)
• 2008, Avaliação da adaptação à maternidade em mães adolescentes: o sistema de codificação da Entrevista de adaptação à maternidade em mães adolescentes, XIII Conferência Internacional de Avaliação Psicológica
• 2008, Adolescent mothers` adjustment to motherhood: Links between identity and attachment, 116th A.P.A. Convention
• 2007, Adjustment to motherhood in adolescent mothers: Links between identity and attachment., International Attachment Conference: Changing troubled attachment relations: Views from research and clinical work

Other output

• 2023-02, Videocast - Mental health and well being in young people (with Tania Gaspar), SPIC - Serviço de Psicologia, Inovação e conhecimento, Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa
• 2022-04, Mental health in higher education: Speaking without taboos. Fórum de discussão dirigido a estudantes do ensino superior promovido pela ADEPES - Associação de estudantes Pombalenses no ensino superior, Teatro Cine de Pombal
• 2010, Vamos falar sobre...com educar na sexualidade. Conversa com Pais a convite do Jardim de Infância de Vila Cã
• 2009, O meu aluno é disléxico? O que posso fazer. Ação de sensibilização dirigida a professores do 1º ciclo.
• 2009, Crianças reguilas e desatentas: A partir de quando nos devemos de preocupar?. Ação de sensibilização dirigida a pofessores do 1º ciclo
• 2009, Alunos reguilas e desatentos: Como entender e ajudar?. Conversa com pais.
• 2007, Pais e filhos nos caminhos da escola: Desafios e problemas. Conversa com Pais a convite da Associação de Pais da E.B.1 das Meirinhas
• 2007, Etapas do ciclo de vida: caraterísticas e sinais de alerta.
• 2007, Ajudar as crianças a crescer: Facetas na colaboração entre pais e técnicos. Conversa com pais a convite da APEPI, Associação de Pais e Educaodres de Infância de Pombal
• 2007, A criança dos três aos seis anos: carateristicas e sinais de alerta. Conversa com pais a convite das educadoras do Jardim de Infância de Bidoeira de Cima.
• 2006, Os desafios de educar uma criança em idade pré-escolar. Conversa com pais a convite da direção do Jardim Infantil de Ourém
• 2006, Criação dos conteúdos para o site www.caminhos.pt, Produto