I completed my PhD in Social Work at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, School of Sociology and Public Policy, having obtained the final classification "approved with distinction" at the public defence of the thesis (june2023). I completed a Master's degree in Social Work in 2013/09/18 at the Portuguese Catholic University, with an honourable mention; a Master's degree in Family and Systems Therapy in 2011/12/13 at the University of Seville; a postgraduate degree in Family and Community Therapy (2007-2009) at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, in partnership with the Portuguese Association of Family and Community Therapy; and a degree in Social Work in 2006/01/26 at the Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon. For more than 14 years I worked full time in Child and Youth Protection Commissions (CPCJ), starting with Barreiro as a professional trainee, then Seixal, from October 2006 to 31 December 2010. On the latter date, I joined the staff of the Institute of Social Security, IP - Setúbal District Centre for Social Security, as a Senior Technician, through a public tender, and was assigned to the Montijo CPCJ (since Jan/2011), where I first worked as a Technical Advisor, then as the Social Security Representative on the CPCJ, from 31/12/2013 (with an interruption during my leave on 27/11/2017),as Technical Advisor, then as Social Security Representative on the CPCJ, from 08/04/2013, and cumulatively as Secretary of the Commission, from 31/12/2013 to 27/11/2017 (with an interruption during parental leave) and as President of the CPCJ, from 28/11/2017 to 26/03/2020.As of 01/04/2020, I started leave from ISS, IP, through the award of an FCT research grant, to complete my PhD.From 01/03/2023, I rejoined the Setúbal District Social Security Centre, working in the Multidisciplinary Team for Technical Advice to the Court (Promotion and Protection).

The most frequent terms used to contextualise the activity/initiative/scientific production are: CPCJ; Child Protection; Portuguese Promotion and Protection System; Well-being; Quality Indicators in CPCJs.