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Andreea Ionescu, Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Sociology and Psychology, West University of Timisoara. Since 2002 she taught and published in the fields of Developmental Psychology, Communication skills, and Applied Social Psychology. Psychotherapist certified by the European Association for Transactional Psychology. Experienced in Transactional Analysis applied in clinical, organizational and educational psychology/ psychological diagnosis and intervention. She has participated in the design and carrying out of the international FP7 research project Low Carbon at Work (LOCAW) led by University of Coruna (Spain). Her teaching/and facilitating expertise includes psychodiagnosis, health psychology and education for health, soft skills, and personal development workshops. She has extensive experience in teambuilding facilitation.

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Liliana Santos Dias Lobato holds a degree in Clinical Psicology since 2000. 

Since 2002, Liliana Lobato works as Clinical Psychologist at Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health of HCCB, where her main activities and responsibilities are:

- Consultation of Psychology in outpatient;

- Consultation of Psychology in hospital;

- Consultation to smoking cessation in Health Center - Covilhã;

- Consultation of youth and adolescents in the Health Center - Covilhã;

- Training (clinical sessions);

- Group Therapy;

- Training of social skills;

- Relax sessions;

- Psychoeducation;

- Supervisor of students internships from 2nd year of Master's degree in Clinical and Health Psychology at University of Beira Interior (UBI);

- Legal Skills (intelligence, personality, etc.)

Liliana Lobato also attended several training courses including:

- Psychological Intervention on Anxiety and Depression in Adult - 24 hours (ISPA)

- Basic Life Support - 4 hours (HCCB)

- Behavioral Therapies - 12 hours (ISPA)

- Clinical Neuropsychology - 80 hours (ISPA)

- Health and Safety at Work - 30 hours (CBHC)

- Initial Teacher Training - 99 hours (Cilan) - (CAP EDF No. 24883/2004)

- Stroke Prevention and Treatment in Addiction, 24 hours (HCCB)

- Recruiting and Selecting, 24 hours (ISPA)

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Estela Alexandra Neves Landeiro  holds a degree in Clinical Psychology and Counseling by Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias since 2000.
From April of 2003 to November of 2005, Estela worked as Military Psychologist at Portuguese Army.
Since December of 2005 works as Clinical Psychology at Psychological Service of HCCB, where her main activities and responsibilities are the assessment, support and psychotherapeutic intervention to inpatient and outpatient consultation in the following areas:
- Permanent Support to Infectious Diseases Service, Internal Medicine, Palliative Medicine and Alcoholism Treatment Unit at Hospital of Fundão.
- Outpatient: Clinic Psychology / Psychotherapy consultation in different psychopathologies, Alcohology consultation, Psychology / Palliative Medicine consultation and Support Grief consultation at Hospital of Fundão. Outpatient Psychology / Gastroenterology consultation since April 15th of 2011 and outpatient Oncology Psychology consultation at Day Hospital of Pêro da Covilhã Hospital since the February 21st of 2013;
- Supervisor of students Curriculum Stages in Clinical Psychology from Department of Psychology and Education in University of Beira Interior (UBI), since 2006;
- Supervisor for Internship for Health Psychology Course (2006) by University of Porto Lusiada.
- Supervisor for Internship for Postgraduate Palliative Care Course (2011), by School of Health of Viana do Castelo.
- Researcher in health and disease psychology
- Trainer in different areas of intervention in HCCB.
- Trainer in Psychology courses in different institutions.
- Participation and presentation of papers and posters at several conferences and trainings.
- Participation in trainings and events organized by the Volunteer Department of Hospital Center of Cova da Beira.
- Responsible for the Operating Procedure about Psychotherapeutic Assessment Batteries and Intervention in the Department of Psychology of Hospital of Fundão.
- Responsible for the Internal Procedure in the Department of Clinical Psychology of Hospital of Fundão.
- Responsible for the Performance and Creation of Databases Protocol of the Psychology Department of Hospital of Fundão.

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BSAFE LAB project/project proposal:  Mental Illness and Prevention of Suicide in Portuguese Prisons (MIPS) | EEA Grants 2014

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Maria João Rosa Gregório Pessoa holds a degree in Nursing since 1991.

Since 2001, Mª João work as graduate nurse at Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health of HCCB, where is responsible for external consultation and domiciliary service.

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BSAFE LAB project/project proposal:  Mental Illness and Prevention of Suicide in Portuguese Prisons (MIPS) | EEA Grants 2014

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Vitor Manuel Sainhas de Oliveira holds a degree in Medicine, since 1981. In 1990, Vitor post-graduated in Psychiatry. Since 1997, Vitor is a medical consultant. For May of 2011 to February of 2014, he was the Director of the Psychiatry and Mental Health Service in HCCB. Since March of 2014, Vitor is the Director of Psychiatry and Mental Health Department in HCCB.

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BSAFE LAB project/project proposal:  Mental Illness and Prevention of Suicide in Portuguese Prisons (MIPS) | EEA Grants 2014

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Medical doctor, specialized in abdominal surgery. Working in Romanian Prison Service since 1999. From 2004 director of Dej Prison Hospital. Main working area is managing health care services destined to inmate population. Interested in health care standards, alcohol and drugs, treatment of psychiatric ill inmates. Expertise in medical facilities management.

He is a Board Member of Salford University Centre for Prison Studies (UK) and member of numerous professional organizations such as American Telemedicine Association, American Correctional Association, International Association for Correctional Forensic Psychology and the International Corrections and Prisons Association.

He initiated and coordinated the development of telemedicine project in Romanian Prison Service and  e-learning project for prison staff.

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• Managing health care services destined to inmate population;
• e-health;
• Interested in health care standards, alcohol and drugs, treatment of psychiatric ill inmates,e-learning;
• Expertise in medical facilities management, e-learning for prison staff.

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Born in 12/12/1946. Carlos Leitão is the head of service at the psichyatry department. He was a director of the psychiatry department at the CBCH til January 2014. He is an invited professor at the health sciences faculty of Universidade da Beira Interior. He is a tutor and class coordinator of psychiatry to 5º and 6º year medical students.

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BSAFE LAB project/project proposal:  Mental Illness and Prevention of Suicide in Portuguese Prisons (MIPS) | EEA Grants 2014

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Frank Porporino has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a career in corrections spanning more than 40 years as a front-line practitioner, senior manager, researcher, educator, trainer, and consultant. His public service began in 1974 as a psychologist in Canada’s oldest maximum-security prison, Kingston Penitentiary. Over the next 22 years he remained with the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), ending the public sector phase of his career as Director of Strategic Planning and Director General of Research and Development. From 1987 to 1994, he developed and managed a national program of research for the Correctional Service of Canada responsible for a budget of close to 1.5 million and supervising about 20 professional staff. Beginning in 1988, he was instrumental in introducing a correctional programming strategy throughout the federal correctional system in Canada, emphasizing an evidence-based framework for correctional practice that was subsequently emulated internationally.

Frank co-founded T3 Associates Training and Consulting Inc. in 1993 in order to provide research-based training and technical assistance in effective practice to correctional jurisdictions and social service agencies internationally. He has worked for numerous agencies throughout Canada and the United States, at the state and federal level, and for county-level probation and parole agencies, school districts, forensic psychiatric hospitals, employment agencies, and numerous community-based criminal justice agencies. Internationally, he has worked in more than 20 countries, including in the UK, Europe and the Scandinavian countries, Australia and New Zealand, and most recently in extensive engagements with the Singapore Ministry of Youth and Family Services, the Namibian Correctional Service in Africa and the Barbados Prison Service in the Caribbean. Frank was adjunct professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa from 1987-1994. He was on the elected Delegate Assembly of the American Correctional Association and served as a member of the ACA Program Council, Exemplary Practices Council, Professional Education Council, Correctional Employees Committee, Policy and Resolutions Committee, and the International Relations Committee. He served three terms as chairperson of the ACA Research Council and is past president of the American Association of Correctional Psychology. Frank also served four terms on the International Correctional Services Accreditation Panel established by the Home Office of England and Wales. He is on the Executive Board of the International Corrections & Prisons Association and co-chair of the Annual Conference Program Committee. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the Polytechnic of Namibia. Frank has been on the Editorial Boards of the Prison Journal and the Journal of Substance Use and Misuse and he was the founding editor of “Forum on Corrections Research”, a Canadian quarterly journal dedicated to promoting an effective, accountable and knowledge-based corrections.

In 1998 Frank was awarded the American Correctional Association Lejins Research Award, in 2003 the International Community Corrections Presidents Award, and in 2011 the Volunteers of America Maude Booth Award for his career contributions to research and program development in the field of corrections. He has authored numerous monographs, book chapters and journal articles on the assessment and treatment of offenders, has developed a dozen well respected cognitive-behavioral and motivational programs for both juvenile and adult offenders, and has also co-authored the book Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates (with E. Zamble, Springer-Verlag, 1988).

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Graça Esgalhado has a PhD in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Health Psychology. She graduated in Educational Psychology. Since 2007 to present she has been assistant professor at the Department of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Covilhã – Portugal. From 2009 to December 2013 was coordinator of the Department of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Covilhã – Portugal.

Personal page: https://www.ubi.pt/Pagina_Pessoal.aspx?id=mgpe

BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: 

• BSafeR - European Research Network on Law Enforcement and Public Safety | COST 2014
• RISKIMAB - Evaluation of possible medical-social-behavioral risk factors, generating changes in the brain imaging | Horizon 2020
• IDECOM Innovation, Development and Communication for a better education in Prison System | Erasmus+
• ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Administration Work | Erasmus+
• Systemic family therapy supporting reintegration of inmates in Their family and in the society | Erasmus+
• PROTEJUST Professionalization of Teaching in Correctional Criminal Justice | Erasmus +
• PREDUC GBL - Prison Education Game Based Learning | Erasmus+
• Training is performance - Improving leadership skills of top management of Romanian Prison Service | Erasmus+
• Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations | EC VP/2014/004 2014
• PhW4All - Prison healthy workplace for all | EEA Grants
• CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games | Horizon 2020
• Mental Illness and Prevention of Suicide in Portuguese Prisons (MIPS) | EEA Grants 2014

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• Lucas, C., Pereira, H., & Esgalhado, G. (2013). Ciúme e Sexualidade: Uma compreensão científica. Ed. 1. Lisboa: Placebo.
• Esgalhado, G. e Simões, F. (2010). Cognitive psychology: attention and memory. Lisboa: Edições Placebo (ISBN:978-989-8463-08-1).
• Esgalhado, G., Simões, F. e Pereira. H. (2010). Versão portuguesa do Teste Stroop de Cores e Palavras: Aferição para a infância e adolescência. Lisboa: Edições Placebo (ISBN:978-989-8463-10-4).
• H. Pereira, L. Branco, F. Simões, G. Esgalhado, e M. Afonso (2010) (Eds). Educação para a saúde, cidadania e desenvolvimento sustentado. Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior (ISBN: 978-989-96996-0-1).
• Damasceno, C. & Esgalhado, G. (2012). Validação das palavras neutras e emocionais para o teste stroop Emocional para o screening de risco suicida: Resultados com amostras portuguesas. In J. L. Pais Ribeiro, I. Leal, A. Pereira & S. Monteiro (Org.). Psicologia da saúde: Desafios à promoção da saúde em doenças crónicas. 1ª Edição. Lisboa: Placebo, Editora LDA.
• Reis, M. e Esgalhado, G. (2010). Importance of Social Support on the Psychological Well-being of Older Adults living in Assisted-living residences. In H. Pereira, L. Branco, F. Simões, G. Esgalhado e R. M. Afonso (Eds), Educação para a saúde: Cidadania e desenvolvimento sustentado (pp. 786-800.) Covilhã: UBI.
• Pereira, H. & Esgalhado, G. (2012). "The formation of homosexual identity in Latin America", International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology 1, 4: 169 - 178.
• Esgalhado, G. & Pereira, H. (2012). "The effect of gender and education in the Stroop test", International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology 1, 2: 77 - 86.
• Prata, T & Esgalhado, G.. (2012). Study about emotions in a sample of portuguese elderly university students. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology, 1, 3: 317-328.
• Simões, F. Rodrigues, L.; Esgalhado, G. & Guimarães, C. (2009). Desenvolvimento do auto-conceito pela tutoria pedagógica por crianças do primeiro ciclo de sua autoria. Psicologia Escolar e Educacional, 12(2), 327-336.

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