Teresa Freire is assistant professor in the School of Psychology in the University of Minho (Portugal); PhD in 2000 in Psychology (Social Psychology) in the University of Minho. She graduated in Psychology in 1987, in the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education in the University of Porto, Portugal. From 1987 to 1993 she was a teacher in the psychology course, in the University of Porto, where she did her Master Degree in Psychology (Social Psychology). Since 1993 she integrates the Department of Psychology, in the University of Minho in Braga. Presently her main researches and intervention interests are related to socio-cognitive processes and the quality of subjective experience in daily life, studying in particular optimal leisure experience and positive development of adolescents. These issues have been investigated using on-line and retrospective measures, being the study of these methodological procedures other main research goals. She is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Social Cognition and coordinator of the Research Group for the Study of Optimal Functioning (Grupo de Investigacao para o Funcionamento optimo - GIFOp) - her research group team in the School of Psychology. She coordinates several research projects, such as Master and PhD projects (funded and not funded), and belongs to European research teams in the positive psychology domain. She belongs to the European Network for Positive Psychology (ENPP), being member of the Management Board Committee and country representative for Portugal (http://www.enpp.org/), and to the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology, being founding member. For practice and intervention, she develops community services being the coordinator of the Counseling Service for Children and Adolescents of the Psychological Counseling Service and Human Development of the University of Minho, working on with individual intervention as well as group intervention. Several psychological intervention group programs have been developed, with children and adolescents, in school contexts. She also coordinates the Peer Tutoring and Coaching Project for students implemented in the University of Minho, being the author of the project and responsible for its implementation and evaluation. Within this project she coordinates master's research projects.
