Mariana Negrão is an assistant professor at Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia at Universidade Católica do Porto. She has a degree in Psychology (Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto) and a PhD in Clinical Psychology (Escola de Psicologia da Universidade do Minho). She is an integrated researcher at the Research Centre for Human Development. Her clinical, research and training activity focuses Parenthood and child developmental risk and Out of Home Care for children and youth. Within these subjects she has several scientific presentations, papers, book chapters as well as master thesis supervision experience. She is also a psychologist with clinical activity with children and parent consultancy. Finaly, she is regularly involved in training and supervision activity also within the main topics of her expertise (Parenthood, Attachment, Quality in out of home care).