Ana Teixeira de Melo

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Ana Teixeira de Melo is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She was awarded a PhD in Clinical Psychology, by the University of Coimbra, and the title of Specialist in Clinical Psychology, with Advanced Specialty in Community Psychology, by the Portuguese Order of Psychologists. Her main research focus is on processes of human flourishing and well-being, positive change and development and resilience, in Families and Communities. Her research especially targets contexts of multiple risks and challenges, including those emerging from cumulative social disadvantages as well as contexts of child protection and promotion. She adopts a Systems and Complexity-Informed approach to the study of Family Processes. She has made key contributions to theory and methodological developments and conducts action-based and applied research studies, in a close relationship with 'real-world' contexts. Her research studies target the development, implementation and evaluation of models, resources and tools for family assessment and intervention. She is interested in the field of Complexity studies from a theoretical, methodological and applied point of view, in particular in relation to the investigation of processes of change in complex systems. She conducts research focused on the development and evaluation of theoretical models, resources and strategies for the practice of 'Complex Thinking' applied to the understanding and management of change in the 'real-world', namely social human systems, in the coupling with their environments. Additionally, her work encompasses themes related to Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Methods and Inter/Transdisciplinary processes, namely in relation to abductive modes of knowing, and other themes of the Philosophy of Sciences (e.g. Epistemologies). She is an Associate, since 2016, of York Cross-Disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis, where she was a visiting academic (2016-2018). Other websites: https://ces.uc.pt/en/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/ana-teixeira-de-melo https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Teixeira_De_Melo

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