Ricardo João Teixeira, PhD, graduated in psychology with a pre-specialization in clinical and health psychology. He received his PhD in health psychology from the School of Psychology, University of Minho (Portugal). For his dissertation he was granted with a scholarship by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He is now finishing a Post-Doc in Psychology at the Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro (Portugal). He completed post-graduation studies in Health Psychology, Cognitive-Behavior Therapies (CBT's advanced course), and Palliative Care.

He received several national and international scientific awards, and is an award-winning member of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). As a clinician, researcher and lecturer, he cooperates with various higher education institutions (University of Aveiro, University of Minho, Institute of Research and Advanced Training in Health Sciences and Technologies - CESPU, and Polytechnic Institute of Porto). Dr. Teixeira coordinates the clinical psychology and psychotherapy department at Clínica da Ordem (Porto, Portugal), and also works with cancer patients at MamaHelp, a Breast Cancer Support Center (Porto, Portugal).

His special research interests are emotion regulation, mindfulness, third wave CBT's, alexithymia, posttraumatic growth, psycho-oncology, psychotherapy, psychosomatic medicine, and psychological prophylaxis (mental health prevention). He has published several scientific papers and book chapters on these topics.