Prof. Carla Moleiro

  • ISCTE-IUL

Professional Experience

2006 – now: Professor of Clinical Psychology, Lisbon University Institute, Psychology department and researcher at Cis-iul, Portugal

2003 – 2006: Professor of Clinical Psychology, Lusíada University, Portugal

2002 – 2003: Clinical Psychology Intern, VA San Diego Hospital and Department of Psychiatry at University of San Diego, California, USA

1999 – 2002: Teaching assistant at University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA

2000- 2002: Clinical Psychologist in diverse community clinics in Santa Barbara, California, USA

Expertise and Research Interests

  • Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Trans and gender diverse children and youth, and families
  • Psychotherapeutic interventions and research
  • Minority stress and mental health
  • Intersectionality, including LGBTQI+ migrants and refugees

Selected Publications

1.Alarcão, Violeta and Roberto, Sandra and França, Thais and Moleiro, Carla (2022). Standing Up for Culturally Competent Care in Portugal: The Experience of a “Health in Equality” Online Training Program on Individual and Cultural Diversity. Societies, 12(3), 80; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12030080

2. Carla Moleiro, Violeta Alarcão & Lia Raquel Neves (2022) Mapping transgender studies in Portugal: a systematic search and narrative review, Journal of Gender Studies, DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2022.2092083

3. Cañete, M., Reis, E., & Moleiro, C. (2022). The roles of culture, gender norms, and sexual orientation in intimate partner violence: Psychosocial variables associated with IPV in a Portuguese sample. Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cfp0000227

4. Carla Moleiro & Nuno Pinto (2020). Legal gender recognition in Portugal: a path to self-determination. International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law, 1, 218.

5. Moleiro, C. & Pinto, N. (2015). Sexual orientation and gender identity: review of concepts, controversies and their relation to psychopathology classification systems. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1511. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01511