Maria Cristina Campos de Sousa Faria is a psychologist and and a professor of higher education (scientific area of Psychology). She is a Coordinating Professor of the Polytechnic Institute of Beja; Portugal (Department of Education and Social Sciences and Behavior of School of Education). Degree in Psychology (Clinical Psychology, 1986); Master of Science in Education (Psychology of Education, 1993) and Doctor of Psychology (Health Psychology, 2000), by the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra. She completed a Post Doctoral Degree in Psychology at the University of Algarve (2018). She is a Specialist in Educational Psychology (July 17, 2016) and Clinical and Health Psychology (July 25, 2016) certified by the Portuguese Psychologists Association. She has developed research, conducted scientific publications, projects, guided dissertations and coordinated master's degrees in Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Health, Psychogerontology, Social and Community Gerontology, Education, Community Development and Entrepreneurship. She is a teacher of Health Psychology at the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing at the Beja School of Health.