Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at the University of Minho School of Psychology. Between 1987 and 1995, he was a Professor at the Porto Polytechnic School of Education. Since 1995, he has been a professor at the University of Minho. His main areas of interest, research and service to the community are: Learning Problems, Behavioural Problems, Teaching Problems, Classroom Organisation and Management, Teaching Reading and Writing, Indiscipline in the Classroom and Mistreatment in Childhood and Adolescence.