Carolina Isabel Batista holds a Master's in Clinical and Health Psychology from Universidade Europeia, Portugal. Her research primarily focuses on trauma, coping mechanisms, and post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD and CPTSD) in adolescents. She has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed publications, including studies on polytraumatization in Indian adolescents and the impact of adverse childhood experiences on CPTSD symptoms in Faroese adolescents. Carolina is particularly interested in understanding the psychological effects of trauma and loss, having explored parental bereavement after the suicide of a child in her Master’s thesis. Her work has been published in prominent journals like BMC Psychology and the Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology.