Silvia Helena Koller is Professor and Chair of the Center for Psychological Studies on At Risk Children, Youth and Families, Psychology Department, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Her research focuses primarily on positive developmental and applied psychology, ecological development, children’s rights, resilience, and prosocial moral development. Her research team has been collaborating with North-American researchers, as well as European and South American. Her papers have been published in several international and Brazilian journals, including Child Development, Child Abuse & Neglect, International Journal of Children's Rights, Journal of Adolescence, and Journal of Mental Health Counseling. She is Editor-in-chief of the Interamerican Journal of Psychology.