A doctoral thesis evaluates the effectiveness of the Compas program in Colombian adolescents.
The doctoral thesis conducted by Mayra Gómez-Lugo, under the direction of Sandra Morales and Jose Pedro Espada, has identified that adolescents in Colombia are at high risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unplanned pregnancies due to...
Mireia Orgilés gives a lecture at the Child and Adolescent Psychology Seminar
Professor Mireia Orgilés participated as a guest speaker at the Conference "Contributions of Child and Adolescent Psychology to Society", organized at the University of Deusto (Bilbao) by the Official College of Psychology and the Spanish Society of Child and...
Award for the best scientific communication at the II International Meeting on Prevention, Intervention and Postvention of Suicidal Behavior.
Raquel Falcó, predoctoral researcher in the AITANA Group, has received the award for the best scientific communication for her work entitled "Psychosocial Strengths for Adolescent Suicide Prevention: Universal, selective or indicated? Dissecting the Covitality Model"....
Parental stress mediates children’s psychological symptoms
AITANA researchers examined during the COVID-19 pandemic how parental stressors affected their children's emotional symptomatology. Specifically, they examined how parental stress mediated when parents applied emotional regulation strategies and how this related to...
How to help children understand nderstanding and accepting death
A topic of concern for many parents is how to talk about death with their children. Sometimes we don't know how best to answer their questions or how it will affect them. Although death is inherent to human nature from the moment of birth, it is a difficult concept to...
A new measure for the assessment of OCD spectrum symptoms
AITANA researchers have published a new study in which they provide a new measure, the expanded OCRD-D (OCRD-D-E), which allows to assess the main symptoms of the entire OCD spectrum at once. This work has been carried out thanks to funding from the Grants for...
New study on children’s nighttime fears.
Childhood nighttime fears are characterized by awakenings in the middle of the night, not wanting to sleep alone, extending the time to go to bed, startling and waking up suddenly, among others. In addition, they are very frequent in childhood and can become a serious...
Victoria Soto wins one of the first Santander-UMH Young Researchers Awards
Professor Victoria Soto Sanz has received one of the first Santander-UMH Young Researchers 2022 awards in the category of Health Sciences (PhD modality). These awards are called in recognition of the research work for scientific publications by young researchers of...
8th International Congress of Clinical Psychology with Children and Adolescents
The eighth edition of the International Congress of Clinical Psychology with Children and Adolescents brought together nearly five hundred specialists from more than twenty countries at the Elche Congress Center. In this year's edition, more than three hundred papers...
The Journal of Clinical Psychology with Children and Adolescents of the UMH publishes an issue on child and adolescent psychological treatments.
`Estado de los tratamientos psicológicos infanto-juveniles' is the title of the special issue published by the Revista de Psicología Clínica con Niños y Adolescentes, edited by the AITANA research group of the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche. This monograph...
New scale for rapid assessment of depressive symptoms in children
AITANA researchers have developed a brief questionnaire to assess mood in children. The Brief Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ) is one of the few well-established measures for assessing childhood depression. The paper, published in Psicothema, evaluates the...
Annete La Greca: AITANA Award 2022
The Miguel Hernández University (UMH) has awarded the Aitana 2022 Award to Dr. Annette La Greca, a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami, in the United States. The Aitana 2022 Award is in recognition of her career in the field of child and...