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...
Monograph on Advances in neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adolescents.
The Journal of Clinical Psychology with Children and Adolescents (RPCNA) has just published a special issue on Advances in neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adolescents. The Guest Editor of this monograph is Iban Onandia-Hinchado, researcher at the...
La Revista de Psicología Clínica con Niños y Adolescentes contará con índice de impacto (JIF) en 2023
The Journal of Clinical Psychology with Children and Adolescents will have a Journal Impact Factor (JIF) in 2023. This announcement was made by Web of Science: "Starting with the publication of the 2023 JCR, journal impact factors will be extended to all journals in...
Mireia Orgilés and José Pedro Espada receive the first prize for the best training, transformation, information or awareness-raising action in the field of health” developed in the university environment.
Mireia Orgilés and José Pedro Espada, Professors at the Miguel Hernández University and founders of the spin off PSICOLOGICA, have been awarded with the First Prize "Best training, transformation, information or awareness action around health" developed from the...