COORDINATOR
Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Almeria. She teaches at the University of Almeria since the academic year 2011, highlighting the teaching in the Master’s Degree in Intervention in School Coexistence. Director of the Research Group SEJ-473, since 2018. She has published more than 100 articles in indexed scientific journals, several monographs and book chapters, as well as participates in the edition of conference proceedings, mostly of international character. She is a member of different organizing and scientific committees in national and international congresses. Editor of the European Journal of Health Research, and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, Frontiers in Psychology (section Personality and Social Psychology), among others. She has supervised 15 doctoral theses and more than 60 TFMs.
Likewise, he has published teaching material and has participated in different innovation projects. Member of the research team in different projects on peer violence, substance abuse, emotional intelligence, personal competences… in adolescents, from which different resources and validated instruments for assessment and intervention have been derived.
She participates as a researcher in the R+D+i project granted in the 2021 call, “Psychosocial well-being in secondary education: Intervention program based on personal competences of students and teachers”, and in the Transfiere 2021 Project: “Analysis of emotional skills and development of a program for the emotional training of young people in Almeria: Let’s take care of Mental Health EMOTRAIN”. She is also PI of the Excellence Project “IE-MOTION: Digital resource for teachers in the design of personalized interventions aimed at preventing violence and promoting the well-being of secondary school students”.
Emotional competencies play an essential role in preventing violence and promoting psychosocial well-being during adolescence, especially in the educational context. This symposium highlights the importance of integrating these personal competencies into the school curriculum as a key tool to face the challenges that adolescents face today. In this framework, recognising the educational context as a privileged space for socialisation and learning, innovative strategies focused on the development of emotional competencies will be presented in order to effectively address the specific problems that arise in the classroom.
This proposal responds to the need to implement educational actions that promote adolescent well-being, as well as the prevention of risks associated with peer violence. In this line of action, the school environment is positioned as an ideal setting to promote positive changes, highlighting the role of teachers as agents of change. In addition, the symposium will provide a space to reflect on the importance of designing interventions adapted to the needs of students, ensuring a significant impact on their well-being and mental health.
This work has been developed thanks to the project IE-MOTION: Recurso digital para docentes en el diseño de intervenciones personalizadas orientadas a la prevención de la violencia y la promoción del bienestar del alumnado de Secundaria (Ref.: PROYEXCEL_00607), funded by the Grants for Excellence Projects, on a competitive basis, aimed at entities qualified as agents of the Sistema Andaluz del conocimiento, within the scope of the Plan Andaluz de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PAIDI 2020).