COORDINATOR
She is Professor Emeritus of Developmental and Educational Psychology and has been director of the official Master in Family, Social and Community Intervention and Mediation at the University of La Laguna and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias.
Member of the University Institute of Neuroscience of the University of La Laguna.
Author of numerous international and national publications including the manuals Family and Human Development, Family Preservation and the Practical Manual of Positive Parenting and book chapters in publishers of international prestige as Kluwer Academic Publishers, Masson, Psychology Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge and has participated in numerous national and international conferences.
She participates as a scientific reviewer in 10 international journals of impact and is PI of research projects of the National Plan, and Canarian Government.
She is an expert consultant for the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 on positive parenting issues and in collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces has disseminated this approach in Spain and the rest of Europe.
It has participated in the European COST project called EURFAMNET (led by Lucía Jiménez, University of Seville) as part of the coordination of Spain.
She has designed and implemented since 2000 numerous parental education programs for families at psychosocial risk that are used in several Spanish autonomous communities, in Portugal and Brazil.
She has been president of the European Association of Developmental Psychology.
She is Professor Emeritus of Developmental and Educational Psychology and has been director of the official Master in Family, Social and Community Intervention and Mediation at the University of La Laguna and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias.
Member of the University Institute of Neuroscience of the University of La Laguna.
Author of numerous international and national publications including the manuals Family and Human Development, Family Preservation and the Practical Manual of Positive Parenting and book chapters in publishers of international prestige as Kluwer Academic Publishers, Masson, Psychology Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge and has participated in numerous national and international conferences.
She participates as a scientific reviewer in 10 international journals of impact and is PI of research projects of the National Plan, and Canarian Government.
She is an expert consultant for the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 on positive parenting issues and in collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces has disseminated this approach in Spain and the rest of Europe.
It has participated in the European COST project called EURFAMNET (led by Lucía Jiménez, University of Seville) as part of the coordination of Spain.
She has designed and implemented since 2000 numerous parental education programs for families at psychosocial risk that are used in several Spanish autonomous communities, in Portugal and Brazil.
She has been president of the European Association of Developmental Psychology.