Meeting between Luis Joaquín García, Professor of Psychology at the University of Jaén, and David Artime, General Director of Educational Planning, Evaluation and Equity of the Department of Education of the Principality of Asturias.
14/12/2022.- Luis Joaquín García, main responsible for the DAREMOS initiative and the PROEM Network and professor at the University of Jaén (UJA), has presented the results of this initiative to promote health and emotional wellbeing in young people, in a telematic meeting held with David Artime, General Director of Educational Planning, Evaluation and Equity of the Regional Ministry of Education of the Principality of Asturias.
In his presentation, Luis Joaquín García went in depth into the free help provided to almost 500 schoolchildren at risk of suffering emotional problems and their families. In this way, through the implementation of DAREMOS, a significant contribution has been made to the promotion of the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young people between 12 and 18 years of age throughout the country.
Luis Joaquín García highlighted that DAREMOS “is composed of an interdisciplinary team (Psychology, Corpus Linguistics, Big Data and Epigenetics) to advance in the early detection of adolescents at risk of developing emotional difficulties”. In turn, he elaborated on the findings of DAREMOS, which have contributed to “providing education, health and youth work professionals with tools to identify emotionally healthy adolescents, at-risk and high-risk youth”.
For his part, David Artime expressed “the commitment of the Regional Ministry of Education of the Principality of Asturias to study and explore ways of collaborating with the PROEM Network to work together to promote health and emotional wellbeing in young people”. In this regard, he stressed “the commitment of the Regional Ministry of Education to health literacy and emotional well-being of young Asturians, and the provision of resources for the early detection and intervention of emotional problems in adolescents to educational staff and the school community”.
The DAREMOS initiative is a nationwide project with the participation of researchers from the UJA and the Institute of Biomedical Research of Malaga (IBIMA), in collaboration with Yotta Code, spin off of the UJA.
The Youth Institute (INJUVE) of the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, the Spanish Association of Mutual Help against Social Phobia and Anxiety Disorders (AMTAES), the Confederation of Organizations of Psychopedagogy and Guidance of Spain (COPOE), the Youth group of the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans, Intersex and more (FELGTBI+) and the Youth Council of Spain (CJE) make up the External Advisory Board of this project.
The DAREMOS project (1260378) has been co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Consejería de Economía y Conocimiento of the Junta de Andalucía.
