The Professor of Psychology at the University of Jaén (UJA) and main responsible of this project for the promotion of emotional wellbeing in young people attended the kick off meeting held at the headquarters of IBIMA.
1/02/2023.- Luis Joaquín García, Professor of Psychology at the University of Jaén (UJA), presented the initiative ‘PROmocionAnDo la salud y bienestar EMOcional de los adolescentes en el sector educativo, sanitario y la sociedad’ (PROADEMO) at the kick-off meeting of the Research Network on Chronicity, Primary Care and Health Promotion (RICAPPS), held last Friday, January 27.
Luis Joaquín García, who has joined RICAPPS through the research group in Mental Health, Services and Primary Care of Malaga (SAMSERAP), was invited to the kick off meeting by Juan Ángel Bellón, researcher in charge of this group integrated in the Institute of Biomedical Research of Malaga (IBIMA).
In this way, Luis Joaquín García explained the objectives of PROADEMO, a project financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the State Research Agency and the European Union through the “Next Generation EU” funds within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan that has recently started. “PROADEMO is based on the knowledge gained from the implementation of the PROCARE initiative in Spain. Through PROADEMO we will work on the transfer of the knowledge gained in PROCARE to the scientific community, the education and health sectors, youth professionals and society in general, both nationally and internationally,” explained Luis Joaquín García.
More specifically, the main objectives of PROADEMO (PDC2022-133401-I00/AEI/10. 13039/501100011033) are the design and development of a comprehensive digital training package for school staff, youth and health care workers to enhance their skills and knowledge in providing mental health services to adolescents at risk of developing emotional problems as a result of the pandemic; the development of a set of practical tools for health, education and youth professionals to provide high quality mental health services; and the development of an emotional support toolkit for young people, especially focused on adolescents and produced in collaboration with them, to provide them with information and strategies to promote resilience and protect their emotional health and well-being, as well as to increase emotional literacy.
Together with researchers from Malaga, Granada and Seville, Luis Joaquín García met other projects of the SAMSERAP group that are part of RICAPPS and during the working day they studied the implementation of different strategies for knowledge transfer and generation of synergies and ways of collaboration between the different projects.
RICAPPS, which is funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, aims to promote research in a national network oriented towards health outcomes in primary care, chronicity and health promotion. It has 26 research groups and 9 associated clinical care groups, located in 12 autonomous communities and the participation of specialists in primary care, prevention, public health, epidemiology, mathematics, statistics, economic evaluation, pharmacology, psychology, sociology, anthropology and other specialties.
