09/02/2023.- The professor of the University of Jaén (UJA), Luis Joaquín García, and the technical team of the Asturian Association for the Attention and Care of Children (Asaci), formed by Ana María Sainero, María Martínez and Noemí Lamas, met telematically to evaluate the joint work between the PROEM Network, the UJA and Asaci Asturias.
During the meeting, Luis Joaquín presented the results of the PROCARE and DAREMOS projects, two initiatives that have provided free emotional support to adolescents with emotional problems during the pandemic and post-pandemic stage in the Principality of Asturias and different parts of the country.
The UJA professor valued the impact of DAREMOS, a pioneering worldwide interdisciplinary initiative (Psychology, Epigenetics, Corpus Linguistics and Big Data) focused on the early identification of adolescents at high risk of developing emotional problems. Likewise, he indicated the follow-up of PROCARE, the first selective prevention program aimed at young people between 12 and 18 years of age at risk of suffering emotional problems at a stage conditioned by psychosocial difficulties after COVID-19. “The results of the intervention and the booster session carried out indicate the reduction of emotional problems, improvement in subjective quality of life and greater regulation of emotions among the young participants, and among their families even 12 months after the intervention,” said Luis Joaquín García.
The DAREMOS initiative is a national project involving researchers from different departments of the UJA and the Institute of Biomedical Research of Malaga (IBIMA), in collaboration with Yotta Code, spin off of the UJA.
The PROCARE initiative is a national project involving professionals from the Psychology Department of the UJA, the Rovira i Virgili University, the Miguel Hernández University and the University of Miami (USA).
Both projects have counted with the collaboration of an External Advisory Council made up of institutions such as the Youth Institute, attached to the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, the Spanish Association of Mutual Help against Social Phobia and Anxiety Disorders (AMTAES), the Confederación de Organizaciones de Psicopedagogía y Orientación de España (COPOE), the Youth group of the Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Trans, Bisexuales, Intersexuales y más (FELGTBI+) and the Consejo de la Juventud de España (CJE).
ASACI, for its part, is a non-profit organization that works in the Principality of Asturias with the aim of promoting the health and emotional well-being of children and adolescents. Since 2018 it has been part of the Interdisciplinary Research Network for Psychological Assessment and PROmotion of Mental Health and EMotional Wellbeing in Young People (PROEM) as a collaborating entity.
