The researcher of the University of Jaén (UJA) Manuel Vivas met with the psychologists of ASACI, Ana María Sainero and María Martínez, to include the recommendations of this entity that is part of the External Advisory Board of these two initiatives to promote the health and emotional well-being of young people.
20/02/2024.- The Asturian Association for the attention and care of children (ASACI) and the Network for the PROmotion of adolescent health and EMOtional well-being (PROEMO) met around the next phase of the elaboration of the materials of the project ‘PROmocionAnDo la salud y el bienestar EMOcional de los adolescentes en el sector educativo, sanitario y la sociedad’ (PROADEMO) and of PROEMO’s roadmap towards 2025.
The researcher of the University of Jaén (UJA), Manuel Vivas collected the contributions of ASACI in a telematic meeting together with two of the psychologists of this entity, Ana María Sainero and María Martínez, which aimed to include their contributions as a member of the External Advisory Council of these two projects led by the UJA.
Regarding the design and development of the digital training package and the set of practical tools, aimed at school personnel, healthcare personnel and youth workers, as well as for the preparation of the emotional help kit for adolescents, ASACI explained “the need to work on empathy and emotional regulation of professionals so as not to confront adolescents”. In this sense, they emphasized “the connection with young people through the management of emotions such as fear or stress, in order to lay a solid foundation”.
Likewise, Ana María Sainero and María Martínez stressed the need to adapt the format both for professionals, using summary sheets or key ideas that summarize each section, and for adolescents, integrating the formulas of social networks (QR, use of screenshots, hastags…etc.).
PROADEMO (PDC2022-133401-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) is funded 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. Its objective is to improve the skills of professionals and young people themselves to contribute to providing quality mental health services to adolescents at risk of developing emotional problems.
Regarding the shortcomings detected by ASACI in relation to the PROEMO roadmap, they expressed their discomfort regarding the blockage they receive from some professionals in the healthcare field, with the argument that this competence does not belong to the educational field. In turn, they advocated for “the need to implement emotional education, to help the adolescent to set limits, to abandon overprotection, to provide them with emotional management strategies, anxiety management through a formula based on connection and accompaniment”.
For its part, PROEMO is a research network (RED2022-134247-T) funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the State Research Agency, through the State Program to promote scientific-technical research and its transfer, within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research 2021-2023.
The Asturian Association for the attention and care of children is part of the External Advisory Council of PROADEMO and the PROEMO Network, together with entities such as the Spanish Youth Institute (INJUVE), attached to the Ministry of Youth and Children, the Spanish Youth Council (CJE), the European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA), the Princess of Girona Foundation (FPdGi), the Integral Health Group of the FELGTBI+, the Spanish Association of Mutual Help against Social Phobia and Anxiety Disorders (AMTAES), the Confederation of Organizations of Psychopedagogy and Guidance of Spain (COPOE) and the Andalusian Association of Youth Technicians (AATJ).
