This document, presented by the deputy María Dolores Ruiz and prepared by the psychopedagogist Rocío Moral, follows the implementation of the PROCARE program in collaboration with the University of Jaén.
27/06/2024.- The deputy for Equality and Youth, María Dolores Ruiz, accompanied by the first vice president and deputy for Equality, Social Policies and Youth, Francisca Medina, presented this Thursday the guide ‘Emotional Well-being and Youth’, a document prepared by the psychopedagogue Rocío Moral with the collaboration of the Provincial Council of Jaén.
This guide contains information and training necessary to implement effective mechanisms for the prevention and promotion of well-being among young people in the province. “This document, which serves as a tool for both youth and professionals working with this group, brings together a series of guidelines focused on prevention and action in situations of vital suffering, as well as training tools to improve knowledge and skills in the promotion of well-being, said María Dolores Ruiz during her speech.
“We know that adolescence is an important stage, which involves learning and development, but it can also cause emotional and physical discomfort with various changes that can lead to metal health problems,” said the deputy of Equality and Youth, who has also announced “the worrying result offered by the ‘Barometer Youth, Health and Welfare’, which yields data such as that in Spain 59’3% of young people, aged between 15 and 29 years, has acknowledged having suffered some metal health problem.” “Similar trends have been observed in Andalusia, with a significant increase in mental health problems among young people.” “Some of them have resorted to private clinics, but the vast majority claim to be unable to finance their attendance at these specialized centers”, Ruiz has detailed. “The need for effective metal health policies is urgent, and in this sense, we believe that this is the line that we must follow from the Provincial Council during the coming years and open the doors to mental health, as it affects not only the youth, but the whole society”, has remarked the deputy of Equality and Youth, who has also called on “all institutions with powers in the field to invest in effective policies for the mental health of young people and to use the resources they have in actions that increase the emotional well-being and health of our young people”.
The guide ‘Emotional Well-being and Youth’ is available to all municipalities in Jaen, as well as psychologists, social agents and teachers. This document can be consulted on the Jaenícolas website.
Along the same lines as the PROCARE program
This initiative follows the same line as the implementation of the program Selective prevention through a transdiagnostic intervention for adolescents at risk of emotional problems (PROCARE), led by the University of Jaén and promoted at provincial level by the Provincial Council of Jaén to contribute to improving the health and emotional well-being of adolescents from 12 to 18 years of age in Jaén.
This project was launched in mid-March of this year and aims to evaluate and provide psychological strategies to strengthen emotionally the adolescent population of the province, especially those in vulnerable situations.
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“The Diputación de Jaén is an example of carrying out actions aimed at our youth, not only with the edition of this guide, but we also participate with the University of Jaén in the PROCARE program, and we will continue listening, supporting, betting and understanding our young people through our policies, in order to alleviate their problems,” said the deputy of Equality and Youth.
PROCARE is an R+D+i project PID 2019-111138RB-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the State Research Agency). It involves a team of researchers from the University of Jaén, led by Luis Joaquín García, Lourdes Espinosa and José Antonio Muela and Mar Díaz, the researcher from the University of Miami (USA), Jill Ehrenreich-May, as well as a team from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, led by the researcher Josefa Canals and a team from the University Miguel Hernández, led by the researcher José Antonio Piqueras.
In addition, PROCARE has an External Advisory Board formed by the Spanish Youth Institute (INJUVE) attached to the Ministry of Youth and Children, the Spanish Youth Council (CJE), the Princess of Girona Foundation, the Integral Health group of the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans, Bisexuals and Transsexuals (Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gays, Trans, Bisexuals, Intersexuals and more (FELGTBI+), the Confederation of Organizations of Psychopedagogy and Guidance of Spain (COPOE) and the Spanish Association of Mutual Help against Social Phobia and Anxiety Disorders (AMTAES).
