UJA researchers Luis Joaquín García, Laura Zafra and Inés Álamo take part in this television program to discuss the prevention work carried out by PROCARE and other projects such as PROADEMO, Digitas, DAREMOS or the roadmap for 2025.
12/7/2024.- The PROCARE initiative (Selective prevention through a transdiagnostic intervention for adolescents at risk of emotional problems) is the protagonist of the informative monographic magazine on youth and mental health of 7TV Jaén.
The television program “Youth and Mental Health” is promoted by the Youth Area of the Provincial Council of Jaén, with the aim of implementing a comprehensive program to disseminate various tools, programs and workshops to prevent mental health problems among young people in the province.
In this way, the program, which is broadcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 21:00 hours on 7TV Jaén, aims to provide young people with essential resources and knowledge to manage stress, anxiety and other challenges related to mental health. It also includes educational and participatory activities designed to promote the emotional and psychological well-being of Jaén’s youth.
After the participation of the Deputy of Youth and Equality, María Dolores Ruiz in the first program that opened the series; Luis Joaquín García, Professor of Psychology at the University of Jaén (UJA) and main responsible for the PROEMO Network, was the guest in the second program, directed by Antonio Ocaña, director of 7TV Jaén. In it, Luis Joaquín García develops the current situation of health and emotional well-being of young people and exposes the keys of the different projects led by the UJA as PROCARE, PROADEMO, Digitas, DAREMOS or the roadmap for 2025 of the PROEMO Network (RED2022-134247-T funded by MICIU/AEI/10. 13039/501100011033 (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the State Research Agency) to promote early detection and intervention, prevention and emotional competence of both young people themselves and their families.
Specifically, Luis Joaquín García delves into PROCARE, the first transdiagnostic program of selective prevention at an international level aimed at young people between 12 and 18 years of age at risk of suffering emotional problems, through eight online workshops on personalized medicine. An initiative that in 2021 helped more than 1,500 adolescents throughout Spain, in 2023 contributed to improving the emotional health of more than a thousand young people in the Balearic Islands and is currently being implemented in the Jaén municipality of Marmolejo and in the province of Jaén thanks to funds provided by the Provincial Council of Jaén.
Likewise, he also emphasizes the materials that are being generated around the PROADEMO project (‘PROmocionAnDo la salud y el bienestar EMOcional de los adolescentes en el sector educativo, sanitario y la sociedad’). A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Jaén, formed by Luis Joaquín García, Lourdes Espinosa, José Antonio Muela, David Jiménez, Manuel Vivas, Jesús Sánchez, Álvaro Muela and Adelina Ocaña, is working on them, with the advice of different entities that make up the External Advisory Board.
PROADEMO is a project PDC2022-133401-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the State Research Agency and the European Union through the “Next Generation EU” funds within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan).
On the other hand, in the third program, the protagonists were Laura Zafra and Inés Álamo, two of the researchers of the Department of Psychology of the UJA and therapists of the PROCARE initiative, who are part of the team of professionals who carry out the implementation both in Marmolejo and in the province of Jaén, in general. In their intervention, both researchers delve into the methodology and the procedure followed in the PROCARE initiative, through evaluation questionnaires, interviews and the implementation of the various online workshops, which provide resources and tools to young people and parents.
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), with the participation of professionals from the Department of Psychology of the UJA, the Rovira i Virgili University, the Miguel Hernández University of Elche and the University of Miami (USA).
In addition, it has an External Advisory Board composed of the Youth Institute (INJUVE), attached to the Ministry of Youth and Children, the Spanish Youth Council (CJE), the Princess of Girona Foundation, the Spanish Association for Mutual Aid against AIDS, the Spanish Association for Mutual Aid against AIDS, the Spanish Association for the Prevention of AIDS, the Spanish Association for the Prevention of AIDS, the Spanish Association for the Prevention of AIDS, and the Spanish Association for the Prevention of AIDS, the Asociación Española de Ayuda Mutua contra Fobia Social y Trastornos de Ansiedad (AMTAES), the Confederación de Organizaciones de Psicopedagogía y Orientación de España (COPOE) and the Salud Integral group of the Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Trans, Bisexuales, Intersexuales y más (FELGTBI+).
