Through a questionnaire, the situation of the population between 12 and 18 years of age will be known and support will be offered to those who need it and are interested.
08/10/2024.- The University of Jaen (UJA), with the support of the Provincial Council of Cordoba, is launching the PROCARE initiative (Selective prevention through a transdiagnostic intervention for adolescents at risk of emotional problems) in the province of Cordoba. The objective of this program is to detect emotional problems in the adolescent population between 12 and 18 years of age and contribute to the improvement of their state of health and emotional well-being.
The presentation of the agreement for the implementation of PROCARE Cordoba was held this afternoon at the headquarters of the provincial administration of Cordoba, with the participation of the deputy delegate of Technological Development, Digital Transformation and Youth, Sara Alguacil, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Jaen, Luis Joaquin Garcia.
“This is an initiative that comes from the University of Jaén to which we join, through the Delegation of Youth of the provincial institution, aware of the importance of addressing the problems it deals with. Sara Alguacil pointed out, who also stressed that “from the Provincial Council we have a special concern for the problems of mental health and emotional well-being of the adolescent population today”. “Hence the importance of implementing a system of prevention and early detection of problems in this population segment,” she added.
For this reason, added Sara Alguacil, “we are going to carry out a survey among a group of 300 young people from 12 to 18 years old in the province of Cordoba and their families so that they can know their emotional state, with the aim of offering support to those who are interested”. The deputy was very interested to know the benefits of the implementation of this program. “With the implementation of this proposal, channeled through the ProJoven Network, we meet the needs that we move our youth information technicians from the various centers of the province,” he said.
For his part, Luis Joaquín García specified that “PROCARE allows us to address a common issue among young people, a problem that if not addressed can have very serious consequences, hence the importance of prevention”.
Luis Joaquín explained that “the results of the surveys lead us to offer a series of eight-week online workshops to those interested. Once participation in these training actions is completed, a second phase is carried out after six months to strengthen and maintain the benefit”.
“We cannot forget that prevention has a transcendental economic, social, health and educational impact, which is why personalized attention is sought, through which the person is helped in what he or she needs,” concluded Luis Joaquín García.
According to the figures, in 2021 this program helped more than 1,500 adolescents throughout Spain; in 2023 it contributed to improving the emotional health of more than a thousand young people in the Balearic Islands; and it is currently being carried out in the municipality of Marmolejo in Jaén.
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).
The project’s External Council also includes the Instituto de la Juventud (INJUVE), attached to the Ministry of Youth and Children, 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), the Youth Group of the Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Trans, Bisexuales, Intersexuales y más (FELGTBI+), the Consejo de la Juventud de España (CJE) and the Fundación Princesa de Girona.
For more information, please contact: procaredipucordoba@gmail.com.
