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The Alicia Koplowitz Foundation has awarded a research grant, Ayuda a la investigación en psiquiatría, psicología y/o neurociencias del niño y el adolescente y en neuropediatría, to the project “OCD-Spectrum: Predictive models of disorders related to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Spanish adolescents“, whose principal researcher is director of the Center for Applied Psychology and member of […]

They will collaborate in implementing more class hours to Physical Education in schools as well as improving the prevention, early detection and intervention of emotional problems via a possible Non-legislative Proposal 21/06/2019.- Members of the University of Jaén (UJA) research group “Physical Activity Applied to Education and Health” (AFAES) and the PI of the PROEMA

The European platform Youth Wiki has included the report and roadmap on the state of the art, needs and recommendations for improving psychological assessment and promoting mental health and emotional well-being in young people, drawn up by the PROEM network, in its mental health-related information under the section dedicated to health and well-being. Youth Wiki

The report and roadmap by the PROEM network is the only reference to a Spanish entity or group cited in this highly relevant document drawn up by the Council of Europe’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, which aims to be a guide to decision-making in European social and research policies 27/5/2019.- The

Last Wednesday, researchers with the Department of Psychology at the University of Jaén (UJA) and the University of Córdoba (UCO), both institutions PROEM network members, met at the UJA campus. Luis Joaquín García, Lourdes Espinosa, José Antonio Muela, Clara Vallecillo and Paqui Luque hosted Juan Antonio Moriana, lecturer in Personality, Psychological Evaluation and Treatment with

Luis Joaquín García, the network’s PI, held a working meeting with Nuria Manzano, CNIIE director, to discuss issues including the promotion of adolescent mental health 13/03/2019.- Luis Joaquín García, PI of the Network for the PROmotion of EMotional health and well-being in Adolescents (Red PROEMA) and lecturer with the Department of Psychology at the University

The aims of this proposal are to foster the early detection of emotional problems in young people and to increase the number of mental health professionals in Spain, to help them carry out their work with children and youth in the area of education and health and to promote emotional mental health and well-being as

The proposal seeks to enhance care given to minors under the National Healthcare System’s new strategy and to promote emotional mental health and well-being as one of the strategic lines within the Spanish National Research Plan You can donwload the full content of the PNL proposal in this link: https://redproem.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PNL_Ciudadanos_Registro.pdf 6/03/2019.- The parliamentary group Ciudadanos

The working meeting was held in Bergen (Norway) from 4 to 6 February, attended by researchers from across 34 countries worldwide 7/02/2019.- Luis Joaquín García, lecturer with the Department of Psychology at the University of Jaén (UJA), and member of the UJA’s EI_CTS3 research team and PI of the PROEM network, attended the EVBRES workshop

Luis Joaquín García, PI of the PROEM network, was invited by various parliamentary groups to discuss possible policies for action on this issue Members of parliament agreed that further steps should be taken to include mental health as a strategic line within the Spanish National Research Plan and to develop an early detection protocol for