Verónica Ruiz González

Verónica Ruiz González

National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
EVALUATION, DIAGNOSIS AND INTERVENTION OF SOCIO-AFFECTIVE PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

She holds a Masters in Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is currently the Head of Community Center "Dr. Julian Mac Gregor and Sánchez Navarro" of the Faculty of Psychology (UNAM); Professor of "A" subject of the Residence in Child Psychotherapy of the Postgraduate Psychology (UNAM); Professor of the University of Tijuana (CUT); Professor of the Mexican Association of Game Psychotherapy, A.C., and Professor in the Master's Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Occidente, Mazatlán. She is currently the Director of the Psychology of Specialties area Yolopatli, S.C. She also holds a diploma in child sexuality. She is Supervisor in situ and supervisor in Gesell dome in the Center of Psychological Services of the Faculty of Psychology. She has participated in the following lines of research: implementation of a supervision model for training in professional practice in psychology in a community center; Positive parenting as a protective factor against partner violence and childhood psychopathology; Promotion of socio-affective development in infants of rural communities in Mexico; Risk factors for mental health and psychopathology of child maltreatment; Characteristics of Mexican delinquent personality; Emotional support program with bibliotherapy in children with cancer; Treatment program for children aged 5-10 with anger management problems. She has participated as a speaker in several congresses by presenting her work on evaluation of personality, child psychotherapy, clinical supervision, sensory processing, adolescence and emotional well-being of the child and his family. She is co-author of a chapter on mood disorders in the book "Child Psychotherapy with Play. Clinical cases". She has supported the technical revision of books translated into Spanish and has directed several postgraduate and undergraduate theses of students of the Faculty of Psychology of the UNAM in México. 

Nowadays child and adolescent therapists are facing with several challenges to solve the problems of patients who come to clinics, which are related to the fields of knowledge on evaluation, diagnosis and intervention. It is important that the processes in each of these areas are supported by a specific framework that allows a comprehensive, timely and patient-friendly understanding of the case. In Mexico, the demand for psychological care that parents perform for their children is more and more recurrent. A request that comes from needs in different areas such as academic, family, social or a combination of all. Based on the above, the following works by residents of the Master's Degree in Child Psychotherapy of the Faculty of Psychology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) will be presented. They were conducted in two training scenarios; one located in Mexico City: The Community Center "Dr. Julián Mac Gregor and Sánchez Navarro", and the Center for Psychological Services "Dr. Guillermo Dávila". The prevalences of children's problems in one of these centers, located in the south of Mexico City, are: behavior problems 35%, learning problems 20%, parents divorce 11%, low self-esteem 7%, poor performance school 7%, and enuresis 4%. Therefore, the aim of this symposium is to analyze, through a methodology of mixed research and clinical case studies, the procedure to establish a differential diagnosis of socio-affective problems that will guide the decision making for an adequate intervention and analyze their efficacy.

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