LOURDES ASCANIO

LOURDES ASCANIO

Center for Clinical Psychology C.E.D.I., Spain
EVIDENCE-BASED PARENT TRAINING FOR BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN

It is crucial to know what specific psychological treatments are most effective for each problem. This requires extensive and up-to-date reviews by professionals with the aim of providing a "good quality" service. This symposium presents first a review of the empirical studies on parent training programs conducted in the last 16 years. It classifies the programs according to their quality and clinical validity taking into account the APA criteria on empirical treatments. Two presentations will be devoted to presenting two of these trainings for parents. In one hand, the first application in Spain of the Incredible Years Program, a project started in 2013 jointly by the Children's Services of the City Council of Donostia-San Sebastián and the Diputación Foral de Guipuzkoa, and the University of the Basque Country UPV / EHU, will be presented. On the other hand, we will present the fundamental characteristics of the Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a well-established therapy for children's problems such as disruptive behaviors, challenging negativist disorder (ND), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and child victims of abuse or in a situation of risk. Finally, the application of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy in a seven-year-old girl with ND and her three-year-old sister with behavioral problems will be described through the 2-session intervention. It showed positive results between pre- and posttreatment evaluations. 

Degree in Psychology from the University of Granada, Spain. Since 2006 she has been working as a psychologist at the Center for Clinical Psychology C.E.D.I. (Granada). Her intervention focus on problems in childhood and adolescence. She is an expert in Contextual Therapies by the University of Almería. She has participated as a keynote speaker in different workshops and in national congresses. She is the author of several articles published in scientific journals and co-author along with Rafael Ferro García of the book "Parent-child interaction therapy" published by Síntesis editorial.

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Seville - Spain - 16-18 November 2017

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