University Zaragoza, Spain

Research and interventions in Child Psychopathology with Positive Psychology

This symposium introduces four different papers written by members of the research team Entrepreneurship and Coaching: Social and personal development at the University of Zaragoza, within the line of work Positive Adolescent Development. Within this line of work, we work to do research via different socio-personal constructs (optimism, self-efficacy, emotional intelligence) on development of personal competences and the contextual factors that promote them. Complementary, interventions will be proposed to apply techniques related to social and emotional intelligence. In this way, four papers will be presented, two of which analyse the role of personal and family variables on two psychopathological problems (performance anxiety and anorexia) and the other two present interventions related to emotional intelligence, one of them in clinical contexts and the other in an educational setting. 

Santos received his Ph.D. in Psychology by the Autonomous University of Madrid. Professor in the Education Faculty of the University of Zaragoza and coordinator of the Oficial Master in Introduction to research in learning throughout life in multicultural contexts. Founding member of the Research Team Entrepreneurship and Coaching: Social and personal development. Among his research approaches we can find those related to positive adolescent development, case methodology or anxiety in front of the action, from which he has several published papers in important journals. He has recently participated in the Scientific Committee of the 1^st International Congress of Emotional Intelligence and Well-being in Zaragoza and is chairman of the Scientific Committee of the 2^nd  International Congress of Emotional Intelligence and Well-being to take place in Zaragoza in 2015.