Avanza Center, Málaga

The Latest Advances in the Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment in Child and Adolescence Clinical Neuropsychology

Taking neuroscience theories as a reference that contemplate the influence that neurobiological basis have on psychological development, we will be presenting the latest advances in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment in child and adolescence neurodevelopment. The studies that we will be presenting incorporate the contributions in neuropsychology as a model that complements the traditional clinical psychology assessment and treatment method, analysing, from a theoretical-experimental perspective, aspects focussed on the field of clinical psychology such as: the neurobiological basis in depression in girls; the detection of genetic risk factors during the prenatal period; neuropsychology assessment techniques in school children with learning difficulties and researches on autism spectrum disorder.

Silvia Hidalgo has a Ph.D. in Psychology and a degree in Pedagogy by the University of Málaga (UMA), she is specialised in psychotherapy and is a clinical child and adolescent neuropsychologist. She combines her teaching tasks as a lecturer in the Developmental and Educational Psychology Department, at the UMA´s Psychology Faculty, with clinical activities that she has been practising for more than 20 years. At the AVANZA Psychology Centre, located in Malaga´s capital, she performs tasks of diagnosis, psychoeducational treatment, and training parents and professionals. Furthermore, her centre is an organisation of reference during the postgraduate practical training period for students from different Spanish universities (UMA, UPO, UNIR), with which the centre maintains collaboration agreements. In addition, Dr. Hidalgo has been part of research and development projects, such as “The validation process in the Intelligence Test for pre-schoolers and primary children IV” (WIPSSI-IV) (PEARSON, 2013), “The Educational Innovation Project, conflict orientation and management in the Degrees of Pedagogy and Social Education” (2013/2015, UMA) and more recently she has been the academic subdirector in the 1st Specialisation Course on Child and Adolescent Clinical Neuropsychology (university-specific degree UMA, 2014) as well as a speaker at the Andalusian Neuropsychology Congress (SANO, May, 2015) in the Workshop “Updates in the assessment and treatment in ADD/ADHD: case studies”.