The symposium addresses disorders with socio-familiar incidence in childhood and adolescence. It addresses the behavioral and adaptation disorders in children and adolescents, focusing on the relationship between acceptance and rejection and the proper adaptation of the child. It is one of the pioneering studies that analyze the paternal and maternal roles separately, according to the sex and age of the children. The findings provide differential data on the importance of each of these roles in adaptive behaviors. It explores the relevance of parenting in children's development, work on parental practices and internalized and externalized behavioral disorders. Positive, inconsistent, and punitive parental practices, parental role satisfaction, and parental involvement in parenting are analyzed. The study is addressed taking into account the socioeconomic context of 293 Chilean children aged 2-5. The results confirm the relevance of the socio-familiar context variables in behavioral disorders. Subsequently, children (N = 1423) face somatic complaints whose prevalence is progressively increasing. Given the evidence that in the aetiology of somatic complaints not only the medical factors are found, research indicates the priority of studying psychosocial factors, such as emotional awareness and adaptation, variables that are presented in this study. The symposium concludes with the contributions of a study focused on the emotional disturbances in juvenile delinquents. This topic of high social and family incidence opens a framework of understanding about latent emotional disorders in this increasingly current problem, which requires a framework of family, social, educational and clinical intervention in a simultaneously and a complementary way. 

Carmen Maganto Mateo holds a PhD in Psychology. She is a Professor of Child Psychology (University of the Basque Country, Spain) and specialist in Clinical Psychology. Her research projects include: design of assessment tools and evaluation of interventions (Basque Country), Sexism and psychological variables (MICINN), eating disorders and body image in adolescents and young (UPV). She has collaborated in the design and publication of evaluation instruments: The Draw Two Human Figures test (TEA, 2009); Test of Silhouettes for Adolescents (TEA, 2008); Preventive program on Body Image and Eating Disorders (TEA, 2002); Body Self Esteem Scale (RPCNA, 2016). She is the author of books such as: “Psychological treatments: theoretical models and practical exercises of professional role” (Zorroga, 2010); “How to boost positive emotions and face negative ones” (Pirámide, 2011); “Research in Clinical Psychology” (2002); and “Psychological evaluation in childhood and adolescence. Case studies” (TEA, 2001). Within her most recent articles, we would like to highlight these ones: “Empathy and conflict resolution during childhood and adolescence” (Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 2011); “Evaluation of a Program of Education for Peace during adolescence” (Journal of Research in Education, 2011); “Complementary emotional indicators for the emotional evaluation of the Draw Two Human Figures test” (Revista Iberoamericana de Evaluación Psicológica, 2011); “The clinical utility of autobiography” (Revista de Psicoterapia, 2011); “Gender differences in socioemotional developmental factors during adolescence and effects of a violence prevention program” (Journal of Adolescent Health, 2009); and “Evaluation of forgiveness: Generational differences and gender differences” (Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 2009). She has been awarded the First Prize in the V National Competition of TEA Editions by the PICTA Program (2002), and with the Best Audiovisual Didactic Material Award, granted by the Social Council of the National University of Distance Education, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.