Over the past 30 years, attachment theory has become a valuable conceptual framework for understanding individual and relational functioning, including the well-being and mental health of children and youth. Within this conceptual framework, the symposium aims to present four studies that address the complex dynamics of different aspects of well-being in this group. More specifically, topics such as the differential role of attachment to mothers and fathers on the well-being and optimism of their children, the association between attachment and the quality of the couple relationship in LGB youth, and the relationship between attachment and mental health in adolescent victims of severe physical abuse and child sexual abuse in the reparative process are addressed.

Mónica Guzmán

Catholic University of the North. Chile

Mónica Guzmán González is a titular academic of the School of Psychology at the Universidad Católica del Norte and currently serves as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the same university.

She is a psychologist and Ph.D. in Psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, an accredited clinical psychologist, and holds a diploma in Human Sexuality from the Universidad Diego Portales. She also has postgraduate training in Brief Strategic Psychotherapy and in Family and Couples Therapy at the Chilean Institute of Family Therapy.
Dr. Guzmán-González’s line of research has focused on adult attachment, couple relationships, emotional regulation, and mental health in diverse contexts and groups, such as people belonging to sexual minorities, and emerging adults, among others. Another of her lines of research focuses on the study of forgiveness in the context of close affective relationships and its association with well-being and mental health.
She has been a responsible researcher and co-investigator of several projects and has more than 70 publications on topics related to adult attachment, couple relationships, and mental health, among others.