Speaker
JUAN MIGUEL FLUJAS CONTRERAS
UNIVERSITY OF ALMERIA. SPAIN
Juan Miguel Flujas Contreras holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Almería. He is a graduate in Psychology and holds a Master’s degree in Functional Analysis in Clinical and Health Contexts from the same university.
Currently, he is a postdoctoral professor and researcher under the Juan de la Cierva program at the University of Seville. His research has focused on the following lines: a) psychological interventions to improve the well-being of children and adolescents; b) family interventions from the perspective of contextual therapies; c) psychological assessment instruments and procedures; and d) use and analysis of technology in clinical psychology.
Parental psychological flexibility: Intervention strategies from third generation therapies
Family intervention has evolved, both in objectives and in assessment and treatment systems. These advances in intervention models and methods raised the need to intervene beyond parenting styles and patterns and not to use directive intervention methods, psychoeducational methods, or expert models. Therefore, third-generation therapies are incorporated into the family context. Third-generation therapies have shifted the focus of intervention, focusing on aspects such as psychological flexibility, acceptance, contact with the present moment, and emotional regulation. These therapies continue to be validated, with encouraging results indicating their evidence.
Workshop Objectives:
- Acquire empirically validated and updated knowledge about intervention in families from contextual therapies.
- Develop professional skills in the assessment process in parents and children.
- Acquire the use of intervention strategies from a contextual perspective in family intervention.
The workshop will consist of the following activities:
- What is psychological flexibility?
- Psychological flexibility in parenting: How does it affect child rearing?
- Assessment in families from contextual therapies: functional analysis and associated variables.
- Intervention strategies in parental psychological flexibility and emotional regulation through metaphors, therapeutic narratives, and exercises from Third Generation Therapy and their effectiveness.