The research team's main objective is to develop research and training activities aimed at understanding and improving the educational reality of families and children. In addition to this, the specific objectives of our team are aimed at:
- To understand children's needs and perceptions, especially with regard to their rights to protection and participation, and to put forward proposals for improvement in this respect.
- To analyse the main problems and difficulties faced by families and their members, and to develop proposals for improvement.
- To deepen the tools and specific work strategies in the field of family and childhood. Collaborate with various agencies involved in families and children's lives (schools, social services, primary care centres, specialised services, third sector entities, etc.). To develop research and collaboration projects and agreements with different institutions.
- To propose training proposals in relation to families and children aimed at graduates of the different UV degrees and professionals.
- To disseminate the findings of our research team to the scientific community and society as a whole.
All the members of the team are professors at the Universitat de València as well as specialised professionals working in the field of family and children. The team director, as well as other professors, focuses her teaching and research activity mainly in the field of families and children, with theses directed on this subject, research projects and publications in journals and collective works. Among the projects it has directed the research; Design of an instrument to analyse the relationship between filio-parental violence and family structure and educational style; and participated, among others, in the research; Validation of an instrument for the evaluation of family educational styles and establishment of guidelines for the design of intervention programmes with families; (Universitat de València) and; Family practices and co-responsibility: Analysis of values and proposal of educational strategies for the conciliation of personal, social and working life; (Universidad de Barcelona). Among its latest publications we highlight; Families and minors: challenges and pedagogical proposals.
Likewise, it is responsible for and participates in different specialised training initiatives aimed at both graduates and professionals in this field (Postgraduate course "Specialised intervention with families and children: procedures and techniques for action"; training and research programmes in family intervention aimed at professionals from the specialised family and child services (SEAFIs) of the Valencian Community; national and international congresses -ERNAPE and AIFREF-; conferences; courses, etc.).
- To understand children's needs and perceptions, taking into account their rights to protection and participation, and to put forward proposals for improvement.
- To analyse problems and difficulties faced by families and their members, and to develop proposals for improvement.
- To study in depth the tools and specific work strategies in the field of family and children.
- To collaborate with agencies involved with families and children and disseminate the findings to the scientific community and society.
- To develop research and collaboration projects-agreements with different institutions, as well as training proposals for different groups.
- To design and implement specialised training actions in the fields and topics in which our research team develops its objectives.
- Protection for children and adolescents at risk or in distress
Childhood-adolescence protection; situation of risk; situation of distress; child protection measures and resources; foster care; adoption; specialised teams; family intervention plan; individualised protection plan.
- Professional training in working with families, children and adolescents
Continuous training programmes; initial training; needs assessment; evaluation; professional skills; professional attitudes; phases of socio-educational intervention; types of intervention.
- Parental competence and resilience
Childhood and adolescent needs; parenting skills; educational styles; attachment; context; family supports; resources.
- Socio-educational intervention in alienating family practices
Separation/divorce processes; family conflict; manipulation; child/adolescent abuse; analysis, diagnosis, intervention and evaluation.
- Intervention strategies with families and children
Family mediation; family counselling; family therapy; specialised family and child-adolescent care teams; training programmes; intervention techniques.
- Family-school collaboration
Participation and collaboration of families in schools; parents' schools; AMPAs; pedagogical cafés; family involvement (types and modalities); channels of participation; consequences of involvement.
- Education and family diversity
Family composition; family functionality; family dynamism; single parenthood; reconstituted or compound families.
- SAHUQUILLO MATEO, PIEDAD
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- BELLVER MORENO, MARIA CARMEN
- PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
- Director/a de Departament
- MENDEZ PARDO, VERONICA
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- Doctorand.
- RAMOS SANTANA, GENOVEVA
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
Colaboradores/ as
- Ana Isabel Acedo Barroso - Universitat de València.
- Mª Ángeles Blanco Portillo - CEIP Ciutat Cremona.
- Flor Hoyos Alarte - Ajuntament d'Alaquàs.
- Concepción Martínez Vázquez - Mancomunitat Camp de Túria.
- Amparo Merodio Simón - Fundación Secretariado Gitano.
- Rosalía Rioja Ramón - FYDES Desarrollo Psico-Socio-Educativo, S.L.
- Luis Miguel Valera Melero - Universitat de València.
- ExpandirRAMOS SANTANA, GENOVEVAPDI-Titular d'Universitat
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- SAHUQUILLO MATEO, PIEDAD
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
