GIUV2019-453
The study of human development and its optimisation is a challenge not only for personal health but also for public health worldwide. The most current approach in health psychology is not focused on illness but on health behaviours, assessment and early detection, intervention in everyday life contexts, approaches centred on the family and the context, lifestyles, etc., and their effects on the overall health status of the person. In this sense our group frames its objectives in the WHO (1948) definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or disability. Challenges include, for example, early intervention in developmental disorders, developmental optimisation throughout the life cycle, as well as assessment and intervention in other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) (such as cognitive impairment, frailty syndrome, etc.), changing lifestyles, improving quality of life, fostering positive and meaningful social and family interaction in development and health, etc. Our research activity has focused on the influence of social, family and cultural factors on positive and pathological human development, as well as...The study of human development and its optimisation is a challenge not only for personal health but also for public health worldwide. The most current approach in health psychology is not focused on illness but on health behaviours, assessment and early detection, intervention in everyday life contexts, approaches centred on the family and the context, lifestyles, etc., and their effects on the overall health status of the person. In this sense our group frames its objectives in the WHO (1948) definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or disability. Challenges include, for example, early intervention in developmental disorders, developmental optimisation throughout the life cycle, as well as assessment and intervention in other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) (such as cognitive impairment, frailty syndrome, etc.), changing lifestyles, improving quality of life, fostering positive and meaningful social and family interaction in development and health, etc. Our research activity has focused on the influence of social, family and cultural factors on positive and pathological human development, as well as their evaluation and intervention. We have carried out numerous basic and applied research projects, being therefore an example of a multidisciplinary group with interaction between basic and clinical researchers and with a profile of publications and funded projects that respond to this criterion.
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- Los objetivos del grupo de investigacion son el estudio y desarrollo de tecnicas de evaluacion e intervencion que promocionen las funciones cognitivas a lo largo del ciclo vital, con el objetivo de alcanzar una mejor calidad de vida tanto de las personas que puedan sufrir alguna alteracion como de su contexto familiar, educativo y social. Asi mismo se pretende incidir en la mejora y promocion de la salud, la prevencion y tratamiento de la enfermedad, la identificacion de factores de riesgo, la optimizacion de los estilos de vida, etc., con el objectivo de conseguir, en definitiva, mejoras funcionales en cualquier momento del ciclo vital.
- Psychology of Ageing.Active and healthy ageing is a construct of growing relevance. In its psychological aspect, clinical (cognitive and emotional), functional, cultural and socio-familial aspects must be included, as well as different demographic and lifestyle variables. Among the objectives of the group is the assessment and intervention throughout the life cycle, including the optimisation of their development, both of the persons or patients involved and their family environment, carers, etc., especially in the cognitive, emotional, functional and lifestyle areas. Within frailty in ageing, the topic of cognitive frailty and the variables involved in it is of particular interest.
- Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD and other neurodevelopmental disorders.Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are, by definition, dynamic and changing over time. This dynamism of neurodevelopmental disorders means that comorbidity with other disorders and diseases is very high throughout the life cycle, especially in adulthood and ageing. The aim of the research group is to study these disorders and their evolution over time, with special emphasis on techniques and methods that improve the abilities of the people who suffer from them and their family environment, so as to generate a better quality of life, promoting the general health not only of the person with a developmental disorder but of all the members of the family unit.
| Name | Nature of participation | Entity | Description |
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| ESPERANZA NAVARRO PARDO | Director | Universitat de València | |
| Research team | |||
| FRANCISCO ALCANTUD MARIN | Member | Universitat de València | |
| DESAMPARADOS YGUAL FERNANDEZ | Member | Universitat de València | |
| MARIA FERNANDA LOPEZ RAMON | Member | Universitat de València | |
| MARÍA BELEN ROSELLÓ MIRANDA | Member | Universitat de València | |
| YURENA ALONSO ESTEBAN | Collaborator | Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife) | full-time trainee professor (doctor) |
| ANA CRISTINA CRUZ | Collaborator | Fundação ADFP - Assistência, Desenvolvimento E FormaçãoProfissional | research senior investigation technician |
| ISABEL INTROZZI | Collaborator | Centro Científico Tecnológico Mar del Plata (Argentina) | tenured university professor |
| RUBEN LEDESMA | Collaborator | Centro Científico Tecnológico Mar del Plata (Argentina) | tenured university professor |
| AINARA MIRA IGLESIAS | Collaborator | Fundacion para el Fomento de la Investigacion Sanitaria y Biomedica de la Comunitat Valenciana (FISABIO) | research senior investigation technician |
| MARIA MARTA RICHARD'S | Collaborator | Centro Científico Tecnológico Mar del Plata (Argentina) | tenured university professor |
| Ricardo Filipe da Silva Pocinho | Collaborator | Instituto Politécnico de Leiría (Portugal) | pre-tenured lecturer |
| Pedro Ricardo Belo Santos | Collaborator | Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal | research senior investigation technician |
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- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- ageing, active ageing, frailty syndrome, cognitive fragility, cognitive frailty
- Trastornos del Espectro del Autismo, Trastornos del neurodesarrollo, TDAH, evaluación, intervención, optimización
