Despite evidence of the positive impact of school-based mental health promotion interventions, there remains a need for robust studies, particularly to evaluate newly developed programs, in order to promote the adoption of best practices and identify effective intervention strategies. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of implementing the PROMEHS curriculum in Portugal in a school setting, using a sample o...
Objectives: The consequences of long-lasting restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic have become a topical question in the latest research. The present study aims to analyze longitudinal changes in adolescents' social emotional skills, resilience, and behavioral problems. Moreover, the study addresses the impact of adolescents' social emotional learning on changes in their resilience and behavioral proble...
Resilience is an individual’s ability to adapt successfully to and persevere during and after significant challenges. Resilience programmes based on a socioemotional learning approach have been associated with an increase in protective factors (e.g., prosocial competencies), improvements in physical and mental health, and a decrease in internalised and externalised symptoms. The present study aimed to evaluate ...
Resilience is an individual’s ability to adapt successfully to and persevere during and after significant challenges. Resilience programmes based on a socioemotional learning approach have been associated with an increase in protextive factors (e.g., prosocial competencies), improvements in physical and mental health, and a decrease in internalised and externalised symptoms. The present study aimed to evaluate ...
Introduction: Neurological soft signs (NSS) indicate non‑specific cerebral dysfunction, those have been extensively documented in the clinical course of schizophrenia and have been considered as valuable symptoms to monitor the disorder. The Brief Motor Scale (BMS) has been widely used to assess motor neurological soft signs in patients with schizophrenia, but the Portuguese version is still unavailable. The ai...
Revista de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente. - ISSN 1647-4120. - V. 10, n. 1 (Janeiro-Dezembro 2019). - p. 51-61.; O objetivo do estudo foi analisar o nível de autoeficácia, variáveis relacionadas com o envolvimento escolar e a satisfação com a vida dos adolescentes portugueses. Participaram neste estudo 5695 alunos dos 8º, 10º e 12º anos de escolaridade, participantes do estudo HBSC 2018, com uma média d...
The goal of this study was to analyze the level of self-efficacy, school engagement related variables and life satisfaction of Portuguese adolescents. A total of 5695 adolescents attending the 8th, 9th and 12th years of schooling enrolled in the HBSC 2018 study. with a mean age of 15.5 years old (SD = 1.8), 53.9% female. Participants completed a self-efficacy subscale and answered a range of issues related to s...
RESCUR into Action (2017‐2018) is national project that aims to implement RESCUR, European Resilience Curriculum, in schools with migrant and/or refugee students. RESCUR into Action, promoted by the Social Adventure association, with the support of the Ciência Viva Program, has promoted free and accredited training actions to 123 teachers and specialized technicians, of whom 64 are currently implementing RESCUR...