The AITANA research group was formed in 2010 at the initiative of a group of professors from the Miguel Hernández University with a common interest: the study of the psychological problems of children and adolescents and the improvement of their emotional well-being. The group is interested in the psychopathology, evaluation and treatment of psychological problems of childhood and adolescence. AITANA carries out research projects, transfers results, offers services in research and intervention advice to institutions and entities, and trains professionals in child and adolescent therapy through the Master in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, accredited by ANECA and with access to doctorate. AITANA promotes the dissemination of advances in the field of childhood and adolescent psychology through the International Congress of Clinical Psychology and Health with Children and Adolescents, which since 2011 brings together specialists from all over the world annually. Since 2014, AITANA publishes the Journal of Clinical Psychology with Children and Adolescents, which disseminates scientific studies in this area. The members of the AITANA group share a passion for research in clinical child and adolescent psychology, with the vocation to contribute to scientific knowledge with the highest human and professional quality and in a significant way.
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How to help children understand nderstanding and accepting death
A topic of concern for many parents is how to talk about death with their children. Sometimes we don't know how best to answer their questions or how it will affect them. Although death is inherent to human nature from the moment of birth, it is a difficult concept to...
A new measure for the assessment of OCD spectrum symptoms
AITANA researchers have published a new study in which they provide a new measure, the expanded OCRD-D (OCRD-D-E), which allows to assess the main symptoms of the entire OCD spectrum at once. This work has been carried out thanks to funding from the Grants for...
New study on children’s nighttime fears.
Childhood nighttime fears are characterized by awakenings in the middle of the night, not wanting to sleep alone, extending the time to go to bed, startling and waking up suddenly, among others. In addition, they are very frequent in childhood and can become a serious...
Victoria Soto wins one of the first Santander-UMH Young Researchers Awards
Professor Victoria Soto Sanz has received one of the first Santander-UMH Young Researchers 2022 awards in the category of Health Sciences (PhD modality). These awards are called in recognition of the research work for scientific publications by young researchers of...
8th International Congress of Clinical Psychology with Children and Adolescents
The eighth edition of the International Congress of Clinical Psychology with Children and Adolescents brought together nearly five hundred specialists from more than twenty countries at the Elche Congress Center. In this year's edition, more than three hundred papers...
The Journal of Clinical Psychology with Children and Adolescents of the UMH publishes an issue on child and adolescent psychological treatments.
`Estado de los tratamientos psicológicos infanto-juveniles' is the title of the special issue published by the Revista de Psicología Clínica con Niños y Adolescentes, edited by the AITANA research group of the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche. This monograph...