Speaker
Presentation in SpanishNURIA DE LA OSA
AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA. SPAIN
PhD in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, specializing in Clinical Psychology and Language and Hearing Disorders. She has focused her work on the study of child clinical psychology, particularly in prevention, evaluation, and diagnosis, showing a special interest in factors contributing to mental health problems in the child and adolescent population.
Currently, her research focuses on the psychological vulnerability factors of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), developing tools for its developmental study and assessing aspects such as educational style, temperament, and social cognition from preschool stages.
Additionally, she has been a researcher at the Epidemiology and Diagnosis Unit in Developmental Psychopathology since its inception in 1992, and professor of Psychological Evaluation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 1997. She teaches Clinical Evaluation in Childhood and Adolescence in the undergraduate program, as well as in the Master’s in General Health Psychology and the Master’s in Clinical and Health Psychology Research, and in the Doctoral Program in Clinical and Health Psychology at the UAB.
She is the author of numerous scientific articles and publications in international journals on psychological evaluation, diagnosis and assessment tools, developmental psychopathology, and specifically on behavioral problems.
Prevention, Intervention, and Psychosocial Factors in Chronic Illness in Children and Adolescents: Challenges and Advances
Mental health is a particularly relevant domain in the adaptation and well-being of children, adolescents, and young adults living with severe or chronic illnesses. This symposium presents results from initiatives in the field of childhood cancer, such as the ChildONCO project, which has highlighted the importance of understanding the possible medium- and long-term psychosocial sequelae. The project aims to analyze the burden of mental disorders and patterns of mental health service use among childhood cancer survivors, as well as the main associated psychosocial factors, in order to provide evidence that contributes to improving detection, prevention, and psychological care for this population. Conditions such as obesity also have a chronic nature.
Data will be presented on the prevalence of weight stigma and its two-year impact on various health and psychological well-being indicators in a representative sample of adolescents participating in a prospective epidemiological cohort study with two years of follow-up. A universal intervention program based on Trauma-Informed Care and aimed at healthcare professionals will also be presented. This approach focuses on understanding pediatric medical trauma associated with chronic and critical illness in childhood. Within this framework, challenges and opportunities will be addressed in a tertiary-level maternal and child hospital, characterized by complexity, specificity, and uniqueness, largely due to its specialization in rare diseases. This approach moves away from the traditional model centered on psychopathology, giving way to comprehensive, preventive, proactive, and stepped-care models, in which the patient and family are placed at the center of care.
Finally, the symposium will address the relationship between early chronic illness and depression in a sample of young adults. Overall, the symposium aims to highlight the fundamental role
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