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Psychosocial Well-being of Children and Adolescents in Latin America

Evidence-based Interventions

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Editors:
  1. Jorge Castellá Sarriera

    1. Department of Developmental and Personality Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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  2. Lívia Maria Bedin

    1. Department of Developmental and Personality Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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  • Discusses the theme of child well-being from a Latin American perspective
  • Presents research from the point of view of children
  • Highlights interventions on health promotion prevention for children and adolescents in Latin America

Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 16)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Aspects Related to Children’s Well-Being

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Multidimensional Approach to Well-Being

      • Jorge Castellá Sarriera, Lívia Maria Bedin
      Pages 3-26

    3. Spirituality and Religiosity Related to the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach

      • Miriam Raquel Wachholz Strelhow, Kaena Garcia Henz
      Pages 27-45

    4. Subjective Well-Being of Children in Residential Care

      • Fabiane Friedrich Schütz, Luciana Cassarino-Perez, Vitória Ermel Córdova
      Pages 47-70

    5. The Use of Software to Improve Child Maltreatment Detection and Assessment

      • Tiago Zanatta Calza, Carme Montserrat Boada, Ferran Casas
      Pages 71-89

    6. Neighborhood and Housing as Explanatory Scales of Children’s Quality of Life

      • Graciela H. Tonon, Claudia A. Mikkelsen, Lía Rodríguez de la Vega, Walter N. Toscano
      Pages 91-107

    7. Sociodemographic Profile of Children’s Well-Being in Chile

      • Javier Guzmán, Jorge J. Varela, Mariavictoria Benavente, David Sirlopú
      Pages 109-128

    8. Cultural Meanings that Mediate Life Satisfaction in Chilean Children and Adolescents

      • Lorena Ramírez Casas del Valle, Verónica Monreal Álvarez, Gabriel Urzúa Vera, Francisca Valdebenito Acosta
      Pages 129-151

    9. School and Neighborhood: Influences of Subjective Well-Being in Chilean Children

      • Denise Oyarzún Gómez, Ferran Casas, Jaime Alfaro Inzunza, Paula Ascorra Costa
      Pages 153-165

    10. Fatherhood in Adolescence: A Qualitative Study on the Experience of Being an Adolescent Father

      • Gehysa Guimarães Alves, Sheila Gonçalves Câmara, Denise Rangel Ganzo de Castro Aerts, André Guirland Vieira
      Pages 167-190

  3. Intervention on Children Psychosocial Well-Being

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Psychosocial Well-Being of Children and Adolescents: Intervention Effect and Impact Evaluation

      • Jorge Castellá Sarriera, Lívia Maria Bedin, Miriam Raquel Wachholz Strelhow, Javier Morales Sarriera
      Pages 193-216

    3. Promoting Child Wellbeing: Community and Nature Connections

      • Francielli Galli, Ângela Carina Paradiso, Camila Bolzan de Campos
      Pages 217-241

    4. Rights and Material Resources as Indicators of Child Well-Being: The Challenge to Promote Protagonism

      • Luciana Cassarino-Perez, Tiago Zanatta Calza
      Pages 243-265

    5. Time Planning, Leisure and Technology as Tools to Promote Child Well-Being

      • Fabiane Friedrich Schütz, Juliana Cardoso Stum
      Pages 267-290

    6. Subjective Well-Being Intervention: Focus on Children’s Interpersonal Relationships Through Social and Emotional Learning

      • Bibiana Ramos dos Santos, Francielli Galli
      Pages 291-317

    7. Intervention on Self-Concept: A Path to Promoting Subjective Wellbeing

      • Cristina da Silva Hasse, Ângela Carina Paradiso
      Pages 319-339
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About this book

This book discusses child well-being, with children and adolescents as key informants, from a Latin American perspective. It explores theoretical and empirical issues related to well-being and associated aspects, in order to understand the well-being of this population. Topics analyzed in this volume address for instance environment and community, rights, leisure time, technologies, interpersonal relationships and spirituality and their implications for changes in the well-being in children and adolescents. Especially relevant for scholars and professionals in the social and health sciences, as well as policy makers, seeking to promote child well-being, regardless of the area in which they operate.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Developmental and Personality Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Jorge Castellá Sarriera, Lívia Maria Bedin

About the editors

Jorge Castellá Sarriera is a Professor of Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS/Brazil). Dr. Sarriera has been leading the Research Group in Community Psychology (GPPC) since 1993. Dr. Sarriera received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) in 1993; and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and at the University of San Francisco (United States). Dr. Sarriera is a grade 1A researcher for the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) since 2007, and has received an award for the 2015 researcher of the year in the State of Rio Grande do Sul for Humanistic and Social Sciences by FAPERGS. Dr. Sarriera holds the position of coordinator of international research projects with Latin American countries (PROTEBA), and is a member of the ISCWeB network. Dr. Sarriera is also the coordinator of international partnerships with the University of Girona (Spain), the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), the University of Barcelona (Spain), and the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Dr. Sarriera’s research interests include child and adolescents well-being; community psychology and health; immigration, leisure / free time in adolescence; psychosocial intervention in well-being; social programs and evaluation.
 
Lívia Maria Bedin is a Professor of Psychology and member of the Research Group in Community Psychology (GPPC) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS/Brazil). Dr. Bedin was a post-doctoral fellow at the Research Institute for Quality of Life in the University of Girona (Spain), and is a board member of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI), participating for the last 8 years in international research projects, such as the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being (ISCWeB), and the Trans-Latin Project for the Study of Well-Being in Adolescence (PROTEBA). Dr. Bedin holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and a M.Sc. in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and was a visiting researcher at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Dr. Bedin’s research interests include well-being and quality of life, childhood and adolescence, adolescents-parents relationships, research methodology, multivariate statistical analyses and structural equation modelling.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychosocial Well-being of Children and Adolescents in Latin America

  • Book Subtitle: Evidence-based Interventions

  • Editors: Jorge Castellá Sarriera, Lívia Maria Bedin

  • Series Title: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55601-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55600-0Published: 16 May 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85705-3Published: 08 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55601-7Published: 07 May 2017

  • Series ISSN: 1879-5196

  • Series E-ISSN: 1879-520X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 339

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Child Well-being, Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Developmental Psychology

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