Carmen Orte Socias

Carmen Orte Socias

Carmen Orte Socias BSc in Psychology and PhD in Educational Sciences at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), with an extraordinary award in both cases. Recognized with the City of Palma Research Award. University Professor at the UIB since 2006.

In 1998 she created the Open University for Senior, (UOM, acronym in Spanish), an educational and social project, already consolidated for the adult population over 50 years of age in the Balearic Islands. Director of the Official University Master's Degree in Socio-educational Intervention in Childhood, Adolescence and Family (MIS2). Director of the Master's Degree in Addictions (European Prevention Curriculum-Universal Treatment Curriculum). Principal Investigator of the Educational and Social Research and Training Group (GIFES). Director of the Family Research Laboratory (LIFAC, acronym in Spanish). Research leader of the evidence-based family education program Family Competence Program (PCF), since 2004.

Director of the Chair of Attention and Promotion of Personal Autonomy of the UIB and Director of the Yearbook on Aging of the Balearic Islands since 2008. Research lines: violence against women, affective-sexual education, family prevention of drugs and behavior problems, training of university youth leaders in drug prevention and educational gerontology.

The main competitive research projects of the last twenty five years are grouped around the Family Competence Program, a pioneering program in Spain based on scientific evidence for family drug prevention and the promotion of parenting, communication and social skills in families. Since 2004, this research has received uninterrupted state funding in competitive calls, chaining six consecutive research projects from the Secretary of State for Research of the Government of Spain.

She has also participated in the European project UPC-Adapt (Universal Prevention Curriculum-Adapt), for the standardization of a European drug prevention curriculum for professionals in the European Union, currently adopted by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (Agency of the European Union).

She has developed the international scientific program for the promotion of intergenerational relations "Sharing Childhood" (SACHI), together with Universities of the United Kingdom and Portugal, financed with European projects.

Abstract

Research protocol of the Family Competence Program-Programa de Competencia Familiar PCF-AFECT 12-16

Evidence-based family prevention programs have proven to be effective in preventing substance abuse and other risk behaviors. The Spanish Family Competence Program, based on the Strengthening Families Program, pursues: the development of protective factors, the improvement of healthy habits and the prevention of behaviors risk characteristics of adolescence. The objectives are: i) study and incorporation of new contents of sexual affective education, with special attention to emotions, affections, equality and sexuality; ii) increase of the contents on addictive behaviors in a specific and transversal way in the program contents. Regarding the methodology, to validate the improved program, a quasi-experimental test of the program will be carried out with 18 secondary school groups and a total of 180 families and 402 people (experimental group and control group). Regarding results, validated instruments will be deployed to measure changes in positive family performance, changes in parental and children's abilities, changes in adolescents' sexual affective attitudes, changes in attitudes towards addictive behaviors of adolescents, validation of a system of evaluation of healthy habits, performance of the motivational interview, evaluation of trainers and training of trainers, effective techniques of family engagement (activities at home and APP), and analysis of the satisfaction of the participants.