Detección de problemas de salud mental en un grupo especialmente vulnerable: niños y adolescentes en acogimiento residencial

• Ana María Sainero Rodríguez ^[1] ; Jorge Fernández del Valle ^[1] ; Amaia Bravo Arteaga ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Oviedo

     Universidad de Oviedo

     Oviedo, España

     
• Localización: Anales de psicología, ISSN-e 1695-2294, ISSN 0212-9728, Vol. 31, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 472-480
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.6018/analesps.31.2.182051
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Detection of mental health problems in an especially vulnerable group: children and young people in residential child care
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  • español

    La investigación sobre la salud mental de niños y adolescentes en acogimiento residencial muestra una alta incidencia de trastornos, parti-cularmente de tipo externalizante, y por consiguiente es muy importante utilizar instrumentos de detección que permitan intervenciones tempranas. El objetivo de este estudio fue describir las características y analizar el grado de concordancia en la información que ofrecen los jóvenes y sus educado-res empleando la técnica de screening del CBCL (para los educadores) y el YSR (para los adolescentes) sobre una muestra de 138 adolescentes entre 11 y 18 años en hogares de protección. Se analizaron también las diferen-cias entre el grupo de jóvenes derivados a tratamiento de salud mental y aquellos que no lo recibían. Los resultados mostraron niveles de acuerdo bajos y moderados entre jóvenes y educadores, con mayor concordancia para problemas externalizantes que internalizantes, de forma similar a lo ha-llado con muestras de padres e hijos. Las diferencias de puntuaciones se discuten en relación a la investigación revisada y se concluye que los adultos distinguen al grupo clínico del que no lo es, mientras los jóvenes no presen-tan diferencias significativas. Estos hallazgos indicarían la necesidad de dar más relevancia al autoinforme, a la perspectiva de los adolescentes

  • English

    Research on mental health problems of children and young peo-ple in residential child care shows a high incidence. One of the strategies to improve the interventions is the use of tools of detection, so that biases in the referral to treatment could be avoided.

    The objective of this study was to analyze the level of concordance be-tween the information given by the young people and their social educa-tors, using the CBCL (in case of educators) and YSR (for adolescents) in a sample of 138 young people aged from 11 to 18 who were in residential care. Also differences between the group of young people referred to men-tal health treatment and those without it were analyzed.

    Results show low and moderate levels of concordance between the infor-mation given by the young people and their educators, with higher levels of agreement in externalized problems, in a similar way as the results found in research with samples of parents and children. Score differences are dis-cussed according to the literature review, concluding that adults distinguish the clinical and non-clinical group clearly, but young people do not display significant differences. These findings indicate the need for giving more relevance to self-reports, to the adolescent own perspective

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