On this journey, we want to reflect on the accelerated influence of AI in many areas: work, research, and daily personal management. As always happens in the field of technology development, technological advancements are implemented more quickly than reflection on their ethical management and economic and psychological effects.
From early childhood, suffering related to the body is observed. The hypersexualization of childhood, exaggerated concern about body image, and comments surrounding fatphobia and the importance of having a normative body are commonplace, and seem to be on the rise.
Centre d'Art Santa Mònica Barcelona, December 12, 2024 Conference as part of the 8th Catalan Congress on Mental Health (2025) “CREATIVITY, CULTURE, AND MENTAL HEALTH” Following the 1st Conference on “CREATIVITY, CULTURE, AND MENTAL HEALTH,” held at the Centre Arts Santa Mònica in October 2023 and looking ahead to the [...]
Since the early 21st century, various social researchers have been creating a new field of study surrounding young adulthood. This impetus stems from the lengthening period between the onset of puberty and the fulfillment of expectations regarding adult roles such as financial independence and family formation.
Resuming today the issue of Diagnosis means delving into one of the key and major concepts of mental health theory and practice.
On October 4, 2024, the conference on sexuality and gender identity in childhood and adolescence was held in the auditorium of COTOC in Barcelona. A space for reflection and debate was opened regarding how, in the current context, we are experiencing a new cultural malaise (different [...]
The issue of violent radicalization in adolescence is an ailment of our times. A highly complex phenomenon involving individual, social, and political factors. The intention to think about this led us, at the end of 2017, after the attacks on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, to organize a working group from the [...]
On this working day, we had Jaakko Seikkula, Sofia Cálcena, and Jordi Marfà to reflect on the Open Dialogue approach, recognized by the WHO as one of the best-regarded mental health practices for its respect for human rights and its focus on people's recovery. At the event, we will [...]
Luís Feduchi's presentation gifted us with words full of the generosity and humility of someone who doesn't seek to preach. With the drive and desire for knowledge and a vocation for public service. Aware that we approach truth, never conceived as absolute, not only through science but also through [...]
Presentation Self-harm and suicidal behaviors in young people are a harsh reality of our current society. In general, the right to suffer and feel unwell during adolescence is not legitimized or validated, but instead, we are alarmed by the way young people express their distress through their bodies. [...]
