Integrated skills program : perception of teachers and psychologists

© Federação Brasileira de Terapias CognitivasThe aim is to study the impact of the implementation of a program to promote social and emotional competences in an education center, based on teachers and psychologist perception. This study included teachers’ perceptions of 755 students aged 9 to 21 years, 24.0% with 12 or less years, 26.0% from 13 to 15 years and 50.1% with 16 or more years of schooling. age. 59.5% are boys and 9.3% are under the Individual Educational Program (PEI). The study of the socio-emotional skills scale reveals good psychometric properties and reveals to be a good contribution to the evaluation of competences in childhood and adolescence. According to the perception of the teachers and psychologists who implemented the program, there is an increase in competences in most of the dimensions of the scale, namely global competences, advanced skills, skills in dealing with feelings, skills that are alternative to aggression and planning between the pre and post intervention moments. The study contributes to the research and evaluation of intervention in children and adolescents, especially in the prevention and promotion of personal and social skills and healthy development.