The Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth-Short Form (AFQ-Y8) was designed to measure psychological inflexibility in children and adolescents. However, it has not yet been validated to the Spanish population. The present study examines the factorial structure, internal consistency, convergent and incremental validity, and measurement invariance between children and adolescents, male and female, and male and female across age of the AFQ-Y8 with 982 students from Spain (children ϭ 459, adolescents ϭ 523). The results confirmed, in both children and adolescents, a unifactorial structure of general psychological inflexibility. AFQ-Y8 was positively related to negative psychological health outcomes, and negatively related to positive psychological health outcomes and acceptance-related skills, such as mindfulness. In addition, psychological inflexibility showed incremental validity in the explanation of negative psychological health over mindfulness. Measurement invariance across age and gender groups was supported, suggesting that the scores in the AFQ-Y8 are comparable between children and adolescents, and between males and females. In conclusion, results show that the Spanish version of the AFQ-Y8 is a reliable and valid measure of psychological inflexibility in children and adolescents. Public Significance StatementThis study provides a validation of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth-Short Form (AFQ-Y8), a brief self-report questionnaire designed to measure psychological inflexibility in children and adolescents, in a Spanish population. This validation study allows the study of the contribution of psychological inflexibility on mental health during child and adolescent development, as well as the evaluation of the impact of interventions aimed at reducing psychological inflexibility.

Evaluación desde la perspectiva de los hijos del clima familiar 15(2), 259-280. ISSN: 1696259-280. ISSN: -2095259-280. ISSN: . 2017 Resultados. Los resultados apoyan las hipótesis sobre la estructura del cuestionario y su validez predictiva, y sugieren la necesidad de actuar sobre los componentes del CFGC-H a la hora de diseñar intervenciones para mejorar el comportamiento de los hijos. Discusión y conclusiones.Los resultados sugieren que la actitud positiva y la paciencia son factores importantes que contribuyen favorablemente a establecer un clima familiar positivo, en línea con lo encontrado en otras investigaciones. Por otro lado, todas aquellas estrategias de disciplina parental coercitivas como el castigo o las estrategias que contribuyen al aumento del estrés se asocian de forma negativa al clima familiar.Palabras Clave: Clima familiar; estrategias de afrontamiento, problemas de conducta; estilos educativos; parentalidad positiva.

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Dado que la resiliencia puede variar dependiendo del tipo de adversidad con la que las personas se enfrentan, parece adecuado desarrollar una escala específica para personas que se enfrentan a los problemas de comportamiento de sus hijos. Con este fin se ha desarrollado una nueva escala semejante a la Brief Resilience Scale (Smith et al. 2008), pero contextualizada respecto a los problemas de comportamiento de los hijos (BRS-PC). En este estudio participaron 615 padres y madres. Se realizó un análisis factorial confirmatorio y otro de validación cruzada para estudiar la validez estructural, se analizó la fiabilidad y se realizó un análisis de correlaciones para estudiar la validez convergente. Los resultados indicaron que la BRS-PC posee una adecuada validez estructural, la fiabilidad de sus puntuaciones fue buena y mostraron unas alta correlaciones con la BRS original, siendo evidencia de validez convergente. La BRS-PC ha mostrado ser una herramienta fiable y válida para evaluar la resiliencia de los padres ante los problemas de comportamiento de los hijos.

BackgroundA child’s death is the most stressful event and the most complex grief that families face. The process of psychological adaptation to the illness and death of a child is difficult due to a variety of emotional reactions. Parental grief had received the attention of researchers only in recent years when it became clear that this reality differs substantially from the general grief process.ObjectiveThis work aims to highlight the needs of bereaved parents; increase the specificity and effectiveness of the therapeutic approach to prevent complications in the process of loss-making; and find the recurrent thematic nuclei in the development of bereavement present in a therapeutic group of parents who have lost their child to an onco-hematological disease.MethodBetween 2011 and 2016, five therapeutic groups for the grief elaboration were made. The sample included a total of 50 parents of children who died from cancer between the ages of 0 and 21 years.Content analysis was carried out as a qualitative analysis method. The SAS® Text Miner software (SAS Institute Inc, 2004) was used to read, interpret, classify and integrate the data from numerous sources.ResultsThe development and consecutive interpretation of the 5 clusters have been carried out to analyze the related topics using the node “Topic Analysis” and requesting the subdivision into five topics. Four topics have been well defined. Clear topics are reducible to categories of emotional relief, tools, legacy, and unfinished business. The topic analysis provides interesting indications about the different interpretive journeys of the bereavement situation and offers ideas regarding the different types of social responses.ConclusionsAfter reviewing the existing bibliography, we have confirmed the lack of specific literature on the problem of grief in parents whose children have died from cancer. Much research has shown that parents who lose a child to cancer want support, and there are still few studies on the most effective interventions for this group.