Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva

Anxiety and Depression in Brazilian Undergraduate Students: The Role of Sociodemographic Variables, Undergraduate Course Characteristics and Social Skills

Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva & Sonia Regina Loureiro · Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology · 2014

The prevalence of anxiety and depression disorders in undergraduate students is high and several variables can be influential. The aim is to verify the predictive value of social skills, sociodemographic variables, and course characteristics for depression and anxiety. A total of...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJAST/2015/13004

Intervention in Social Skills: The Behavior of Children from the Perspective of Parents and Teachers

Alessandra Pereira Falcão & Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

Studies have highlighted the difficulty of conducting interventions with parents when what motivates them to seek therapy is a behavioral problem of a child. As a way of preventing and treating this complaint an intervention procedure was prepared and applied with school children...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/20033

Assessment of the Effects of a Parental Intervention with Mothers of Children with Internalizing Problems

Natália Pinheiro Orti, Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva & Míriam Bratfisch Villa · Advances in Research · 2015

The present study assesses the effects of a semi-structured intervention held exclusively with mothers and its effects on internalizing problems, social skills of children, and positive and negative parenting practices. The single subject experimental design with three participan...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/AIR/2015/16181