Anna Ballesteros-Urpí

• PhD Education
• Social Worker/ Counselor at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

Simple Summary Animal-assisted therapy is a rehabilitation and treatment procedure that uses trained animals to help people cope with difficult situations in addition to other therapeutic interventions. The most commonly used animals are dogs and horses. The current study analyzes the benefits of dog-assisted therapy in a pediatric population atten...

Introduction: During last decade in Spain, nurses working in assertive outreach programs have replaced the traditional institutional setting in favor of the patient's own environment. Engagement with patients requires a different skillset when the axis of the nurse-patient interaction is the patient's own environment. The engagement alone could be...

Introduction: Routine outcome assessment is helpful to inform decision-making, resource allocation, and health policy design. Routine outcome assessment in the hospital setting for children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders remains limited. The clinical instrument HoNOSCA (Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents),...

Introduction Personal recovery has been defined as ‘a profound personal and unique process for the individual to change their attitudes, values, feelings, goals, abilities and roles in order to achieve a satisfactory, hopeful and productive way of life, with the possible limitations of the illness’. However, research on personal recovery has focuse...

Conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health among children and adolescents: systematic review and narrative synthesis

Outcome measurement in outpatient and day-care mental health facilities for children and adolescents in Spain remains limited, in part due to a lack of validated scales. To address this issue, we translated HoNOSCA (glossary, score sheet, self-rated questionnaire, and parent/legal guardian questionnaire) into Spanish and Catalan using a reverse tra...