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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
.Zilda Aparecida Pereira Del Prette holds a BSc in Psychology from Londrina State University (1978), a Masters degree in Psychology (Social Psychology) from the Federal University of Paraíba (1983), a PhD in Psychology (Experimental Psychology) from the University of São Paulo (1990) and a Postdoctoral degree in Social Skills Psychology from the University of California (2002). She is currently an IA level researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and a Full Professor at the Federal University of São Carlos, linked to the Postgraduate Programs in Psychology at the Federal University of São Carlos (PPGPsi) and to the National Institute of Science and Technology on Behavior, Cognition and Teaching (INCT-ECCE). She is currently coordinator of the Social Skills Working Group at the Brazilian National Association for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP). She has vast experience in Interpersonal Relations, working mainly in the following subjects: social skills, social competence, assertiveness, school education, teacher training and social-emotional development. She has published 163 articles in specialized journals (10 more to be published), 439 papers in conference proceedings, 72 book chapters, 29 books (from 17 of her books, 5 are test manuals and in 12 she was the organizer). She produced software, videos and other instructional materials. She supervised 22 Master's students, 21 Doctorate students and 6 Postdoctoral students. She also supervised 62 students who did scientific initiation projects and 27 students who completed their final papers in the areas of Psychology and Education. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The researcher is been invited to discuss, in deepness, with researchers from UFSCar, ongoing and running research projects about social skills and related variables. In addition, he will present a conference and participate of a Symposium, organized by the group, for the Brazilian Psychology Association Annual Meeting, in order to divulge and to discuss recent research development in soc…
Marital Social Skills (MSS) are behaviors which contribute to maximize marital satisfaction, widen relationship quality and reduce relationship problems. These behaviors (MSS) may be developed through specific programs, whose results evidence effectiveness in studies abroad. However, Brazilian researches on this topic have been predominantly about characterization and correlation (not int…
The Brazilian educational scenario, after the National Curricular Common Base, has brought demands to the teachers that imply and amplify the challenges to their formation in order to be able to promote social and emotional development (SED) in the school context, especially in Early Childhood Education, when interventions tend to be more effective and less costly. The field of social ski…
Coping skills are described as one of the most important variables to promote or to maintain abstinence from psychoactive substances. Despite its importance, few attention has been given, over the years, to the development of tools to assess this variable in this specific context. Recently, some efforts have been made to change the status quo in this area, including in Brazil, where it wa…
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Marital Social Skills (MSS) are behaviors which contribute to maximize marital satisfaction, to improve relationship quality and reduce relationship problems. These behaviors (MSS) may be developed through specific programs, whose results evidence effectiveness in studies abroad. Evidence-based training programs seeks to consider global aspects of what is being produced in several countri…
Children and adolescents who are bullied avoid attending school, perform poorly academically, and suffer from depression and anxiety. As concern about the public health implications of bullying have risen, school districts have responded with bullying prevention programming, often following state legislative mandates. However, most of the programs used are not backed by evidence demonstra…
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