Relaciones familiares y educaciónAnsiedad, depresión y otras variables, según la estructura familia

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Based on a study with ex-post-facto co-relational methodology involving 751 adolescents from various educational centres, the relationship between family structure and functioning and the levels of anxiety and depression in adolescence are analysed. The results obtained reflect that a stable, solid and close family environment are clearly beneficial to the mental and emotional stability of adolescent children, disregarding gender. This invites us to believe in the need to reinforce family ties and promote coexistence and “best practices” which generate satisfactory spaces for parents and their children to live together in. The family is always a part of the prevention and treatment of psychopathological disorders in adolescents, whatever their cause may be causa (Bee, Pilkington, Ryan y Jorm, 2014). For this reason, studies which propose strategies to prevent anxiety and depression in adolescents and those that relate risks and solutions that provide wellbeing for children are without doubt deserving of our attention (Garber, 2006). Confirmation of the positive impact that healthy family relations have on the wellbeing of children - and the contrary effects if the opposite is the case -, must encourage us to reinforce family ties and favour the time they spend at home with their parents.