MONTSE BUSQUETS BINEFA

 PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• Certificate of Teaching Aptitude (CAP). University of Barcelona.
• Accredited as a REGISTERED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST (Psicóloga General Sanitaria).
• EXPERT IN  PSYCHOTHERAPY certificate (EFPA), recognised by the  EuroPsy National Awarding Committee for Specialists in Psychotherapy and the Spanish Federation of Psychotherapist Associations.
• Collaborator with the UAB and internship TUTOR for the Master’s in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopathology. Supervision of 300 hours of practical training.
• CENTRE RECOGNISED AND AUTHORISED by the Catalan Government’s DEPARTMENT of HEALTH as a health psychology practice. Health Centres, Services and Establishments Register code: E08623029

CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Primary Training course in Rational-Emotive and cognitive-behavioral theory and techniques. Institut Ret Barcelona. Albert Ellis Institute, New York.
• Advance Training course in Rational-Emotive and cognitive-behavioral theory and techniques. Institut Ret Barcelona. Albert Ellis Institute.
• Children and adolescent primary practicum in rational-emotive and cognitive behavior therapy. Institut Ret Barcelona. Albert Ellis institute New York.
• Children and adolescent advance practicum in rational-emotive and cognitive behavior therapy. Institut Ret Barcelona. Albert Ellis institute New York.
• Conflict management in the classroom: children and adolescents with challenging behaviour”. Fundació Privada Adana.
• Técnicas terapeuticas ante la pérdida: Los métodos narrativos de asesoramiento a las personas en duelo.  Dr.Robert Neimeyer. Instituto de Psicoterapia Integrativa-relacional en pérdidas, duelo y Trauma (IPIR).
• Intervention in learning disorders: ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, NVLD. Fundació Privada Adana.
• Conference on diversity in education: individualised plans. Official College of Psychologists.
• Intervención Sistémica Breve con adolescentes y famílias. Dr. Mark Beyebach. Institut Gestalt.
• Seminar on solution-focused school intervention: principles, techniques and applications. Dr Mark Beyebach. Institut Gestalt.
• Theoretical and experiential course on emotional intelligence with children and adolescents. Official College of Psychologists.
• Administration and interpretation of basic tests in educational psychology. Official College of Psychologists.
• Treatment  of depression. Conceptualisation from Rational Emotive Therapy”. Given by Dr Guy Azoulaï. Institut Ret.
• Anger and resistance in difficult patients. How to treat self-control problems from Rational Emotive Therapy”. Dr Dom DiMattia. Institut Ret.
• Terapia de Juego Racional Emotiva Conductual. Dra. Ana Catalina Vargas. Institut ret.
• Family, adolescents and school. Given by Giorgio Nardone. Barcelona. (Brief Strategic Therapy model).
• Conference on childhood and adolescent depression: clinical features and treatment. (COPC, Official College of Psychologists of Catalonia).
• Children, adolescents and families in difficulty. Centre for Strategic Intervention and Therapy.
• Niños y adolescentes difíciles. Andrea Fiorenza .
• Interpreting the HTP, Family Drawing and Animal projective tests for therapeutic purposes. Marisol Matamoros, psychologist and psychotherapist.
• Limitations in the treatment of behavioural disorders in children and young people”. Dr Josep Toro.
• Written language disorders. Dyslexia. ISEP
• ADHD. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. ISEP
• ADHD conference. Badalona Hospital. Organised by the ADHD Platform.
• Psychological disorders. Fundació WAE.
• Theoretical and practical approach to rational emotive behaviour therapy”. Institut de Teràpia Racional Emotiva i Comportamental.
• School and social inclusion of people with severe and permanent developmental disorders. Institució GURU.
• Observing and analysing pupils’ behaviour as a tool for operational diagnosis at school”. Joan Fortuny.
• Music therapy at school. Rosa Sensat Summer School. Serafina Poch Blasco.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Since 2002  and with more than 15 years’ experience working with specialist centres in education and in child and adolescent diagnosis and intervention.

In September 2013 the montsebusquets centre was founded, where I began working independently. My professional background to date includes:

Health psychology

Registered child and adolescent clinical psychologist. Private practice. (ISEP) Duties:

• Psychoeducational re-education
• Psychoeducational support for children and adolescents with learning disorders and low academic performance.

Child and adolescent psychologist. Private practice (Psicoat). Duties:

• Psychoeducational re-education
• Psychoeducational support for children and adolescents with learning disorders and low academic performance.

Psychologist and psychotherapist. Private centre  (CIM Centre de Psicologia Mèdica de Badalona). Duties:

• Initial interviews
• Assessment and diagnosis
• Writing diagnostic reports
• Individual psychotherapy for children and adolescents
• Family guidance and counselling
• Emotional therapy groups for children
• Psychoeducational intervention in learning disorders.
• Coordination with schools and other external services (EAP, CSMIJ)
• Talks for parents

Psychologist and psychotherapist. Centre Mèdic Policlínic de Castelldefels. Duties:

• Initial interviews
• Assessment and diagnosis
• Psychological and psychoeducational treatment
• Writing reports
• Counselling for families with children aged 0-5

Schools

School psychologist. Training period. Escola Casal dels Àngels. Duties:

• Direct participation in the work of the special education classroom.
• Monitoring and supporting children with developmental and learning difficulties in P3 classes.
• One-to-one work with a P5 child with special educational needs.
• Administering psychometric tests from P5 to Year 6 of primary school.
• Observing interviews with parents and teachers of pupils with learning difficulties, and with other psychologists from early intervention centres.

Special education school. Training period. Duties:

• Accompanying and supervising children with SEN  (special educational needs).
• Getting to know children with severe or very severe SEN from every angle: psychological-emotional and educational-social.
• Drawing up the IEP (individual curriculum adaptation, now Individualised Plans, PI)  for pupils with special educational needs.

Special education assistant. (CEIP Mallorca, Barcelona). Duties:

• Psychotherapeutic support in the classroom for children with special educational needs.
• Guidance and support for teachers
• Coordination with other external professionals (EAP, CSMIJ)

Escola Urgell, Barcelona. Training period. Educational guidance. Duties:

• Helping to identify pupils’ specific needs
• Carrying out individual psychological and educational assessments of pupils who need them.
• Working with teachers to detect and prevent learning problems through  group tests.
• Providing teachers and families with information on pupils’ psychoeducational assessment and characteristics.
• Giving tutors  tools to foster their relationship and collaboration with families (regarding educational assessment).
• Supporting tutors in their relationship with families.
• Advising teachers on planning organisational and teaching strategies to meet pupils’ educational needs.
• Guiding families to take charge of their children’s education (individual counselling or group talks).
• Setting observation guidelines.
• Providing individual attention to pupils with educational needs and to those who require specific attention because of personal or social circumstances.
• Providing learning support in the core subjects to primary pupils
• Supporting and monitoring pupils with specific difficulties and pupils in shared schooling.
• Providing personalised emotional and curricular support in Catalan to newly arrived pupils (welcome class).
• Drawing up the proposed criteria and procedures for the individualised programmes.
• Creating  adapted teaching materials and activities so that teachers have the resources needed for these pupils to take part in mainstream classroom activities.
• Working directly in the classroom with teachers to provide instructional strategies and techniques for carrying out the individualised programmes of pupils with SEN.
• Working with the Year 10 (4.º ESO) tutor on guidance  about pupils’ professional  and academic future.
• Making classroom adaptations: adjusting curriculum content at classroom level and drawing up assessment criteria.
• Guidance on formative assessment.
• Drawing up the  protocols for continuity of shared schooling and the work plans.

TEACHING, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS 

Since 2006, talks at schools across Catalonia to guide and advise teachers and parents:

• Specific disorders of childhood and adolescence: bullying, ADHD, etc.
• Society, school and education: how to help our children with their studies, relationships with the family and the school, consumer education, television and video games, how to prevent substance use.
• Family relationships, communication and education: communication between parents and children, how to set limits, strategies for everyday problems,  parental authority, the importance of discipline, characteristics of adolescence.
• Workshop for parents: how to improve communication with our children.
• Workshop for parents of children with ADHD. In collaboration with the Badalona ADHD Platform and the CIM Centre.
• Information talk for students of the higher vocational courses in Early Childhood Education and Social Integration at IES La Bastida (Santa Coloma de Gramenet), on what ADHD is,  its warning signs, main symptoms, types of treatment  and how to deal with children with  an ADHD diagnosis.
• Parenting  school. CEIP Lola Anglada, Tiana.
• Internship tutor for the Master’s in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopathology. Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).

MEDIA

• Appearances on the local radio station “Ona Mar” in Badalona on topics related to childhood and adolescence.