Desarrollo de competencias emocionales para educadores sociales: resultados de la aplicación de un programa formativo

Patricia Torrijos-Fincias; Eva María Torrecilla-Sánchez; José Carlos Sánchez-Prieto; Virginia González-Santamaría

doi:10.7179/PSRI_2026.48.12

Authors

Patricia Torrijos-Fincias Universidad de Salamanca https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8183-1284
Eva María Torrecilla-Sánchez Universidad de Salamanca https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9184-8442
José Carlos Sánchez-Prieto Universidad de Salamanca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8917-9814
Virginia González-Santamaría Universidad de Salamanca https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3365-6332

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7179/PSRI_2026.48.12

Keywords:

Emotional development, social education, social-emotional learning, higher education, wellbeing

Abstract

The development of emotional competences is promoted as a key strategy to favour personal and social well-being and to face the challenges of professionals in the educational field. Current socio-educational needs require professionals who are willing to work in different contexts, emerging fields and with different groups, which requires new competences that are not always addressed in university curricula. The aim of this research is not only to highlight training needs, but also to train Social Education professionals in Emotional Education, starting from a prior detection of needs and designing and evaluating a training programme. For this purpose, within the framework of an evaluative research, an ex post facto study is proposed to analyse the training needs in the field of Emotional Competences in students of the Degree in Social Education at the University of Salamanca, also taking into account life satisfaction. Results show the relevance of Emotional Education in higher education, as it is a self-perceived need of the participants, as well as an improvement in the assessed level of competence and satisfaction with life. In conclusion, the Bachelor students are aware of the benefits of emotional education and of the need to get involved in training processes. The convenience of incorporating explicit intervention programmes in the curricula of future Social Education professionals and the importance of promoting training actions related to the development of socioemotional competences are discussed.

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Author Biographies

Patricia Torrijos-Fincias, Universidad de Salamanca

Diploma in Social Education and Degree in Psychopedagogy since 2008. In 2010 she completed her studies of Official Master's Degree in Teacher Training specialising in Educational Guidance at the University of Salamanca and Master's Degree in Sexology, Guidance and Sexual Counselling at the National Institute of Training and Consultancy. In June 2016 she obtained the title of Doctor with international mention and extraordinary prize. She is currently working as a Permanent Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, in the Didactics and School Organisation Area. As for her research profile, as a member of the GE2O Research Group, her line of research focuses on Emotional Intelligence, training and promotion of emotional competences.

Eva María Torrecilla-Sánchez, Universidad de Salamanca

Graduate in Special Education Teaching (2007), Degree in Pedagogy (2009), Master's Degree in Teaching Compulsory Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching. Speciality: Educational Guidance (2010), Official Master's Degree: ICT in Education: Analysis and design of processes, resources and training practices (2012) and International Doctorate with Excellent Cum Laude qualification in Educational Sciences, in the area of Research and Diagnostic Methods in Education (2014), with Extraordinary Doctorate Award. She is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Salamanca in the area of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education, working mainly in the line of research focused on Educational and Vocational Guidance.

José Carlos Sánchez-Prieto, Universidad de Salamanca

Diploma in Social Education, Degree in Pedagogy and official Master in the use of new technologies for education. He is currently a Permanent Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Salamanca, in the Department of Didactics, Organisation and Research Methods. Expert in socio-educational research methods.

Virginia González-Santamaría, Universidad de Salamanca

Degree in Pedagogy, Master in Disability and PhD from the University of Salamanca with international mention in 2018. She currently works as a Permanent Lecturer in the Department of Didactics, Organisation and Research Methods in the Faculty of Education at the University of Salamanca. Her teaching and research focuses on attention to diversity, intervention in maladaptation and learning difficulties.

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