Ana Berástegui Pedro-Viejo

Biographic Data

ID4049299
NAMEAna Berástegui Pedro-Viejo
GIVEN NAMESAna Berástegui
FAMILY NAMEPedro-Viejo
SIGNATUREPEDRO-VIEJO A B
AFFILIATIONSUniversidad Pontificia Comillas
ORCID0000-0002-8554-1791
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Nurturing bonds that empower learning: A systematic review of the significance of teacher-student relationship in education

    Open AccessGiulia Di Lisio, Antonio Milá Roa et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2025

  • The longitudinal associations between teacher-student relationships and school outcomes in typical and vulnerable student populations: A systematic review

    Open AccessGiulia Di Lisio, Amaia Halty Barrutieta et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology of Education2025

    This systematic review examines the teacher-student relationship (TSR) from an attachment perspective and explores its impact on academic (dis)engagement, (under)achievement and Early School Leaving (ESL) over time. It addresses two objectives: (1) examining the longitudinal influence of TSR on academic outcomes and (2) assessing its effect on vulnerable student populations, including those facing Social Vulnerabilities (e.g., students from ethni…

  • Navigating Open Adoption: Insights from Adoptive Families in Spain

    Ana Berástegui Pedro-Viejo, Nerea Barrios et al.ARTICLEAdoption Quarterly2025Cited by: 1References: 4

  • Family keyworker as a non‐clinical and democratic figure to support hard‐to‐reach families from an attachment perspective

    Open AccessAna Berástegui Pedro-Viejo, Carlos PitillasARTICLEJournal of Family Theory & Review2024References: 3

    We express gratitude to both Silvia Lordello and Daniel J. Puhlman for their insightful comments on our paper entitled “The Family Keyworker as a Critical Element for Attachment Resilience in the Face of Adversity” (Berástegui & Pitillas, 2024). Lordello's and Puhlman's observations and concerns regarding our application of an attachment lens to the work of family keyworkers (FKWs) provide us with an opportunity to nuance and better explain our p…

  • An ABCX model of family adjustment in adoption and permanent fostering of children with intellectual disability

    Open AccessNoemí García-Sanjuán, Ana Berástegui Pedro-Viejo et al.ARTICLEAdoption & Fostering2024References: 3

    Children with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) represent a growing proportion of children who are adopted or in foster care. This study aims to explore family adjustment in foster and adoptive families of children with IDD using the ABCX model of family adjustment. Sixty-two families with adopted and foster children with IDD between two and 36 years old in Spain participated in the study. Parents completed a self-reported question…

  • Psychometric study of the differentiation of self scale-revised in a sample of Spanish adults

    Open AccessJesús Oliver, Rafael Jódar Anchía et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

    This study analyzes the psychometric properties of the Differentiation of Self Scale-Revised (DSS-R), an instrument assessing the differentiation of the self of Spanish adults through the dimensions I Position, Emotional Reactivity, Fusion with Others and Emotional Cutoff, and of a new dimension, Dominance over Others. In Study 1, carried out with 1445 subjects, exploratory factor analysis was performed with one half of the participants, and conf…

  • The family keyworker as a critical element for attachment resilience in the face of adversity

    Open AccessAna Berástegui Pedro-Viejo, Carlos PitillasARTICLEJournal of Family Theory & Review2023Cited by: 5References: 7

    Attachment resilience is the ability of attachment relationships to survive adversity and maintain their functions in the face of stress and is a critical component of personal and family resilience. This property is the result of interactive influences across multiple systems of care. In this way, security is transferred across what we call chains of security. This paper will delve into how family keyworkers (i.e., professionals who are referent…

  • Differentiation of Self in Adult Adoptees in Spain: The Role of Family Functioning, Adoption Communication, and Age at Placement

    Jesús Oliver, Ana Berástegui Pedro-ViejoARTICLEAdoption Quarterly2023References: 7

    This study analyzes differentiation of self in adult adoptees and its relationship with family functioning and adoption communication in the adoptive family and with some sociodemographic and adoption variables. Fifty domestic and intercountry adult adoptees completed a self-report including the Differentiation of Self Scale, the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale-20Esp, the Adoption Communication Scale-Spanish, and a sociodemograp…

  • Análisis de la adaptación de las familias con hijos o hijas con síndrome de Down durante la infancia desde el modelo Doble ABCX

    Open AccessEva Rubio Guzmán, Rosalía Mota López et al.ARTICLEAlternativas Cuadernos de trabajo…2022Cited by: 2References: 2

    Introducción. El nacimiento de un hijo o hija con síndrome de Down impacta en la vida de la familia requiriendo su adaptación y ajuste a la nueva situación. Las familias pueden diferir en su capacidad para manejar estos cambios, dependiendo de los recursos de apoyo social con los que cuentan, así como sus fortalezas y habilidades para afrontar los problemas. El artículo, a partir del modelo Doble ABCX (McCubbin y Patterson, 1983) estudia la contr…

  • Enhancing Caregiving in Traumatized Families: An Attachment‐Centered Approach to Working with Parent Groups

    Open AccessCarlos Pitillas, Ana Berástegui Pedro-Viejo et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2021

    This paper outlines a model of attachment‐centered group interventions to enhance caregiving among parents suffering from early trauma and/or social hardship. Groups are understood as an essential source of experiences that may restore traumatized adults’ relational security, and enhance their parenting capacities, in face of biographical and contextual factors that compromise caregiving. The model is especially suited for intervention within soc…

  • Enhancing maternal sensitivity in contexts of urban extreme poverty in Sierra Leone: A pilot study

    Open AccessCarlos Pitillas, Ana Berástegui Pedro-Viejo et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal2021References: 38

    This pilot study presents preliminary data on the efficacy of Strong Bonds, Strong Pikin (SBSP), a brief intervention program that aims to enhance sensitivity among mothers who care for their preschool children in a slum settlement in Freetown (Sierra Leone). SBSP adapts principles of attachment theory to intervention within a non‐Western cultural setting, where families suffer from extreme poverty. A combination of psychoeducation, group work, v…

  • La “ventaja del síndrome de Down” en la calidad de vida de jóvenes con discapacidad intelectual

    Open AccessAna Berástegui Pedro-Viejo, Ana Berástegui et al.ARTICLESiglo Cero2020

    El objetivo del estudio fue examinar el fenómeno descrito en la literatura como la “ventaja del síndrome de Down” en la calidad de vida familiar e individual de jóvenes con discapacidad intelectual (DI). La muestra la formaron 84 jóvenes con DI (Edad media 21,41 años; DT = 2,87), de los que 20 tenían síndrome de Down (SD) (23,81 %). Los instrumentos utilizados fueron la Escala de Calidad de Vida Familiar (CVF) y la Escala INICO-FEAPS, en su versi…

  • Los menores con discapacidad como víctimas de maltrato infantil: Una revisión

    Open AccessAna Berástegui Pedro-Viejo, Blanca Gómez Bengoechea et al.ARTICLEPsychosocial Intervention2006

    La protección adecuada de los derechos de los menores con discapacidad es todavía una asignatura pendiente de nuestras sociedades. El objetivo de esta revisión es aumentar la conciencia de los profesionales de la intervención psicosocial del mayor riesgo que sufren los menores discapacitados de sufrir cualquier tipo de abuso, no solo por factores asociados a su situación personal, familiar y social, sino también por la mayor dificultad de los pro…