HOW A PSYCHOMOTRICITY/RESILIENCY PROGRAM HELPS BRAZILIAN AND PORTUGUESE STUDENTS TO DEAL WITH ADVERSITY AND PROMOTE A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE AND A BETTER LEARNING PROCESS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

The aim of this paper is to study resilience and psychomotricity in brazilian and portuguese students, that faces personal and social adverse factores, that together, can contribute to increase stress and risk factors, that are able to reduce or destroy the possibilities of a postive answer from the child when facing of diary adversities and interferes in her self-steem and well being, and can result in scholar failure.
A Project is presented, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, following programs were used: Strong Start – to kids from 3 to 7 years old; Strong Kids- from 8 until 13 years old, and Strong Teens, from 14 to 18 years old. They will be evaluated by WeBest (Strong Start Program), SEARS-A, Strong Kids Unit Tests ( Symptoms Test and Knowledge Test) to Strong Kids Program , SEARS-C, and Strong Teens Unit Tests ( Symptoms Test and Knowledge Test) to Strong Teens Program, for Resilience and with Portage Inventory (from 3 to 6 years old) for Psychomotricity.
We intend with this comparative study to evaluate the effectiveness of the early intervention programs to promote resilient personalities. The implications of these results will be discussed and will be suggested changes at learning-teaching process and also at its evaluations and interventions to get scholar sucess.