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The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America
This biographical encyclopedia will provide the first comprehensive reference work on leading scholars and professionals who have contributed to the development and institutionalization of psychology in Latin America. The figures biographed will include scholars who have made a significant theoretical contribution to the discipline, as well as, practitioners and those who have contributed to the institutionalization of psychology, through their work in scientific organisations, professional bodies and publications. All persons included are recognized authorities and either natives of, or long-term residents in the region. It will offer an invaluable reference point, in particular for scholars of the history of psychology, Latin American studies, the history of science, and global psychology; as well as for historians, psychologists and social scientists seeking international perspectives on the development of the discipline.
Guide to Psychological Assessment with Hispanics
This book focuses on diversity, culture, and ethnicity as they relate to psychological assessment of Hispanics. It is a how-to guide for clinicians, researchers, and instructors working with Hispanic clients. Each chapter contains an overview of cultural considerations needed for assessing the Hispanic client followed by a specific exploration of the assessment measures available and the research that has been conducted on these measures with Hispanic participants. An exploration of the strengths and limitations of each assessment measure is included. Considering that ethnocultural minority individuals who are of Hispanic/Latino origin make up the largest ethnocultural minority group in the ...
Stress and Anxiety. Theory, practice and measurement
The selection of peer-reviewed chapters in this edition of Stress and Anxiety addresses three major areas of topical interest: Theory, practice and measurement. Authors ask ``What is the meaning of stress'' and offer a reconceptualization of the topic. They take us on a journey across decades of strategies we use to cope with stress. Recommendations for practice based on theory form a significant part of this edition. A focus on children and practice implications at home and in the school are presented. All papers presented in this volume are not only relevant to theory and understanding factors which influence behaviour but, most importantly, there are significant implications for practice and measurement.
Research Methods for Social Work
Part 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO INQUIRY. 1. Scientific Inquiry and Social Work. 2. Philosophy and Theory in Science and Research. 3. The Ethics and Politics of Social Work Research. Part 2: PROBLEM FORMULATION AND MEASUREMENT. 4. Problem Formulation. 5. Conceptualization and Operationalization. 6 . Measurement. 7. Constructing Measurement Instruments. Part 3: SAMPLING AND SURVEYS. 8. Sampling. 9. Survey Research. Part 4: DESIGNS FOR EVALUATING PROGRAMS AND PRACTICE. 10. Group Experiments for Evaluating Programs and Practice. 11. Quasi-Experimental Designs For Evaluating Programs and Practice. 12. Single-Case Evaluation Designs. 13. Issues in Program Evaluation. Part 5: QUALITATIVE, UNOBTRUSIVE AN...
Handbook of Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Personality Assessment
Throughout the world as in the United States, psychologists are increasingly being called upon to evaluate clients whose backgrounds differ from their own. It has long been recognized that standard personality and psychopathology assessment instruments carry cultural biases, and in recent years, efforts to correct these biases have accelerated. The Handbook of Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Personality Assessment brings together researchers and practitioners from 12 countries with diverse ethnic and racial identities and training to present state-of-the-art knowledge about how best to minimize cultural biases in the assessment of personality and psychopathology. They consider research meth...
Stress and Anxiety
The book focuses on stress in the context of education and health. The first part is concerned with stress in educational settings including stress, anxiety, and coping of preschoolers, primary school children, college students adolescents and teachers. The second part deals with stress and its effects on health, e.g. while coping with a distaster, with chronic pain or myocardial infarction.
Psicodiagnóstico clínico del niño
El libro de Psicodiagnóstico desde su aparición en 1994 se ha constituido en un texto básico tanto para estudiantes de psicología como para los profesionistas que requieren ofrecer un tratamiento psicológico adecuado a los niños, a los adolescentes y a sus familias, con base en la utilización de diferentes técnicas de evaluación diseñadas por y para psicólogos. Los cambios que se incluyen en esta edición reflejan una actualización necesaria en el avance de la investigación y el trabajo clínico del psicólogo, pero de ninguna manera significan un cambio en la perspectiva de la visión de las autoras sobre el psicodiagnóstico. Para esta edición se revisaron y actualizaron todo...
Psicopatología, Riesgo y tratamiento de los problemas infantiles
El principal objetivo de Psicopatología. Riesgo y tratamiento de los problemas infantiles, es brindar apoyo a los estudiantes y profesionales de la psicología clínica, en algunos de los quehaceres fundamentales de la profesión que son el diagnóstico y la intervención. Este libro es el resultado del trabajo conjunto de profesores y alumnos de la Facultad. El libro está estructurado en la modalidad teórico-práctica y esto le confiere una riqueza especial, porque no sólo se obtiene la información sobre aspectos fundamentales de los diagnósticos, sino también en los factores que influyen en las diferentes patologías y la forma en que se puede intervenir. Las propuestas de intervenc...
Psicopatología forense
Este libro representa el panorama más actualizado de Ia Psicología Jurídica, Criminológica y Forense en América Latina. Para crearlo, el Director de Ia obra convocó investigadores de 40 instituciones (universidades, fiscalías, poderes judiciales y centros de investigación) de Alemania, Argentina, Canadá, Chile, Colombia, España, Estados Unidos y México. Científicos del comportamiento humano (psicólogos, neuropsicólogos y neurofisiólogos), juristas expertos y forenses de rotunda experiencia, analizan conceptos y aplicaciones a poblaciones específicas, como los agresores sexuales, los adolescentes en conflicto con Ia ley penal y los psicópatas. Además, se analizan temas selec...
Fracturas de la memoria: un siglo de violencia y trauma cultural en el arte mexicano moderno y contemporáneo
El presente libro está orientado a ampliar el estudio del arte mexicano de los siglos XX y XXI desde perspectivas interdisciplinarias, que en el marco de los estudios recientes sobre memoria cultural, teoría de género, y psicoanálisis contribuyan a profundizar en el conocimiento y en la difusión de procesos creativos relacionados con la memoria, el olvido y los encuentros con las huellas de traumas de carácter colectivo, especialmente en su potencial para la transformación social
