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Introduction: This article seeks to systematize and make effective the concerns and debates generated from the implementation of the Good Clinical and Research Practices course that psychologists must currently take in order to be accredited by the National Councilfor Health Research (CONIS) in compliance with the requirement of the Biomedical Research Regulation Law (No. 9234). Objective: To this end, the research seeks to identify the value that members of the academic and student community of the School of Psychology of the University of Costa Rica have on the approach to bioethics, health and the therapy in the framework of this course. Likewise, the objective is to learn the criteria that the academic community considers essential for the development of a course of this nature. Method and technique: The research methodology is qualitative and the data were collected using the problem-centered interview technique. Regarding the information analysis, the assessments made by the people consulted on the content of the Course were typified and then an analysis of the arguments supporting these assessments was developed. Results: The research shows that there are important disparities between the course paths and the way in which the interviewees conceive the work of psychology. One of the points on which there is most disagreement is the scope of the course, since some people think that it covers all disciplines, including psychology, while for others the course concerns only medical disciplines. As far as both teachers and students are concerned, two clearly defined antagonistic positions are outlined. One of these positions states that the Course is inadequate for the approach of ethics in relation to psychology, while the other position argues that the guidelines it provides are correct for that purpose. Conclusions: As a conclusion, an aspect that must be emphasized is that, although the contents of the course are valuable for thinking about ethical dilemmas in general terms, their applicability is limited for going deeper into the axiological problems of the psychological field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main target of this article is to present some reflections about the clinical supervision process accomplished with psychology students who participate in a professional clinical learning program of the Psychology School of the University of Costa Rica. The methodological approach entails to apprehend clinical supervision as an event - experience, where the supervisor directs the attention to the student-patient transferencial tie, placing himself/herself as a third person in the scene of the clinical practice. The results of this reflection indicate, in the same way of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, that secretary function could become a way to make possible the psychoanalytical listening in the framework of the teacher work of clinical supervision. To conclude, this work propose that subjectivity is an essential part of the supervision process of the clinical leaning program described, in which the analysis of transfer has a prevailing role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current article analyses the representation of social protest; concerning the demands made by the educational sector in a sample of news reports that were broadcast on the Costa Rican newscast REPRETEL throughout May; 2014. This research is carried out using a methodological multimodal analysis standpoint and the main aim is to ascertain the different persuasive mechanisms used to portray protest in the educational sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article analyses the construction of masculine sexuality that entails the sexological device, taking as source of analysis the TV program En el punto: de la ciencia al sexo, from the National Radio and Television System of Costa Rica (SINART). An important premise of the study is the contradiction in the heart of sexological discourse, according to which, in spite of the affirmation that sexuality is a holistic field, most of the suggestions, warnings and exhortations of this discipline, are directed to coitus. That polarization, reproduce the stereotypical designation of active men and passive women and strengthen a model of sexuality, in which the main goal is to maximize the performance of the male bio-genital apparatus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contrary to common knowledge, the metaphors constitute integral elements in the daily interaction between people. In general terms, the metaphor is a way of conceiving something in terms of a different thing, therefore there are as much metaphorical constructions, as objects susceptible to these transformations. Sexuality has been a privileged object in this procedure that could be named metaphorization. Today's sexological discourse, doesn't escape from these tendency, and by opposition, it has been particularly effective in making the substitution of a series of significations by others who have their concomitance with a modern cosmovision, a determined representation of the world that have become "objective": the sexuality placed in the order of the technification. The purpose of this article is to point out aspects product of these dicursive apprehension effect, as well as some problems derived from these operation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study of the epidemiology of proximal humerus fractures (PHF) among patients admitted to the accident and emergency (A&E) department of the Vigo University Hospital Complex in Spain from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2018. Topics discussed include the use of the imaging-test protocol for shoulder injuries in patients with suspected PHF, emergence of low-energy trauma as the most common among the cases, and increase in fractures during the autumn season.