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Person-centred therapy, a therapeutic modality situated within the humanistic-existential approach, continues to be a key form of psychological intervention eight decades after its foundation. The ideas of its main founder, Carl Rogers, have been central in the development of psychotherapy research and practice as we know it today, within the boundaries of the humanistic-existential approach and beyond. First, the article introduces the psychopathological and psychotherapeutic theory that underlie the person-centred approach. It then focuses on recent developments within Rogerian theory, as well as on research on person-centred therapy conducted to date. After reviewing some ongoing debates in the field, from a 21st century perspective, the article concludes by reflecting on the current situation of the approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Latin American Political Psychology (PPL) is a field of knowledge composed of multiple theoretical and methodological references. However, some theories were not included in its repertoire, such as Group Operational Conception of Pichon- Rivière (GOCP). The aim of this article is to discuss possible contributions of GOCP to PPL. As a method we carried out a theoretical study on the work of Pichon- Rivière and PPL. As results, 1) we found aspects that distanced PPL from GOCP, such as biased interpretations, or its non-mention; 2) we conducted theoretical and political approaches between GOCP and a key author of PPL, Martín- Baró; and 3) we translated the group operation of Pichon-Rivière to the PPL, elaborating a psycho-political cartography of the different social positions. We conclude that the repertoire elaborated by GOCP can contribute to the PPL in the constitution of a field of analysis of collectives and social movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Latin American Political Psychology (LPP) is a recent field, instituted in the 1980s. Its emergence emphasizes its political character and social commitment, which we call the “Political Turn" of the LPP. Thus, this article aims to investigate the academic production of the LPP, to discuss this political turn and its effects for this field of knowledge. As a method, we carry out a bibliographic review on the production of Political Psychology of our continent. As results, we find severe criticisms of the LPP to the instituted Psychology, a great importance of the policies of Psychology for its field of analysis and a great valuation of the role of the political psychologist in contexts of oppression. We consider that the political turn of LPP changes the traditional scientific approach based on theories-methodologies and research objects, inserting a third axis of analysis: the ethical-political project, which politicizes the quotidian and the tools of reflection and intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Universities are training contexts with special characteristics, some of which are now undergoing profound change processes. So, having a well-prepared teaching staff has become a basic need that requires, in turn, having training plans as a strategic resource for improving the institutional development. The challenge now lies in how to design new teacher education programs more tailored to the changing context of the new Higher Education institutions: less casual and more systematic training, with targets from medium to long term, training focused on the needs of the institution rather than individual needs. Looking back on the experience, the paper analyzes the actual meaning of teacher training in universities and the factors affecting it; the functions performed by training and the conditions that should meet to fulfill them properly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Personalized healthcare requires recombining heterogeneous publicly available data with a patient's or group of patient's profile. A well-known problem in state-of-the-art information management is the overwhelming amount of information available. Besides, state-of-the-art solutions do not take advantage of modern semantic processing to adequately transform data into knowledge. This issue is especially relevant in the health domain, as key processes depend dramatically on the access to high quality, complete, up-to-date, and relevant content (e.g. diagnostics, risk assessment, public health interventions, etc.). This proposal aims to provide novel information management and retrieval solutions in the domain of health sciences to address the situation discussed above. More specifically, we introduce semantic reasoning to retrieve the most relevant knowledge available according to the health profile of a given person. For this, we developed a semantic model to represent health profiles of people and to characterize existing sources of relevant information in order to crawl them to populate a semantic repository with content references and properties. We outline the tools needed to query the knowledge base using the semantic profiles of individuals to get the most relevant content. The proposed solution, discussed here as a proof-of-concept, aims to contribute to the realm of personal health and evidence-based medicine technologies. The tools developed could also be used to take advantage of existing knowledge to facilitate a systematic review of reports, studies and analysis that may be relevant to the health conditions of single patients or patient profiles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The "referentiel" is a tool for assessment, accreditation and certification of competences or skills. Originally a Moodle module for certification of skills. It has a hierarchical structure which makes it possible to relate the skills of Practicum or work placement included in college studies and the activities and tasks proposed by the supervisor and tutor. This tool can generate evidences for assessment of skills. It also supports all the activities implemented and available in Moodle, which can be used for evaluation and accreditation of competences of future graduates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article intends to identify, make visible, describe, and explain the teaching practices that the best teachers of the University of Vigo declare to carry out. To do so, the authors have developed a process of research that includes qualitative interviews. Before stating the main conclusions of our research, we wish to explain that the concern of this work was not to do an evaluation of the teaching practices, good or bad, of the University of Vigo professors, but to look for models of good teaching practices. The main conclusion is that, even among the best teachers, the majority of current teaching practices could be classified as the traditional model of teaching in which the teacher and content play a central role. This fact shouldn't be surprising, nor should it cause us to diminish the importance of studying and making visible the teaching practices of good teachers, even if they are less innovative, as this is the best way to stimulate all teachers to improve their teaching practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents a piece of research into the intra- discursive process in which a specific social object, denoted by the expression "civil society", has been constructed and mobilized by a particular discourse of a Mexican rebel organization, at a definite moment, from January 1994 to September 1996. The analysis of this discourse enables the description of the parallel evolutions of four kinds of construction; extensive, comprehensive, relative and dynamic. After presenting this analysis and its interpretation in an extra-discursive context, the resultant arguments are used to discuss a number of theoretical conceptions of civil society and social mobilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: The study of intergroup emotions has been the focus of attention in recent decades to explain their incidence in the phenomena of political participation, electoral decision, social protest and collective actions, among others. However, there is still contradictory evidence on the role of emotions in political attitudes and behaviors, so reliable measures are required for their investigation. Currently, there are multiple measurement tools that are linked to innovative digital strategies for political communication, including specialized dictionaries for the detection of emotional language and its different valences (Garzón et al., 2020). However, it is required to expand the evidence of validity of new linguistic corpora that expand the existing dictionaries in Spanish to classify the narratives of political discourses. This study aims to validate a tool that allows linguistic analysis in political contexts. Method: An instrumental study was carried out and narratives of governors from 14 Latin American countries were analyzed, which were chosen by the Spanish language of the dictionary to establish measures of construct validity and convergence. Results: Existence of four factorial components (two positive and two negative) that group intergroup emotions, increasing the number of existing ones and delimiting them in the political context. Conclusions: Although the study provides elements to carry out studies based on intergroup emotions related specifically in political context, it is important to point out that it can be approached from different dimensions for a more holistic vision and in the understanding that socio-cultural and political juncture variables can determine errors, if they are approached only from a single methodological perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the motives leading to the participation in pacific resistance actions under the conditions of armed violence. Based within the framework of collective action, the roles of identity, grief, anger, hope-moral satisfaction, and efficacy were analysed on their implications on the actions of pacific resistance. The participants were 739 people living in the middle of the Colombian armed conflict, with different levels of involvement in pacific resistance movements. Correlation and regression analysis shows that all variables are significantly correlated to the level of involvement in resistance actions, except for anger. The best predictors in a regression equation are efficacy, moral hope-satisfaction, and identity. We used a structural equation model to analyse the role of these variables in motivating non-violent resistance actions, and the results show direct and significant paths. Grief is incorporated in the model as an exogenous variable that acts on identity, in order to potentiate its important motivational influence for the participation in resistance actions. The identity potentiates the mediator role of moral satisfaction-hope and efficacy. These findings are a novel contribution to the traditional theory, which explains the emergence of collective actions, since it incorporates positive and less-studied emotions within the mobilisation context, such as hope and moral satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, there is a huge amount of information available on Internet that can neither be interpreted nor used by software agents. This fact poses a serious drawback to the potential of tools that deal with data on the current Web. Nevertheless, in recent times, advances in the domain of Semantic Web make possible the development of a new generation of smart applications capable of creating added-value services for the final user. This work shows the technical challenges that must be faced in the area of nutrition in order to transform one or several oldfashion sources of raw data into a web repository based on semantic technologies and linked with external and publicly available data on Internet. This approach makes possible for automatic tools to operate on the top of this information providing new functionalities highly interesting in the domain of public health, such as the automatic generation of menus for children or intelligent dietetic assistants, among others. This article explains the process to create such information support applying the guidelines of the Linked Data initiative and provides insights into the use of tools to make the most of this technology for its adoption in related use cases and environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to test in a real political context whether or not a change in the beliefs which were fuelling the political violence in question is required during the advent of a peace process. Two hypothesis are considered: a) in the case of these beliefs not being modified, there will be difficulties to reach an atmosphere of trust between both parts and the process will fail, and b) if this happens, the groups will develop more extreme beliefs against the opponent. The results obtained through a textual analysis support both hypotheses. During the failure of the peace process, neither the strategy of the delegitimization of the opponent nor the identities in conflict were modified. Consequently, when the process failed, responsibility for this failure was attributed to the opponent, and, at the same time, delegitimization against the opponent intensified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research approaches leading to the understanding of the terrorist phenomenon are suggested. Seven principles explaining terrorism are analysed from a psychosocial approach: They could complete the explanations of terrorism focused in socio-structural and psychological variables, the latter being insufficient and often erroneous. Thus, terrorism is presented as a strategy of political influence, and the psychological attributes of terrorists are explained as the result of several influential social processes. We considered that terrorist attacks and campaigns correspond to strategic reasons, but we also assume that the rationality of the terrorist's perspective is limited. As far as the organisational parameters are concerned, we propose an analogy with ordinary social movements, especially relating to their ideological frameworks of legitimisation and resource mobilization processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on Fishbein and Ajzen (1975, 1980) and Ajzen and Madden (1986, 2002) proposal, this paper puts forward an extension of "Planned Behavior Theory" (PBT) for the understanding of the pro-ecological behavior. The main aim of this article is to explore the importance of emotional aspects as a contribution for the comprehension of the "low vehicle use" behavior, surpassing TPB explanations. This work uses the constructs of the theory, but also includes the emotional variable. For attaining the objective of the research a questionnaire was built and applied to 797 subjects of a Galician population (Spain). Results explaining Anger like one of the variables that confirming this behavior and its weight is superior to the traditional variables like perceived behavioral control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]