Psicopatología en educación infantil. Casos prácticos


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Los problemas psicopatológicos están presentes desde la infancia. Un buen abordaje desde edades tempranas se revela vital en el tratamiento y la atención de estas problemáticas. La principal dificultad estriba en la detección temprana de estas dificultades, que afectan no solo al alumnado que las padece, sino también a sus iguales, sus familias, profesorado y escuela. A estas dificultades, cuando no se trabajan y resuelven en la edad infantil, se suman a otras como la baja motivación académica, el acoso escolar o el bajo rendimiento académico, que tanto preocupan a familias, profesorado, escuela y sociedad en general. La escuela es una institución que puede y debe colaborar en la detección de estos problemas. El objetivo principal de esta obra es ofrecer una visión detallada y lo más precisa posible de la psicopatología infantil entre los 0 y 6 años de edad, intentando proporcionar recursos y herramientas de trabajo a los profesionales de la educación infantil y a las familias, que tienen que afrontar estas necesidades educativas especiales, con lo que esto les supone. El libro presenta una visión completa de la problemática presente a estas edades, cuestiones como la depresión y ansiedad en la infancia, el trastorno disocial, el trastorno negativista desafiante, la enuresis, la encopresis, los problemas de alimentación, trastornos del sueño (insomnio, pesadillas, terrores nocturnos,…), trastorno de atención y/o hiperactividad, tics y trastornos motores, abuso y maltrato infantil, se abordan desde una perspectiva práctica. Primero, con una breve introducción sobre qué es, en qué y cómo afectan estas problemáticas en la edad infantil a los menores, sus familias y a la escuela. Para después, ilustrarlo con un caso práctico basado en casos reales que el autor ha trabajado en su experiencia profesional como psicólogo durante casi 20 años. El autor de este libro es profesor del Departamento de Psicología y Sociología de la Universidad de Zaragoza, desde hace más de quince años. Anteriormente, como psicólogo, durante casi veinte años su trabajo se centró en la psicopatología en niños y adolescentes. En la actualidad, imparte la asignatura de Psicopatología Infantil en la atención a la diversidad, del grado de Educación Infantil de la Facultad de Educación. Carlos Salavera es profesor del Departamento de Psicología y Sociología de la Universidad de Zaragoza, desde hace más de quince años. Anteriormente, desempeñó su trabajo como psicólogo con poblaciones desfavorecidas, durante casi veinte años, centrándose su trabajo en la psicopatología en niños y adolescentes. Ha publicado más de cincuenta artículos en revistas con índice de impacto, habiendo publicado un total de 112 artículos de investigación. También ha publicado tres libros: Nuevas Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales, Gamificación educativa: innovación en el aula para potenciar el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje y Metodologías activas en el aula: innovación educativa para fomentar el aprendizaje significativo del alumnado, que intentan abordar de manera novedosa y creativa los problemas en la edad infantil y juvenil. Su línea de investigación actualmente está centrada en la psicopatología de niños y adolescentes. En la actualidad, imparte la asignatura de Psicopatología Infantil en la atención a la diversidad del grado de Educación Infantil de la Facultad de Educación.




Social Behavior in Autism


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An important component of Division TEACCH's mandate from the Department of Psychiatry of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the North Carolina State Legislature is to conduct research aimed toward improving the understanding of developmental disabilities such as autism and to train the professionals who will be needed to work with this challenging population. An important mechanism to help meet these goals is our annual conference on topics of special importance for the understanding and treatment of autism and related disorders. As with the preceding books in this series entitled Current Issues in Autism, this most recent volume is based on one of these conferences. The books are not, however, simply published proceedings of conference papers. Instead, cer tain conference participants were asked to develop chapters around their pres entations, and other national and intemational experts whose work is beyond the scope of the conference but related to the conference theme were asked to contribute manuscripts as weil. These volumes are intended to provide the most current knowledge and professional practice available to us at this time.










South American Childhoods


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This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning—or intensification of—political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children’s rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration.




Disciplined Mind


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This brilliant and revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences reexamines the goals of education to support a more educated society for future generations. Howard Gardner’s concept of multiple intelligences has been hailed as perhaps the most profound insight into education since the work of Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, and even John Dewey. Here, in The Disciplined Mind, Garner pulls together the threads of his previous works and looks beyond such issues as charters, vouchers, unions, and affirmative action in order to explore the larger questions of what constitutes an educated person and how this can be achieved for all students. Gardner eloquently argues that the purpose of K–12 education should be to enhance students’ deep understanding of the truth (and falsity), beauty (and ugliness), and goodness (and evil) as defined by their various cultures. By exploring the theory of evolution, the music of Mozart, and the lessons of the Holocaust as a set of examples that illuminates the nature of truth, beauty, and morality, The Disciplined Mind envisions how younger generations will rise to the challenges of the future—while preserving the traditional goals of a “humane” education. Gardner’s ultimate goal is the creation of an educated generation that understands the physical, biological, and societal world in their own personal context as well as in a broader world view. But even as Gardner persuasively argues the merits of his approach, he recognizes the difficulty of developing one universal, ideal form of education. In an effort to reconcile conflicting educational viewpoints, he proposes the creation of six different educational pathways that, when taken together, can satisfy people’s concern for student learning and their widely divergent views about knowledge and understanding overall.




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Perspectives on Personality


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"Perspectives on Personality describes a range of viewpoints that are used by personality psychologists today, and helps students understand how these viewpoints can be applied to their own lives. Authors Charles Carver and Michael Scheier dedicate a chapter to each major perspective, presenting an overview on the perspective's orienting assumptions and core themes and concluding with a discussion of problems within that theoretical viewpoint and predictions about its future prospects. The Eighth edition incorporates several important recent developments in the field, including genetics and genomics and the biological underpinnings of impulsiveness"--Back cover




'Los Invisibles'


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Examining the social, medical and cultural history of male homosexuality in Spain, this book looks at it from the time homosexuality came to be an issue of medical, legal and cultural concern. Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and literary figures, "Los Invisibles" focuses on the change in cultural representation of same-sex activity of through medicalisation, social and political anxieties about race and the late emergence of homosexual sub-cultures in the last quarter of the twentieth century. As such, this book constitutes an analysis of discourses and ideas from a social history and medical history position. Much of the research for the book was supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to research the medicalisation of homosexuality in Spain.




Child and Adolescent Psychopathology


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How do biological and environmental factors influence the development of childhood and adolescent disorders? There has been a substantial increase of interest in research into child and adolescent psychopathology. In this book, Cecilia Essau brings together contributions from the UK, the US and Canada to provide a comprehensive summary of the information available on the subject. Beginning with an introduction to general issues related to child and adolescent psychopathology, including theoretical models of normal and abnormal development, each chapter goes on to address the issues associated with specific disorders, such as: oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder eating disorders substance use disorders somatoform disorders. The contributors present a thorough overview of each disorder, including discussion of definition and classification, epidemiology, risk factors, comorbidity, course, outcome and prevention. Child & Adolescent Psychopathology will be welcomed by all mental health professionals seeking a reliable source of scientifically and clinically relevant information on the nature and treatment of child and adolescent disorders.