The past 5 years have witnessed a profound shift in the way psychological scientists think about methods and practices. Whereas the prevailing sentiment was once a general contentment with the status ...quo, despite occasional rumblings from methodologists and statisticians (Cohen, 1992; Greenwald, 1975; Maxwell, 2004; Rosenthal, 1979), most psychologists now agree that we could do better. Our growing momentum has placed psychological science at the cutting edge of a broad movement to improve methods and practices across scientific disciplines. And as we move from debating whether we should change to investigating how best to do so, we are increasingly coming to grips with the fact that there are no magic bullet solutions.
Counseling psychologists in eight countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) responded to survey questions that focused ...on their demographics as well as their professional identities, roles, settings, and activities. As well, they were asked about satisfaction with the specialty and the extent to which they endorsed 10 core counseling psychology values. This article reports those results, focusing both on areas in which there were between-country similarities as well as on those for which there were differences. These data provide a snapshot of counseling psychology globally and establish a foundation for the other articles in this special issue of the journal.
The article deals with the problem of forming the professional identity of future psychologists, a study of the self-concept as a factor in the formation of the professional identity of future ...psychologists was conducted.
?"This is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and historians will be grateful."— Library Journal, starred review First published ...in 1946, Viktor Frankl's memoir Man's Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its author's philosophical journey in the wake of the Holocaust. This long-overdue reappraisal examines Frankl's life and intellectual evolution anew, from his early immersion in Freudian and Adlerian theory to his development of the "third Viennese school" amid the National Socialist domination of professional psychotherapy. It teases out the fascinating contradictions and ambiguities surrounding his years in Nazi Europe, including the experimental medical procedures he oversaw in occupied Austria and a stopover at the Auschwitz concentration camp far briefer than has commonly been assumed. Throughout, author Timothy Pytell gives a penetrating but fair-minded account of a man whose paradoxical embodiment of asceticism, celebrity, tradition, and self-reinvention drew together the complex strands of twentieth-century intellectual life. From the introduction: At the same time, Frankl's testimony, second only to the Diary of Anne Frank in popularity, has raised the ire of experts on the Holocaust. For example, in the 1990s the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington purportedly refused to sell Man's Search for Meaning in the gift shop…. During the late 1960s and early 1970s Frankl became very popular in America. Frankl's survival of the Holocaust, his reassurance that life is meaningful, and his personal conviction that God exists served to make him a forerunner of the self-help genre.
Aunque la Organización Mundial de la Salud ha evidenciado la importancia de adoptar modelos integrados de asistencia basados en el enfoque bio-psico-social, en los servicios de salud, como los ...hospitales, existe todavía mucha resistencia para su implementación. Se presenta un estudio exploratorio cualitativo dirigido a comprender las representaciones y las demandas de los médicos hospitalarios con respecto a la intervención psicológica en los contextos hospitalarios italianos. Conforme a este objetivo se desarrolló un guión de entrevista semi-estructurada y se entrevistaron 15 médicos italianos divididos por género, edad y especialidad médica. Fueron investigados las representaciones de la enfermedad, el acercamiento a los pacientes y los modelos de intervención, la experiencia de colaboración con psicólogos, las representaciones de dónde, cuándo y cómo los psicólogos podrían ser útiles en el contexto hospitalario, las visiones generales del hospital y de su futuro, los puntos de fuerza y de debilidad de su trabajo, las estrategias utilizadas para superar las dificultades diarias y las estrategias propuestas para mejorar el sistema hospitalario. El análisis de contenido de las entrevistas ha revelado que la intervención psicológica está representada predominantemente como una intervención a nivel individual dirigida a contener el distrés emocional en relación con la enfermedad. Además se ha evidenciado la falta de consideración de la competencia psicológica como útil para promocionar el funcionamiento organizativo de los servicios hospitalarios. Estos resultados pueden apoyar la investigación futura en esta área y son utilizados para discutir las oportunidades de un diálogo constructivo entre ciencias médica y psicológica en los contextos hospitalarios. Psychologist in Italian hospital settings: An exploratory analysis of hospital physicians' representations and demands of psychological intervention | Tomai | Interdisciplinaria. Revista de Psicología y Ciencias Afines
The process of scientific-professional formation of the psychologist is of paramount importance for Psychology to meet the growing and changing social demands. For this reason, it is necessary to ...analyze this process in order to identify its fundamental elements and to deepen in its essence. Consequently, in this article a characterization of the process is made considering the most relevant epistemological, theoretical and methodological foundations. Finally, the objective of elaborating a concept of the scientific-professional formation of the psychologist that demonstrates its dynamic, complex, holistic and integrating character is achieved.
Presently, the profession of psychologist has evolved greatly since the first psychology degree was created in 80’s, however, in Portugal studies concerning the profession of psychologist are scarce. ...So there is was a need to describe the situation of psychologists in Portugal, as well as to predict and comparing it with other countries, in order to influence political and professional decisions regarding the practice. In the present study official data from Government sources and from the professional national association (Order of Portuguese Psychologist) was collected. The sample consisted of 14140 psychologists, 85% females and average age was 39. The results showed a great expansion both in academic and professional numbers: there are psychologists working in a wide spread areas and locations.
O artigo apresenta uma das obras do filósofo Sören Kierkegaard assinada pelo personagem Anti-Climacus. Inicia com uma crítica à especulação dos saberes afastados da realidade concreta e semimplicação ...com a vida. Descreve, em seguida, a doença que dá título à obra e suas personificações. Aopsicólogo, segundo Anti-Climacus, caberia detectar o desespero, assim como o médico detecta a presençada doença orgânica no paciente que afirma estar bem. Encontram-se descritos na obra ‘modos desubjetivação’, seja na consciência ou inconsciência de se ter um eu, no aprisionamento ao temporal emdetrimento do eterno, no esquecimento dos necessários em favor dos possíveis ou vice-versa. Pretende-semostrar a atualidade do estudo da obra para o psicólogo. This article presents one of the works by the philosopher Sören Kierkegaard signed by the charac-terAnti-Climacus. It opens with a critique to the speculation of knowledge that is away from concrete realityand bears no implication to life. The task of the psychologist, according to Anti-Climacus, would be todetect the despair, as well as the doctor detects the presence of the organ-ic disease in the patient whostates he is well. There are ‘ways of subjectivation’, described in the work, either in the consciousness orunconciousness of having a self, in the emprisonment to what is temporal in prejudice of what is eternal,in the forgetfulness of the necessary in favor of the possible or vice-versa. It aims at showing the actualityof studying this work to the psychologist.
Rates of social, behavioural, emotional and wellbeing difficulties among primary-aged pupils in Northern Ireland are rising. Providing school staff with training in how to support children displaying ...externalising behaviours is, therefore, an increasingly important role for educational psychologists. This study investigates the effects of a twilight training session in the use of child-directed play and coaching skills on teacher-reported interactions, teacher-child relationships and pupil behaviour. An embedded pretest-posttest design was employed, with forty-four primary school teachers and support staff completing baseline and post-training measures. Measures included a non-standardised questionnaire regarding participants' use of child-directed play and coaching skills, the Student Teacher Relationship Scale and the Sutter-Eyberg Student Behaviour Inventory-Revised. Four supplementary, open-ended questions were used to gain insight into participants' experiences of implementing child-directed play and coaching skills in the classroom. Thematic analysis and a range of statistical tests were employed to analyse the wealth of data. Findings indicate that educational psychologists' delivery of a single twilight training session has the potential to produce small but meaningful change in how school staff interact and relate to primary-aged children experiencing needs associated with social, behavioural, emotional and wellbeing difficulties. The impact of the twilight training session on wider markers of school inclusion is proposed as an area worthy of further investigation.
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