Acción tutorial y clima escolar en los centros educativos a juicio del profesorado de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria

En este artículo se analiza cómo percibe el\ud profesorado la incidencia de la Acción Tutorial\ud en el Clima de Trabajo en los centros\ud educativos. Esta investigación viene\ud determinada por factores tan importantes\ud como comunicación, motivación y participación;\ud y otros de menor relevancia pero que no se\ud deben olvidar como la dirección del centro,\ud contexto, organización, planificación interna,\ud convivencia….Responde a la preocupación\ud por la mejora del sistema educativo español y\ud del funcionamiento de la organización\ud educativa, desde el estudio y conocimiento\ud riguroso.In this article it is analized the way that the\ud teaching staff perceives the tutorial staff\ud incidence in the working environment of the\ud centres.\ud This investigation is determined by important\ud factors as communication, motivation and\ud participation. There are also less important\ud factors, but they can’t be forgotten, for example\ud the direction of the center, context, organisation,\ud internal planning, coexistence…this is related\ud to the preoccupation about the improvement of\ud the Spanish educative system and the\ud development of the educative organisation\ud from the study and the rigorous knowledge

Identidad, significado y medición de las amas de casa

Cerca de una de cada cinco mujeres mayores de edad se dedica en exclusiva al trabajo do-méstico no remunerado en España. El contraste de los datos de dos metodologías distintas para la identificación y medición de esta actividad nos permite constatar la carga ideológica que acompaña al concepto "ama de casa": por un lado, los datos obtenidos por la Encuesta de Población Activa, con una metodología de identificación etic; por el otro, una encuesta realizada a más de once mil personas mayores de edad (de las cuales 5.986 eran mujeres) con una autoidentificación emic. En este trabajo profundizamos en la controversia del uso del concepto "ama de casa" en investigaciones sociales, así como en su pertinencia y límites como identificador de un grupo social.Nearly one in five women in Spain is dedicated exclusively to unpaid household work. Data from two different methodologies used in the identification and measurement of this ac-tivity allows us to observe the ideological loading of the term "housewife": first, the data obtained by the Labour Force Survey, with an etic identification approach; second, a sur-vey of more than eleven thousand adults (5,986 of which were women) with an emic self-identification approach. The study explores the controversial use of the term "housewife" in social research, as well as its relevance and limits as an identifier of a social group

Acción tutorial y clima escolar en los centros educativos a juicio del profesorado de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria.

En este artículo se analiza cómo percibe el profesorado la incidencia de la Acción Tutorial en el Clima de Trabajo en los centros educativos. Esta investigación viene determinada por factores tan importantes como comunicación, motivación y participación; y otros de menor relevancia pero que no se deben olvidar como la dirección del centro, contexto, organización, plani cación interna, convivencia.Responde a la preocupación por la mejora del sistema educativo español y del funcionamiento de la organización educativa, desde el estudio y conocimiento riguroso. In this article it is analized the way that the teaching staff perceives the tutorial staff incidence in the working environment of the centres. This investigation is determined by important factors as communication, motivation and participation. There are also less important factors, but they cant be forgotten, for example the direction of the center, context, organisation, internal planning, coexistencethis is related to the preoccupation about the improvement of the Spanish educative system and the development of the educative organisation from the study and the rigorous knowledge

La risoterapia para el alivio de la ansiedad y mejora del estado de ánimo en el paciente oncológico pediátrico.

La risoterapia es un complemento útil a las terapias tradicionales, y que consiste en una serie de técnicas con el fin de llegar a la carcajada. Además, esta terapia tiene múltiples beneficios, entre los que se encuentran los principales para la recuperación de la calidad de vida del paciente: el alivio del dolor y la disminución del estrés. El objetivo principal de esta revisión bibliográfica es conocer los efectos de la risoterapia dentro de los cuidados enfermeros en la salud de los pacientes oncológicos pediátricos. No obstante, esta enfermedad sigue presente y más de 300.000 niños son diagnosticados de cáncer cada año. Los niños que son diagnosticados de cáncer están muy expuestos a procesos en los que el malestar físico y psicológico se ve muy presente en el día a día. Ese malestar afecta a la calidad de vida del paciente y también de la familia, por lo que se ve necesario llevar a cabo un enfoque holístico en los cuidados que se presten. Por tanto, con este trabajo se pretenden conocer de forma exhaustiva los beneficios de esta terapia en el proceso de hospitalización, ya que los profesionales de enfermería cumplen un papel muy importante y pueden hacer uso de herramientas terapéuticas para disminuir ese estrés y ansiedad que aporta la enfermedad y su tratamiento en el niño.Laughter therapy is a useful complement to traditional therapies, and it consists of a sequence of techniques in order to produce the laugh. In addition, this therapy has multiple benefits, among which are the main ones for the recovery of the patient's quality of life: pain relief and stress reduction. The main objective of this literature review is to know the effects of laughter therapy in nursing care on the health of pediatric cancer patients. However, this disease is still present and more than 300,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year. Children who are diagnosed with cancer are highly exposed to processes in which physical and phycological discomfort is very present in everyday life. That malaise affects the quality of life of the patient and also of the family, that’s why it is necessary to carry out a holistic approach in the care provided. Therefore, the aim of this project is to gain a thorough understanding of the benefits of this therapy on the hospitalization process, because nursing proffesionals accomplish a very important role and can make use of therapeutic tools to reduce the stress and anxiety that the disease brings to the child and its treatment

Win-win transport strategies: searching for sinergies

In order to achieve to minimize car-based trips, transport planners have been particularly interested in understanding the factors that explain modal choices. In the transport modelling literature there has been an increasing awareness that socioeconomic attributes and quantitative variables are not sufficient to characterize travelers and forecast their travel behavior. Recent studies have also recognized that users? social interactions and land use patterns influence travel behavior, especially when changes to transport systems are introduced, but links between international and Spanish perspectives are rarely deal. In this paper, factorial and path analyses through a Multiple-Indicator Multiple-Cause (MIMIC) model are used to understand and describe the relationship between the different psychological and environmental constructs with social influence and socioeconomic variables. The MIMIC model generates Latent Variables (LVs) to be incorporated sequentially into Discrete Choice Models (DCM) where the levels of service and cost attributes of travel modes are also included directly to measure the effect of the transport policies that have been introduced in Madrid during the last three years in the context of the economic crisis. The data used for this paper are collected from a two panel smartphone-based survey (n=255 and 190 respondents, respectively) of Madrid

Win-Win transport strategies: searching for synergies.

The need of an urban transport strategy on urban areas which solves the environmental problems derived from traffic without decreasing the trip attraction of these urban areas is taken for granted. Besides there is also a clear consensus among researchers and institutions in the need for integrated transport strategies (May et al., 2006; Zhang et al., 2006). But there is still a lack of knowledge on the policy measures to be implemented. This research aims to deepen in the understanding of how do different measures interact when implemented together: synergies and complementarities between them. The methodological approach to achieve this objective has been the double analysis ? quantitative and comprehensive ? of the different impacts produced, first of all by each of the measures by itself, and later on combining these measures. For this analysis, we have first defined the objectives to achieve within the transport strategy ? emissions and noise decrease without losing trip attraction - , and then selecting the measures to test the effects these objectives generate. This selection has been based on a literature review, searching for measures with have proven to be successful in achieving at least one of the objectives. The different policies and policy combinations have been tested in a multimodal transport model, considering the city of Madrid as case study. The final aim of the research is to find a transport strategy which produces positive impact in all the objectives established, this is a win-win strategy

Virtual reality exposure-based therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder: a review of its efficacy, the adequacy of the treatment protocol, and its acceptability

Introduction The essential feature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to one or more traumatic events. According to evidence-based intervention guidelines and empirical evidence, one of the most extensively researched and validated treatments for PTSD is prolonged exposure to traumatic events; however, exposure therapy can present some limitations. Virtual reality (VR) can help to improve prolonged exposure because it creates fictitious, safe, and controllable situations that can enhance emotional engagement and acceptance. Objective In addition to carrying out a review to evaluate the efficacy of VR exposure-based therapy (VR-EBT) for the treatment of PTSD, the aim of this study was to contribute to analyzing the use of VR-EBT by: first, evaluating the adequacy of psychological treatment protocols that use VR-EBT to treat PTSD; and second, analyzing the acceptability of VR-EBT. Method We performed a replica search with descriptors and databases used in two previous reviews and updated to April 2015. Next, we carried out an evaluation of the efficacy, adequacy, and acceptability of VR-EBT protocols. Results Results showed that VR-EBT was effective in the treatment of PTSD. The findings related to adequacy showed that not all studies using VR-EBT reported having followed the clinical guidelines for evidence-based interventions in the treatment of PTSD. Regarding acceptability, few studies evaluated this subject. However, the findings are very promising, and patients reported high acceptability and satisfaction with the inclusion of VR in the treatment of PTSD. Conclusion The main weaknesses identified in this review focus on the need for more controlled studies, the need to standardize treatment protocols using VR-EBT, and the need to include assessments of acceptability and related variables. Finally, this paper highlights some directions and future perspectives for using VR-EBT in PTSD treatmen

Endogenous topoisomerase II-mediated DNA breaks drive thymic cancer predisposition linked to ATM deficiency

The ATM kinase is a master regulator of the DNA damage response to double-strand breaks (DSBs) and a well-established tumour suppressor whose loss is the cause of the neurodegenerative and cancer-prone syndrome Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T). A-T patients and Atm−/− mouse models are particularly predisposed to develop lymphoid cancers derived from deficient repair of RAG-induced DSBs during V(D)J recombination. Here, we unexpectedly find that specifically disturbing the repair of DSBs produced by DNA topoisomerase II (TOP2) by genetically removing the highly specialised repair enzyme TDP2 increases the incidence of thymic tumours in Atm−/− mice. Furthermore, we find that TOP2 strongly colocalizes with RAG, both genome-wide and at V(D)J recombination sites, resulting in an increased endogenous chromosomal fragility of these regions. Thus, our findings demonstrate a strong causal relationship between endogenous TOP2-induced DSBs and cancer development, confirming these lesions as major drivers of ATM-deficient lymphoid malignancies, and potentially other conditions and cancer types.Junta de Andalucía SAF2010-21017, SAF2013-47343-P, SAF2014-55532-R, SAF2017-89619-R, CVI-7948European Research Council ERC-CoG-2014-64735

Labour flows in the EU at the beginning of the crisis

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Avances en los tratamientos psicológicos: la utilización de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación

Los tratamientos psicológicos han logrado avances importantes en los últimos años. Desde la puesta en marcha del movimiento de la psicología basada en la evidencia disponemos de un buen número de protocolos de tratamiento que han demostrado ser eficaces y eficientes. En este sentido, merece subrayarse el papel desempeñado por las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TlCs). Nuestro grupo de investigación ha desarrollado y validado una serie de aplicaciones basadas en TICs que se comentan es este trabajo. En concreto, técnicas de Realidad Virtual, Realidad Aumentada y aplicaciones de Telepsicología basadas en internet. También se analizan algunas de las ventajas y limitaciones de estos procedimientos frente a los tratamientos tradicionales y se presentan datos acerca del grado de satisfacción manifestado por pacientes que recibieron un programa de tratamiento basado en TICs y se comentan algunas perspectivas de trabajo futurasPsychological treatments have made significant progress in the recent years. Since the start-up of evidence-based psychology, we have at our disposal a number of treatment protocols that have proved to be effective and efficient. In this sense, we have to emphasize the role played by the new information and communication technologies (ICTs). Our research group has developed and validated a series of ICT-based applications that are discussed is this work. In particular, virtual reality and augmented reality techniques, as well as Internet-based telepsychology applications. This article analyzes some of the advantages and limitations of these procedures compared to traditional treatments. It also presents data on the degree of satisfaction expressed by patients receiving a treatment programme based on ICTs and discusses future job prospect