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Los trastornos de ansiedad se hallan entre los trastornos psiquiátricos más discapacitantes y prevalentes, más frecuentes que los trastornos del estado de ánimo o los relacionados con el consumo de sustancias. A menudo infradiagnosticados, son responsables de una tercera parte de todos los costes relacionados con los trastornos psiquiatricos. Este tratado detalla los esquemas diagnosticos, los modelos psicobiologicos y las intervenciones farmacologicas y psicoterapeutica que se han desarrollado ultimamente, asi como los ultimos avances en investigacion, la teoria y los conocimientos clinicos en este campo tan diverso. En esta obra participan expertos de diferentes paises y abarcan la etiologia, la psicoterapia y la farmacoterapia de los trastornos de ansiedad mas importantes (trastorno de ansiedad generalizada, trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo, trastorno de angustia, fobia social y trastorno de estres postraumatico). Los autores comentan tambien los trastornos de ansiedad relacionados con la infancia, la adolescencia y la senectud, los ambitos asistenciales, el abuso de sustancias y la cultura y la sociedad.

"Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers, Eightg Edition," gives teachers the information and skills they need to establish management systems in today''s rich, multicultural classroom, based on the authors'' 30 years of research and experience in more than 500 classrooms. This best-selling text helps readers plan, implement and develop the most basic classroom management tasks to develop a smoothly running classroom that encourages learning. Written for the prospective or new elementary school teacher, the text''s content is ready to be applied in a classroom setting. The text addresses the planning decisions teachers must make, including arranging the physical space, creating a positive climate, establishing expectations, rules and procedures, planning and conducting instruction, encouraging appropriate behavior, addressing problem behavior, and using good communication skills, with particular attention paid to the growth of diverse and inclusive classrooms.

Con su notable don para exponer con claridad sus teorías e investigaciones, Lefrançois nos ofrece descripciones excepcionalmente vividas del desarrollo del niño.Esta nueva edición contiene los temas mas vitales y las teorias mas recientes sobre los niños, con todo lo que implican para padres y maestros.Tambien incluye material nuevo relacionado con descubrimientos geneticos sobre la reproduccion y los defectos al nacer,a vances de la medicina para niños prematuros, peligros ambientales y sus efectos sobre el desarrollo de los niños, las repercusiones sociales y culturales de las minorias que van en aumento, el efecto de las corrientes sociales relacionadas con el consumo de drogas, el divorcio, la atencion a los niños sin familia, el embarazo adolescente y la violencia en los medios de informacion

Raymond D. KentA major new reference work with entries covering the entire field of communication and speech disorders. A massive reference work on the scale of MITECS (The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences), The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders will become the standard reference in this field for both research and clinical use. It offers almost 200 detailed entries, covering the entire range of communication and speech disorders in children and adults, from basic science to clinical diagnosis. MITECD is divided into four sections that reflect the standard categories within the field (also known as speech-language pathology and audiology): Voice, Speech, Language, and Hearing. Within each category, entries are organized into three subsections: Basic Science, Disorders, and Clinical Management. Basic Science includes relevant information on normal anatomy and physiology, physics, psychology and psychophysics, and linguistics; this provides a scientific foundation for entries in the other subsections. The entries that appear under Disorders offer information on the definition and characterization of specific disorders, and tools for their identification and assessment. The Clinical Management subsection describes appropriate interventions, including behavioral, pharmacological, surgical, and prosthetic. Because the approach to communication disorders can be quite different for children and adults, many topics include separate entries reflecting this. Although some disorders that are first diagnosed in childhood may persist in some form throughout adulthood, many disorders can have an onset in either childhood or adulthood, and the timing of onset can have many implications for both assessment and intervention. Topics covered in MITECD include cochlear implants for children and adults, pitch perception, tinnitus, alaryngeal voice and speech rehabilitation, neural mechanisms of vocalization, holistic voice therapy techniques, computer-based approaches to children?s speech and language disorders, neurogenic mutism, regional dialect, agrammatism, global aphasia, and psychosocial problems associated with communicative disorders.

Si regresamos a 1980, cuando apareció la primera edición de Neuropsicología Humana, recordamos que en la década de 1970 la neuropsicología no existía como cuerpo unificado de conocimiento sobre el cerebro humano. El campo se habia reunido a

The bestselling analysis of higher education's impact, updated with the latest data How College Affects Students synthesizes over 1,800 individual research investigations to provide a deeper understanding of how the undergraduate experience affects student populations. Volume 3 contains the findings accumulated between 2002 and 2013, covering diverse aspects of college impact, including cognitive and moral development, attitudes and values, psychosocial change, educational attainment, and the economic, career, and quality of life outcomes after college. Each chapter compares current findings with those of Volumes 1 and 2 (covering 1967 to 2001) and highlights the extent of agreement and disagreement in research findings over the past 45 years. The structure of each chapter allows readers to understand if and how college works and, of equal importance, for whom does it work. This book is an invaluable resource for administrators, faculty, policymakers, and student affairs practitioners, and provides key insight into the impact of their work. Higher education is under more intense scrutiny than ever before, and understanding its impact on students is critical for shaping the way forward. This book distills important research on a broad array of topics to provide a cohesive picture of student experiences and outcomes by: * Reviewing a decade's worth of research; * Comparing current findings with those of past decades; * Examining a multifaceted analysis of higher education's impact; and * Informing policy and practice with empirical evidence Amidst the current introspection and skepticism surrounding higher education, there is a massive body of research that must be synthesized to enhance understanding of college's effects. How College Affects Students compiles, organizes, and distills this information in one place, and makes it available to research and practitioner audiences; Volume 3 provides insight on the past decade, with the expert analysis characteristic of this seminal work.

The Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) has become the best evaluative measure of motor function designed for quantifying change in the gross motor abilities of children with cerebral palsy.The new version of the scoring programme has now been released, and includes two abbreviated methods of estimating GMFM-66 scores using the GMFM-66-Item sets and the GMFM-66-Basal & Ceiling.The measure is very widely used internationally, and is now the standard outcome assessment tool. This new edition builds on the wide success of the first edition and:- Is now based on an updated version of the GMFM scoring program (GMAE-2).- Includes an update on the psychometric properties of the GMFM-88 and GMFM-66.- Covers development and validation of two abbreviated methods of estimating GMFM-66 scores using the GMFM-66 Item sets (GMFM-66-IS) and the GMFM-66-B&C (Basal and Ceiling).- Includes a new longitudinal case illustration of the development, application and interpretation of the measure.- Presents a forward look to an upward extension of the GMFM to assess skill development in highly functional young people with cerebral palsy.- Presents a forward look to Quality Function Measure to quantify changes in quality of gross motor function.

El objeto de la Psicobiología es el análisis de la conducta, como un proceso biológico que permite al ser humano interactuar de forma adaptativa en un entorno cambiante, y de los procesos mentales que la sustentan.La obra permitira al lector, de un forma clara y sencilla, entender y reflexionar sobre los diferentes mecanismos y sistemas de funcionamiento del sistema nervioso humano, conociendo los diferentes metodos y estrategias utilizadas para el estudio de estas funciones, asi como relacionar e integrar toda esta informacion funcional con sus bases fisiologicas, celulares, bioquimicas y anatomicas en relacion con la produccion y regulacion de la conducta y la cognicion humanas.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GOALS

This book describes how to use test equating methods in practice. The non-commercial software R is used throughout the book to illustrate how to perform different equating methods when scores data are collected under different data collection designs, such as equivalent groups design, single group design, counterbalanced design and non equivalent groups with anchor test design. The R packages equate, kequate and SNSequate, among others, are used to practically illustrate the different methods, while simulated and real data sets illustrate how the methods are conducted with the program R. The book covers traditional equating methods including, mean and linear equating, frequency estimation equating and chain equating, as well as modern equating methods such as kernel equating, local equating and combinations of these. It also offers chapters on observed and true score item response theory equating and discusses recent developments within the equating field. More specifically it covers the issue of including covariates within the equating process, the use of different kernels and ways of selecting bandwidths in kernel equating, and the Bayesian nonparametric estimation of equating functions. It also illustrates how to evaluate equating in practice using simulation and different equating specific measures such as the standard error of equating, percent relative error, different that matters and others.