Blanca Ballesteros- Master of Education
- Colegio Colombiano de Psicólogos
Blanca Ballesteros
- Master of Education
- Colegio Colombiano de Psicólogos
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Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación dirigida a evaluar la formación ética recibida en los estudios de psicología, que hizo parte del Proyecto “Razonamiento y juicio ético de profesionales de la psicología en Iberoamérica, estudio en Colombia”. Para ello, se utilizó una metodología multimétodo con grupos focales en seis campos...
Los daños psicológicos ocasionados por el conflicto sociopolítico de hace más de 60 años en Colombia justifican la evaluación de intervenciones psicológicas que contribuyan a su disminución. El objetivo del trabajo fue evaluar el efecto de la Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT) en los problemas identificados en víctimas de este conflicto armad...
Se presentan las características de la supervisión clínica conductual abstraídas de un análisis de tipo etnográfico de entrevistas realizadas a 18 supervisores de la primera, segunda y tercera generación de terapias conductuales. Los entrevistados contaban con experiencia de 17 años en promedio (DE = 9.85) como clínicos y 16 años en promedio (DE =1...
This study undertook to provide information on the relevance of the tools used to study the influence of emotional conduct in cooperative behavior. It also attempts to present an analysis of the association between the social value orientation (SVO) scale of the slider measure of social values (Murphy, Handgraaf & Ackermann, 2011) and the results o...
A behavioural analysis perspective of cultural practices related to peace processes in Colombia is presented in this chapter. Cultural practices are understood as sets of shared behaviours selected and maintained by their functional/contingent relations to reinforcement conditions inside the groups and the aggregate products at a social level. The...
The article presents the cultural practices analysis of a group of private and public schools students, some of them ascribed to the Red de Jóvenes por la Paz (Youth for Peace Network) and their pairs not ascribed to the Red. Methodology included the functional analysis based on the multisource information (from 12 students, some of their teachers,...
The article presents the cultural practices analysis of a group of private and public schools students, some of them ascribed to the Red de Jóvenes por la Paz (Youth for Peace Network) and their pairs not ascribed to the Red. Methodology included the functional analysis based on the multisource information (from 12 students, some of their teachers,...
We describe the validation process of a case formulation protocol, based on the theoretical perspective of Behavior Analysis, in order to contribute to the development of a case formulation model aimed to organize the information coming from evaluation, to reduce clinical judgment bias, and to orient the clinical intervention towards a coherent and...
We describe the validation process of a case formulation protocol, based on the theoretical perspective of Behavior Analysis, in order to contribute to the development of a case formulation model aimed to organize the information coming from evaluation, to reduce clinical judgment bias, and to orient the clinical intervention towards a coherent and...
A study aimed to describe and evaluate the quality of life in patients with liver transplant in the last 15 years, inColombia, is presented. Twenty five patients voluntarily participated through an informed consent. Quality of life wasevaluated with a semi structured interview, with some items in a scale format, previously validated by a group of t...
Some results of a larger research aimed to evaluate de quality of life of families with 0 to 2 years old children with genetic malformation are presented. Quality of life was analyzed related to the child's age, other sociodemographic variables, the parent's information about the malformation and the clinical characteristics of the diagnostic. A de...
Some results of a larger research aimed to evaluate de quality of life of families with 0 to 2 years old children with genetic malformation are presented. Quality of life was analyzed related to the child’s age, other sociodemographic variables, the parent’s information about the malformation and the clinical characteristics of the diagnostic. A de...
The research presented in this article was aimed to specify in detail psychologist’s role in the context of an IntensiveCare Unit, from the work at the Health Service Humanization Project, carried out by the Pontificia UniversidadJaveriana from 1994 to 2000. This research is framed as a documental one, with a non-experimental design of anevaluative...
This study sought to understand how youth and adult men and women in different social groups in the city of Bogotá express their understanding of peace. The specific objectives of the research included (a) the identification of values related to peace, (b) the analysis of dispositions toward the construction of peace cultures, and (c) the comparati...
Some results from a larger research about conceptualizing psychological well-being, as one of the project’sspecific objectives are presented. After the abstract of the concept’s theoretical review, the methodologyof the descriptive study is described. An eleven open-question instrument was applied to 138 personsbetween 8 and 56 years-old, usual con...
Se presentan algunos resultados de la investigación sobre la conceptualización del bienestar psicológico, como uno de los objetivos específicos de un proyecto de mayor escala. Después de un resumen de la amplia revisión teórica del concepto, se describe la metodología del estudio descriptivo, en el cual se aplicó una encuesta de 11 preguntas a un t...
Results are presented from the functional analysis of six individual cases who participated in the larger scale research on games of chance and gambling by young people between 10 and 22 years, their skills and luck in Bogota, Colombia. The six cases represent gaming variability, except case 2, a 17-year-old female who only plays lotteries. Minors...
Results are presented from the functional analysis of six individual cases who participated in the larger scale research on games of chance and gambling by young people between 10 and 22 years, their skills and luck in Bogotá, Colombia. The six cases represent gaming variability, except case 2, a 17-year-old female who only plays lotteries. Minors...
El objetivo general de este trabajo fue analizar los efectos del cambio de contexto socialverbal en tres mujeres jóvenes en riesgo de desarrollar anorexia nerviosa y/o bulimia nerviosa. Se utilizó un diseño de caso único con tres réplicas, con evaluaciones pre, durante y post (inmediatamente después, a los 15 días y al mes). Los instrumentos utiliz...
This article presents crucial points related to the concept of meaning trying to emphasize some convergences betweenbehavior analysis, other behavioral perspectives, like Staats’ and Ribes-Iñesta’s, and postures outside behaviorism,specially those made by J. Bruner and other representatives of constructivism and constructionism. DeGrandpre(2000) pr...
Este artículo surge de una investigación inscrita en la perspectiva de análisis del comportamiento y hace parte de una investigación de mayor escala. Tuvo como objetivo identificar la relación entre variables de control parental y prácticas de juego en 91 niños y niñas de 10 a 13 años de Bogotá, quienes participaron voluntariamente después de visit...
Este artículo presenta el análisis de las relaciones entre las prácticas de juego de niños y jóvenes y las estrategias de control en el ambiente familiar y escolar, y es parte de un estudio de mayor escala sobre las prácticas de juego de niños y jóvenes bogotanos. Se analizaron entrevistas de 155 participantes entre 10 y 17 años y sus padres. Los p...
This article presents the analysis of relations between juvenile game practices and control strategies in family andschool, as part of a larger study on game practices in the youth of Bogotá. Interviews of 155 participants between 10to 17 years of age and their parents were analysed. Participants were classified in two groups according to their lev...
The general aim of this study was to analyze the effects of changing social-verbal context in three female adolescents at risk of developing anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. A single-case design with 3 participants was applied, with measurements pre, during and follow-up (immediately after, after 15 days, and after a month). Self-records, behaviora...
This work was based on the interest on the relation between cancer, spirituality and religiosity in grow uppatients of the Centro Javeriano de Oncología. The research was aimed to describe and analyze therelations between spiritual and religious variables defined in the specialized literature, and sociodemographicand oncological characteristics in...
The aim of this quasiexperimental research of single case with n replications was to evaluate a psychologicalintervention with emphasis on sexuality and marital communication for women diagnosed withcervical cancer under treatment. Four women patients of the Javeriano Oncology Centre participatedvoluntarily. The instrument was a semi-structured int...
This article presents a review of the primary contributions of contemporary behavior analysis to social and cultural issues in order to approach an analysis of peace cultures in the Colombian case. Different authors like Lamal, Glenn, Guerin, Mattaini and Biglan with its origins in Kantor and Skinner, from psychology, and Harris, from cultural anth...
La presencia de pandillas delincuentes en los barrios de zonas pobres de
las grandes y medianas ciudades del mundo entero ha contribuido a aumentar los
problemas de violencia social. En Colombia el problema adquiere dimensiones aún
mayores teniendo en cuenta la historia y el contexto de violencia socio-política; sin
embargo, no es hasta hace poco c...
This article presents the advantage of applying behavior analysis to cultural practices comprehension, considering cultural practices as group behaviors, selected and maintained by social reinforcement contingencies and metacontingencies. The three types of contingencies formulated by Skinner are described, and the principal existing data related t...
Diferentes variables académicas, científicas y sociales hacen necesario el escrutinio de las categorías
de clase de los diferentes conductismos en un marco epistemológico. El presente artículo hace una comparación entre el Interconductismo de J. R. Kantor y el Conductismo Radical de B. F. Skinner. Las
preguntas para las cuales se identifican las po...
Because of academic, scientific and social variables the examination of the different behaviorisms categories is necessary in an epistemological framework. This article presents a comparison between J. R. Kantor's Interbehaviorism and B. F. Skinner's Radical Behaviorism. The questions from which these authors postures are identified and their histo...
En este artículo se presentan los principales resultados aplicando ecuaciones estructurales para el estudio de factores de riesgo de la conducta agresiva de niños y jóvenes de la ciudad de Bogotá. La muestra de 300 niños y niñas de 5, 10 y 15 años, mostró que las pautas de crianza de los padres son diferentes a las de las madres y tienen efectos di...
En este artículo se presentan los principales resultados aplicando ecuaciones estructurales para el estudio de factores de riesgo de la conducta agresiva de niños y jóvenes de la ciudad de Bogotá. La muestra de 300 niños y niñas de 5, 10 y 15 años, mostró que las pautas de crianza de los padres son diferentes a las de las madres y tienen efectos di...
Es innegable la importancia de las conductas de lectura y escritura ya que de ellas depende la adquisición de la mayoría de contenidos académicos. En consecuencia, es necesario garantizar su aprendizaje mediante métodos efectivos. Como se anotó en un trabajo anterior (Monografía Científica, Fascículo II, ICOLPE, 1975), a partir de la década del 50...
The general aim of this study was to analyze the effects of changing social-verbal context in three female adolescents at risk of developing anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. A single-case design with 3 participants was applied, with measurements pre, during and follow-up (immediately after, after 15 days, and after a month). Self- records, behavior...
Because of academic, scientific and social variables the examination of the different behaviorisms categories is necessary in an epistemological framework. This article presents a comparison between J. R. Kantor's Interbehaviorism and B. F. Skinner's Radical Behaviorism. The questions from which these authors postures are identified and their histo...
