Edgardo Morales

University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras | UPR-RP · Department of Psychology

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Boston University, 1986. Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179). Photocopy.

This chapter examines how mindfulness can serve as an embodied relational resource in psychotherapy. After discussing the theoretical and personal background for this chapter, I explore conceptions of mindfulness as an individual practice. I then shift the practice of mindfulness into the relational domain, where it’s viewed as an embodied relation...

This paper examines how the practice of mindfulness can serve as a generative resource in transformative and compassionate healthcare. I present a view of mindfulness that acknowledges its common usage in contemporary research but also includes other characteristics that originate from Buddhist tradition and are congruent with a socio-constructioni...

This paper explores a collaborative generative approach to psychological assessment employed in Puerto Rico, with children, adolescents, and adults. It begins with a critical reflection on how the dominant discourse of mental health, founded in the suppositions and practices of Euro‐American‐centred psychological knowledge, has been disseminated to...

En este escrito reflexiono sobre el artículo “El estado de la ciencia de la psicoterapia en Puerto Rico: ¿Una copa media llena o media vacía?” Señalo que el mismo se fundamenta en el discurso de las Terapias Basada en la Evidencia (TBE) y enmarcó su análisis, conclusiones y sugerencias dentro de esta propuesta. Hago un resumen de varias de las crít...

Relational constructionism begins with a simple but important idea: everything we consider real, all the truths that we cherish and the values we hold are constructed in and through the web of relationships that we participate in. When applying this idea to psychotherapy, we are invited to re-imagine and question its practices and traditions, parti...

In Chis article, I explore the relationship between symbols and human behavior in organizations. I suggcst that investigators can obtain a greater understanding of an organization's social dynamics if they analyze the symbolic contenta of its culture. The symbols of a multinacional company's subsidiary in Puerro Rico, are analyzed in order to illus...