Scientific, academic and didactic work, of great practical use in obtaining clinical psychodiagnosis in the different areas of applied psychology. It presents to the professional and student of psychology an inventory of functional, valid and reliable personality, which is based on scientific research carried out in our country for approximately ten years...

This paper presents the development of education in Costa Rica between two important milestones: the creation of the House of Education of Santo Tomas in 1814, which enabled the initiation of formal training in the country beyond the first few letters, or basic training, and the creation in 1914 of the Normal School, an institution that played an essential role in professionalizing the training process of primary teachers...

This essay constitutes a first approach to the study of Palestinian immigrants in Central America from the late nineteenth century to the present. It also analyzes their economic and cultural contributions in the different Central American states and Belize, as well as the processes of assimilation and preservation of their cultural traditions...

It analyzes the emergence and daily life of La Carpio, one of the largest binational communities in Central America, and discusses the images that circulate in the media and the ways in which this group responds to these images...

History of the building Enrique Macaya, in which the humanist ideas sketched at the dawn of the Institution and the need to provide shelter. The chronological account that reaches its restoration to celebrate 50 years, includes people and facts, which provide human meaning...

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This is a book aimed at workers who care mental health and provide treatment for survivors of child abuse is. the consequences of this abuse (physical, emotional, sexual) and principles, strategies and techniques for psychotherapy (long-term) exposed individual and group. specific aspects for the treatment of children, adolescents and adults are presented...

The book summarizes the memoirs of the union leader and politician Álvaro Montero Vega. The emphasis is on their contributions to the Costa Rican trade union movement and the conquests of the working class in the post-war 1948 era...

? T he aims to show the role of teaching the course of history of culture in humanistic studies and proposes that this should be articulated around a central axis: the importance of philosophy of education and philosophy the history...

The book is a compilation of twenty writings of eighteen economists, from William Senior to ECLAC. It includes a brief biography of each author, prepared by the editors, to facilitate the understanding of the circumstances in which the pieces were written...

The book covers the different discourses and cultural products and Costa Rican art in the second half of the twentieth century, confrontation and dialogue with the history of Latin America and against the development of possible utopias, from an open reading different historical processes...

This book covers the most common words used by preschool children in Costa Rica to communicate topics related to their life experience; Lexical acquisition measures to properly plan and adapt teaching pedagogical discourse, this implies a paradigm shift in the concept of Spanish language in Costa Rica and the goals and methods of teaching...

Costa Rica is experiencing a process of change in the party system, citizens are becoming increasingly disenchanted and distrustful of the performance of those engaged in politics and consistently decreases electoral participation...

The topics covered in this book provide a clear picture of discipline Guidance and their professional work. It also presents an extensive exhibition of rational emotive behavioral, cognitive and approaches that can enrich the orientation function...

Este libro presenta los resultados de una investigación sobre la construcción de espacios transnacionales formados por emigrantes, emigrantes en retorno y sus familias y comunidades en Los Santos y Pérez Zeledón, en San José, Costa Rica y Bound Brook, Nueva Jersery...

Esta obra analiza las interacciones entabladas entre los indígenas de la antigua Nicaragua y Nicoya, entre el 800 d. C. y el siglo XVI. Es una historia dinámica que contempla a pueblos indígenas en la lucha por sobrevivir en un ambiente pluricultural...

They discuss some of the ideas of Antonio Gramsci about the relationship between civil society and state, reform and revolution, political and cultural hegemony, its connection with current issues such as governance and issues of political philosophy: historical determinism, epistemology and political ethics, nature of truth in the social sciences in particular history...

In this book, from different theoretical and methodological approaches, an analysis of evolution or cultural and social involution of Costa Rica in the late twentieth century is made. The study aims to shed some light on the processes and social mechanisms that led into a world full of despair and violent life and, simultaneously, different routes are proposed through which you can build a social fabric on different grounds to those who have created this society...

The texts that make up this publication invite us to reflect and analyze, from different perspectives, the cultural transformations that our societies experience, in which material and symbolic goods are affected by constant innovation and periodic obsolescence...

This book delves into the world of cattle, oxen and carts, recording and analyzing the past and present singularities that make up this relevant tradition, which is the intangible cultural heritage of our humanity as Costa Ricans...