Consolidacion y Crisis de la Evaluacion y Modificacion de la Conducta

Desde 1970 el modelo de evaluación y modificación de conducta ha sufrido una gran expansión. Fruto de dicha expansión el modelo ha ido integrando distintas variables, así como diversificando en distintos enfoques. En este sentido, dentro del modelo de evaluación y modificación de conducta existen conceptualizaciones, así como métodos de investigación y técnicas tan diversas que es difícil encontrar un único esquema o postulado aglutinador. Como fruto de esta diversidad algunos autores han formulado distintas propuestas integradoras (p. ej. el modelo Conductual Integrado de Carrobles, 1985). Con independencia de este tipo de propuestas, la mayoría de los autores que se definen dentro de este modelo reconocen que existen aspectos comunes entre los que destacan la aplicación de la técnica metódica experimental y el énfasis en el análisis funcional de la conducta. Desde nuestro punto de vista y tal como señalaba Kazdin (1982), en estos momentos la evaluación y modificación de conducta se define como la evaluación y la intervención basada en los hallazgos experimentales de la Psicolog’a y de otras ciencias afines.

A Biotecnologia na Conservação do Património Cultural

Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação

Da Formação Cultural do Tradutor no Ensino Superior: Algumas Reflexões

Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução

A inclusão escolar das crianças e adolescentes em situação de handicap: uma revolução cultural necessária ou do homo sapiens ao homo socians

Revista Lusófona de Educação

“Lusofonia” sem “Lusofilia”: O caso do antigo Estado da Índia – Défice de reciprocidade cultural

It is generally little known today that Goans produced a wide range of publications in Portuguese, in English, in French, besides their native languages Konkani and Marathi. One needs to consult the 3 volumes of Dicionário da Literatura Goesa by Aleixo Manuel da Costa, edited recently by Instituto Cultural de Macau to get an idea of the literary production of the Goans. This literary production does not permit us to conclude that Goans who wrote in Portuguese were lusophiles, or those who wrote in English were anglophiles, and so on. If Portuguese language failed to win over the hearts and minds of most Goans it was largely because Portuguese language was seen as an instrument of colonial domination

Predictors of Successful Weight Control: Cross-Cultural Moderators of Treatment Outcomes

Given the heterogeneity of effect sizes within the population for any treatment, identifying moderators of outcomes is critical [1]. In weight management programs, there is a high individual variability in terms of weight loss and an overall modest success [2]. Some people will adopt and sustain attitudes and behaviors associated with weight loss, while others won’t [3]. To predict weight loss outcome just from the subject’s baseline information would be very valuable [4,5]. It would allow to: - Better match between treatments and individuals - Identify the participants with less probability of success (or potential dropouts) in a given treatment and direct them to alternative therapies - Target limited resources to those most likely to succeed - Increase cost-effectiveness and improve success rates of the programs Few studies have been dedicated to describe baseline predictors of treatment success. The Healthy Weight for Life (USA) study is one of the few. Its findings are now being cross-validated in Portuguese samples. This paper describes these cross-cultural comparisons.

Seeing films: audiences reaction to local cultural products

This paper discusses the results of a large survey conducted in 2006 on the perception Portuguese movies’ audiences have of their own locally produced films. Audience’s reception of locally produced films is marked by the rejection of the consumption of these objects as a result of a bias against locally produced cultural artefacts. The prejudice shaping this relationship, not only demands for new cultural and social politics, but also raises a number of questions on local and European media industry’s ability to cope with its own audiences’ expectations. Finally, broader considerations are made on the different ways contemporary audiences are shaping media technologies, and their respective cultural artefacts, through their own use and reception of those technologies and artefacts.