Pasiones del riesgo y contacto con la naturaleza

Muchos deportistas aficionados en occidente, están emprendiendo hoy en día, largas e intensas ordalías donde la capacidad personal de resistir al sufrimiento en aumento constituye el objetivo principal. La carrera, el footing, el triatlón, el trekking, etc., son tipos de ordalías en las que la gente, sin apoyarse en una habilidad específica, no compite contra otros, sino que somete a prueba su propia capacidad para soportar el dolor creciente. El individuo se evalúa constantemente a sí mismo en una sociedad donde los puntos de referencia son incontables y contradictorios, donde los valores están en crisis, y busca entonces una relación cercana con significados profundos, probando su fuerza de carácter, su coraje y sus recursos personales. Seguir adelante hasta final de las ordalías autoimpuestas da una legitimidad a la vida y provee un umbral simbólico en el cual apoyarse. El funcionamiento en sí mismo tiene una importancia secundaria; sólo cuenta para el individuo. No se trata de luchar contra un tercero, es sólo un método para reforzar la voluntad personal y vencer el sufrimiento, justo al límite de una demanda personalmente impuesta. El límite físico ha venido a sustituir el límite moral que la sociedad actual no logra proporcionar. Sobreponiéndose al sufrimiento se templa el carácter del individuo, proporcionando así una importancia renovada y valiosa a su vida

Pasiones del riesgo y contacto con la naturaleza

Muchos deportistas aficionados en occidente, están emprendiendo hoy en día, largas e intensas ordalías donde la capacidad personal de resistir al sufrimiento en aumento constituye el objetivo principal. La carrera, el footing, el triatlón, el trekking, etc., son tipos de ordalías en las que la gente, sin apoyarse en una habilidad específica, no compite contra otros, sino que somete a prueba su propia capacidad para soportar el dolor creciente. El individuo se evalúa constantemente a sí mismo en una sociedad donde los puntos de referencia son incontables y contradictorios, donde los valores están en crisis, y busca entonces una relación cercana con significados profundos, probando su fuerza de carácter, su coraje y sus recursos personales. Seguir adelante hasta final de las ordalías autoimpuestas da una legitimidad a la vida y provee un umbral simbólico en el cual apoyarse. El funcionamiento en sí mismo tiene una importancia secundaria; sólo cuenta para el individuo. No se trata de luchar contra un tercero, es sólo un método para reforzar la voluntad personal y vencer el sufrimiento, justo al límite de una demanda personalmente impuesta. El límite físico ha venido a sustituir el límite moral que la sociedad actual no logra proporcionar. Sobreponiéndose al sufrimiento se templa el carácter del individuo, proporcionando así una importancia renovada y valiosa a su vida

Pasiones del riesgo y contacto con la naturaleza

Muchos deportistas aficionados en occidente, están emprendiendo hoy en día, largas e intensas ordalías donde la capacidad personal de resistir al sufrimiento en aumento constituye el objetivo principal. La carrera, el footing, el triatlón, el trekking, etc., son tipos de ordalías en las que la gente, sin apoyarse en una habilidad específica, no compite contra otros, sino que somete a prueba su propia capacidad para soportar el dolor creciente. El individuo se evalúa constantemente a sí mismo en una sociedad donde los puntos de referencia son incontables y contradictorios, donde los valores están en crisis, y busca entonces una relación cercana con significados profundos, probando su fuerza de carácter, su coraje y sus recursos personales. Seguir adelante hasta final de las ordalías autoimpuestas da una legitimidad a la vida y provee un umbral simbólico en el cual apoyarse. El funcionamiento en sí mismo tiene una importancia secundaria; sólo cuenta para el individuo. No se trata de luchar contra un tercero, es sólo un método para reforzar la voluntad personal y vencer el sufrimiento, justo al límite de una demanda personalmente impuesta. El límite físico ha venido a sustituir el límite moral que la sociedad actual no logra proporcionar. Sobreponiéndose al sufrimiento se templa el carácter del individuo, proporcionando así una importancia renovada y valiosa a su vida

Counselors' education in complex contexts with special reference to Latin America

This paper makes reference to the importance lying, at present, on the professional education of counselors. It goes through the history of the different pre-scientific and scientific stages of counseling, and it points out the main representatives in Latin America . It also shows the current state of the specialization, taking as an antecedent some in-depth, widely encompassing research carried out in the European Union in this area. Coincidences and differences are exposed here in terms of professional profiles, university degrees, institutional dependence, up-dating processes and modes of intervention. The current state of postgraduate studies at university is also touched upon, and the different proposals for further education in Latin America are analyzed as well as their dependence upon an undergraduate degree in Psychology, Educational Sciences or Psycho-pedagogy. Finally, this paper places counseling within the complexity and the need to provide all-encompassing and integrative answers which require a wide and deep enough education so as to answer all these issues and problems.

Information Management and Mediation in a Digital Reference Service Focused in Social Sciences

This paper investigates the current relationship between information management and information mediation along with the digital reference service through a case study which took place in an academic library. The concept of information mediation is herein analyzed, since a conceptual examination provides elements that will help people to comprehend and evaluate the concerned service. The information professional plays a very important role in the mediation aforementioned, which may be directly or indirectly; consciously or unconsciously; by himself/herself or plurally; individually or inserted into a group ? in all such manners that mediator facilitates the acquisition of information, fully or partially satisfying a user?s need of all sorts of knowledge. Meanwhile, we here approach information management from a scope that points out a description over performed activities concerned to policies and procedures put into effect until the service evaluation by proposing a criterion for such point. Finally, we outline a few actions to be implemented in long-term perspective, which goal is to continually ameliorate such assistance, taking in account the human factor

Counselors' education in complex contexts with special reference to Latin America

This paper makes reference to the importance lying, at present, on the professional education of counselors. It goes through the history of the different pre-scientific and scientific stages of counseling, and it points out the main representatives in Latin America . It also shows the current state of the specialization, taking as an antecedent some in-depth, widely encompassing research carried out in the European Union in this area. Coincidences and differences are exposed here in terms of professional profiles, university degrees, institutional dependence, up-dating processes and modes of intervention. The current state of postgraduate studies at university is also touched upon, and the different proposals for further education in Latin America are analyzed as well as their dependence upon an undergraduate degree in Psychology, Educational Sciences or Psycho-pedagogy. Finally, this paper places counseling within the complexity and the need to provide all-encompassing and integrative answers which require a wide and deep enough education so as to answer all these issues and problems.

Information Management and Mediation in a Digital Reference Service Focused in Social Sciences

This paper investigates the current relationship between information management and information mediation along with the digital reference service through a case study which took place in an academic library. The concept of information mediation is herein analyzed, since a conceptual examination provides elements that will help people to comprehend and evaluate the concerned service. The information professional plays a very important role in the mediation aforementioned, which may be directly or indirectly; consciously or unconsciously; by himself/herself or plurally; individually or inserted into a group ? in all such manners that mediator facilitates the acquisition of information, fully or partially satisfying a user?s need of all sorts of knowledge. Meanwhile, we here approach information management from a scope that points out a description over performed activities concerned to policies and procedures put into effect until the service evaluation by proposing a criterion for such point. Finally, we outline a few actions to be implemented in long-term perspective, which goal is to continually ameliorate such assistance, taking in account the human factor

Counselors' education in complex contexts with special reference to Latin America

This paper makes reference to the importance lying, at present, on the professional education of counselors. It goes through the history of the different pre-scientific and scientific stages of counseling, and it points out the main representatives in Latin America . It also shows the current state of the specialization, taking as an antecedent some in-depth, widely encompassing research carried out in the European Union in this area. Coincidences and differences are exposed here in terms of professional profiles, university degrees, institutional dependence, up-dating processes and modes of intervention. The current state of postgraduate studies at university is also touched upon, and the different proposals for further education in Latin America are analyzed as well as their dependence upon an undergraduate degree in Psychology, Educational Sciences or Psycho-pedagogy. Finally, this paper places counseling within the complexity and the need to provide all-encompassing and integrative answers which require a wide and deep enough education so as to answer all these issues and problems.

Information Management and Mediation in a Digital Reference Service Focused in Social Sciences

This paper investigates the current relationship between information management and information mediation along with the digital reference service through a case study which took place in an academic library. The concept of information mediation is herein analyzed, since a conceptual examination provides elements that will help people to comprehend and evaluate the concerned service. The information professional plays a very important role in the mediation aforementioned, which may be directly or indirectly; consciously or unconsciously; by himself/herself or plurally; individually or inserted into a group ? in all such manners that mediator facilitates the acquisition of information, fully or partially satisfying a user?s need of all sorts of knowledge. Meanwhile, we here approach information management from a scope that points out a description over performed activities concerned to policies and procedures put into effect until the service evaluation by proposing a criterion for such point. Finally, we outline a few actions to be implemented in long-term perspective, which goal is to continually ameliorate such assistance, taking in account the human factor