Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Collaboration between associations of a municipality and local administrations is a priority objective in local development programs in Spain. Social workers play a fundamental role, since the social services of the administrations develop programs that promote citizen participation. In this article, we present the results of a project to stimulate partnerships in the city of Segovia, Spain, analyzing to what extent the proposed collaboration model is based on a model of sustainable development based on democratic citizenship.

This review article aims to analyze the professional skills acquired by the social worker in Colombia, according to the demands, needs and interests that are embedded in communities in order to assess the professional identity that is his profession taking as reference specific competencies established by the National Council on Social Work Education (CONETS) (2011) and on the other hand the new demands of the market which has reduced the immediate practical profession.

Society’s overwhelming adoption and frequent use of online social networks have transformed these services into the parallel universe of conventional socialization. They have allowed for the spread of massive amounts of information of all stripes, including professional information, and have thus brought to bear what we now know as Big Social Data.The aim of this paper is to analyze whether professionals involved in active social policies in the Province of Malaga (Spain) use social network services to share information and knowledge related to the field of social intervention.Starting from the premise that the applied use of social network services constitutes an innovation to share professional information and knowledge, we sought to analyze whether professional social workers are indeed adopting this innovation. Employing an experimental model developed in Malaga, their presence and activity on Facebook® have been observed and analyzed through the lens of virtual ethnography. Moreover, by way of social network analysis, we examined the connectedness within the structure of the observed online social network so as to determine, by virtue of one’s position, who the opinion leaders are. We also analyze how this innovation is spread and whether there is a possible correlation between leadership ability and moment of adoption.The obtained results demonstrate how social network services applied to social intervention are massively and frequently used by professionals, and the diffusion of this innovation is extremely swift. Moreover, a correlation between leadership and the time of adoption is evident. Nonetheless, the precursors still stand as those professionals who have less opportunities and less power within the structure (Becker, 1970). How power and influence affect the adoption of the innovation is discussed in detail. Finally, we ponder the great potential online social networks offer to the field of Social Work apropos to education on improving cooperation and the diffusion of information and knowledge amongst professionals as well as users.

In recent years Spain has seen a substantial increase in immigrant population being an exceptional case in European history to receive five million people less than 10 years. Currently the immigrant population accounts for about 10% of the population. This process involves a joint responsibility to adapt to change and challenge for the provision of education, health and care services. Contact with a new culture involves a series of economic, social difficulties of an information or communication that impact on the individual and can be the origin, evolution and prognosis of many mental health disorders, educational performance and social and labor adaptation. Specific factors such as the migration process, ruptures of affective and social ties, poor working conditions or the perception of discrimination, can be a source of stress and discomfort, certainly are factors more vulnerable to an immigrant population. Training and training in multicultural competition has proven to be the most effective attention to cultural diversity tool. In Spain the interest in training in multicultural competence in the field of psychology is scarce, even when it appears as one of the transversal competences in the White Paper of the Degree of Psychology of the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA). The literature shows that multicultural competence is most suitable both for professional and institutional quality care tool. The purpose of this theorical paper, is to show the multicultural reality in Spain, reflect on the importance given in university education in the career of Psychology, and raise the need to promote learning in multicultural competence to respond effectively to existing needs and new challenges such as the refugee crisis way.

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The purpose of this study is to understand and describe the nature of internet advertisements of transgender sex workers, and how demand drives the configuration of their services. An analysis of the offer-demand contents (n = 257) was carried out on a sexual contact website. Five categories were identified: sociodemographic characteristics, supply management, sexual services, health and clients. The results include risk factors associated with public health and social exclusion within this group. The results may inform strategies for developing socio-health interventions targeted towards transgender women in the situation of prostitution.

Can political ads produce enough emotional shock as for orienting a person’s vote? To answer this inquiry we monitored a group of first-time voters from different universities in Mexico City during the 2018 electoral process. Through association analysis and multidimensional scaling techniques, we contrasted their emotional response to campaign ads of the three main presidential candidates with their final vote on July 1st. Our results show there is only a slight correlation between emotional reaction to political ads and the vote cast by individuals. Emotions motivated by audiovisual stimuli, have a limited effect over vote orientation, since these reactions depend upon the interpretive capitals that each voter possesses.