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

The impact of climate change is a global phenomenon that is important to analyze in our contemporaneity. To examine the foundations of climate change and environmental psychology, we conducted a literature review that intertwined environmental and psychological aspects. Significant findings reveal that geophysical climate change has detrimental effects on mental health and represents what is known as climate anxiety (Clayton, 2019). To mitigate the aforementioned impact, we found that the creation and use of green spaces promote mental health (Kabish, 2019; Dadvand et al., 2019; Cook et al., 2019; Hunter et al., 2021; Milligan-Toffler et al., 2021). Green spaces are restorative environments because they contribute to stress reduction and attention recovery (Marselle, 2019; Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989). Finally, Psychology can contribute to the processes of adaptation and mitigation individually and collectively. To achieve contributions, we must strengthen government management to contribute to public and social policies that lead us to psychosocial change to rescue nature. Facing the ravages of climate change calls us to solidarity and sensitivity to appeal to a social commitment.

The historical context underlying geography shows how its teaching was limited, for several centuries, to the description and memorization of places on the earth's surface. The reductionist gaze prevented strengthening spatial reasoning skills in matters related to the environment, regional analysis, and technological applications. The purpose of this article is to incorporate the fundamentals of spatial reasoning to discuss a pedestrian route from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus to Old San Juan. An autoethnography was carried out to respond to the purpose of this article. The investigation of Gersmehl and Gersmehl (2007) were used as main reference for the pedestrian route made. The significant results support that spatial reasoning is cemented in the brain from an early age through the skills of building auras and analogies, comparing, ranking, regionalizing, transitioning, associating, and identifying spatial patterns.

Climate change is a pressing issue that must be studied in light of the problems and social impacts that it generates. I reviewed the book by Clayton and Manning (2018) to examine how environmental issues involve social issues. From a psychological perspective, it is up to us to raise awareness and attend the impacts that climate change has on human subjectivities.

When Sigmund Freud proposed that dreams are not random images without any cognitive value, but psychic activities and therefore had an implicit meaning, he opened the door to work on the interpretation of dreams as an essential element in psychoanalytic treatment. Starting from this proposal and following the indications of Jacques Lacan, according to which the dream is already an interpretation, an attempt is made to explain how the activity of the unconscious in the dream space can be considered an interpretive activity. Finally, the issue of awakening and its link with analytical interpretation, particularly with scansion, is addressed.

We review the Cabrera-Franco comic (2021) that focuses on the protection of our natural resources. We recommend the comic as a work tool from an educational perspective to create social awareness about environmental themes in childhood.

The main objective of this research was to determine the relationship between post-traumatic stress and resilience in fifth-year high school students from educational institutions in South Lima, in times of pandemic of covid-19. Participants were 206 fifth grade high school students from public and private educational institutions, both sexes, whose age range was between 15 and 17 years old. The instruments used were the The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity Scale-Revised by Echeburua et al. (2016) and the Resilience Scale of Wagnild and Young (1993). Results indicated that 46.12% of participants showed significant clinical symptomatology of postraumatic stress. There were no significant correlations between severity of symptoms of postraumatic stress and resilience, neither in total scores nor in dimensions. Significant difference between sexes were observed only in severity of symptoms of postraumatic stress (total and dimensions scores), having women the highest scores. Related to resilience, it was observed significant higher score in women only in the equanimity dimension.

This article presents the construction process and analysis of the psychometric properties of the Postpartum Posttraumatic Stress Inventory (PTSD-PAR). This instrument was administered to 360 women who gave birth in a hospital and 317 who were attended in a clinic. The instrument evidences content validity with Aiken coeffcient scores higher than .80. An exploratory factor analysis was carried where a four-factor model was obtained. In the confirmatory factor analysis, adequate indices of goodness of fit of the model were obtained, therefore, the new dimensions of the test are: negative perception of childbirth, altered mood, cognitive impairment that hinders attachment, and altered alert state. The instrument presents high reliability of stability and internal consistency. Finally, there are significant differences in terms of educational levels, so, in addition to the general scale, specific standards were developed.

The relevance that socio-emotional learning and the development of students’ socio-emotional skills currently have in school education has brought as consequences new educational scenarios that demand from teachers the transformation of their role and functions, as well as a review of their own skills and/or socio-emotional competencies. In this sense, great interest has arisen regarding the development of these competencies in teachers, through their participation in the implementation of training programs, both at the level of professional training and/or instruction during their professional practice. This study reviews 18 investigations that evaluated the effectiveness of programs aimed at developing socio-emotional skills in schoolteachers. The results revealed the impact of these programs on teachers´ socio-emotional skills and on their psychological health and performance of duties. Likewise, the theoretical and methodological characteristics of these programs were analyzed

At the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century, the border area of the Lacandon Jungle remained uninhabited and unexploited due to difficult access. This paper analyzes the way in which the Mexican government sought to consolidate its presence in and control of this border area and thus exploit its natural resources through implementing a series of projects including the construction of a border highway, on the completion of which depended the colonization, the construction of hydroelectric dams, as well as the exploration and exploitation of oil. Archival sources demonstrate how these projects failed to materialize as expected by the federal authorities.

In Mexico, there are increasing obstacles for migrants to access justice and the protection of their rights. These obstacles are the result of an interweaving of global, regional, and local provisions, as well as a waiting time in which bureaucratic practices and disciplinary mechanisms are expressed. This paper seeks to describe how the intersection of these elements produces an oscillating conception of justice, authority, and patience, which does not stop people from seeking legal protection and simultaneously places tension on the concept of illegality that is constructed around their immigration status and their actions. The results demonstrate that the right to withdraw is one way of confronting the authorities and expressing agency. This resource enables the construction of a political foundation that makes it possible to undermine the State’s logic of exteriority and simultaneously makes visible the need to establish broad solidarity-based relationships in order to achieve objectives.