Social-Skills Training for Spanish-Speaking Persons with Schizophrenia: Experiences From Latin America, Spain, and the United States

PurposeThis is a comparative investigation of how university libraries in the United States, Canada and Spanish-speaking Latin America are responding to predatory publishing.Design/methodology/approachThe Times Higher Education World University Rankings was used to identify the top ten universities from each of the US and Canada, as well as the top 20 Spanish-language universities in Latin America. Each university library's website was scrutinized to discover whether the libraries employed scholarly communication librarians, whether they offered scholarly communication workshops, or whether they shared information about scholarly communication on their websites. This information was further examined to determine if it discussed predatory publishing specifically.FindingsMost libraries in the US/Canada sample employ scholarly communication librarians and nearly half offer workshops on predatory publishing. No library in the Latin America sample employed a scholarly communication specialist and just one offered a workshop addressing predatory publishing. The websites of the libraries in the US and Canada addressed predatory publishing both indirectly and directly, with US libraries favoring the former approach and Canadian libraries tending towards the latter. Predatory publishing was rarely addressed directly by the libraries in the Latin America sample; however, all discussed self-archiving and/or Open Access.Research limitations/implicationsBrazilian universities were excluded owing to the researchers' language limitations. Data were collected between September 15 and 30, 2019, so it represents a snapshot of information available at that time. The study was limited to an analysis of library websites using a fixed set of keywords, and it did not investigate whether other campus units were involved or whether other methods of informing researchers about predatory publishing were being used.Originality/valueThe study reveals some best practices leading to recommendations to help academic libraries combat predatory publishing and improve scholarly publishing literacy among researchers.

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The Rise and Decline of the Ariel-Caliban Antithesis in Spanish America

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/981311 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 345-355 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John T. Reid

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Latin America ◽

The United States ◽

Spanish America ◽

Spanish American ◽

Spanish Speaking ◽

The North ◽

Primary Image ◽

Literary Device

Seldom has a literary device had such international political resonance as the famous Ariel-Caliban contraposition of José Enrique Rodó's essay. In the decades immediately following its publication in 1900 Ariel was an exceptionally valued credo for Spanish American youth, not only for its intrinsic grace, but also because it provided a timely answer to a widespread need. To a generation depressed by the frequently pessimistic conclusions of racist doctrines and an uneasy sense of inferiority, and irked by the admonitions of ninteenthcentury “Nordomaniacs,” Ariel offered in sonorous periods a set of values assumed to be peculiarly Latin and therefore the patrimony of Latin America. As Alberto Zum Felde says, “It was the longed-for reply of this weak backward America to the Titanic potentiality of the North: its self-justification, its compensation, its retaliation.” Luis Alberto Sánchez's generation must have derived, as he says he did, its primary image of the United States from Ariel. Arturo Torres-Ríoseco describes it as “the ethical gospel of the Spanish-speaking world.”

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Race in Latin America: the concept of ‘raza’

European Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1017/s0003975600002630 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 3-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Julian Pitt-Rivers

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Latin America ◽

North America ◽

The United States ◽

Latin Americans ◽

Spanish Speaking ◽

Race Prejudice

It is well known that the attitudes of the Latin Americans towardsraceare not the same as those of the inhabitants of Europe and the United States. This observation led scholars as distinguished as Gilberto Freire and Arnold Toynbee to put forward the view that there is no ‘race prejudice’ in Latin America, a view that has been criticised by more recent writers. In Latin America distinctions of ‘race’ are indeed made, but not on the basis of the same premisses as in North America and, thoughrazaandraceare the same word, they do not bear the same connotations in Spanish-speaking as in Englishspeaking countries—outside scientific circles, perhaps. ‘Race’ is a system of classifying individuals and, as such, part of each culture, and therefore liable to vary from one to another. But what science has done with the word is another matter.

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Bioethics in the Americas: North and South—A Personal Story

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics ◽

10.1017/s0963180109090446 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 280-286 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

JAMES F. DRANE

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Latin America ◽

The United States ◽

Personal History ◽

Personal Story ◽

Spanish Speaking ◽

Real Work ◽

History Of ◽

North And South ◽

The Way

Where I am, in the late 70s, I find myself being asked to do far more than I am able. I'm at the stage when everyone assumes that I don't have any real work, so it's OK to ask for things. Increasingly the things I'm asked to do are historical: What was it like back then? When did you start doing this or that? How did this or that get started? I guess I'm in the penultimate period. I'm still working every day, much harder than I would like, and upset by the fact that my memory is not working the way it should. With this public confession, I'll now start my penance, that is, to do a little personal history of my involvement with bioethics first here in the United States, then in Spain and Spanish-speaking nations of Latin America.

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Social Skills Training programs applied in Spanish-speaking countries

Mexican Journal of Medical Research ◽

10.29057/mjmr.v8i16.3973 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (16) ◽

pp. 40-48

Author(s):

Eduardo Bautista-Ronces

Keyword(s):

Social Skills ◽

Social Skills Training ◽

Training Programs ◽

Interpersonal Relationship ◽

Skills Training ◽

Post Intervention ◽

Spanish Speaking ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Psychopathological Disorders ◽

The Individual

Social skills are described as those behaviors that help the individual to maintain an interpersonal relationship, expressing personal elements (thoughts, opinions, emotions) adequately according to the context of the situation but also allowing him to respect the behaviors of others, minimizing possible problems or offering solutions for those that already exist. When there are deficiencies in these abilities, alterations in the social relationships that the person has can be generated, reaching in some cases even psychopathological disorders. Training in social skills is an option that has been effective for the treatment of various situations; for example, in psychopathologies such as social anxiety or schizophrenia, to generate the ability to resolve interpersonal conflicts, strengthen socialization. This work has the objective of carrying out a review of social skills training programs that have been applied in Spanish speaking countries. The search process was carried out from the databases Ebsco, Springer Link, Dialnet, and Google Scholar, to be able to collect the original articles published in which some type of training has been carried out, during the period of 2014-2020, 12 articles that met the analysis criteria were used for the review. From the reviewed articles, it can be observed that they obtained results of statistically significant difference in the pre-, and post-intervention, this is useful to characterize said training, and generate novel intervention programs.

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A Systematic Review of Studies on Social Skills Development for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Journal of Quality in Health Care & Economics ◽

10.23880/jqhe-16000206 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mahmoud Al-Masaeed

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Social Skills ◽

Social Skills Training ◽

Skills Training ◽

The United States ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Future Research ◽

Key Words And Phrases ◽

Social Skills Interventions ◽

Adolescents With Asd

Aim and Significance: The systematic literature review is developed as an investigation of existing and recommended evidence based social skills and strategies to adopt in improving adolescents with ASD social skills. The systematic review was developed based on the understanding that a majority of the studies have focused on children below 11 years social skills. The need to analsye and establish the age specific social skills and strategies required informed the review development. This ystematic review evaluates the available published studies on group-based social skills interventions in the United States and the realm of Canada to improve the social skills among adolescents with ASD Methods: The systematic review developed an online search for peer reviewed articles published on the Medline, PsycINFO, Psychoarticle, Psychology and behaviour and Web of Science, through a PubMed-NCBI, an EBSCO and the Ovid databases. Key words and phrases were used to search for relevant literature. Once results were obtained, an inclusion and exclusion criteria was applied to narrow down the studies to applicable and most relevant studies. Results and Discussion: Three categories of social skills interventions have been identified to be effective in improving social and communication skills. They are (i) the use of the PEERS, (ii) social skills training group and (iii) group skills training. The recommendation for future research should focus on comparing protocols of various social skills training in clinical settings of the real-world.

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