Psicología para lo social, la educación y la familia: Investigaciones interdisciplinarias

This book, the fourth volume of the Cuadernos de Ciencias Sociales, brings together a series of research results in strategic results in strategic areas of research in psychology. research in psychology. Its contributions range from the review of psychology in the context of social groups, education and the family, and the the specifics of clinical psychology in the context of the health sciences. health sciences. One of the main contributions of the text is its multiplicity of voices. of voices, which, together, mark a look at psychology in different social psychological in diverse social and human contexts. This This does not arise by chance: since the conception of the editorial line of the the Cuadernos de Ciencias Sociales, the calls for papers, the peer review processes peer review processes and editing of manuscripts, our work has consisted, seriously and has consisted, seriously and resolutely, in preparing texts that make visible processes, questions and that make visible processes, questions and ways of working of the different researchers in their the work of the various researchers in their projects. For this reason, writing a foreword to a book of this nature involves at least two exercises. Firstly, to highlight the editorial and academic intentions that underpin the process of editing and publishing the text that readers now have in their hands; secondly, to set out the content of the text, in the context of the editorial guidelines mentioned above. With regard to the first point, it is worth remembering that, in the field of social and human sciences, psychology is undoubtedly one of the first to take a step forward and take a risk with the scientific approach. This process, like all processes of its nature, has involved over the decades revisions, discarding and re-reading of its own object. object itself. With all the difficulty that such a revision of the object implies, research is the research is the scenario where these processes are experienced with the greatest tension, It is in the context of research lines and projects that researchers define, discard and reread the object itself. where the research subjects define, model and outline the conceptions and implications of the and implications of the object of study. Therefore, the research texts, arising in particular from the research exercises in psychology research exercises in psychology, have that ambivalence that is inherent to human affairs, in the face of which human affairs, in the face of which science tries to provide the criteria and procedures to resolve - from the evidence procedures to resolve -from the evidence of the data- the many dilemmas that arise. dilemmas that arise. To this extent, each and every one of the works presented in this book can be understood as a book can be understood as the encounter between the comprehensive frameworks that make up the texture of the that make up the texture of the field of knowledge and reality. In no other way we could understand research, in any discipline of knowledge, as a constant flow towards the intrinsic nature of reality, as a constant flux into the intrinsic and extrinsic nature of human and social affairs. of human and social affairs.