Mindfulness for Children: Benefits, Challenges, and Practical Strategies
Authors Daniela Avilán Fajardo Why Mindfulness and Relaxation Are Important for Children? How can a child learn to recognize their emotions and calm themselves amid the school routine? Mindfulness offers some answers. Mindfulness is understood as awareness of one’s internal states and the surrounding environment (American Psychological Association, n.d.). Over the past decade, interest in […]
Family and Relationships
Authors Luis Eduardo Chacón Peña, M.D. Psychologist Specialized Psychological Support From a systemic perspective, understanding the family involves recognizing it as a living system that constantly organizes and reorganizes itself based on the experiences and challenges it faces. It is not a fixed structure, but rather a dynamic process of communication and adaptation, where each […]
Supervision Devices
Authors Víctor Jesús Chávez Galindo Clinical Psychologist with a focus on community and health Knowledge Management and Institutional Monitoring Coordinator Edmanuel Higuera Torres Clinical Psychologist / Clinical Psychology Specialist Area Specialist / Specialized Psychological Support In a world where violence, especially sexual violence, persists as a collective social phenomenon rooted in hierarchies of power, gender, […]
Transmitting Ideas
Authors Luis Eduardo Chacón Peña, M.D. Psychologist Specialized Psychological Support From the systemic and communication perspective inspired by Paul Watzlawick and von Glasersfeld’s radical constructivism, we understand that language is not simply a means of describing reality, but rather the instrument through which reality itself is constructed. There are no pure facts, but rather shared […]
Poem: Family, a Niche of Living Hope
Authors Maryori Herrera. In your womb, life blossomed. In your hands, you held joy, in your voice, a guiding echo, every affectionate gesture, every smile, is a seed that nestles within the soul. Loving isn’t just looking tenderly, or embracing with power; it’s listening to hidden doubt, validating overflowing emotion, and calming wounds. Limits don’t […]
Caring for Caregivers
Authors Luis Eduardo Chacón Peña. M.D. Psychologist Specialized Psychological Support In therapeutic practice, the psychologist becomes a companion to the suffering of others, a witness who sustains the pain of others and transforms it into an opportunity for change. However, amidst this deeply human task, a paradox lies hidden: the more we concern ourselves with […]