The Journal of Contemporary Psychology (Revista de Psicología Contemporánea RPC) a periodic publication of the Editorial el Manual Moderno (MM) is celebrating its 5th birthday. In the present study a description of some significant experiences along the first five years of RPC are described, focused on the communication between the author and MM, among the collaborators, subscriptions, promotions and forum participation, among others. An analyses of the published articles is also presented as well as the tendencies for the future. The present article will be of interest for psychologists that develop editorial activities or that are going to begin the edition of a journal of psychology.

The Journal of Contemporary Psychology (Revista de Psicología Contemporánea RPC) a periodic publication of the Editorial el Manual Moderno (MM) is celebrating its 5th birthday. In the present study a description of some significant experiences along the first five years of RPC are described, focused on the communication between the author and MM, among the collaborators, subscriptions, promotions and forum participation, among others. An analyses of the published articles is also presented as well as the tendencies for the future. The present article will be of interest for psychologists that develop editorial activities or that are going to begin the edition of a journal of psychology.

The addiction subject is nowadays a valid one, as well as in the past century. Not only because of the increase of people that are addict, but also because of the important effects that cause on people and their environments. There are many theoretical perspectives to approach the addiction problem, but the most convenient because of its therapeutic results is the one that issupported by the psychology of health. lt is based on the integral approach to the person. This paper describes a general therapeutic scheme to work with addicts from the cognitive behaviora lperspective.

El tema de las adicciones sigue tan vigente como en el siglo pasado, no solo por el incremento del número de personas que lo padecen sino también por las importantes secuelas que produceen el individuo y en su entorno. Existen diferentes enfoques teóricos para abordar la problemáticade las adicciones, sin embargo el que nos parece más conveniente por sus resultados terapéuticos es el que proviene desde la Psicología de la salud, basado en un enfoque integral en el abordaje del sujeto. El artículo fundamentalmente describe un esquema terapéutico general de su aplicación a los adictos, desde el enfoque cognitivo-conductual.

The addiction subject is nowadays a valid one, as well as in the past century. Not only because of the increase of people that are addict, but also because of the important effects that cause on people and their environments. There are many theoretical perspectives to approach the addiction problem, but the most convenient because of its therapeutic results is the one that issupported by the psychology of health. lt is based on the integral approach to the person. This paper describes a general therapeutic scheme to work with addicts from the cognitive behaviora lperspective.

Health promotion is a prioritary topic in health psychology. It refers to the development and improvement of behaviors and life styles leading to achieve a healthy life. There is a clear relationship between people's hehavior and general health state. Life style and life quality determines how is the person in terms of health. Definitely there are habits acquired by the urban life style, that are harmful for health both physically and psychologically. In the present study, healthy life are studied based on scientific findings.

Health promotion is a prioritary topic in health psychology. It refers to the development and improvement of behaviors and life styles leading to achieve a healthy life. There is a clear relationship between people's hehavior and general health state. Life style and life quality determines how is the person in terms of health. Definitely there are habits acquired by the urban life style, that are harmful for health both physically and psychologically. In the present study, healthy life are studied based on scientific findings.

In this article, we have tried to group the results from different researches related to EI and physic and mental health. One of the conclusions we have is that EI perceived through report (TMMS, etc.) as well as EI executed (MSCEIT) are related to people’s health and welfare. Likewise, the average of MSCEIT grades for different clinic groups of people (schizophrenia, AIDS, Depression, etc.) and non - clinic groups of people(university students, students, etc), give us a vision of psychopathology- normal continuum, being the highest grades in EI of MSCEIT the ones which are positively related to personal health and stable emotional state.

In this article, we have tried to group the results from different researches related to EI and physic and mental health. One of the conclusions we have is that EI perceived through report (TMMS, etc.) as well as EI executed (MSCEIT) are related to people’s health and welfare. Likewise, the average of MSCEIT grades for different clinic groups of people (schizophrenia, AIDS, Depression, etc.) and non - clinic groups of people(university students, students, etc), give us a vision of psychopathology- normal continuum, being the highest grades in EI of MSCEIT the ones which are positively related to personal health and stable emotional state.

El propósito del estudio es reportar evidencias de la validez de constructo y confiabilidad de un nuevo instrumento de autorreporte para medir mindfulness y ecuanimidad en una población de habla hispana. Una lista de 26 ítems originales fue examinada por 17 expertos de España y Latinoamérica y se realizaron las modificaciones correspondientes sobre la base de sus comentarios. La lista final de 21 ítems fue administrada a una muestra de 746 estudiantes universitarios de México y Perú. Sus respuestas fueron analizadas factorialmente sobre la base del método de los mínimos cuadrados no ponderados (MCP) con rotaciones promin. Se identificaron dos factores denominados mindless y mindful con cargas factoriales que varían entre .36 y .65. Los coeficientes de confiabiliadad fueron de .78 para el primer factor y .82 para el segundo factor. La correlación interfactorial fue de -.51. Lo...

Two modalities of research design's workshops -long and short- were developed to qualify 658 Hispanamerican research workers, whom were divided into 30 groups, and were applyied along ten years. The terminal efficiency of the workshops was measured with a pre-post-test design and the differences were assessed with a t-test -for dependent samples-. The results showed that the values of the post-test were higher -p ≤ 0.001- than the pretest averages. Contrasting the two workshop versions, the average of the long workshop was significantly higher -p ≤ 0.001- than the short one, by means of a multiple pre-post-test design and the t-test for independent samples. Using Solomon four-group design it was feasible to establish that the significant increase of knowledge about research designs was not influenced by the interaction of the pretest and treatment factors and there was not observed a...

Two modalities of research design's workshops -long and short- were developed to qualify 658 Hispanamerican research workers, whom were divided into 30 groups, and were applyied along ten years. The terminal efficiency of the workshops was measured with a pre-post-test design and the differences were assessed with a t-test -for dependent samples-. The results showed that the values of the post-test were higher -p ? 0.001- than the pretest averages. Contrasting the two workshop versions, the average of the long workshop was significantly higher -p ? 0.001- than the short one, by means of a multiple pre-post-test design and the t-test for independent samples. Using Solomon four-group design it was feasible to establish that the significant increase of knowledge about research designs was not influenced by the interaction of the pretest and treatment factors and there was not observed any s...