Background: Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) seek to foster in students the development of professional competencies, that is, behaviors that conform to the fulfillment of the criteria of their respective disciplinary fields. From an interbehavioral perspective, the evaluation of these competencies involves defining behavioral indicators that allow their learning to be verified. The present study focuses on three fundamental competencies that comprise a large part of the clinical psychologist’s skills (identification of relevant cases, diagnostic assessment, intervention planning). Objective: To evaluate professional competencies in the clinical domain in students from UNAM. Method: Forty psychology students participated (16 from the fifth semester and 24 from the seventh semester). A modified version of the Virtual Environment for the Development...

Background:  The progress of any science, such as psychology, is achieved not only by accumulating empirical evidence but also by refining the conceptual structures that give theoretical meaning to such evidence. Objective: To analyze the concept of mental health and the logical-conceptual structure that supports it, describing its limitations and contradictions. Alternatively, based on the postulates of interbehavioral psychology, the concept of affective behavioral changes is proposed, and a classification of these changes is developed, based on the functional quality of the disturbed behavior. Method: This research is a theoretical study. Conclusions: Dualistic traditions in psychology have pathologized affective behavioral alterations as if they were diseases (mental or brain). The interbehavioral postulation outlined here is a conceptual alter...