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"La misión de la escuela ya no es enseñar cosas. Eso lo hace mejor la TV o Internet." La definición, llamada a suscitar una fuerte polémica, es del reconocido pedagogo italiano Francesco Tonucci. Pero si la escuela ya no tiene que enseñar, ¿cuál es su misión? "Debe ser el lugar donde los chicos aprendan a manejar y usar bien las nuevas tecnologías, donde se transmita un método de trabajo e investigación científica, se fomente el conocimiento crítico y se aprenda a cooperar y trabajar en equipo", responde.

About Depression Everyones feels sad Everyone feels blue or sad now and then, but these feelings don't usually last long and pass within a couple of days. When a person has depression, it interferes with daily life and normal functioning, and causes pain for both the person with depression and those who care about him or her. Doctors call this condition "depressive disorder," or "clinical depression."

Strategies to guide parents in helping your child deal with his fears and anxieties. Parents can help children develop the skills and confidence to overcome fears so that they don't evolve into phobic reactions. The following steps will guide you in helping your child deal with his fears and anxieties. Recognize that the fear is real. As trivial as a fear may seem, it feels real to the child and it is causing him to feel anxious and afraid. "Being able to talk about fears can help," says Katharina Manassis, MD, author of Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child. "Words often take some of the power out of emotion; if you can give the fear a name it becomes more manageable. As with any negative feeling, the more you talk about it, the more it becomes less powerful." Never belittle the fear as a way of forcing the child to overcome it. Telling a child, "Don't be ridiculous! There are no monsters in your closet!" may get him to go to bed, but it won...

Functional (psychogenic or somatoform) symptoms are common in neurology clinics. , (CBT) can be an effective treatment, but there are major obstacles to its provision in practice. We tested the hypothesis that adding CBT-based guided self-help (GSH) to the usual care (UC) received by patients improves outcomes. Authors: M. Sharpe, MD,  J. Walker, MBChB, C. Williams, MD, J. Stone, PhD, J. Cavanagh, MD, G. Murray, PhD, I. Butcher, PhD, R. Duncan, MD, PhD, S. Smith, PhD and A. Carson, MD From the University of Edinburgh (M.S., J.W., J.S., G.M., I.B.), Edinburgh; University of Glasgow (C.W., J.C.), Glasgow; NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (R.D.), Glasgow; and NHS Lothian (S.S., A.C.), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Professor Michael Sharpe, Psychological Medicine Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK michael.sharpe@psych.ox.ac.uk Abstract Methods: We conducted a randomized t...