{"title":"Days without schools: The effectiveness of WhatsApp, as an English learning tool, during COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Al Abiky, B. Waleed","doi":"10.24205/03276716.2020.2074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24205/03276716.2020.2074","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the spread of COVID-19 epidemic, many schools, colleges and other higher education institutions around the globe were forced to close and go online The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of WhatsApp, as an English learning tool, on EFL students' writing skills during current epidemic A total of 38 English major students during spring semester of 2020 participated The participants received traditional instruction at the first half of the semester and throughout multiple e learning tools in the second half Data were collected using test and retest The findings of the study revealed that 1) students found WhatsApp helpful and engaging as a learning tool, 2) although students' writing scores were slightly higher after using WhatsApp, the difference in students’ writing competence was not statistically significant, 3) switching the traditional mindset of students and instructors was a real challenge, and 4) mobile and online learning succeeded as a convenient substitute to the traditional methods","PeriodicalId":54482,"journal":{"name":"Revista Argentina De Clinica Psicologica","volume":"30 1","pages":"774"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68786914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studying during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Nursing Student’s Perspectives and Experiences in Saudi Arabia","authors":"Abeer Alatawi","doi":"10.24205/03276716.2020.4001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24205/03276716.2020.4001","url":null,"abstract":"The outbreak of the global and widespread COVID-19 pandemic extended to all nations and affected all races and socioeconomic categories Global crises like the COVID-19 pandemic my pose devastating impacts on the academic functioning and psychological wellbeing of students, specifically nursing students With such consideration, the current study focused on identifying the perceptions of nursing students towards the COVID-19 pandemic while also investigating some of their encounters while learning amid the pandemic Data saturation was obtained after analyzing filled questionnaires and answers from 123 interviews conducted through virtual calls Data was collected through analyzing the current literature and supplemented by surveys and virtual interviews online Analysis of the data collected provided 16 codes that depicted various student’s perceptions and experiences The participating nursing students answered questions pertaining to the ability of government institutions in controlling the virus They also answered positively to indicate the prevalence with which misinformation was propagated by social media sites Besides, the participants reported that the general populations did not follow the measures set by government’s institutions","PeriodicalId":54482,"journal":{"name":"Revista Argentina De Clinica Psicologica","volume":"30 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68792190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationship between Weather Conditions and Hiking Safety","authors":"Kim, Young-Jae","doi":"10.24205/03276716.2020.4004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24205/03276716.2020.4004","url":null,"abstract":"Due to COVID-19, more people are participating in outdoor activities like hiking This study investigated the relationship between weather and hiking accidents at Bukhansan Mountain National Park, a Guinness World Record holder for the most visited national park per unit area Data analyzed included the number of hikers, accident type, and weather information Data were collected from the last three years The results showed the highest number of people took up hiking in 2020 (3,394,413) Accidents were classified into six types: fall, personal disease, distress, attempted suicide, loss of footing (carelessness), and natural disasters Lost footing caused the largest number of accidents (N=274 cases) For weather-related factors, accidents were more common when the temperature was between 16–28 ?, a humidity of 60–65%, and winds of 6–8 km/h, which are actually considered the ideal conditions for hiking Therefore, public campaigns or educational information should communicate that ideal weather conditions are actually the most dangerous and risky for hiking accidents Additionally, the management team and government should inform hikers through signs, course guides, and electronic displays installed in the park Moreover, hikers should be cautious when hiking and be more aware of their surroundings and environment","PeriodicalId":54482,"journal":{"name":"Revista Argentina De Clinica Psicologica","volume":"30 1","pages":"38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68792291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contribution of Conversation Analysis to Psychotherapy by Tele-psychology to adolescents with Eating Disorders in the context of Covid-19","authors":"L. Barriga","doi":"10.24205/03276716.2020.4002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24205/03276716.2020.4002","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 cause psychological distress in the general population and aggravate symptoms in patients with mental health problems, e g , adolescents with eating disorders who need specific, long-term, transdisciplinary, and complex treatments The Ministry of Health of Chile authorizes Tele-psychology in public mental health services, being the telephone the main means of contact In this context, the study whose objective is to propose verbal communication actions to telephone psychotherapy of adolescents with eating disorders supported by Conversation Analysis emerges Method: Systematic bibliographical review with qualitative, descriptive, integral and interpretative method of search of articles in indexed databases with information that relates Conversation Analysis to psychotherapy of adolescents with eating disorders and Tele-psychology The information is shown in 2 sections organized in a table that allows the systematic reading to analyze the convergence and divergence with the purpose of interpreting and integrating the data from the descriptive analysis Results: Conversation Analysis projects three phases in Tele-psychology by telephone, where the importance of the elements of the context that should be present before, during and at the closing of the call is highlighted;the need to promote different types of dialogues that facilitate therapeutic conversation and that should be initiated by the psychotherapist, such as adhesion dialogues and exchanges of subjective stories and to cautiously apply the exchange of self-knowledge Conclusions: Conversation Analysis provides psychotherapists with the therapeutic information and knowledge that allows them to understand the importance of the communicative framework when progressively using the structure of conversational exchanges through a communication channel that is eminently verbal","PeriodicalId":54482,"journal":{"name":"Revista Argentina De Clinica Psicologica","volume":"30 1","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68792240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons Learned for Teacher Education: Challenges of Teaching Online Classes During COVID-19, What Can Pre-Service Teachers Tell Us?","authors":"Al Abiky, B. Waleed","doi":"10.24205/03276716.2020.411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24205/03276716.2020.411","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic was just sudden and dramatic The current study aimed to identify the challenges facing pre-service English teachers while teaching online classes during school closure due to covid-19 in the spring 2020 and the lessons learned for teacher education Data were collected through multiple methods, namely semi-structured interviews, with five English pre-service teachers Inductive and deductive analysis followed, and the study found the followings:1) there are six significant challenges faced by pre-service English teachers: a) nature of remote teaching, b) content delivery and limit, c) teaching styles, d) online assessment methods, and e) students’ interests and differences;2) pre-service teachers felt lost, anxious, and enter survival stage;3) focusing on effective integration of technology and developing more aspects of teachers’ competence are just some of the lessons learned for teacher education The study offers some lessons learned for the novel experience of researchers, teachers and other educational personnel","PeriodicalId":54482,"journal":{"name":"Revista Argentina De Clinica Psicologica","volume":"30 1","pages":"110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68792456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Hao, S. Shah, A. Nawaz, M. Barkat, Amir Souhail, Sana Asghar, F. Basit, Hafiz Zahoor, Muhammad Nawaz, Syyed Adnan Raheel, Shah, Muhammad Ashfaq
{"title":"COVID-19 epidemic spread and the impact on public health & safety policy - An analysis of the adoption of preventive measures and effective management evidence from Pakistan","authors":"W. Hao, S. Shah, A. Nawaz, M. Barkat, Amir Souhail, Sana Asghar, F. Basit, Hafiz Zahoor, Muhammad Nawaz, Syyed Adnan Raheel, Shah, Muhammad Ashfaq","doi":"10.24205/03276716.2020.877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24205/03276716.2020.877","url":null,"abstract":"Many severe pneumonia cases were reported at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan city, Hubei province of China The Center for Disease Control China (CDC) collected the samples, diagnosed the disease and named it as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) Later on, it was named as COVID-19 by World Health Organization (WHO) After China, it has rapidly spread all over the world, affecting almost 216 countries including Italy, Germany, Russia, Brazil, USA, UK, Spain, Indonesia, India, Turkey, and France According to an estimation of overall COVID-19 cases, 5 8 million (5,819,962) people got infected while 0 36 million (362,786) lost their lives across the world It is spreading in Pakistan as well, and being a developing country, many challenges are being faced, such as limited resources, lack of medical facilities, low poverty rate, uneducated people, poor hygienic conditions or habits and unawareness Pakistan has a very low level of resources & fighting conditions;fortunately, Pakistan has 92% of recovery rate of the COVID-19 cases as compared to other developing countries The Central & Local governments in Pakistan have implemented many preventive and safety measures to completely eradicate the corona transmission through the effective utilization of organized task force, quick mitigation response policy, and strengthening the abilities to fight against COVID-19 This study highlights the current situation in the country with a focus on the province of Punjab, to notice the total number of COVID-19 cases & analyse the effectiveness of preventive measures taken as a quick response by the provincial governance for public health & safety Analysing the overall situation in country, a total of 286,674 confirmed cases, including 16,475 active, 6139 deaths, and 264,060 recoveries (92%), were reported While, in the province of Punjab, 94,805 cases were reported including 2,179 deaths and 86,389 (91%) recoveries The study reveals that strict compliance and enforcement of government policies through effective leadership, and unity at public level led to better control the pandemic spread The impact of social distancing and protective measures in confronting the epidemic COVID-19 in Pakistan could also be used as a tool for combating coronavirus in other developing countries having equal working performance and similar financial limitations","PeriodicalId":54482,"journal":{"name":"Revista Argentina De Clinica Psicologica","volume":"4 1","pages":"722-736"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47596591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental Health, An Overlooked Aspect In A Workplace.","authors":"Dr Vyas Vishwanathan","doi":"10.53555/03276716.2020.912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53555/03276716.2020.912","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54482,"journal":{"name":"Revista Argentina De Clinica Psicologica","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141216471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PHYSICAL EXERCISE INTERVENTION ON MENTAL HEALTH AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS","authors":"","doi":"10.24205/03276716.2020.146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24205/03276716.2020.146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54482,"journal":{"name":"Revista Argentina De Clinica Psicologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68784658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IMPROVEMENT EFFECT OF MUSIC APPRECIATION ON MENTAL HEALTH OF AUDIENCE: AN ANALYSIS BASED ON COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY","authors":"","doi":"10.24205/03276716.2020.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24205/03276716.2020.129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54482,"journal":{"name":"Revista Argentina De Clinica Psicologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68784678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}