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The Minister of Education, Training and Employment, Sotoca Constantine, was present at the opening of Congress

Early attention, emotional intelligence, high capacity in education, teacher burnout, or bullying, will be among the topics addressed in the Second National Congress of Psychology has opened this evening at the Catholic University San Antonio Murcia (UCAM) under the title 'critical and future challenges in educational psychology', which runs until Friday 4 May.

During the opening ceremony have been involved the Minister of Education, Training and Employment, Constantine Sotoca, the rector of the UCAM, Josefina Garcia, the dean of the College of Psychologists of the Region of Murcia, M ª José Catalán Frías, the dean of the Degree Psychology of the University, Francisco Moya-Face, and the Deputy Dean of Degrees in Early Childhood and Primary, Maria del Mar Pintado.

Sotoca Constantine emphasized the importance of holding this conference and education has been reported as one of the pillars of society.

"This is an important Congress, which will reflect on the present and the future of educational psychology, professionals who are part of our counseling teams that are doing a great job, and make possible a comprehensive education personalized treatment with our students and allows for diversity and the detection of learning problems.

For its part, the rector of the UCAM said that "this Congress makes little sense when you consider that this University is home in his grades, and Primary Education and the Degree in Psychology, and both are highly oriented education, and education from the beginning. "

Similarly, the vicedenado's Degree in Psychology at the University has outlined main objective of this symposium, to give a closer look at the different branches that have psychology.

"The last Congress focused on forensic psychology, and this year we understood we had to insist on educational psychology. By law are not defined the functions of the educational psychologist, and we should claim them," he qualified.

Note the inaugural conference has given Professor of Psychology at the University of Murcia, Jose Antonio Carranza, and he has lectured on 'The contribution of temperament to social development and school performance'.

In addition, during the first day of Congress also has held the roundtable "The neurodevelopmental educational psychology: main tools of academic information processing ', which have involved the director of the Center for Neurological Neocortex Organization and director of the Chair of Neuro-Development of UCAM, Maria Jesus Lopez, and the director of the Center for Vision Therapy Skeffington, Maria Pilar Vergara.

Source: UCAM