Solemos centrar nuestra manera de educar en las debilidades e ignoramos u olvidamos la importancia de desarrollar las fortalezas y puntos fuertes de nuestros hijos e hijas. Este libro, escrito por una de las mayores especialistas en psicología positiva del mundo, la doctora Lea Waters, está repleto de ideas concretas y de ejemplos, así como de ejercicios, que pueden ayudarnos a cambiar esta orientación a partir del Enfoque Basado en las Fortalezas (EBF). Esta obra da esperanza y herramientas a educadores, progenitores y profesores, y se centra en la creatividad y la fuerza de los niños, presentando los últimos avances en psicología positiva en relación con la educación y la crianza e inspirando a padres y madres para desarrollar un modelo educativo basado en las potencialidades de los más pequeños.

This game-changing book reveals the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. By showing us how to throw the ‘strength switch’, Dr Lea Waters demonstrates how we can help our children build resilience, optimism and achievement. As a strength-based scientist for more than 20 years, Waters has seen how this approach enhances self-esteem and energy in both children and teenagers – and how parents find it an exciting and rewarding way to raise them. In The Strength Switch, Dr Lea Waters shows you how to: The Strength Switch will show parents that a small shift can yield enormous results. "As parents, we often obsess about fixing our children’s weaknesses and neglect the importance of developing their strengths. This book is full of concrete ideas on how to change that." - Adam Grant, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take "Practical tips for parents from the wise and wonderful Lea Waters! So many parents, including me, struggle to translate scientific research into real-world strategies. This terrific book not only helps us understand ourselves and our children better but also makes that understanding actionable!" - Angela Duckworth, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Grit.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 2020 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST’20), held in Budva, Montenegro, from April 7 to 10, 2020. WorldCIST provides a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences with and challenges regarding various aspects of modern information systems and technologies. The main topics covered are A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers & Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; and N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.