It is a professional meeting which tries, somehow,
everything that what is done in psychology
reaches its audience, the professionals themselves.
It is a kind of update through other workmates
who are working in leading issues.
Attending this seminar means
you keep updated with what is being done
in psychology in Spain, which is very important,
as well as encouraging.
I think one of the fields where innovation is very important
is in technological development
and also in every attempt to contribute more
and to transfer with greater clarity, visibility and power
to the solution of social problems.
Not only to problem solving
but also to foresee demands
and to meet needs.
I think that psychology pervades daily life,
answering to important needs and, partly,
the innovation in psychology
has to be the answer to the innovation of society, too.
I am not a psychologist, or educator, I am a judge.
But many psychologists advise us about the children's circumstances.
The team advises us and carry out the measures.
I am known by my judgments but they result from the work
of a multidicisplinar team to which psychologists belong.
Both are connected.
With minors, justice must not be blind.
It is fundamental to know the crime and its circumstances
and which kid committed the crime,
as all of us are not really equal before the law.
We must bear in mind the crime and the person, the individual,
the circumstances surrounding the crime.
There has been an evolution on topics
like the understanding of cognitive processes and social problems.
Initiatives have been developed at institutional level and,
in Spain, the Academy of Psychology has been created
and Spain is going out of the crisis, too.
I hope that this becomes visible, as there was a sharp stop with the crisis
for the development of new projects
and to give strength and resources to the development of psychology.