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In this paper, an analysis is made on the efficacy of a structured group program in emotional, cognitive and social coping skills for the treatment of a sample of adults and adolescents that developed posttraumatic stress disorder after a forced displacement situation. The participants completed a 10-session intervention including pre and post assessments about the severity level of the symptoms using the PSD scale (Foa, 1995) and an additional measure one month after. The results showed significant improvements in symptoms in both groups and in each one of the possible comparisons. Recovery shows that the decrease in the severity level of symptoms affects the functioning level positively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the cross-point of two of the most important and inseparable Freudian questions: What is a father? and, What a woman wants?, this paper begins a reflection about the women's place in the Freudian articulation of the relationship between the father and the social bond. In fact, the Freudian father, thanks to the law mediation which he is its agent, has as a function the regulation of the pleasure that participates in the social bond, making this way possible the human community. On the other hand, the support of the human community is the bond among brothers, as well as Freud presents it in his foundational text of the Law. How to precise the women's place in this arrangement? The reflection stands out this that exceeds the Father's Law and that Freud sets on women's account, initially under the figure of her opposition to the culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we checked the principal researches and theories to explain the attention system functioning. We are going to start reviewing along time about the concept of attention, from filter theories and resources distributor theories, to the current theories in which attention is conceived as a control system. From this last point of view, we will emphasize on the attentional networks theory of Posner, that proposes different systems to explain diverse aspects of attention, but they are related to each other. At last in this paper, we will mention experimental results that have been important to characterize the selective attentional mechanisms of the human visual system, using the attentional spotlight model for this aim. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is an introduction to some problems of the contemporary Philosophy of Mind. The thesis is that a conceptual study of the psychological expressions in ordinary language could be relevant in our scientific-oriented times. The scientific point of view in psychology could lead us to forget the value of understanding the mental for every person in his or her daily life, beside the scientific explanations that a theorist could provide. The first part of the paper is an exposition of some epistemological and ontological debates in the Philosophy of Psychology in which we offer many quotations and references to introduce the reader directly, by him or herself, into the study of the issues. The second part exposes an interpretation of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind. In the third part, we raise the question about the value of the Wittgenstein's ideas in the context of theoretical psychology debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents a non-experimental and descriptive research, aimed to identify the use of legal and illegal psychoactive drugs and the psychosocial associated risk and protective factors in a sample of 763 college students from Cali, Colombia. A questionnaire to evaluate the use of 4 illegal drugs, 2 legal drugs and 13 psychosocial factors was designed and validated. It was found that the legal drug with a higher level of consume was alcohol and the illegal drug was marijuana. The results show a significant association of psychosocial risk and protective factors with the use of both legal drugs (alcohol c² = 16,54, p = 0,000; tobacco c² = 39,07, p = 0,000) and the use of all the illegal drugs (marijuana c² = 28,41, p = 0,000; ecstasy c² = 17,04, p = 0,000; opiates c² = 6,77, p = 0,034; and cocaine c² = 8,89, p = 0,012). The associated factors for all drugs are specifically: disruptive behaviors, self-control, beliefs and valuation of PAS and the relation with consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the description and correlation of the psychosocial variables anxiety, depression, Perceived Health Control (PHC) and Perceived Control of Life Stress Events (PCLSE) in women diagnosed with HIV/Aids. The research was a non-experimental, descriptive and correlational study, with a transversal design. The sample was composed of 47 HIV/Aids diagnosed women attended at health services from Cali, Colombia. The measures consisted of the Socio-demographic, psychosocial and biomedical information interview for HIV/Aids diagnosed women (designed by the authors) and the Psychological variables assessment battery, adapted for HIV/Aids diagnosed women. The main results show that 23,4% of the sample presents clinical signs of anxiety, 10,63% of depression, 6,3% show low levels of PHC, and the 100% presented moderate levels of PCLSE. The anxiety and depression variables presented a positive correlation, as did PCLSE with anxiety and depression; depression with PHC and anxiety with PHC presented a negative correlation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the growth experienced by the Health Psychology around the world, still it's time in what we observe the absence of proposal kind interface that can meet the psychology as a professional discipline with the health field. This paper review some of the problems related to the multiple definitions of health psychology and to the misconceptions of the psychological phenomenon. Considering a psychological model of biological health, the arguments of what and what for can be approached the psychological variables associated to health are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to present a discussion on major problems related to impact evaluation of social and public health policies, plans and programs. Impact evaluation is a specific but interdisciplinary field, with an important amount of new knowledge in the lasts decades. Latin America's countries invest important founds in order to evaluate social interventions, following the multilateral agencies directions. Based on the newest experience in Colombia and other Latin American countries, this paper discusses conceptual and practical issues what evaluation teams have to deal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we defend a discursive and fragmentary conception of subjects. We question the concept that subjectivity is like a fixed, unitary, permanent and coherent data, ignorant of the conditions and ways of participation in productive activities. We think that the way to the production of subjects is through discursive social interactions. From these interactions we attend only capitalist and patriarchal relations of production. For that, we fix our attention on how subjectivities are built by the relations of exploitation and domination. We reduce these relations to the frame of productive activities that cause social classes. For these reasons, we draw up a proposal that focuses on fragmentary and performed subjectivity. We show how this point of view changes the conception of subject and collective class subjectivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks to make a reflection about the new nature of work and the role of Organizational Psychology as a technology displayed in organizations for the production of certain type of subjectivities. In the case analyzed, it is shown how the management of human resources through psychological knowledge, produces entrepreneur, autonomous, responsible, competent, involved and flexible subjects who contribute to the reproduction of dominant interests, making evident the political nature of Psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at presenting the partial results and process of an investigation which analyzes the experience of a group of employees, namely the experience of the implementation process of the corporate social responsibility policy of a medium-sized service company. For the case study participant observation, analysis of corporate documents and in-depth interviews to 64 employees across all organisational levels were employed. AtlasTi software was used to analyse and feed back the information received. This analysis produced a matrix of 161 content codes further analysed by means of network analysis methodology. Eventually, content network data were compared to the corporate sociogram. The investigation has been carried out during the last three years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper is the result of organizational culture research performed in a public hospital, aimed at making an approximation to discourses circulating in a hospital which is in process of transformation towards an "Empresa Social del Estado". The analysis illustrates how the transformation of a hospital into a productive enterprise leads to the displaying of new ways of doing things and new discourses imported from the context-client, registers and administrative control, information management, flexibilization of labor, and efficiency that contributes to the worker's construction. However, opposing voices against changes embedded in economic logic make evident that the new order is not hegemonic so far. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the results of research conducted in a project that supported the process associated with farmers transforming their agricultural practices towards the use of organic production. The proposal was approached from a narrative perspective developed by Ruiz Soto (1996), who applied some approaches of Ricoeur, Heidegger and Schapp. The results are shown through full stories, which form part of the research reports that were produced. The conclusions show that in addition to work with narratives, other possible methods can be recognized (such as implications of stories) in the organizational experience of the group of farmers and in the form of relationships of different project participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the relationship between religiosity (religious self-definition, Mass attendance and significance of God in life) and the Purpose In Life test (PIL) factors (Crumbaugh & Maholick, 1969) is analyzed, in a sample of 302 subjects. The Hypothesis states that they are positively associated: higher religiosity is associated to higher scores in PIL factors. A Religious Attitudes Questionnaire (CAR) adapted from Elzo (1994) and the PIL are used. Results suggest that the three religious variables exert a significant influence, either on some factor or on the four PIL factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Text comprehension is a psychological activity that has attracted the interest of cognitive science for a long time. Nevertheless, just recently, neuroscientific studies have emerged in order to unveil the neural machinery behind this activity. This paper reviews some of the classical and, particularly, current works in cognitive science and new advances in the neuroscience of text comprehension. Later on, a potential neurocognitive model for text comprehension based on the core concepts of the cognitive and neuroscientific approaches is presented. This model preserves the predictions made by cognitive models as regards comprehension and the architecture of the new neuropsychological models as regards neurocognitive development. Finally, questions for future research in both domains and some general conclusions are offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper proposes a psychological model for research on the treatment of adherence behavior in persons with HIV. The elements of the model are grouped in four stages, two psychological and two biological. The first includes dispositional variables such as interactive situations related to stress, functional competencies and motives, as well instrumental risk and preventive behaviors. The second includes the disease generated by HIV and others resulting in diverse pathologies. In the third phase, once pathology sets its course, the model involves the role of two types of behaviors, treatment adherence and those typically associated to the disease itself. The fourth includes the potential effects of the psychological components as modulators of both biological vulnerability and the development of further HIV-related pathology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper makes a discourse analysis of the Civic Ordinance of Barcelona, adopted by the City Hall of Barcelona- Spain in January of 2006, in order to typify and manage behaviour in the public spaces of the city. The textual corpus we used for this analysis is the Ordinance project in its two versions. The Discourse Analysis methodology used in this study has been proposed by different authors in this field (Martín Rojo, 2001; Parker, 1992; Potter & Wetherell, 1987; Van Dijk, 2003; Wetherell, 2001). Results point to the emergence of two kinds of discourses inside the text, as well as the strategies from which both discourses allow the construction of citizens' identities as a new way of governability in the spaces of contemporary European cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In most scientific writings, the word psychology describes things of a different and often incompatible nature. Sometimes, it refers to an entity, such as the mind, and sometimes to an occurrence, such as an activity. In this paper, it is argued that the psychological subject matter can not be an independent natural object, such as the Aristotle's composite of matter and form that he regarded as an entity and that instead the concept of event is a better descriptor. Psychological phenomena do not exist by themselves, but as the manifestation of particular properties of certain entities which exist in a Universe in everlasting motion. Since psychological events imply a reciprocal and uninterrupted transaction between living organisms and the environment in which they are embedded, functionalism, as it was first proposed, is the best approach to their study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on Kantor's interbehavioral approach, in this paper we present some variations on Ribes's psychological model of biological health. Because of both the underlying logic, and the characteristics of the elements that shape it, it is a field and multifactorial model which places a special emphasis on the interaction among a set of historical and situational variables that set probabilities for instrumental behaviors of prevention and risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper shows the relationship between Psychology and Public Health. The main tensions among these fields and the possible interdisciplinary conditions that will allow the production of beneficial effects in individual and population health are presented. Then, the encounters between Health Psychology -with a behavioral approach- and the dominant current of Public Health -based on an individualistic notion of the social and public issues- are described, especially in the areas of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Finally, some challenges for Colombian Psychology in order to advance in the integration with the Public Health in five scenarios are presented: as a field of knowledge, education, practice, research and as a scientific and professional community. The principal challenge is to develop a renovated approach from Health Psychology, constructing new models and approaches of individuality in relation to collectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows a metapsychological re-creation of transference from a conceptualization of representations as the units of psychism. Transference has its origins in the effort of an unsatisfied libidinal investiture that continues to be active in the Unconscious, and which allows the primary process to inadvertently filter into the secondary process through a "false link". Therefore, a current perception becomes identified with the expectative representation, which makes the individual believe that this new person will satisfy the aforementioned investiture. Transference neurosis is a psychoanalytic pillar, since only through it may one consciously and currently have access the repressed unconscious drives, a feature of childhood sexuality, and restart the psychosexual development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper was to describe the personality traits and the coping styles used by 99 college students, and observe if this variable are related. The NEO Five Factor Inventory [NEO-FFI], and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire [CAE] was used. The results confirm that Neuroticism is related with passive and emotion focused coping strategies (maladaptive copings) whereas, Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Agreeableness are related with rational and active focused coping. Openness to Experience it was not associate with no one coping strategies. The findings provide evidence for the understanding of individual's differences about how the young people cope the several environment requests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, empirical and theoretical reports which question the causes of male homosexuality are examined. According to these reports, male homosexuality differs from female homosexuality in some respects. Additionally, evidence favouring the consideration of male homosexuality as a biological condition is shown: there are brain differences between gay men and heterosexual men, there are genetic and perinatal factors associated to male homosexuality, there are cognitive and behavioral differences between gay and heterosexual men, there are animal models for studying homosexuality; finally, there are negative findings concerning the psychosocial factors associated to male homosexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between purpose in life and hopelessness in a sample of 302 subjects. Hypothesis declare that booth variables are significant, negative, associated. Purpose In Life Test (PIL; Crumbaugh & Maholick, 1969) and Hopelessness Scale (HS; Beck, Weissman, Lester & Trexler, 1974) are used. Statistical used are Pearson's correlation coefficient and Spearman's rho coefficient. Results (r= -0.550, p= 0.000; rs= -0.502, p= 0.000) support hypothesis: purpose in life is negatively associated to hopelessness. High level of purpose in life involve less hopelessness, and existential vacuum is associated to high level of hopelessness, statistically significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The researches about burnout have been extended to different populations; nevertheless, we did not find an instrument to measure burnout in housewives. Thus, the aim of this paper was to evaluate psychometric properties of Burnout questionnaire to housewives (CUBAC), designed by authors taking in consideration the Short questionnaire of burnout and also to evaluate goodness of fit of theoretical model behind questionnaires. Results about 200 housewives showed an adequate reliability, evidence of validity comparing with Stress Perceived Scale (PSS) and acceptable goodness of fit in the structural model analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes the religiosity and its factors in a Mexican sample. It was constructed a Likert Scale about the attitudes of religiosity in university students, with 64 items (alpha .935, validity 60.76%). The sample was 880 students of public and private universities in the Mexico City. The results showed statistical differences by university and sex (p<.05), but men and women was more closed than another studies argues. The religiosity is composed by factors as beliefs, practices, perceptions, not just the simple question "what is your religion?" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to assess the explanatory power of graphic representation by visualization of social networks. We analyze outcomes generated by the software tool UciNet and NetDraw, in order to explain networks outcomes using principles for effective interpretation of graphs. The internal characteristics of the major "jihadist" groups formed in Spain, are taken into consideration/account for analysis in the present paper. Our study examines the relevance of social interaction during "jihadist" militancy and the characteristics and implications of structure within a network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses one of the central problems of the last period of the Vygotsky's work: the sense. It is analyzed the progressive and fast development of this category in his last works, as well as its consequences in terms of what it represents as a possible unity of analysis of psyche. Moreover it is discussed some of the reasons by which this category did not find an space in the soviet psychology, as well as the differences between sense and the concept of personal sense introduced by A. N. Leontiev. The use of the category of sense has progressively extended in the psychological literature in the last time and a discussion about the concept and its origins is in urgent need of theoretical elaboration in order to avoid the triviality of the concept. Starting from the concept of sense in Vygotsky I propose the concept of subjective sense as the cornerstone for the development of the topic of the subjectivity from an historical-cultural viewpoint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper illustrates the potentialities offered by the Social Representations approach to the exploration of peace and war concepts. Free associations tasks with the stimuli War and Peace were given to 112 students in order to assess contents and structures. Differences related to gender, age and school grade were investigated. Attention was devoted to the role of peace education activities. Results indicate a dramatic representation of war, based on death and destruction. The representation of peace is based on intimate and positive emotional experiences. It appears weaker and polyphasic, with cues of change. Respondents involved in peace education show greater complexity of contents and more features related to positive approaches to peace, thus underlining the relevance of these activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]