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This article aims to highlight the extensive tradition of Psychology in social intervention, as well as its relevance in both the public and private spheres. It is important to highlight this circumstance because the new generation of social services laws, and other regulatory texts linked to them, are generating a series of changes in the structure and functioning of primary care teams, privileging the discipline of Social Work in relation to Psychology and Social Education. The figure of the reference professional linked exclusively to Social Work represents in fact an inadequate and unfair reserve of activity and is endangering interdisciplinary and comprehensive care for the user. Furthermore, psychology professionals are disappearing from areas of care where they have traditionally worked. We think that a law regulating the professions of social intervention could be the opportunity to address the problems that social intervention currently has. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher education during the pandemic assumed the challenge of adapting its formative contents to the virtual environment with consequent achievement of effective learning; in this context, it was proposed to evaluate the perception of learning in a subject of psychological intervention, formative research and social responsibility in a non-probabilistic sample of 277 psychology students from 19 to 48 years old, using the mixed method and non-experimental design, with the Scale of Perceived Learning in the Curricular Experience of Intervention Programs in Psychology and three open-ended questions. The results reflect a high evaluation of the course structure and the teaching role at 67.4% and 70.8%; higher perception of learning in private university students (U= 9414.000 and p=0.001); no distinction according to sex, age or occupation and the qualitative analysis recognizes the reinforcement of creativity, the acquisition of leadership and theoretical-practical competences, added to a satisfactory personal experience. These findings revalue the curricular experiences in virtuality, towards the achievement of formative-professional learning objectives in psychology students who are sensitive to replication in different higher education careers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The acquisition of a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) and unplanned pregnancies are risks that young people deal when deciding not to use a condom when having sexual intercourse. During the decision-making process, individuals value the benefits (gains) and losses (costs) associated with a behavior. Cost-benefit analysis has been investigated to examine the differential impact of gains and losses on risky behaviours. The decisional balance approach emphasizes that costs and benefits are associated with risky sexual behavior. Decisions about condom use are a precursor to behavior, and this process may be influenced by perceived benefits. In the present study, it is proposed that the balance between the benefit and the loss of condom use contributes to consistent condom use. These factors as determinants of behaviour must be considered under the cultural context in which they are carried out. The objective of this research is to identify the relationship of gains and losses from condom use with risky sexual behaviour. It was hypothesized that: 1) Young people will evaluate the benefits (gains) with higher scores compared to the losses (costs) in deciding to use a condom in sexual intercourse. 2) The gains will be greater in those college students who use a condom more frequently and the losses will not be the same among those who use a condom. To evaluate risky sexual behavior and the use of the male condom in their sexual relations were considered. Condom gains and losses were measured with a measurement scale in a sample of 257 university students, aged between 18 and 39 years (M = 22.34; SD = 3.6) from Querétaro, México. With reference to sexual behavior, it was found that 89.1 % have started their sexual activity. The average age of initiation of sexual life is 15.41 years. The frequency of sexual activity is once or twice each month. The mean of sexual partners is 4.2, with a median of 3. The 68.5 % reported using some contraceptive method and regarding the use of condoms, 27.8 % always use it and 5.7 % never use it. To evaluate the decisional balance, subtracting the gain and loss factors created a net difference score. The gain factor was subtracted from its counterpart of the loss factor to indicate the preference for having sex with a condom. The decisional balance assessment indicates that the gains are greater than the losses (costs) of consistent condom use in sexual intercourse. Associations were found between gains and losses with indicators of risky sexual behavior. It is observed that university students who do not use a condom show greater losses from using it. In gains, there is an increase in scores when using a condom. Additionally, it is observed that university students, who sometimes use a condom, show greater losses for using it, unlike those who always use it, which show low scores in the losses of using it. In gains factor, there is an increase in the scores when using a condom, that is, those who never or almost never use a condom have the lowest scores and as the scores increase, the frequency of using a condom in their sexual relations also increases. In conclusion, gains and losses from male condom use are associated with risky sexual behavior (age of sexual activity, number of partners and condom use) in the university context. The findings provide support for the development of interventions that promote gains or benefits to increase consistent condom use. It is important to consider in specific interventions those young people who decide to continue having sex without using a condom despite the costs and possible consequences of not using it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HIV is a chronic disease that affects the CD4 receptors of the immune system, so it is necessary for people with the virus to be under Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) to reduce the viral load in the body. The success of ART is related to adherence to treatment, understood as: the intake of antiretroviral drugs, follow-up of medical controls and implementation of healthy lifestyles. There are personal, social and health systems problems that prevent people from adhering to ART in an adequate way. This situation has become a public health problem because inappropriate taking of drugs often leads to drug resistance. In this way, it is necessary to implement effective psychological interventions aimed at increasing adherence to ART, to contribute to a better use of antiretrovirals and to the improvement of the quality of life of people with HIV. Accordingly, the objective was to review the factors associated with the efficacy of psychological interventions, to increase adherence to ART and to aggregate the findings in quantitative estimates of its impact on adherence. For this purpose, meta-analysis was used as a research technique that allows a quantitative analysis of results by calculating specific statistics. The literature search and review were carried out from August 2017 to May 2019 in the PubMed, Academic Search Complete (EBSCO Host) and Springer Link databases, for the identification of experimental studies that met the eligibility criteria (studies published in peer-reviewed indexed journals, experimental or quasi-experimental research, using techniques to increase adherence, published in Spanish and English and reporting the necessary statistics for effect size calculation). Of the 15 studies (total n = 1669) selected, 38 effect sizes were obtained. The calculation of the individual and global effect size was performed using the Comprehensive Meta-Analysis software (Biostat, 2011, v. 2.2.064). All the effect sizes were calculated using the standardized mean difference and a random effects model. To find out if individual effect sizes were homogeneous and therefore represent a similar measure of treatment efficacy, the Cochran Q homogeneity test was applied; based on this, the I² was calculated. Also, it was performed a publication bias calculation, the objective of which was to estimate the number of non-significant effect sizes that are required for a reduction of the global effect size to a smaller and non-significant one. The overall effect size was moderate (d = 0.56, n = 38, 95 % CI = 0.39 - 0.72, p < .001) and presented high heterogeneity (I² = 82.25). Twelve moderator variables were analyzed (year of publication, percentage of men, average age, measurement time, number of sessions / interactions, duration of sessions, total duration of intervention, economic remuneration for intervention, place where the intervention was carried out, type of intervention, intervention modality and adherence measurement), of which 11 were significant (all but intervention modality: individual vs. group therapy). The results suggest that the success of an intervention proposal to improve adherence to ART will be related to its ability to consider the components of the environment and the social situation in which the person with HIV develops, as well as their intrinsic characteristics in interaction with their context. Likewise, it is necessary to consider that the presence of adherence barriers should be treated specifically in young people and adults, as well as in men and women. Finally, it is more important to establish interventions aimed not only to increase adherence, but maintaining it, which is why it is considered necessary to propose studies aimed at maintaining adherence, as well as offering practical tools for people to make better decisions about their health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study analyzes the structural changes experienced by an interprofessional team implementing a psychosocial intervention program for victims of war in Colombia. The program is called "PAPSIVI" (Programa de Atención Psicosocial y Salud Integral a Víctimas), which has been operating in Colombia since 2013, thanks to Law 1448 of 2011 to improve the quality of life and repair the damage of the victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. It only served people registered in the Single Registry of Victims (RUV), which had 9'165,126 records throughout the country until September 2021. This program follows a comprehensive and restorative approach that defines victims as protagonists of their own process of empowerment and positive change (Laplante and Holguin, 2006; Thompson, 1996). For this purpose, a multilevel intervention is carried out at the individual, family and community levels. The program is implemented by teams of professionals (psychologists, social workers and community facilitators) of varying sizes depending on the number of victims served in the municipalities. Psychologists provide individual psychological care and, to a lesser extent, family therapy is also offered to try to repair psychosocial damage from exposure to situations of violence (Oficina de Promoción Social, 2017). Social workers carry out community interventions to promote the associative fabric and social capital. Community promoters are facilitators and connect professionals with the potential beneficiaries of the intervention. The latter are very important, having themselves the status of victims, which increases the ecological validity of the intervention. Due to the characteristics of the implementation of this initiative, which takes into account the difficulties of the context (with situations of deprivation and vulnerability), as well as the particularities of the participants, it is valid to ask in this research what are the structural changes experienced by the teams of professionals who implement PAPSIVI. For this, structural evaluation methods were applied to identify changes in the cohesion of recognition networks among professionals, the preference to collaborate and the exchange of information sent and received. Data collection took place in two time series (T1 before - T2 after) with an interval of three months. Statistics applied to relational data analysis were used to determine changes in the networks at time T2. In the results it was found that in the baseline period the density in the recognition [t = 1.7105, (95 % CI: -.0123 - .185), p < .0444] and work preference [t = 2.0942, (95 % CI: .005 - .1521), p < .0218] networks increased. Information exchange networks did not experience significant changes. Multiple regressions at the dyadic level indicate that the preference for working and exchanging information at T1 predicts information exchange relative to both information requests received and sent at T2. It is concluded that the results shed light for: (a) optimize the design of psychosocial intervention teams; (b) improve their functioning by introducing horizontal organizational communication tools (among the members of each team), transversal (among the members of the teams implementing the program in different municipalities), and vertical (by promoting communication between professionals and program managers/responsible persons), and (c) achieve that changes in the structure of the teams serve as a diagnostic tool for functional problems of the team associated with the exchange of professional information and the referral of users. Ultimately, better integration of the teams leads to better psychosocial profiles of the users of programs such as PAPSIVI and allows them to better adapt their activities to the needs of the users, which improves the effectiveness of the intervention (Virto, 2021). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a worldwide public health problem associated with obesity and overweight. A strict diet is a critical part of the treatment, but it is common for patients to have difficulty adhering to it. The literature reports a variety of techniques increasing adherence, but there is not an evident a common factor among them. Objective. The present study sought to assess possible differences between two modalities of psycho-educational programs with differing levels of personalization. Method. The modalities were designed according to specific patients' needs and led to advancement along materials only when participants showed effective learning in each step. Eleven, randomly-assigned patients composed a personalized condition and ten a non-personalized one. Seven and five participants respectively completed the program, through a pretest-posttest design. Data collection included an adherence index scale and other physical records related to weight. Results. The main findings revealed that the difference between both modalities in the post-test was not statistically significant in any indicator. However, differences resulted significant between pre-test and post-test measures of the personalized intervention, with large effect sizes for most indicators. Discussion. Findings are discussed in terms of the program components likely to have made the difference, the benefits of the measures used, the experimental design, and the recommendations for entry-level diet adherence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The search for effective treatment programs targeting parents of adolescents or young people who behave violently towards them is a highly relevant topic. The main goal of this study is to show some evidence of the short- and medium-term efficacy of the Early Intervention Program in Child-to-Parent Violence. Through a pre- post-followup design, the effect of the treatment on aggressive discipline is evaluated (body and psychological punishment) and depressive symptomatology of 33 parents, as well as level of child-to-parent violence and family conflict. After completing the program, the level of aggressive discipline and depressive symptoms, as well as child-to-parent violence and family conflict decreased, and these effects remained at six months. The results of this study improve the quality of the evidence of the evaluated program in clinical and social services contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study presents the psychometric evidence of the Perceived Learnings Scale (32 items), based on the didactic and pedagogical elements of the teaching-learning process, of a Curricular Experience (CE) in the formulation and execution of «Intervention Programs in Psychology». Instrumentalpsychometric research, with a quantitative-transversal approach, with post-EC data collection, in 117 university students. Its statistical contrast was performed in the R environment for Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Principal Component Factor Analysis, among others. The results indicate an adequate fit oriented to 5 factors (χ2 = 130.755, gl = 454, p = 1.00, GFI = .999, CFI = 1.00, TLI = 1.00, NNFI = 1.00, RMSEA = .00, SRMR = .065, RMR = .037), ratified in parallel analyzes. It concludes in the formation of a robust, reliable and valid construct that explores the awareness of learning in matters of promotion-prevention in health, and susceptible to adaptation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the inclusion and observation of behavioral economics at the government level through the intervention of economics and psychology, the following article involves, on the one hand, identifying rational structures, of limited rationality and irrational that contribute to balanced and optimal development of public policy, and, on the other hand, increase the discussion around the analysis of behavioral economics. For this purpose, organizational analysis and the approach to governance are considered as a theoretical link. The first, because it induces the variable of human behavior in spaces of human interaction to which socially speaking it is not possible to escape, and the second as an optimal aspiration for the exercise of government action. Consequently, the work draws on findings and situations that account for the relevance of these categories of analysis and their social relevance, to be included in the public policy studies that integrate human behavior into their study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this work is to evaluate the efficacy of a psychological intervention in the preparation of a candidate for a state exam (study / examination) with the same basis as the preparation of a sport competition (training / competition). The participant is a 26-year-old, doctor in Psychology, who was presented for the second time to the state exam "PIR", and whose demand was "to train psychological skills that favored the maximum performance under examination." The intervention took place during the 11 weeks prior to the exam, by reason of a weekly session. A pre and post intervention evaluation was carried out, through a qualitative interview. The intervention consisted of three parts: a) assessment and objectives; 2) cognitive-behavioral intervention; and 3) competitive routine. The results suggest the benefits from the intervention (state of the opponent in the examination situation and in the final phase of study) and a satisfactory result can be collected in a satisfactory way (passed the state exam). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mindfulness-based interventions, rooted in old Buddhist practices, have been updated and adapted to the western context. In the present review, the most frequently used mindfulness interventions will be described as well as the psychological mechanisms activated by them. Afterwards, applied studies will be reviewed. First, clinical trials and meta-analytic studies focused on interventions for psychological disorders will be analyzed. Second, clinical trials and meta-analytic studies focused on interventions for health conditions will be analyzed. In the last section some important issues are addressed, such as, for instance, potential adverse effects, personality profiles that fit better with this type of interventions, and topics that need more attention, such as the analysis of efficacy compared with other well-validated interventions, are reviewed. The overall conclusion after the literature review is that mindfulness-based interventions show high versatility, being very suitable for primary health care or similar settings, and have demonstrated their best results in patients with symptoms of stress, anxiety, or depression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the analysis of the results obtained after applying an intervention based on emotional intelligence (EI) and another based on games, named juegos varios (JV), to hospitalized children, interventions that are aimed to reduce negative affect (NA) and maintain or increase positive affect (PA). Two groups of hospitalized children were analyzed: The first received an EI intervention and consisted of 27 patients with an average age of 10.21 years and standard deviation of 2.52; the second received a JV intervention without a psychological foundation, consisting of 20 patients with an average age of 9.85 years and 2.96 standard deviation. In both groups the NA and PA were measured using the Rate Your Day Scale before and after either intervention. The analyses indicate that the JV intervention decreases NA, while the IE intervention decreases NA and increases PA. We conclude that both interventions improve the emotional state of hospitalized children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific literature indicates a high incidence of mental disorders in prisons. Thus, the aim of this study is to evaluate psychosocial health and self-regulation of inmates compared with a control group of non-inmates participants. In addition, we try to determine the incidence of the variable time spent in prison and to analyze the effect of training in social and communicative skills. The sample consisted of 20 males, 10 inmates (five with more than one year of sentence and five with less) and 10 participants with no criminal history. Participants were administered the health questionnaire GHQ-28 and the MAPA scale of self-regulation. Non-parametric Mann-Whitney (U) tests were used to calculate probabilities and Cramer's test (V) as an indicator of effect size. Results evidenced that reclusion was not necessarily associated to poorer health and self regulation, that the influence of the length of the sentence on these two dimensions was small and that training in social and communicative skills did not produce significant effects on inmates' health and self-regulation. To conclude, some general reflections as well as new proposals to improve future interventions are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is a theoretical review of transference, analyst's desire and interpretation as a psychoanalytic concepts and analytic elements. The main question is how the analyst's desire, transference, and interpretation take place in psychoanalytic clinic? Transference and interpretation are the most important elements in analysis, however, the analyst's desire occur before the analytic situation, the analyst's desire and the transference create the atmosphere to the interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Injury is a major setback for both sportsmen and women, and more so for elite athletes. This has spurred research which is primarily focused on physical recovery and treatment where psychological resilience plays a crucial role in recovery. In order to assess the prevalence of injuries and strategies for coping with them used by elite athletes to recover from their injuries, 362 kayakists (226 men and 136 women) registered in the Spanish National Championship 2012 were assessed. Participants answered a questionnaire on sports injuries and the Athletic Coping Skills Inventory (Crocker, 1992). The results revealed that the probability of suffering a sports injury was significant (.376) and similar in all the different stages of training; athletes do not adopt just one coping style, but a combination of adaptive and maladaptive strategies; in the maintenance stage of performance gains athletes resort to fewer maladaptive strategies; and male kayakists use different strategies to female kayakists to cope with injury. These results lend support to the Lazarus and Folkman model (1984), and the implications for intervention are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish Model of Transplantation has achieved global recognition, because of its efficacy and efficiency levels. Almost always, organ transplant is the person's only chance of survival. So, organ transplantation could be considered a stage-process related to a stressful life event which individuals must cope with. The waiting list stage probably is associated to a higher psychological vulnerability, as it is usually a long process and a real risk to survival, characterized by high uncertainty. The case of a woman diagnosed with an adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood associated with being on a waiting list for two years is presented. A cognitive-behavioral intervention was applied to develop more adaptive coping-skills, to manage rumination, and to learn to live with uncertainty. Results showed significant clinical outcomes in those mechanisms and also in anxiety and depression levels. These changes were maintained in the follow-up stage, one month later. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the description, evaluation, and treatment of a study case with a generalized anxiety disorder. The case is a 16-year-old boy who suffers from a high emotional distress due to several worries. An assessment with different instruments that allows diagnosis and delimitation of the most important variables is performed. After this process of evaluation a multicomponent intervention, which integrates different techniques and strategies of cognitive, emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal character, is implemented. The results reflect substantial changes in symptoms that suggest the adequacy and effectiveness of the intervention. The role of worries as a component of the generalized anxiety disorder, difficulties, and limitations of the intervention and future actions to consolidate the achievements are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interest for the study of forgiveness is related to personal and interpersonal benefits that follow it. In this paper we investigated the use of empathy in interventions to promote forgiveness. The method was a systematic review in the databases Pepsic, Lilacs, PubMed and PsycInfo, using the descriptors "Forgiveness and Intervention" and "Forgiveness and Therapy". The sample consisted of 20 articles, which were read, tabulated and analyzed. The results showed that in 90% of reviewed studies empathy was a resource used. We concluded that the promotion of victim's empathy by the offender is a key mechanism for obtaining forgiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the present, effective treatments are available to reduce anxiety symptoms and their associated distress. Nevertheless, it is frequently observed that anxiety responses are recovered after extinction, without being clear the responsible mechanism of such phenomenon. For decades, it has been presumed the existence of a reconsolidation mechanism. Such mechanism is thought to participate in the re-storage of memories that have been evoked. Recent research apparently reveals that intervention on reconsolidation mechanisms prevents the recovery of anxiety responses that have been previously extinguished. Intervention on these mechanisms could represent an alternative to current psychological treatments for anxiety disorders based on exposure procedures. The objective of the present work is to review the evidence on reconsolidation mechanisms and its effects on the reduction of anxiety responses. Finally some clinical implications will be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this work was to optimize a new tool for evaluation of quality perceived in the Early Intervention Centers, developed ad hoc, allowing to analyze different dimensions of quality service in these kind of centres from the perspective of the Generalizability Theory. The aim was to break down the actual variability of the variability of the error. The variance of the facets centers, users, items and scales components were estimated. We used a structure of multifaceted partially nested design, analyzing different categories independently and in interaction, obtaining excellent results both indexes of reliability and generalizability. Measure design optimization to optimize sample sizes, and can be considered a cost-benefit analysis was conducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Depressive symptoms are frequently observed during pregnancy, and these affect the mother and her relationship with her baby during the post-partum period. Results are reported on a 5-session group intervention for reducing depressive symptoms and promoting maternal sensitivity. The participants included 134 pregnant women with a history of depression (experimental group = 46 and control group = 88). Depressive symptoms (Beck Depression Inventory), social problem-solving strategies (Social Problem-Solving Inventory-Revised), maternal sensitivity, infant cooperativeness and bonding risk (Child-Adult Relatinoship Experimental Index) were assessed in both groups. The group intervened showed a significant reduction of depressive symptoms and an improvement of social problem-solving strategies. This group also shows significantly higher scores in maternal sensitivity, and infant cooperativeness, as well as lower frequencies of bonding risk in the post-intervention assessment. The importance of considering intervention strategies during pregnancy, including its impact on maternal sensitivity, the quality of mother-baby interactions and the problem-solving abilities of the mothers, is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzed, first, if there were any differences in attitudes towards partner violence (i.e., perceived severity, victim blaming, and acceptability), responsibility attributions, sexism, and risk of recidivism between Latin American immigrants and Spanish offenders convicted of intimate-partner violence at the beginning of a batterer intervention program. Second, differences in the batterer intervention program outcomes between Spanish and Latin American offenders were explored. The sample consisted of 278 batterers (211 Spanish and 67 Latin American) who participated in a community-based batterer intervention program. Results showed significant differences between Spanish and Latin American offenders in perceived severity, victim blaming, violence against women acceptability, and benevolent sexism. Regarding batterer intervention program outcomes, results showed that despite initial differences between Spanish and Latin American offenders, both groups benefit equally from the intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the efficacy of telephone-administered psychological interventions for mood disorders. A systematic search was conducted using the databases PsycINFO, Medline, the Cochrane Library Database, from 1974 to December 2013; seventeen studies were selected. In the studies different kinds of psychological interventions were assessed, mostly cognitive-behavioral, with results, at least, as positive as those obtained in face-to-face psychotherapy, with a combined small-medium effect size of -0.42 according to Cohen's d 95% CI [-0.50, -0.34]. The data obtained in most of the studies suggest that the telephone constitutes an useful tool in the field of psychological intervention for depression. However, the results also show the lack of homogeneity among the studies, Q = 712.48, p < .001, namely, there are moderators of the effects that could not be studied because of lack of studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This is an exploration of the boundaries of problem areas in the study of the child and the family seen as the object for psychological intervention in Argentina in the 1950ies. Based on a clinical history published by Arminda Aberastury in 1957 in Revista de Psicoanálisis, several analytical approaches are discussed from a historiographic perspective in the light of the history of psy-disciplines and a theory of values. The emphasis is on the connecting thread between the values attached to the individual (the child) and the family, as well as health/sickness criteria, gender roles, and the significance of those in the knowledge and understanding informing the clinical practices at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]