The following work analyzes some characteristics and the professional risks that can be presented as the result of an empathic guidance on mental health workers, such as, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists or psychoanalysts. This article is product of my experience on the clinical domains of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and supervision...
The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between post-traumatic stress and entrepreneurial skills and resilience in women victims of armed conflict in 5 municipalities of the department of Magdalena, Colombia. The design of the research is non-experimental, cross-sectional and field-based. The population under study was 241 women...
This article is a qualitative research of 12 women that in 2016, requested help from the mental health community center at Arroyo Naranjo, in Havana Cuba. The objective is to look into aspects that had been previously identified in a quantitative investigation, of those that had requested help the same year. Based on the diagnosis of posttraumatic ...
Este trabajo pretende hacer una revisión narrativa de las afectaciones psicológicas en el personal de primera respuesta, quienes están constantemente expuestos a situaciones estresantes y psicotraumatizantes como parte de su profesión, al verse involucrados en la atención de víctimas en emergencias y desastres. Se considera que es normal la aparici...
Objetive. To evaluate and compare depression disorders (DD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after induced or involuntary pregnancy loss in women who requested psychological assistance. Method. A total of 287 individuals from Mexico City attended in the Instituto para la Rehabilitación de la Mujer y la Familia, A.C. (IRMA) from 2013 to 2016...
Published in Family process
Despite considerable research on secondary traumatization, the ramifications of veterans' and their wives' posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) for the family system remain largely uninvestigated. Beginning to fill this gap, the current study aims to investigate the reciprocal relations between both spouses' PTSS and marital adjustment, and the imp...
Se determinaron las afectaciones psicológicas, estrategias de afrontamiento y niveles de resiliencia de 677 adultos expuestos al conflicto armado en un municipio colombiano. Los participantes del estudio fueron seleccionados mediante muestreo aleatorio por afijación proporcional. Se aplicaron el cuestionario de síntomas, prueba de estrés postraumát...
En este artículo se describen los procesos de evaluación y tratamiento del caso de una mujer, objeto de robo al sacar dinero en un cajero, a partir del cual desarrolla síntomas ansioso-depresivos, inducida por un solo ensayo de condicionamiento clásico aversivo. El diagnóstico, TEPT o fobia, no fue relevante para decidir el tratamiento. La interve...
Davidson Trauma Scale (DTS) measures the frequency and severity of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder PTSD. Since Chile has limited data about validity and reliability of instruments to measure PTSD, this study evaluated psychometric properties of the scale in a sample of 130 adolescents between 13 and 18 years (M= 15,78; DT= 1,40). Some of them wer...
El abordaje del tratamiento de los trastornos de ansiedad, queda enmarcado en diversas teorías explicativas, pero su principal característica reside en el plano individual. La génesis y naturaleza de la regulación emocional en el caso que abordamos tiene una especial connotación por tratarse de un individuo que trabaja en el Cuerpo de Bomberos, don...
