Boost Camp’, a universal school-based transdiagnostic prevention program targeting adolescent emotion regulation; evaluating the effectiveness by a clustered RCT : a protocol paper

Abstract Background The transition from childhood into adolescence can be considered as a critical developmental period. Moreover, adolescence is associated with a decreased use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies and an increased use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies increasing the risk of emotional problems. Targeting emotion regulation is therefore seen as an innovative prevention approach. The present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Boost camp, an innovative school-based prevention program targeting ER, on adolescents’ emotion regulation skills and emotional wellbeing. Also secondary outcomes and possible moderators will be included. Methods The aim is to reach 300 adolescents (16 class groups, 6 schools) in their first year of high school. A clustered Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) with two conditions, intervention (n = 150) and control (n = 150), will be set up. Adolescents in the intervention condition will receive 14 lessons over the course of 2 days, followed by Booster sessions, and will be compared with adolescents in a non-intervention control group. The outcomes will be measured by self-report questionnaires at baseline, immediately after Boost camp, and at three and 6 months follow-up. Discussion Data-collection is planned to be completed in May 2018. Data-analyses will be finished the end of 2018. The presented paper describes the Boost camp program and the clustered RCT design to evaluate its effectiveness. It is expected that Boost camp will have beneficial effects. If found effective, Boost camp will have the potential to increase adolescent’s ER and well-being, and reduce the risk to become adults in need. The trials is registered on the 13th of June 2017 in ISRCTN registry [ISRCTN68235634]

Self-Compassion, emotion regulation and stress among australian psychologists: Testing an emotion regulation model of self-compassion using structural equation modeling

Psychologists tend to report high levels of occupational stress, with serious implications for themselves, their clients, and the discipline as a whole. Recent research suggests that selfcompassion is a promising construct for psychologists in terms of its ability to promote psychological wellbeing and resilience to stress; however, the potential benefits of self-compassion are yet to be thoroughly explored amongst this occupational group. Additionally, while a growing body of research supports self-compassion as a key predictor of psychopathology, understanding of the processes by which self-compassion exerts effects on mental health outcomes is limited. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test an emotion regulation model of self-compassion and stress among psychologists, including postgraduate trainees undertaking clinical work (n = 198). Self-compassion significantly negatively predicted emotion regulation difficulties and stress symptoms. Support was also found for our preliminary explanatory model of self-compassion, which demonstrates the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties in the self-compassion-stress relationship. The final self-compassion model accounted for 26.2% of variance in stress symptoms. Implications of the findings and limitations of the study are discussed

Anales del III Congreso Internacional de Vivienda y Ciudad "Debate en torno a la nueva agenda urbana"

Acta de congresoEl III Congreso Internacional de Vivienda y Ciudad “Debates en torno a la NUEVa Agenda Urbana”, ha sido una apuesta de alto compromiso por acercar los debates centrales y urgentes que tensionan el pleno ejercicio del derecho a la ciudad. Para ello las instituciones organizadoras (INVIHAB –Instituto de Investigación de Vivienda y Hábitat y MGyDH-Maestría en Gestión y Desarrollo Habitacional-1), hemos convidado un espacio que se concretó con potencia en un debate transdisciplinario. Convocó a intelectuales de prestigio internacional, investigadores, académicos y gestores estatales, y en una metodología de innovación articuló las voces académicas con las de las organizaciones sociales y/o barriales en el Foro de las Organizaciones Sociales que tuvo su espacio propio para dar voz a quienes están trabajando en los desafíos para garantizar los derechos a la vivienda y los bienes urbanos en nuestras ciudades del Siglo XXI

Los microorganismos del género Pasteurella. I. Los caracteres de cultivo

Fil: Anchézar, Benjamín. Instituto Bacteriológico. Departamento Nacional de Higiene; Argentina.Fil: Savino, E. Instituto Bacteriológico. Departamento Nacional de Higiene; Argentina.En el presente trabajo se consignan los resultados obtenidos sobre el estudio de los caracteres culturales de los microorganismos pertenecientes al género Pasteurella. En la investigación se utilizó 10 cepas de P. pestis, 26 cepas de P. pseudotuberculosis y 18 de Pasteurella sp. incert. Resumiendo nuestras investigaciones diremos lo siguiente: 1. — Para el estudio de la movilidad de las pasteurelas aconsejamos el método de Levinthal o la observación con las bacterias que desarrollan en el líquido de condensación de agar inclinado y por incubación a 20° C. 18 horas. 2. — Todas las especies de pasteurelas desprenden H2S aunque P. pestis y P. pseudotuberculosis lo hacen más lentamente y con menor intensidad, hecho que está en contradicción con lo observado por algunos autores. 3. La propiedad de fermentar glicerina o rarnnosa no permite diferenciar P. pestis de P. pseudotuberculosis. 4. —- De los microorganismos representantes del género Pasteurella sólo P. pestis no reduce el azul de metileno. 5. — A pesar de lo que suele encontrarse en la bibliografía, hemos observado que P. pestis y P. peseudotuberculosis, en general, fermentan sorbita en las primeras horas de su desarrollo y luego alcalinizan nuevamente el medio de cultivo. Por ese motivo, en este caso, para su mejor observación aconsejamos observar la fermentación por incubación de los cultivos a 20-22° C. 6. — Presentamos un cuadro que puede ser de utilidad cuando se quiere diferenciar P. pestis y P. pseudotuberculosis de las demás especies jdel mismo género Pasteurella