Funcionamiento de la terapia cognitivo-interpersonal en los trastornos de la personalidad: Estudio de dos casos

There is a broad consensus that the core of psychopathology implicated in personality disorders (PDs) consists of dysfunctions related to the self and chronic and inflexible interpersonal patterns. The design of treatments for PDs requires a high degree of complexity, the use of different interventions and special attention to the therapeutic alliance. Interpersonal-cognitive therapy (ICT) is a treatment option to consider because of specific characteristics consistent with some of the dysfunctional patterns involved in PDs. Therefore, the objective of this exhaustive analysis of two cases is to confirm the efficacy of ICT.  The results warrant the efficacy of ICT in achieving certain symptomatic changes, fundamental for the first sessions.Existe un amplio consenso acerca de que el núcleo de la psicopatología implicada en los trastornos de personalidad (TPs) se compone de disfunciones del self y de patrones interpersonales inflexibles y crónicos. El diseño de los tratamientos para los TPs exige un elevado grado de complejidad, el uso de diferentes dispositivos y una especial atención a la alianza terapéutica. La terapia cognitivo-interpersonal (TCI) posee características específicas congruentes con algunas de las modalidades disfuncionales implicadas en los TPs que la convierten en una opción a considerar. Por ello, mediante el análisis exhaustivo de 2 casos clínicos se persigue el objetivo de mostrar la bondad de la TCI. Los resultados avalan la efectividad de la TCI para lograr ciertos cambios sintomáticos que son fundamentales en las primeras fases de los tratamientos de los TPs.

la persona del terapeuta validacion espanola del cuestionario de evaluacion del estilo personal del terapeuta ept c

Abstract: The person of the therapist: Spanish validation of the Personal Style of the Therapist Questionnaire (PST-Q). The Personal Style of the Therapist Questionnaire (PST-Q) is an instrument with more than 20 years of theoretical and empirical developments at the international scenario, especially in Latin America. The main goal of the study was to provide preliminary evidence on its psychometric properties and factorial structure in a sample of Spanish licensed clinical psychologists (N = 350). 7 confirmatory factor analysis were performed to found a 20-item and 5-factor solution that had the best fit indices and internal consistency values. The original abbreviated model of the PST-Q was partially confirmed, since item 28 had to be eliminated because it had a factor weight less than .30. The alpha values were slightly lower than the original, but equivalent to those of the Portuguese validation. The implications of the findings for training and research in psychotherapy and clinical psychology are discussed.Keywords: Personal style of the therapist; PST-Q; practice-oriented research; clinical psychology; psychotherapy. Resumen: El Cuestionario de Evaluación del Estilo Personal del Terapeuta (EPT-C) es un instrumento con más de 20 años de desarrollos teóricos y empíricos a nivel internacional, especialmente en Latinoamérica. El objetivo del estudio consistió en proporcionar evidencia preliminar sobre sus propiedades psicométricas y estructura factorial en una muestra de psicólogos clínicos españoles debidamente acreditados (N = 350). Se realizaron 7 análisis factoriales confirmatorios hasta dar con una solución de 5 factores y 20 ítems que resultó ser la que presentó los mejores índices de ajuste y de consistencia interna. Se confirmó parcialmente el modelo abreviado original del EPT-C, ya que tuvo que eliminarse el ítem 28 por presentar una carga factorial inferior a .30. Los valores alfa fueron ligeramente inferiores al original, pero equivalentes a los de la validación portuguesa. Se discuten las implicaciones de los hallazgos para la formación e investigación en psicoterapia y psicología clínica. Palabras clave: Estilo personal del terapeuta; EPT-C; investigación orientada por la práctica; psicología clínica; psicoterapia

Combined searches for the production of supersymmetric top quark partners in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

A combination of searches for top squark pair production using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb(-1) collected by the CMS experiment, is presented. Signatures with at least 2 jets and large missing transverse momentum are categorized into events with 0, 1, or 2 leptons. New results for regions of parameter space where the kinematical properties of top squark pair production and top quark pair production are very similar are presented. Depending on themodel, the combined result excludes a top squarkmass up to 1325 GeV for amassless neutralino, and a neutralinomass up to 700 GeV for a top squarkmass of 1150 GeV. Top squarks with masses from 145 to 295 GeV, for neutralino masses from 0 to 100 GeV, with a mass difference between the top squark and the neutralino in a window of 30 GeV around the mass of the top quark, are excluded for the first time with CMS data. The results of theses searches are also interpreted in an alternative signal model of dark matter production via a spin-0 mediator in association with a top quark pair. Upper limits are set on the cross section for mediator particle masses of up to 420 GeV

Search for new particles in events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

A search is presented for new particles produced at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV, using events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 101 fb(-1), collected in 2017-2018 with the CMS detector. Machine learning techniques are used to define separate categories for events with narrow jets from initial-state radiation and events with large-radius jets consistent with a hadronic decay of a W or Z boson. A statistical combination is made with an earlier search based on a data sample of 36 fb(-1), collected in 2016. No significant excess of events is observed with respect to the standard model background expectation determined from control samples in data. The results are interpreted in terms of limits on the branching fraction of an invisible decay of the Higgs boson, as well as constraints on simplified models of dark matter, on first-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to quarks and neutrinos, and on models with large extra dimensions. Several of the new limits, specifically for spin-1 dark matter mediators, pseudoscalar mediators, colored mediators, and leptoquarks, are the most restrictive to date.Peer reviewe

Probing effective field theory operators in the associated production of top quarks with a Z boson in multilepton final states at root s=13 TeV

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Measurements of the Electroweak Diboson Production Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at root s=5.02 TeV Using Leptonic Decays

The first measurements of diboson production cross sections in proton-proton interactions at a center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV are reported. They are based on data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 302 pb(-1). Events with two, three, or four charged light leptons (electrons or muons) in the final state are analyzed. The WW, WZ, and ZZ total cross sections are measured as sigma(WW) = 37:0(-5.2)(+5.5) (stat)(-2.6)(+2.7) (syst) pb, sigma(WZ) = 6.4(-2.1)(+2.5) (stat)(-0.3)(+0.5)(syst) pb, and sigma(ZZ) = 5.3(-2.1)(+2.5)(stat)(-0.4)(+0.5) (syst) pb. All measurements are in good agreement with theoretical calculations at combined next-to-next-to-leading order quantum chromodynamics and next-to-leading order electroweak accuracy