Creating Connection: Group Expressive Arts Therapy with Incarcerated Women

The lived experience of incarceration isolates, disconnects, and retraumatizes women. Correctional mental health services fall short of adequately accounting for the pervasive histories of trauma and victimization that characterize the lives of most women prior to arrival in prison. The immediacy of the need to address this issue is underscored by steadily climbing rates of incarceration for women. The expressive arts are uniquely suited to the correctional environment wherein they provide alternative outlets for emotional expression, often stigmatized and perceived as unsafe. This research explored the use of a group expressive arts therapy method integrating psychodrama, visual art and collaborative poetry to enhance connection and ameliorate the negative impacts of incarceration among inmates with serious mental illness and histories of trauma. The method was implemented in a milieu treatment setting at a women’s medium security prison. Participants engaged in two hour-long sessions facilitated by a third-year expressive arts therapy intern. The method focused on the enhancement of perceived intra- and extra-institutional relational connection. Participants demonstrated new insight into their relationships, engaged in prosocial behavior and implemented problem-solving skills through the visual art-making and creative writing processes. The method elicited positive memories of past treatment and group engagement and reinforced the strength of current relational bonds. This research has implications for future use of the expressive therapies as means for better serving the gendered needs of incarcerated women with mental illness and histories of victimization

Inmigración y valores : su impacto en la intervención social

La Encuesta de Valores, que viene realizándose periódicamente desde los años 80, plantea algunas preguntas acerca de los inmigrantes, la actitud de la población hacia ellos, los valores que están detrás de la integración de los inmigrantes, etc. Esta comunicación analiza los datos de la última encuesta de 1999-2000 y muestra los diferentes tipos de valores que se detectan entre la población, en relación con los inmigrantes; el modelo de integración que se plantea referente a los extranjeros, y la solidaridad o rechazo existente frente al fenómeno migratorio. Todo ello, desde una perspectiva comparativa entre los países de la Unión Europea. También se examina la relación entre los valores existentes y el tipo de intervención social a desarrollar.The European Values Survey which has been done periodically since the 80s makes some questions about the immigrants: the attitudes of the population towards them, the values that are behind the integration of the immigrants,.... This paper analyses the results from the last Survey of 1999-2000, and shows, in a comparative european perspective, the different type of values related with the immigrants, the integration model that can be carried out with the immigrants and the solidarity or rejection with the migratory phenomenon. It also studies the relation between the existing values and the type of social work that can be developed

Intervención social con menores inmigrantes no acompañados: diversos modelos

Intervención social con menores inmigrantes no acompañados: diversos modelo

Influence of drying method on steviol glycosides and antioxidants in Stevia Rebaudiana leaves

The application of different drying conditions (hot air drying at 100 degrees C and 180 degrees C, freeze drying and shade drying) on steviol glycosides (stevioside, dulcoside A, rebaudioside A and rebaudioside C) and antioxidants in Stevia leaves was evaluated. Stevioside, the major glycoside found in fresh leaves (81.2 mg/g), suffered an important reduction in all cases, although shade drying was the least aggressive treatment. Considering the antioxidant parameters (total phenols, flavonoids and total antioxidants), the most suitable drying method was hot air at 180 degrees C, since it substantially increased all of them (76.8 mg gallic acid, 45.1 mg catechin and 126 mg Trolox, all equivalent/g Stevia, respectively), with respect to those present in fresh leaves (44.4, 2.5 and 52.9 mg equivalent/g). Therefore, the ideal method for drying Stevia leaves depends on their final use (sweetener or antioxidant), although, hot air at 180 degrees C is the most recommendable if only one treatment has to be chosen.The authors thank the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) (for funding the project PAID 2011-ref: 2012 and the PhD scholarship), and the Generalitat Valenciana (Spain) (for the project GV/2013/029).Periche Santamaría, A.; Castelló Gómez, ML.; Heredia Gutiérrez, AB.; Escriche Roberto, MI. (2015). Influence of drying method on steviol glycosides and antioxidants in Stevia Rebaudiana leaves. Food Chemistry. 172:1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2014.09.029S1617

Cultural-historical perspective in Spain and Portugal: developing theoretical and methodological approaches

Cultural-historical research has had a relevant presence in Spain and, to a lesser extent, in Portugal, since the 1970s. A review of the state of the art of the cultural-historical approach in these two countries allows us to identify four general lines of research: 1) sociocultural activities, mental actions, and semiotic mediation; 2) education in schools; 3) education beyond schools, including educational practices in community-cultural contexts; and 4) identity construction in (other) sociocultural settings. This perspective has been developed by an active community of researchers in the fields of psychology, education, and other social sciences

Teachers negotiating discourses of gender (in)equality : the case of equal opportunities reform in Andalusia

This article is focused on the analysis of the narratives produced by a group of teachers, experts in coeducation, while they were discussing their everyday activities. They are responsible for the implementation of a Plan for Gender Equality in public secondary schools in Andalusia (Spain). This study is based on contributions about doing gender view, according to which gender is not an attribute of individuals, but a way of making sense of interactions and practising a complex system as functioning on three levels: sociocultural, interactional, and individual. We use these levels to understand gender culture in schools through teachers’ discourse. Our interest lies particularly in the meanings, contradictions, difficulties, and conflicts experienced by expert teachers in co-education. Our study was based on group discussions with teachers in charge of the plan for equal opportunities between women and men in school settings. Results show teachers’ conflicts about meanings and how they are supposed to apply the Equality Plan. We observed interactional levels during these conflicts and analysed how teachers construct and validate their discourse

Catalytic Enantioselective Transannular Morita–Baylis–Hillman Reaction

Catalytic and enantioselective approaches to transannular reactions are very limited and mostly are based on chiral Lewis acid catalyzed pericyclic reactions. In this report, we present an efficient and straightforward methodology to access bicyclic carbo- and heterocyclic scaffolds combining different ring sizes through transannular Morita–Baylis–Hillman reaction catalyzed by a chiral enantiopure bifunctional phosphine. The reaction is remarkably wide in scope and enables the use of a variety of medium and large size ketoenone substrates leading to the final products in high yields and providing excellent stereocontrol in the formation of a quaternary stereogenic center at the ring fusion. Moreover, its potential as a general tool in organic synthesis has been highlighted through the accomplishment of the first enantioselective total synthesis of (−)-γ-gurjunene, a sesquiterpene natural product.Spanish MICINN (FEDER-CTQ2017-83633-P 52107-P) and the Basque Government (GruposIT908-16 and fellowship to R. Mato

A multicriteria extension of the efficient market hypothesis

Challenging the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) has been a recurrent topic for researchers and practitioners since its formulation. Hundreds of empirical studies claim to either prove or disprove the EMH by means of a number of heterogeneous methods. Even though the EMH is usually adjusted to a measure of risk, there is a lack of a formal analysis within a multiple-criteria context. In this paper, we propose a extension of the EMH that accommodates the foundations of multiple-criteria decision analysis. To this end, we rely on a family of parametric signed dissimilarity measures to assess multidimensional performance differences. Since normalization is a critical step in our approach to avoid meaningless comparisons, we present two novel theoretical results connecting different normalization techniques. This multicriteria extension provides a common framework on which to add empirical evidence regarding the EMH testing

Kinetic Resolution in Transannular Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction: An Approximation to the Synthesis of Sesquiterpenes from Guaiane Family

An approximation to the synthesis of several sesquiterpenes from the Guaiane family is described in which the core structure was obtained through a transannular Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction performed under kinetic resolution. Several manipulations of the obtained MBH adduct have been carried out directed towards the total synthesis of γ-Gurjunene, to the formal synthesis of Clavukerin A, to the synthesis of a non-natural isomer of isoguaiane and to the synthesis of an advanced intermediate in the total synthesis of Palustrol.This research was funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU), grant numbers FEDER-CTQ2017-83633P and FEDER-PID2020-118422-GB-I00 and by the Basque Government, grant number Grupos IT908-16