THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TRAININGS ON HELPING PROFESSIONALS

This research project examined the effect of domestic violence trainings on helping professionals. This research project sought out to measure differences in pre-test and post-test scores from study participants to assess the participants’ beliefs and knowledge regarding the dynamics of domestic violence. The research project gathered quantitative data from a convenience sample of 28 helping professionals who participated in a domestic violence training. A series of paired samples t-test were conducted to assess differences in the pre-test and post-test scores to determine if our hypothesis was confirmed. Key findings from this study revealed that the domestic violence training was quite effective overall. In particular, participants reported increased knowledge around types of abuse, the role of culture in an abusive relationship, and safety planning strategies. Practice recommendations include providing ongoing training for students in MSW programs, continuing education for social workers who work with domestic violence victims and continued federal funding for the Violence Against Women Act

El sentido de “Ser” en mujeres maltratadas: la mirada psicosocial al estudio de la violencia de género

Catorzenes Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la FCHS (Any 2008-2009)Desde una perspectiva psicosocial, la violencia de género, es un problema relacionado con los procesos de dar sentido al “SER”. La falta de sentido y la vulnerabilidad, generada por un vacío de ser, predispone a la persona a aceptar y normalizar situaciones, que suponen una amenaza a la dignidad personal. Desde esta situación, se genera el sustrato para poder ser objeto de una relación perversa. Relación, que permite generar, una dependencia mutua entre maltratador y víctima, desde el vinculo afectivo, donde la víctima aunque con dolor, se siente reconocida por alguien. Esta relación perversa, poco a poco, va llenando a la persona, de una falta de “sentido vital”, que inunda todos los ámbitos de su vida provocando, una continua necesidad de reconocimiento y cariño. Este estado continuo de vulnerabilidad y fragilidad, impide cualquier acción o iniciativa, para poder dar sentido pleno a su vida. Desde la intervención y prevención, un factor crítico a tener en cuenta, es la dimensión de desarrollo personal, sanar el vacio, dirigiendo la acción al reconocimento de un sentido propio y significativo. Este trabajo permite, como estudio exploratorio inicial, indentificar los factores y variables emergentes, en el proceso de violencia de género. Explorando los procesos latentes que emergen, en el ámbito de las mujeres maltratadas. Desde esta perspectiva, el estudio, propone la necesidad de buscar proyectos vitales, que permitan reconocer a la persona, desde la potenciación y desarrollo de sus capacidades. Restaurando el sentido de “SER”, no desde la carencia, sino desde la reconstrucción plena y con sentido de su dignidad personal

The experience lived by psychotherapists and clients in group psychotherapy in Humanistic Phenomenological Clinic: a phenomenological study

Cet article décrit comment psychothérapeutes et ses clients vivent une expérience en psychothérapie humaniste-phénoménologique de groupe, faite dans le cadre d’une recherche phénoménologique qualitative, qui utilise comme instrument Versions de Sens, écrit par deux thérapeutes et dix clients. L’analyse phénoménologique des questions critiques émergentes suggère que, lorsque les gens sont ensemble dans la quête de la croissance, dans un environnement de soin et entente mutuel, leurs histoires s’entrecroisent spontanément, en dévoilant une sagesse propre du groupe qui le mobilise dans une direction créative d’assurer la continuité de la vie. L’utilisation d’une approche critique phénoménologique a guidé un rapprochement aux phénomènes, avec ses plusieurs contours, moyennant les possibilités infinies qu’un groupe de personnes en processus de psychothérapie pourrait révéler, annonçant que tout se passe dans l’entrelacs psychothérapeutes-clients-monde.This article describes how psychotherapists and clients live the experience of group psychotherapy under the humanistic-phenomenological view executed as part of qualitative study of phenomenological nature, in which Versions of Meaning written by two psychotherapists and ten clients are used as tools. The critical phenomenological analysis of the emerging issues suggests that when people are together seeking growth, in a mutual care and acceptation atmosphere, their life stories meet and a wisdom that is particular of the group arises, guiding it into its own creative way to continue life. The use of critical phenomenological approach provided an approximation to the phenomena with their multiple outlines, in the varied possibilities that a group of people in the process of psychotherapy can reveal, announcing that everything happens in the interlace psychotherapist-clients-world.En este texto se describe la experiencia de psicoterapeutas y clientes en psicoterapia humanística-fenomenológica de grupo, hecha a partir de un estudio cualitativo fenomenológico, en el cual se empleó como herramientas de investigación versiones de sentido escritas por dos terapeutas y diez clientes.El análisis fenomenológico de los asuntos críticos emergentes sugiere que cuando las personas están juntas en busca de crecimiento, en un ambiente de mutuo cuidado y aceptación, sus historias se cruzan de forma espontánea, surgiendo así sabiduría del propio grupo, que lo moviliza a una dirección propia y creativa de dar continuidad a la vida. El uso de la perspectiva crítica fenomenológica ha proporcionado una aproximación a los fenómenos en sus múltiples contornos, en las infinitas posibilidades que puede revelar un grupo de personas en el proceso de psicoterapia, anunciando que todo sucede en el entrelazamiento psicoterapeuta-clientes-mundo.Este artigo descreve como psicoterapeutas e clientes vivenciam uma experiência em psicoterapia de grupo sob a lente humanista-fenomenológica a partir do recorte de uma pesquisa qualitativa de cunho fenomenológico, utilizando como instrumento de pesquisa as Versões de Sentido escritas por dois psicoterapeutas e dez clientes. A análise fenomenológica crítica dos temas emergentes sugere que, quando pessoas estão juntas na busca por crescimento, num ambiente de cuidado mútuo e aceitação, as suas histórias espontaneamente se cruzam, surgindo uma sabedoria própria do grupo, que o mobiliza em uma direção própria e criativa de dar continuidade à vida. A utilização da lente fenomenológica crítica proporcionou a aproximação aos fenômenos em seus múltiplos contornos, nas infindáveis possibilidades que um grupo de pessoas em processo de psicoterapia pode revelar, anunciando que tudo acontece no entrelaçamento psicoterapeutas-clientes-mundo

Optimising return to work practices following catastrophic injury

This paper aims to enhance understanding of the features of optimal return to work practices following traumatic brain and spinal cord injury and identify barriers and facilitators to their implementation. Executive summary People with catastrophic injuries face many long-term challenges in the community as a result of their injury: one of the most problematic can be in returning to work (RTW). It may not only be a significant issue for the person with a catastrophic injury but also for their family, friends, the employment industry, and society. Worldwide mean RTW rates for people with catastrophic injury are approximately 30-40%; however, in Australia the overall mean rate is unknown. Internationally, the best RTW rates reported for moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) come from the UK, Sweden and USA, whilst for spinal cord injury (SCI) they are in Switzerland and Sweden. There are several differences in the way rates reported are calculated such as the time post-injury, making it difficult to definitively identify whether one country achieves better RTW rates than another. Several studies have been conducted to determine the factors which facilitate and limit RTW for people with catastrophic injury. These include having pre-injury employment, age, education, severity of injury, level of cognitive impairment, being functionally independent, fatigue, psychological adjustment to the change, social support and the work environment to name a few. There is a general lack of understanding of the experience of people with catastrophic injury who return to work and, therefore, little known about how job retention can be successful in the long-term. Four types of VR interventions have been identified to facilitate RTW – 1) program based rehabilitation, 2) supported employment, 3) case co-ordination and 4) hybrid or mixed. An evidence review identified 15 relevant articles and it was found that there was limited high quality evidence to support any type of intervention more effective than the other. There was however moderate evidence identified for the effectiveness of case co-ordination for achieving successful RTW for people with moderate to severe TBI and high level evidence for a specialist TBI-VR combination intervention. A reduction in the claiming of benefits after 1 year was also observed. The most promising RTW intervention for people with SCI appears to be supported employment; however, as only one RCT has provided this evidence, further studies are required. Several factors that affect the likely success of RTW interventions were also identified in exploring the research evidence and implications for future research were identified. Substantial research has been conducted on RTW interventions in people with TBI since the late 1980s, however this is not the same for SCI. High quality evidence and transparent reporting of study details are still lacking. This NTRI Forum aims to enhance understanding of the features of optimal return to work practices following traumatic brain and spinal cord injury and identify barriers and facilitators to their implementation. Two questions were identified for deliberation in a Stakeholder Dialogue: 1. In the Australian context, what are the barriers to, and facilitators of, application of strategies to optimise RTW outcomes for people with catastrophic injury? 2. How could identified barriers and facilitators be addressed to ensure successful RTW and better retention of people with catastrophic injury? An accompanying document (Dialogue Summary) will present the results of the deliberation upon these question

Sclerobionts on Patagonian Oysters from the Puerto Madryn Formation (Early-Late Miocene, Argentina)

Fil: Romero, Virginia. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología. Río Negro, ArgentinaFil: Brezina, Soledad. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología. Río Negro, Argentina.Fil: Bremec, Claudia. Estación Costera Juan José Nágera, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas / Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Argentina.Fil: Casadio, Silvio. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología. Río Negro, Argentina.This work describes the composition and distribution of sclerobionts on the Miocene Patagonian oyster Ostrea alvarezii d'Orbigny and provides information about its paleoenvironment. The structure of sclerobiont assemblages and their preferential distribution on left/right valves (n=340) as well as their external/internal surfaces and areas was evaluated by means of multivariate analyses (nMDS, SIMPER), non-parametric tests for producing mean comparisons, and goodness of fit tests using coverage and abundance data. Sixteen ichnotaxa were recorded. Bivalves, polychaetes and bryozoans were the most representative encrusters. External surfaces, left valves and sediment-free areas were the most colonized. O. alvarezii beds are interpreted as within-habitat time-averaged assemblages. Oysters appear to have lived in small subtidal channels in a low energy tidal flat and closely related to the sediment-water interface, with the right valve resting on the substrate. Sclerobionts showed diverse behaviors, trophic levels and tiering. This suggests that sclerobiont assemblages on O. alvarezii had a complex structure with subdivision of resources, including a vertical colonization of valves by tracemakers at different levels of depth.

Encrusting and boring barnacles through the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in northern Patagonia (Argentina)

Fil: Brezina, Soledad. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología. Río Negro. Argentina.Fil: Romero, Virginia. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología. Río Negro. Argentina.Fil: Casadio, Silvio. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología. Río Negro. Argentina.Information about barnacles as fossil components of hard substrate communities from middle latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere is scarce. Changes in these barnacle communities during episodes of extinction, such as that which occurred during the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, are almost unknown. We describe encrusting and boring barnacles associated with Maastrichtian and Danian oysters, evaluate the involved taphonomic processes and report changes in their frequencies over time. A total of 1,174 valves belonging to nine oyster species, collected from the Jagüel and Roca formations of the Neuquén Basin, were analyzed. Presence/absence of barnacles or their bioerosional traces were recorded, frequencies of host incrustation and bioerosion were calculated and taphonomic and statistical analyses were performed. The encrusting barnacles identified on the oyster shells were assigned to Verruca rocana and, their traces, to the ichnospecies Centrichnus concentricus Bromley and Martinell. The boring barnacles are represented by traces assigned to the ichnogenus Rogerella. A preliminary taphonomic analysis indicated that late Maastrichtian and early Danian shells presented a fair-poor condition given by abrasion and fragmentation as taphonomic attributes while late Danian shells exhibited mostly good-fair or mixed condition for both attributes. Verruca rocana was not recorded during the late Maastrichtian but high frequencies of encrusted valves did become apparent after the K–Pg boundary. Boring barnacles represented by the trace Rogerella exhibited a decline in abundance during the early Danian but an increase during the late Danian. Both the encrusting and the boring barnacles associated with oysters presented an increase in their frequencies during the late Danian.

Patrones de distribuición espacial de las 10 principales causas de morbilidad en la zona metropolitana de Toluca para el año 2010

el presente estudio se elaboró mediante una metodología que consiste en determinar el universo de estudio siendo éste la Zona Metropolitana de Toluca que incluye los municipios de Almoloya de Juárez, Calimaya, Chapultepec, Lerma, Metepec, Mexicaltzingo, Ocoyoacac, Otzolotepec, Rayón, San Antonio la Isla, San Mateo Atenco, Temoaya, Toluca, Xonacatlán y Zinacantepec; así como el tipo de estudio (cuantitativo y comparativo), optando por una investigación transversal ubicada en el año 2010, de acuerdo con los datos obtenidos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), del Instituto de Salud del Estado de México (ISEM) y del Instituto de Información e Investigación Geográfica, Estadística y Catastral del Estado de México (IGECEM). Se obtuvieron las tasas de las 10 principales causas de Morbilidad siendo las más altas y las más frecuentes entre la población de la ZMT de acuerdo con las fórmulas correspondientes; así como el valor Z de los resultados

Procesos de geocodificación en el ámbito sanitario. Una comparativa de resultados

Desde la Consejería de Salud se ha venido insistiendo, durante el proceso de redacción y desarrollo del Plan Cartográfico de Andalucía, sobre la importancia que adquieren los procesos de geocodificación para obtener información geográfica de calidad. La localización por dirección postal de eventos relacionados con la salud (usuarios y centros asistenciales del Sistema Sanitario Público de Andalucía y eventos relativos a la salud ambiental) supone una fuente de datos fundamental para el desarrollo de aplicaciones de Sistemas de Información Geográfica en el ámbito de la salud. El objetivo de la comunicación es presentar los resultados comparados obtenidos mediante procesos de geocodificación realizados hasta el momento con el Sistema de Información Geográfica de la Consejería de Salud, SIG Mercator, y los procesos de geocodificación realizados con las herramientas disponibles en el Sistema de Información Geográfica Corporativo de la Junta de Andalucía. Las herramientas de Tecnologías de la Información Geográfica (TIG) utilizadas son por un lado las herramientas de geocodificación implementadas en el software propietario ArcGis y por otro herramientas bajo software libre: el normalizador de direcciones desarrollado por el Instituto de Estadística de Andalucía ADYN y las herramientas de normalización y geocodificación implementadas en el SIG Corporativo de la Junta de Andalucía.The significance of geocoding processes in order to obtain high quality geographical data has been stressed by Regional Government of Andalusia’s Ministry of Health throughout the drafting and development process of the Andalusian Mapping Plan. The location by postal address, of health-related events (users and healthcare centres from the Andalusian Public Health System and environmental-related events), is a crucial data source for the development of implementations of Geographical Information Systems in the health field. The aim of this paper is to carry out a comparative analysis between geocoding processes carried out to date using the Geographical Information System of the Regional Ministry of Health, GIS Mercator, and the geocoding processes carried out using the available tools of the Corporate Geographical Information System of the Regional Government of Andalusia.The GIS Mercator tools of Geographical Information Technologies (GIT) used are, on the one hand, the geocoding tools implemented in the proprietary ArcGis software, and on the other, free software tools: addresses standardization developed by the Andalusian Statistical Institute ADYN and the geocoding tools implemented in the Corporate GIS of the Regional Government of Andalusia

Procesos de geocodificación en el ámbito sanitario. Una comparativa de resultados

Desde la Consejería de Salud se ha venido insistiendo, durante el proceso de redacción y desarrollo del Plan Cartográfico de Andalucía, sobre la importancia que adquieren los procesos de geocodificación para obtener información geográfica de calidad. La localización por dirección postal de eventos relacionados con la salud (usuarios y centros asistenciales del Sistema Sanitario Público de Andalucía y eventos relativos a la salud ambiental) supone una fuente de datos fundamental para el desarrollo de aplicaciones de Sistemas de Información Geográfica en el ámbito de la salud. El objetivo de la comunicación es presentar los resultados comparados obtenidos mediante procesos de geocodificación realizados hasta el momento con el Sistema de Información Geográfica de la Consejería de Salud, SIG Mercator, y los procesos de geocodificación realizados con las herramientas disponibles en el Sistema de Información Geográfica Corporativo de la Junta de Andalucía. Las herramientas de Tecnologías de la Información Geográfica (TIG) utilizadas son por un lado las herramientas de geocodificación implementadas en el software propietario ArcGis y por otro herramientas bajo software libre: el normalizador de direcciones desarrollado por el Instituto de Estadística de Andalucía ADYN y las herramientas de normalización y geocodificación implementadas en el SIG Corporativo de la Junta de Andalucía.The significance of geocoding processes in order to obtain high quality geographical data has been stressed by Regional Government of Andalusia’s Ministry of Health throughout the drafting and development process of the Andalusian Mapping Plan. The location by postal address, of health-related events (users and healthcare centres from the Andalusian Public Health System and environmental-related events), is a crucial data source for the development of implementations of Geographical Information Systems in the health field. The aim of this paper is to carry out a comparative analysis between geocoding processes carried out to date using the Geographical Information System of the Regional Ministry of Health, GIS Mercator, and the geocoding processes carried out using the available tools of the Corporate Geographical Information System of the Regional Government of Andalusia.The GIS Mercator tools of Geographical Information Technologies (GIT) used are, on the one hand, the geocoding tools implemented in the proprietary ArcGis software, and on the other, free software tools: addresses standardization developed by the Andalusian Statistical Institute ADYN and the geocoding tools implemented in the Corporate GIS of the Regional Government of Andalusia