In the last years, intimate partner violence (IPV) became a relevant problem for community and for social life, particularly in young people. Its correct assessment and evaluation in the population is mandatory. Our objectives were: Confirm factor structure of Dating Violence Questionnaire (DVQ) and investigate its convergent and divergent validity. The DVQ along with other personality measures...

The present article is based on the premise that process of neoliberalization Brazilian society not only top-down, but conjugates in hybrids form with governmental regimes were born peripheries: Pentecostalism and militias. In its authoritarian phase from rise extreme right implementation Bolsonaro government, these devices occupy center state. By focusing Pentecostalism, text proposes a geneal...

In the Panegyrics of saint Gorgon, Bossuet uses topics eating and drinking, changes its meaning under paradigm catholic dogma : it doesn't help any more to express humiliation, but greatness christianism. This paradoxical construction christian sublime forms bedrock an approach language as digesting topical raises legendary aspect narrative martyrdom - a border case fiction -, which is itself c...

Going beyond the medical model, The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics maps the neurobiological development of maltreated children. Assessment identifies developmental challenges and relationships which contribute to risk or resiliency. Formal therapy is combined with rich relationships with trustworthy peers, teachers, and caregivers. T he developing child is a miracle of complexity. Billio...

UNLABELLED Anxiety is one of the most widely observed and extensively studied psychological concomitants of stuttering. Research conducted prior to the turn of the century produced evidence of heightened anxiety in people who stutter, yet findings were inconsistent and ambiguous. Failure to detect a clear and systematic relationship between anxiety and stuttering was attributed to methodologica...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the culture of a Kabul maternity hospital to understand the perspectives of healthcare providers on their roles, experiences, values and motivations and the impact of these determinants on the care of perinatal women and their babies. DESIGN Qualitative ethnographic study. SETTING A maternity hospital, Afghanistan. POPULATION Doctors, midwives and care assistants. M...

Much policy focus has been afforded to the role of "whistleblowers" in raising concerns about quality and safety of patient care in healthcare settings. However, most opportunities for personnel to identify and act on these concerns are likely to occur much further upstream, in the day-to-day mundane interactions of everyday work. Using qualitative data from over 900 h of ethnographic observati...