admission of failure, there is a definite psychologic advantage in change. The use of skimmed, powdered, evaporated, protein, on acidified milk is also occasionally helpful in colic. During the neonatal period, the experienced pediatrician can often recognize the characteristics in an apprehensive mother that will result in a colicky baby. Family tension is undoubtedly a fairly common cause, an...

We study the results of a descriptive and exploratory study, with the intent to understand the results of a 21 male schizophrenic patients interned in a Portuguese Mental Health Care Centre, evaluated with neuropsychological test. We tried also to link these tests with variables such as schooling, family contact or lengh of internment. The assessment instruments were: Digits Series and Vocabula...

This chapter centres on the hypothesis that human trafficking for sexual exploitation is not only an organised criminal activity, but also a crime of a relational nature. Therefore, this study explores the relationships that exist between suspects and victims of sex trafficking, and examines to what extent the nature of sex trafficking has parallels with domestic violence. The study is based on...

This study sought to understand the relations between mothers and malnourished children at feeding times. It is an exploratory study with qualitative data analysis. Data collection was performed at home by means of participant observation with eight mother-child dyads and three grandmothers. Based on the thematic analysis, the following themes emerged: food and interaction; day-to-day care of t...

The Creation of Adam, a section of Michelangelo’s fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling, illustrates the Biblical creation in which God gives life to Adam, the first man. The image of the near-touching hands of God and Adam has become one of the most iconic images of touching as a way of giving life. Hands have always had an important significance in the fine arts, poetry, literature, and movies, expre...

In adults coliuria is an obvious and common complaint, which is chiefly interesting by reason of the difficulty in establishing a lasting cure, but I do not suppose that there is any affection of childhood in which one is so frequently led astray. In adults one may say that one's attention is almost always drawn to the urinary tract, and that in consequence one obtains a sample of the urine and...

OBJECTIVES Research on family relations has extensively used the intergenerational solidarity model proposed by Bengtson and colleagues. Recently, the relevance of this model for explaining changes in family relations has been questioned, and the concept of intergenerational ambivalence has been proposed as a relevant addition to the model, supposedly acting as a catalyst, and thus serving as a...