OBJECTIVE To identify and understand the barriers to equitable care within health care settings that women of ethnic minorities encounter in Latin America and to examine possible strategies for mitigating the issues. METHODS This was a comprehensive review of the literature from 2000-2015 available from the online databases PubMed, Google Scholar, EBSCOhost, and SciELO in Spanish, English, an...

This study aims to explain the construction of rape among underage perpetrators (14 17 years). The design this research is qualitative with a phenomenological approach. results found that boys who were involved in cases could interpret 3 forms, namely: as forced sex, consensual sex and deviant solidarity boys' friendship groups. Overall, they built illustrates strong existence patriarchal cultu...

Drawing upon findings from a qualitative project exploring welfare stigma in the lives of women Merseyside, this article examines experiences and resistance strategies among mothers interviewed. The provides insights into how gendered manifests reliant on social security benefits present era continued reform. mothers’ are argued to revolve around devaluation caring labour, perception that undes...

BACKGROUND One widespread view holds that vulnerability to major depressive disorder (MDD) is linked to overall increases in negative emotionality. In contrast, cognitive attribution theories emphasize the importance of blaming oneself rather than others for negative events. Thus far, the contrasting predictions of these models have not been directly compared. Following the attributional perspe...

Children's maternal, self, and marital representations were examined in 46 children 3 1/2 to 7 years old using the MacArthur Story Stem Battery. Children drawn from agencies serving battered women expressed fewer positive representations of their mothers and themselves, were more likely to portray interparental conflict as escalating, and were more avoidant and less coherent in their narratives...

This paper examines the hypothesis of modular judgment in the context of attribution of blame to rape victims. Modular judgment was operationalized using blame schemata suited to judgment of everyday aggression. Subjects were 72 individuals, 36 therapists and 36 non-therapists; half were men and half women. Each subject was presented with written descriptions of four rapes, which included infor...