Domestic violence--an emerging health issue.

The aim of this paper is to explain some of the aspects included in the concept of family violence, to summarize the principal theoretical models proposed to explain it, as well as to describe the principal syndromes included within the scope of the concept: battered woman, courtship violence, child-abuse, child sexual-abuse, child witnessing violence, sibling violence and elderly violence. Particular emphasis is put on the description of the effects that different types of family violence cause on the individuals' health.

[Sexual models in adolescents and adults]. / Modelos sexuales en jóvenes y adultos.

Findings of a research that has been carried over among 13- to 19-year-old young people, their parents, and their teachers with regard to sex models of all involved are presented. Subjects were from the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Social representations of the three subject samples involved about sex behavior, certain values linked to sexuality, and certain gender patterns are discussed.

Modelos sexuales en jóvenes y adultos. / [Sexual models in adolescents and adults]

Findings of a research that has been carried over among 13- to 19-year-old young people, their parents, and their teachers with regard to sex models of all involved are presented. Subjects were from the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Social representations of the three subject samples involved about sex behavior, certain values linked to sexuality, and certain gender patterns are discussed.

[Stress of teachers and students' violence]. / Estrés docente y violencia estudiantil.

A training program for secondary school teachers, by the name of Stress inoculation, is presented. It is aimed at coping with conflictive situations likely to arise in a classroom. Adapted from D. Menchembaum's model, this program has been developed, and assessed at three secondary schools of the city of Buenos Aires: It is the author's contention that it lives up to her expectations. Teachers are trained to develop resources enabling them to: (a) recognize alarm signals arising in their relationships with students (i.e., signals advising that such relationships are in jeopardy), (b) cut sequences leading initial situations to burst out in violent behavior, and (c) incorporate coping alternatives when facing violent situations so that both teaching, and teacher-students relationship are preserved--as well as teacher's and students' mental health.

Estrés docente y violencia estudiantil. / [Stress of teachers and students violence]

A training program for secondary school teachers, by the name of Stress inoculation, is presented. It is aimed at coping with conflictive situations likely to arise in a classroom. Adapted from D. Menchembaums model, this program has been developed, and assessed at three secondary schools of the city of Buenos Aires: It is the authors contention that it lives up to her expectations. Teachers are trained to develop resources enabling them to: (a) recognize alarm signals arising in their relationships with students (i.e., signals advising that such relationships are in jeopardy), (b) cut sequences leading initial situations to burst out in violent behavior, and (c) incorporate coping alternatives when facing violent situations so that both teaching, and teacher-students relationship are preserved--as well as teachers and students mental health.

Estrés docente y violencia estudiantil. / [Stress of teachers and students violence]

A training program for secondary school teachers, by the name of Stress inoculation, is presented. It is aimed at coping with conflictive situations likely to arise in a classroom. Adapted from D. Menchembaums model, this program has been developed, and assessed at three secondary schools of the city of Buenos Aires: It is the authors contention that it lives up to her expectations. Teachers are trained to develop resources enabling them to: (a) recognize alarm signals arising in their relationships with students (i.e., signals advising that such relationships are in jeopardy), (b) cut sequences leading initial situations to burst out in violent behavior, and (c) incorporate coping alternatives when facing violent situations so that both teaching, and teacher-students relationship are preserved--as well as teachers and students mental health.

[Patterns of alcohol consumption among families with chronic somatic patients]. / Patrones de consumo de alcohol en familias de enfermos orgánicos crónicos.

This paper intends a description of family climate likely to be found in low-class low-earnings sectors, sick persons suffering from chronic somatic pathologies are living in. The biopsychosocial model was the analysis model researchers selected to carry on the study: It allows the detection of risk situations connected with the different ways a family milieu casts its influence when an unfavorable evolution of the illness involved is at stake, i.e. when the development of such an illness slips from doctors's expectations. In the patients sample population under study, the incidence of "alcohol consumption within the family group" variable was deemed as one of the heaviest factors when the somatic illness worsens. Among those families where an active alcohol consumption could be detected, two alternative solutions were, also, likely to be found at the same time, namely: a family continued consumption pattern, and a family discontinued consumption pattern. Among the former consumption, alcohol appears as a central organization motive round which all group rules and norms center. Instead, the patient involved is confined to marginality, and deprived from the least psychophysical care as well. Quite contrary, among families where alcohol consumption was eventually ousted, organization patterns feature solidarity, and care to the patient involved.

Patrones de consumo de alcohol en familias de enfermos orgánicos crónicos. / [Patterns of alcohol consumption among families with chronic somatic patients]

This paper intends a description of family climate likely to be found in low-class low-earnings sectors, sick persons suffering from chronic somatic pathologies are living in. The biopsychosocial model was the analysis model researchers selected to carry on the study: It allows the detection of risk situations connected with the different ways a family milieu casts its influence when an unfavorable evolution of the illness involved is at stake, i.e. when the development of such an illness slips from doctorss expectations. In the patients sample population under study, the incidence of [quot ]alcohol consumption within the family group[quot ] variable was deemed as one of the heaviest factors when the somatic illness worsens. Among those families where an active alcohol consumption could be detected, two alternative solutions were, also, likely to be found at the same time, namely: a family continued consumption pattern, and a family discontinued consumption pattern. Among the former consumption, alcohol appears as a central organization motive round which all group rules and norms center. Instead, the patient involved is confined to marginality, and deprived from the least psychophysical care as well. Quite contrary, among families where alcohol consumption was eventually ousted, organization patterns feature solidarity, and care to the patient involved.

[An AIDS-related cognitive map in a sample of drug abusers in Buenos Aires City]. / Mapa cognitivo del SIDA en una muestra de drogadictos de la ciudad de Buenos Aires.

This paper is an approach to AIDS as a topic among a drug abusers sample of the city of Buenos Aires. Research was carried out on the basis of a qualitative methodology. In an attempt at surveying opinions and attitudes of such a sample as regards AIDS (i.e. subjects' cognitive map), 21 drug abusers from three different rehabilitation programs operating in the B.A. area were interviewed. On the basis of the research performed, the authors elaborate communication strategies among drug abusers that would be helpful for authorities engaged in AIDS prevention to adopt. To boost a strategy likely to break up the AIDS-drug association existing in the mind of many an abuser would be highly advisable so that a separation be settled between both representations, thus giving drug abusers a higher motivation for self-care practice.

Mapa cognitivo del SIDA en una muestra de drogadictos de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. / [An AIDS-related cognitive map in a sample of drug abusers in Buenos Aires City]

This paper is an approach to AIDS as a topic among a drug abusers sample of the city of Buenos Aires. Research was carried out on the basis of a qualitative methodology. In an attempt at surveying opinions and attitudes of such a sample as regards AIDS (i.e. subjects cognitive map), 21 drug abusers from three different rehabilitation programs operating in the B.A. area were interviewed. On the basis of the research performed, the authors elaborate communication strategies among drug abusers that would be helpful for authorities engaged in AIDS prevention to adopt. To boost a strategy likely to break up the AIDS-drug association existing in the mind of many an abuser would be highly advisable so that a separation be settled between both representations, thus giving drug abusers a higher motivation for self-care practice.