We present the effects of disasters on mental health from a gender perspective, considering thatwomen are more vulnerable because they are more prone to damage, loss and suffering in thecontext of different threats, and generally also have less opportunity to access to material and socialresources. It also evidences how women assume various roles: as a victim, as the organizer ofremedial actions and in the prevention, mitigation and management of disasters. Finally it emphasizesthe need to train and enhance the skills of women in the management of emergency situationsas active agents in the prevention within their homes and communities, protecting mental health.

This is a pilot research study to identify some psychosocial factors associated with the criminal conduct, present in the life stories of 50 women, imprisoned in a Women Jail of Lima for having committed three criminal acts modalities: 8 for homicide, 12 for robbery, and 30  for drug dealing, with backgrounds of having suffered at least 10 years of family violence. As the investigation is part of a more extensive study on family violence and women ‘criminal conduct modality.

Child sexual abuse is considered one of the child maltreatment ways. The basic criteria for this typifying are also established. According to the Finkelhor and Krugman model, the conditions for its occurrence are explained. Indicators for assessing, protecting or compensating and for risk or potentiating factors are proposed by the Program of Sensibilization and Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (Save the Children), Finally, the measures to prevent protective factors for sexual abuse strengthening in children and their families are established.   

Family violence effects on children and adolescents are analyzed in this research. Child maltreatment definitions as well as its characteristics scopes are determined. Besides, some significant aspects of their progenitors are point out. Finally, according to an evolutional point of view, influence of family violence on the child- adolescent development is expressed.

The attention to domestic violence victims is madre in most of the cases in the context of a crisis intervention. We have to note that there is a great personal, physical and psychological cost in a crisis and if it is not adequalety it can lead to a long term psychic damage. Intervention choices are explained.

This article makes sorne suggestions for operators care of family violence on how to provide quality service to women affected by this problem. Also it provides a set of guidelines to prevent revictimization by professionals that address this form of violence. The text requires a number of considerations to facilitate expression of the needs and expectations ofhelp from women against violence. tapies covered are: Features and reactions of women affected by family violence. Reasons why women do not talk about family violence affects them, and Guidelines for quality care

The professionals who provide care to people affected by gender violence, being in contact with human suffering on a continuous and daily basis, are at risk of being affected by the syndrome of professional exhaustion and related problems, such as vicarious traumatization. and the mobilization of one’s own stories of violence. The impact in the integral health of those professionals, would bring unfavorable implications in the following: work performance, in interpersonal relations in general and in quality of the attention to the victims of violence that come in search of their services, even more, they have tools, strategies and necessary supports in order to perform an effective task. Besides to protect themselves. Considering those aspects in the present article, develops the nature of the concepts: burnout syndrome, healthy work environment and self-care to finally describe some s...

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There are programs for men who exert violence in couple relations with women, in the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian world (United States, Canada, Sweden, Australia) since more than thirty years ago and eighteen years ago in the Hispanic world ( Argentina, Mexico). In the present research, we propose a multidimensional model with a gender perspective which includes cognitive, behavioral, emotional and historical dimensions of violent behavior, and incorporates different theoretical references. This causes the coordination of this problem -men who exert violence- and the possibilities of an intervention that pay completely attention to those components. This model supports with a gender perspective the importance of working psychoeducational strategies which permit that HEV assume the responsibility about the violence, critical consciousness about the use o...

This article makes some recommendations on how to raise the exploratory interviews with children who have experienced family violence and / or sexual abuse. Also it provides a set of guidelines to avoid victimization by operators of health care services. The text states that the overall objective of the interview with the boy or girl is getting to share their emotions, their needs and fears and to express the violence that has suffered. The topics covered are: Information prior to the interviewwith the girl or boy, Strategies to facilitate the expression of needs and emotions of the child, Strategies to start talking about the violence, Some guidelines for the exploratory interviews, return information collection and risk assessment.

This article presents a number of factors associated with the presence of women in domestic violence relationships. As is emphasized that violence against women by their partners or ex is characterized by elements that differentiate it from other types of interpersonal violence. It explicitly revictimación risks and establishing dynamic relationships of violence too long So are some explanatory theories and their effects: The cycle of violence, the learned hopelessness, paradoxical adaptation syndrome to violence and the Post Traumatic stress disorder

Young people from marginalized social sectors today are undergoing a major crisis poverty fosters a situation of inequality among youth in their transit through the educational system, a split between young workers is generated and attend school less one hand , and students studying and have free time and access to material and symbolic goods and services , on the other. These processes of exclusion are no strangers to the future direction of the Young and the traffic school and levels of academic success or failure would condition the expectations and the development of a life plan . So we proceeded to evaluate a group of 90 young applicants to comprehensive scholarships ( made viable through an NGO funded by the International Cooperation) and identify those / as who are in top condition and support staff to receive during one year technical training, and at the conclusion of companies ...

Relatively few studies conducted outside the United States, Canada and Europe that have examined the associations between alcohol use and intimate partner violence. And these studies have focused on the relationship between alcohol consumption by men and violence in them towards their partners. In general, these studies suggest that increased consumption of alcohol or drunkenness in men is associated with an increased risk of abusing their partners. This paper raises the need for research on psychoactive substance use in adult men practicing family violence and explicit research findings at national and international level. The topics covered are: defining variables linked to family violence associated with consumption of SPA, theoretical models of the relationship between domestic violence and alcohol abuse and finally a review of current studies on the matter. It is noted that in liter...

This is a pilot research study to identify some psychosocial factors associated with the criminal conduct, present in the life stories of 50 women, imprisoned in a Women Jail of Lima for having committed three criminal acts modalities: 8 for homicide, 12 for robbery, and 30  for drug dealing, with backgrounds of having suffered at least 10 years of family violence. As the investigation is part of a more extensive study on family violence and women ‘criminal conduct modality.

Child sexual abuse is considered one of the child maltreatment ways. The basic criteria for this typifying are also established. According to the Finkelhor and Krugman model, the conditions for its occurrence are explained. Indicators for assessing, protecting or compensating and for risk or potentiating factors are proposed by the Program of Sensibilization and Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (Save the Children), Finally, the measures to prevent protective factors for sexual abuse strengthening in children and their families are established.   

En el presente trabajo se analiza los efectos de la violencia familia en los niños y adolescentes. Se precisa los alcances del concepto de maltrato infantil y sus características. También se señalan algunos aspectos relevantes de los progenitores maltratantes. Finalmente se explicita desde una óptica evolutiva la influencia de la violencia en el hogar sobre el desarrollo infanto- adolescente.

The attention to domestic violence victims is madre in most of the cases in the context of a crisis intervention. We have to note that there is a great personal, physical and psychological cost in a crisis and if it is not adequalety it can lead to a long term psychic damage. Intervention choices are explained.

We present the effects of disasters on mental health from a gender perspective, considering thatwomen are more vulnerable because they are more prone to damage, loss and suffering in thecontext of different threats, and generally also have less opportunity to access to material and socialresources. It also evidences how women assume various roles: as a victim, as the organizer ofremedial actions and in the prevention, mitigation and management of disasters. Finally it emphasizesthe need to train and enhance the skills of women in the management of emergency situationsas active agents in the prevention within their homes and communities, protecting mental health.