Utilizing Latinx Cultural Wealth to Create a College-Going Culture in High School

Capitalizing on Latinx students’ aspirational, linguistic, social, navigational, familial, resistant, perseverant, and spiritual community cultural wealth (CCW) can help school counselors empower Latinx students. We outline and integrate critical race theory and CCW and demonstrate how communities of color bring assets and protective factors with them to their educational settings. We also examine how school counselors can utilize these eight forms of CCW to promote postsecondary opportunities for Latinx youth. Aprovechar las ventajas que ofrece la riqueza cultural de la comunidad (CCW, por sus siglas en inglés) de estudiantes latinxs y su capital aspiracional, lingüístico, social, familiar, espiritual, de navegación, de resistencia y de perseverancia puede ayudar a los consejeros escolares a empoderar a estudiantes latinxs. Perfilamos e integramos la teoría crítica de la raza y el modelo de CCW y demostramos cómo las comunidades de color aportan recursos y factores de protección a sus entornos educativos. También examinamos cómo los consejeros escolares pueden utilizar estas ocho formas de CCW para potenciar las oportunidades disponibles para jóvenes latinxs después de su educación secundaria.     

Relative Cost Effectiveness of In-Person and Internet Interventions for Relationship Distress

While the efficacy of couple therapy has been repeatedly demonstrated, most distressed couples do not seek treatment. To improve reach and overcome barriers to therapy, Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) was translated into a web-based program, OurRelationship (OR). While both IBCT and OR have been shown to improve relationship and individual functioning, the goal of the present study was to compare the relative cost effectiveness of these two treatment modalities. In IBCT, 74% of couples experienced reliable improvement, compared to 55% of couples in OR. Within-group Cohen's d effect sizes during treatment for relationship satisfaction were d = 0.87 for IBCT and d = 0.96 for OR. Relative cost effectiveness analyses revealed that even at the highest expense estimates for OR and the lowest expense estimates for IBCT, OR was more cost effective in creating reliable improvement once at least 229 couples were served and was more cost effective in creating large-size effects once at least 153 couples were served. Cost-effectiveness increases for both IBCT and OR as more couples are served; however, this cost savings occurs at a much more rapid rate for OR. These findings demonstrate that despite higher initial development costs, Internet programs are a cost-effective option for dissemination either as a stand-alone service or as an initial intervention in a stepped care model with more intensive in-person services.     

Self‐disclosure,trauma and the pressures on the analyst

This paper argues that self‐disclosure is intimately related to traumatic experience and the pressures on the analyst not to re‐traumatize the patient or repeat traumatic dynamics. The paper gives a number of examples of such pressures and outlines the difficulties the analyst may experience in adopting an analytic attitude – attempting to stay as closely as possible with what the patient brings. It suggests that self‐disclosure may be used to try to disconfirm the patient's negative sense of themselves or the analyst, or to try to induce a positive sense of self or of the analyst which, whilst well‐meaning, may be missing the point and may be prolonging the patient's distress. Examples are given of staying with the co‐construction of the traumatic early relational dynamics and thus working through the traumatic complex; this attitude is compared and contrasted with some relational psychoanalytic attitudes.     

Couple therapy,family therapy and systemic interventions for adult‐focused problems: the current evidence base

This paper updates previous similar reviews published in JFT in 2000, 2009 and 2014. It presents evidence from meta‐analyses, systematic literature reviews and controlled trials for the effectiveness of couple therapy, family therapy, and systemic interventions for adults with a range or relationship and mental health problems. The evidence supports the effectiveness of systemic interventions, either alone or as part of multimodal programmes, for relationship distress, psychosexual problems, intimate partner violence, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, alcohol problems, psychosis and adjustment to chronic physical illness.     

Family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems: the current evidence base

This review updates previous similar papers published in JFT in 2000, 2009 and 2014. It presents evidence from meta‐analyses, systematic literature reviews, narrative literature reviews and controlled trials for the effectiveness of systemic interventions for families of children and adolescents with common mental health problems and other difficulties. In this context, systemic interventions include both family therapy and other family‐based approaches such as parent training, or parent implemented behavioural programmes. The evidence supports the effectiveness of systemic interventions either alone or as part of multimodal programmes for sleep, feeding and attachment problems in infancy; recovery from child abuse and neglect; conduct problems, emotional problems, eating disorders, somatic problems, and first episode psychosis.     

Historia nacional e historia familiar. Un estudio sobre la transmisión y el cambio ideológico entre generaciones

Resumen

Este artículo está dedicado a explorar la relación entre dinámica familiar y adquisición de la ideología y la representación histórica en el seno de la familia. En primer lugar se explora la ideología política que tienen miembros de dos cohortes generacionales (padres/madres e hijos/hijas) de diversas unidades familiares, clasificándose las díadas así obtenidas en función de su acuerdo o desacuerdo en las variables consideradas. Estos datos son luego puestos en relación con diversos aspectos de la dinámica familiar obtenidos a través de historias familiares y de observaciones de conversaciones en familia. Los resultados muestran que las familias con mayores desacuerdos ideológicos y diferencias en la interpretación sobre la historia de España son las que informan explícitamente sobre acontecimientos traumáticos en relación con la guerra civil y la posguerra en sus historias familiares.     

Entrevista con H. J. Eysenck

RESUMEN

La obra de H.J. Eysenck ya forma parte, de hecho, de la historia de la psicología. Su labor de síntesis en el análisis científico de la personalidad (síntesis entre los procedimientos factoriales, los resultados de la psicología experimental, los datos clínicos y los análisis psicofisiológicos) ha marcado toda una época de estudio en este campo. Pero los intereses y aportaciones de Eysenck han ido más allá y abarcan desde los desarrollos primeros de la terapia de conducta al estudio de la determinación genética y ambiental de la inteligencia, de la exploración de las actitudes al análisis de las diferencias entre sexos. En esta entrevista el profesor Eysenck reflexiona sobre algunos puntos de sus teorías que han provocado fuertes controversias; la confusión entre posturas intelectuales e ideológicas, sus estudios sobre la eficacia de las terapias psicodinámicas, sus relaciones con la astrología, etc.