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SAFE schools: Feasibility and impact of a universal comprehensive approach to m...

We investigated the feasibility and outcomes of ‘SAFE schools’ , a comprehensive and universal intervention approach to school-based adolescent aggression, applied to students and/or teachers. Though a minority of schools were receptive to the intervention, those who were considered the interventions socially valid. Quantitative data taken from 145 students and 53 teachers allocated to one of four conditions (i...

Personality assessment inventory (PAI) in forensic and correctional settings: A...

As Forensic Psychology continues to expand as an independent field, professionals regularly resort to psychological assessment tools to assess people involved within the justice system. The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is a 344-item, self-report inventory that aims to provide meaningful information for diagnosis and clinical decision-making, specifically relating to psychopathology, personality, and p...

Interpartner agreement on intimate partner violence reports: evidence from a co...

An accurate assessment of intimate partner violence (IPV) is crucial to guide public policy and intervention. The Conflict Tactic Scales Revised (CTS-2) is one of the most widely used instruments to do so. Despite its good psychometric properties, research on interpartner agreement has pointed to low-to-moderate estimates, which generated some concerns about the validity of the results obtained through single-p...

Improvements in Compassion and Fears of Compassion throughout the COVID-19 Pand...

During large-scale disasters, social support, caring behaviours, and compassion are shown to protect against poor mental health outcomes. This multi-national study aimed to assess the fluctuations in compassion over time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents (Time 1 n = 4156, Time 2 n = 980, Time 3 n = 825) from 23 countries completed online self-report questionnaires measuring the flows of compassion (i.e....

The Effects of the Compassionate Mind Training for Caregivers on Professional Q...

Background Psychological distress is highly noticeable among caregivers working in residential youth care (RYC). Maintaining and enhancing caregivers’ professional mental health and quality of life is crucial to achieve effective outcomes in RYC. Nevertheless, trainings to protect caregivers’ mental health are scarce. Considering the buffering effect over negative psychological outcomes, compassion training cou...

Cognitive–behavioural therapy as a comprehensive treatment for personality diso...

O inventário de avaliação da personalidade (PAI): contributos para a avaliação ...

O Inventário de Avaliação da Personalidade (PAI) é um instrumento objetivo de autorresposta que visa proporcionar informação sobre a psicopatologia, personalidade e ambiente psicossocial do sujeito examinado, abrangendo constructos relevantes quer para o diagnóstico clínico, quer para a tomada de decisões. A nível estrutural e psicométrico, constitui uma melhoria em relação a outros instrumentos de avaliação da...

O inventário de avaliação da personalidade (PAI): contributos para a avaliação ...

O Inventário de Avaliação da Personalidade (PAI) é um instrumento objetivo de autorresposta que visa proporcionar informação sobre a psicopatologia, personalidade e ambiente psicossocial do sujeito examinado, abrangendo constructos relevantes quer para o diagnóstico clínico, quer para a tomada de decisões. A nível estrutural e psicométrico, constitui uma melhoria em relação a outros instrumentos de avaliação da...

Fostering emotional and mental health in residential youth care facilities: A s...

Children and youth placed in residential youth care (RYC) exhibit complex emotional needs and significant mental health problems. Better outcomes in RYC have been associated with emotional availability from care workers. Nevertheless, many care workers struggle either with their own mental health and/or with adequately providingsupport for the mental health problems of youth under their care. Thus, staff traini...

At the heart of change: Differences in young offenders' HRV patterns after the ...

Literature has pointed the need for intervention programs specifically tailored to target the treatment needs of young offenders, as well as the need to test the efficacy of such programs through physiological indexes of emotion regulation (e.g., heart rate variability; HRV), complementing self-reports typically used as outcome measures. The PSYCHOPATHY.COMP is a 20-session individual intervention program based...