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Impact of the parent training program on parental competences and children qual...

The Family-Based Preventive Intervention (FAF) is a program designed with the aim of promoting positive parenting and preventing child maltreatment. This work objective is to describe some of the preliminary data and its implementation on families at psychosocial risk in Boavista Island in Cape Verde, and to analyse its efficacy in the field of parenting’ competence and children's quality of life. The FAF was d...

Family education and support programme: implementation and cultural adaptation ...

This article describes some preliminary data on the implementation of the Family Education and Support Programme (FAF) on psychosocially at-risk families of Boavista Island, Cape Verde, specifically in relation to its effectiveness in parenting competences. The FAF is a family intervention programme designed to be integrated into preventive and formative actions and it has the purpose of promoting positive pare...

My Africa

This article arises from a work for the Curricular Unit of Intercultural Studies focused on the theme of Interculturality. It focuses on the memoir by the author Karen Blixen, where she describes habits, cultures and rituals of different African peoples. This book and its successor offer the reader an extremely insightful perspective on British colonialism in East Africa. Through the textual fabric, the author ...

Dark Triad : associations with juvenile delinquency, conduct disorder and trauma

Abstract: The Dark Triad (DT) consists of three personality traits (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). This is considered relevant for understanding the development of undesirable characteristics for society, frequently observed in young people and adults with antisocial and delinquent behaviours. Aversive personality traits have only recently aroused interest in researchers as a cohesive set of fa...

Dark Triad: Associations with juvenile delinquency, conduct disorder and trauma

The Dark Triad (DT) consists of three personality traits (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). This is considered relevant for understanding the development of undesirable characteristics for society, frequently observed in young people and adults with antisocial and delinquent behaviours. Aversive personality traits have only recently aroused interest in researchers as a cohesive set of factors. The...

Translation and validation of the Portuguese version of the Sexual Desire Inven...

Sexual desire is a complex construct that comprises psychological, physiological, and contextual dimensions, which have been broadly studied in both research and clinical contexts. The Sexual Desire Inventory-2 (SDI-2) is a self-report measure extensively used for assessing both dyadic and solitary sexual desire. More recently, empirical studies have suggested that SDI-2 allows to assessing, in addition to soli...

Sexual Satisfaction Scale for Women: a study with Portuguese women with and wit...

Sexual satisfaction is considered a sexual health indicator, closely linked to sexual distress, and subsequently, to sexual problems, in women. The Sexual Satisfaction Scale for Women (SSS-W) was developed for assessing sexual satisfaction and distress in women, and principal component analysis support a five-factor structure (Contentment, Communication, Compatibility, Relational Concern, and Personal Concern)....

Low-dose ionizing radiation induces therapeutic neovascularization in a pre-cli...

Aims: We have previously shown that low-dose ionizing radiation (LDIR) induces angiogenesis but there is no evidence that it induces neovascularization in the setting of peripheral arterial disease. Here, we investigated the use of LDIR as an innovative and non-invasive strategy to stimulate therapeutic neovascularization using a model of experimentally induced hindlimb ischemia (HLI). Methods and results: Afte...

As consequências dos abusos sexuais em menores

Electroanalytical determination of promethazine hydrochloride in pharmaceutical...