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Psychometric properties of the measure of achieved capabilities in homeless ser...

Background Purposeful participation in personally meaningful life tasks, enjoyment of positive reciprocal relationships, and opportunities to realize one’s potential are growth-related aspects of a meaningful life that should be considered important dimensions of recovery from homelessness. The extent to which homeless services support individuals to achieve the capabilities they need to become who they want to...

Psychometric properties of the measure of achieved capabilities in homeless ser...

Background Purposeful participation in personally meaningful life tasks, enjoyment of positive reciprocal relationships, and opportunities to realize one’s potential are growth-related aspects of a meaningful life that should be considered important dimensions of recovery from homelessness. The extent to which homeless services support individuals to achieve the capabilities they need to become who they want to...

Casas Primeiro Program: Ten years of Housing First in Portugal

The role of community integration and empowerment for the transformative change...

The present article first presents a critique about the current status of the community mental health (CMH) field. Second, based on theoretical and empirical literature, it presents a perspective inspired by the inception of community psychology, namely the empowerment and community integration principles to offer a challenging framework to inspire reforms in the CMH field. The article also discusses two promis...

Homeless adults’ recovery experiences in housing first and traditional services...

Across Europe, as governments turn to housing-led strategies in attempts to reverse rising rates of homelessness, increasing numbers of Housing First (HF) programs are being implemented. As HF programs become more widespread, it is important to understand how service users experience them compared to the more prevalent traditional treatment-first approach to addressing long-term homelessness. Although there is ...

Recovery da doença mental: Uma visão para os sistemas e serviços de Saúde mental

Nos últimos anos, recovery emergiu como um novo paradigma na saúde mental. Com base nas narrativas das pessoas com experiência de doença mental e nos resultados de vários trabalhos de investigação, o recovery é uma experiência mais comum do que era tradicionalmente expectável e uma possibilidade real para as pessoas com doença mental. O conceito de recovery tem sido proposto como visão orientadora na concepção ...

Community psychology and social change: A story from the field of mental health...

A contextual and ecological intervention approach for people experiencing mental illness was developed with a primary focus on the mobilization of natural resources, the expansion of social networks and supports, and to systematically promote opportunities for activity within the community. The mutual help movement provided a major contribution to enhance and strengthen the social role of those experiencing men...

A possibilidade da investigação a 3: reflexões sobre triangulação (metodológica)

A história da investigação social encontra-se repleta de esforços para combinar, numa única investigação, diferentes métodos de recolha e análise de informação. Nos últimos anos, têm surgido e sido discutidas diferentes formas de combinar metodologias recorrendo a noções como as de “triangulação”, “métodos mistos”, “modelos mistos” ou “métodos múltiplos”. De entre estas noções, a “triangulação” constitui o term...

A sociologia da ciência em Portugal: contributos para a sua análise

O presente texto toma como objecto de estudo a sociologia da ciência. Apesar de ser considerado um domínio de produção sociológica ainda emergente, a sociologia da ciência constitui uma área de especialização em crescimento e consolidação que apresenta um diversificado contexto teórico e metodológico e um importante acervo de pesquisas empíricas. Apesar do carácter mais recente em Portugal, a evolução que este ...

Rituximab: nova perspectiva para o síndrome de Sjogren

Sjogren`s syndrome (SS) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects mainly the lacrimal and salivary glands. With a poorly known aetiology the immunological features of this pathology include the presence of an excessive number of T and B cells in the exocrine glands and hyperactive B cells. new treatment approaches, especially in individuals with SS and other systemic diseases include rituximab, a monoclonal ...