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Trauma-sensitive residential care: perspectives of Portuguese professionals to ...

Despite global pressure for deinstitutionalization of children in care, and recent legislative changes, Portugal remains a country with very high prevalence of residential care amongst at-risk children. These children were exposed to multiple traumatic events that can disrupt development. Thus, the expansion toward a truly sensitive approach to trauma is valuable, as it aims to increase awareness of its effects...

Trauma sensitive framework for organizations assessment: development and validi...

Background. Trauma-sensitive approaches are usually based on general knowledge of the negative effects of traumatic stress, particularly in high risk contexts or where the impact is higher. However, we still need a robust and complete framework for organizational assessment.Objective. This presentation aims to present an instrument and framework for organizational trauma sensitive care assessment and promotion,...

Influence of psoriasis lesions' location and severity on psychosocial disabilit...

Objectives: The psychosocial impact of psoriasis is well documented. However, the contributing role of clinical disease characteristics is not satisfactorily explored. This study aimed to validate the Self-administered Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (SAPASI) to a Portuguese population (SAPASI-PT) and to perform its cross-validation, assessing how the results will generalize to an independent data set, with t...

COVID-19 and Disenfranchised Grief

Although death is an inherent part of life, for many it is a terrifying event, which awareness is often to be avoided at all costs (1). However, with the daily updates of COVID-19 cases and deaths, the confrontation with human mortality and physical fragility is unavoidable. Over 100 million confirmed cases and over 2 million confirmed deaths worldwide have been recorded (2). The COVID-19 pandemic is a health c...

COVID-19 and disenfranchised grief

Residential care professionals: evaluation of attitudes and needs for trauma-se...

Benzodiazepinas e o acompanhamento psicológico dos utentes de um centro de saúd...

O uso inadequado de benzodiazepinas é um problema de saúde pública bem conhecido e, por isso, é particularmente relevante a sua monitorização e a implementação de soluções adequadas. Pretendemos conhecer a realidade dos utentes de um Centro de Saúde na Cidade do Porto relativamente ao consumo de benzodiazepinas, bem como a sua relação com o acompanhamento psicológico passado, atual ou futuro por parte dos mesmo...

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