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10th
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS and
15th
NATIONAL of CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY MONASTERIO
SAN MARTÍN PINARIO
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (SPAIN) 16-19 NOVEMBER, 2017 |
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Ângela da Costa Maia Center of Investigation in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Minho PORTUGAL |
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Angela Costa Maia has a PhD in
Clinical Psychology. Currently, she is a
lecturer in the Applied Psychology Department,
Vice President of the School of Psychology,
President of the Pedagogical Council,
coordinates the Research Unit on Victims,
Offenders and the Justice System in the
Research Centre for Psychology of the School
of Psychology, University of Minho, and
several research projects in health, trauma,
justice, and violence, and
authored/co-authored national and
international publications.
She is member of the board of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, member of the Scientific Council of Stress Resource Center of the Ministry of Defense, and coordinates projects funded by the Foundation of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Defense. She is interested in understanding the impact of exposure to adversity, potentially traumatic experiences and associated factors, as well as pathways from victimization to delinquency. INVITED SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT Mental health and
victimization
Exposure to
interpersonal victimization may impact on
individuals’ mental health. Limitations in
this field of investigation include the focus
on single victimization, as well as on
specific categories, along with a lack of
studies concerning explanatory mechanisms of
the relationship between victimization and
mental health. With our four communications,
we aim to know the prevalence of interpersonal
victimization, its relationship with mental
health, explanatory mechanisms, and
trajectories of adjustment in two groups:
psychiatric patients and college students.
The first communication describes the prevalence of victimization in 120 psychiatric patients. The second one explores causal mechanisms in the association between mental health and childhood/adolescent victimization in the same psychiatric patients. The third communication examines the prevalence of psychological victimization in 661 college students and its contribution to mental health. Our last communication analyses trajectories of adjustment and ways of coping with the aftermanth of psychological victimization in the same college students. |
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