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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 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 Dealing with HIV/Aids
diagnosis: Adverse experiences,
psychopathology and life adjustments
People
living with HIV/Aids face a number of
challenges, namely dealing with the diagnosis
and disclosure of the disease, the
stigmatization or the anticipation of it, and
the difficulty in maintaining support
relationships.
The purpose of this set of studies was to analyze adverse experiences and their association with risk behaviors, the impact of diagnosis on mental health and the processes of adaptation to the disease. We propose a symposium composed of four communications: 1. Lifelong Adverse Experiences and Risk Behaviours for HIV/Aids; 2. Relationship between HIV/Aids and depressive symptomatology: analysis of individual, health and social predictors; 3. The predictors of suicide ideation in HIV/Aids patients; 4. Keeping HIV/Aids as a secret. This set of studies allowed the identification and characterization of a particular group, almost unexplored/unknown in the literature, composed of women with HIV/Aids, infected by a partner in a stable relationship, without reporting any risk behaviours. Practical implications for each study are discussed. |
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