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Psychological assessment in the context of transit has been evident in Psychology in recent years amid the changes in legislation and questions about its validity. So can develop and achieve their goals it is necessary to understand trends and gaps concerning what has been researched in recent years. The present study compared published articles in the database Pepsic and Scielo and papers presented in the four editions of the Brazilian Conference of Psychological Assessment. From the keywords driver, psychological assessment, transit and drives, there were selected 22 articles and 38 papers at the congress, dated between 2000 and 2009. The results showed in general, an increased interest in the area. A larger number of papers at the congress was found, in order to verify that the most of research results do not reach effectively for publication. Among the studies reviewed, there is prevalence of empirical studies focused mainly on the investigation of personality and attention, using a large variety of instruments (n = 24), most are not specific to the context of traffic, and apply in their majority in driver's candidates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The systematization of knowledge about individual's emotional aspects in amputation surgery situation is necessary, both for preparation and professional training of psychologists who act in the area and for the patients involved. This article aims at elaborating a literature review about emotional aspects in the life of patients submitted to limb amputation. The method was a literature review, prioritizing a retrospective character. The selection was based in indexers of scientific production (PePSIC, SciELO, LILACS), covering the period 2009-2014. As results, we found ten studies. There is a scarcity of publications about the theme; the majority of papers are in periodicals focused on Nursery; the studies do not include the family relations or relation doctorpatient; most of them treat about the emotional aspects of the patient during the period of postoperative. We conclude that the scarcity of works and the characteristics of those that already exist point to the necessity of new studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at investigating empirical researches on therapeutic riding published between 2004 and 2014. We seek to verify characteristics of the samples, psychological constructs assessed, assessment tools, and psychological effects attributed to the processing of therapeutic riding. We analyzed twenty empirical studies, the vast majority of them were held with children and adolescents, six studies were done with people with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The measurement techniques mostly used were: interviewing techniques; behavioral observation; questionnaires; quality of life scales; functionality scales and specific groups scales. The most obvious results of therapeutic riding in the psychological context involved decreased anxiety and gains in social relationship. Gains in cognitive aspects were not clear. Comparing Brazilian and international studies, we have a lack of control group and of reliable measurements in both cases, but Brazil, does not seem to have a psychology culture in use research based on evidence in therapeutic riding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is characterized by severe and persistent pattern of hyperactivity and/or inattention, which is harmful. The correct assessment may be influenced by comorbidity and difficult of characterization. This paper evaluated the contribution of psychologist and psychiatrists on a correct avaliation and treatment elaboration. Ten psychologist and eight psychiatrists take part on semi-structured interview. The analysis was descriptive and qualitative. After comparing them we found that the psychologies and psychiatries of this sample contribute to the diagnostic in their specific ways and that the junctions of knowledge throw interdisciplinary work allows a better disorder comprehension and the development of a more efficient intervention plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article debates empirically about the affectivity's paper in the organization of the human reasoning. The Thought Organization Models theory was utilized as the psychological foundation. It introduces part of some data of empiric research proveniences of a study of the Basic Psychology. In this research, they selected as sample 60 subjects of two schools in Campinas (São Paulo), asking them who answered to a conflictive situation in which a character asks R$10,00 to pay a mother's exam. The premise of the moral dilemma is then structured into two scenarios: the first is non-contextualized and the second is contextualized. In the noncontextualized scenario, there is no description whatsoever of the character involved in the dilemma. The contextualized scenario on the other hand, includes demonstrative affectionate descriptors both positive and negative in nature referent to the character. The third grade students responded to positive contextualized scenario and the second grade students to a negative contextualized scenario. After reading of the protocols, for discussion of the answers, were produced three analysis categories: the first corresponds help from subject to the character, the second that indicates the refusal in assist her third in which the subject does not know what to do and/or it has doubts. The data obtained substantiated that affection, found in the contextualized scenarios both negative and positive, favored the thought process of subjects, considerably modifying the manner in which it was organized in regards to the moral dilemma and to indicate a certain tendency in "if involve" with character's problem and searching thus avail her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]