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La Violencia de Género (VG) es un problema global que perpetúa relaciones de dominación y subordinación hacia las mujeres. A menudo, quienes la experimentan suelen enfrentar dificultades para reconocerse como víctimas, lo que limita su capacidad para buscar apoyo y acceder a servicios de ayuda. La presente investigación, de enfoque cualitativo, se realizó en una casa de acogida ubicada en la provincia de Cotopaxi, Ecuador, con el objetivo de identificar y analizar las barreras que enfrentan las mujeres durante el proceso de autoidentificación como víctimas de VG. Para la recolección de datos, se utilizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas aplicadas a una muestra de seis mujeres residentes en la casa de acogida o que habían recibido apoyo de esta institución. Los resultados evidencian que el proceso de autoidentificación estuvo obstaculizado por factores como el miedo, el estigma social, la falta de reconocimiento de la violencia, la minimización de su gravedad y la dependencia económica. Se concluye que es fundamental incorporar las experiencias de estas mujeres en la formulación de políticas y programas, garantizando el acceso a servicios especializados con una perspectiva de género que también considere las necesidades de sus hijos e hijas.

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Stress and burnout are global epidemics that may cause negative consequences for workers and organizations. Social workers of residential child care are especially at risk, due to the inherent characteristics of their work. Subsequently, this study aimed to analyse these professional's stress, cognitive appraisal, and burnout. The sample included 92 social workers (90.2% female and 9.8% male) with ages between 25 and 64 years old (M = 38.08; SD = 7.91). The evaluation protocol included a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Stress Questionnaire for Health Professionals, the Primary and Secondary Cognitive Appraisal Scale, and the Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure. Results indicated that 58% of professionals assumed high levels of general stress, and that physical fatigue and cognitive weariness were the burnout dimensions with higher values. The combination of sociodemographic variables, stress factors and cognitive appraisal were important to explain the burnout experience and can contribute to design interventions directed to these professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Homelessness is not a phenomenon indifferent to our society and most of the homeless people who have been in this situation for a long time become highly vulnerable people and in manifestly socially excluded situation, a fact that make difficult professional interventions leading to their reintegration. One of the transitory measures is shelters, a type of long-term residence resource, but temporary. In the present work, the profile of homeless people living in Spanish shelters is analyzed from a socio-educational perspective. To do this, a qualitative research is conducted -following the life stories methodology- on a sample of homeless people living in shelters, specifically in the town of Fuenlabrada (Madrid, Spain), aged between 23 and 67 years. In this sense, we find that the results, in essence, agree with the previous studies found in the literature. Thus, the reasons why they are found in shelters are usually: a precarious economic situation, a lack of both employment and alternative economic resources, a little or absent social network and their difficulty to speak Spanish. We recognize that the process of reintegration of these people into the society is long and laborious in terms of efforts from multidisciplinary teams. For this reason, some psychosocial and educational intervention guidelines are proposed, which can contribute to the reintegration of this collective

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in Spain the twenty-first century began with important modifications to the law on immigration (Organic Law 4/2000) and relating to gender-based violence (Organic Law 1/2004). These simultaneous modifications to these laws prompted this study, whose aim is the determination of the profile and socioeconomic achievements of immigrant women victims of gender-based violence after being admitted in an Andalusian women's shelter. The statistical work includes data on immigrant users of shelters that were collected in the framework of a research project, as well as official data sources. Some of the main conclusions are that the majority of these women have a family history of abuse and are derivative victims of abuse, filed police reports and protection orders obtained against the perpetrators and the economic resources of these women after leaving the shelter is a significant factor in their decision to return to the abuser. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work considering official data of users Abstract of women's shelter in Andalusia, applies statistical techniques to differentiate between that choose any other residence, both after undergoing the plan of integral recovery (psychological, juridical and socio-educational). The conclusions highlight that aspects like the nationality, the economic capacity or the number of children are determinant factors on residence decision before the integral recovery plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shelter homes for battered women started to appear in the sixties in the USA as a response to the situation of emergency that domestic violence provoked in women. Only in the eighties did these homes start to be created in Spain. At present there are more that one-hundred and twenty five in the various autonomous regions in the country, and the situation is very heterogeneous. Many community resources are needed in order to make them sufficiently effective.

El número de casos de VIH/SIDA ha ido en aumento sostenido, transformándose en una de las principales causas de muerte en el mundo especialmente entre gente joven y en países con recursos limitados. Hoy en día, los nuevos medicamentos y tratamientos logran hacer indetectable el virus en la sangre deteniendo el deterioro del sistema inmunológico y recuperando cualitativa y cuantitativamente la respuesta inmune. Lo anterior, hace que las terapias actuales deban considerarse de por vida, resultando interesante que se pueda hablar, hoy en día, de una cronicidad del VIH/SIDA lo cual cambia sustancialmente el foco de intervención en el campo clínico de lo realizado en los inicios de la infección. El presente informe diagnóstico de 1997 se re-edita con el propósito de contribuir a la perspectiva histórica de los inicios de la intervención profesional en VIH/SIDA en Chile. En este trabajo se esbozan los desafíos y dificultades que debe afrontar un centro de acogida para el trabajo con menores seropositivos, información de utilidad para apreciar la evolución de estos desafíos, luego de una década de intervención.