Resumo: Práticas educativas parentais têm sido investigadas há várias décadas e são consideradas como importantes preditores para o desenvolvimento infantil e vêm servindo de modelo para os pais interagirem com a sua prole. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar a transmissão intergeracional dos estilos parentais. Foram entrevistadas 21 mulheres, de sete famílias distintas, respeitando a linearidade trigeracional, utilizandose a Entrevista de Apego Adulto, desenvolvida por George, Kaplan e Main e as Escalas de Qualidade de Interação Familiar -EQIF de Weber e colaboradores. Para análise dos dados utilizou-se o teste não-paramétrico de Mann-Whitney U. Os resultados mostram que em 91,7% dos casos ficou demonstrada a transmissão intergeracional. Da primeira para a terceira geração os dados revelaram pais sensivelmente mais autoritários do que as mães e estas mais submissas. Esses resultados levam à conclusão de que é necessária a divulgação de práticas educativas parentais adequadas como estratégias de prevenção. Palavras-chave:Intergeracionalidade; Estilos Parentais; Práticas Educativas. CONTINUITY OF THE PARENTAL STYLES THROUGH THE GENERATIONSAbstract: Parental practices have been investigated during decades and they are considered as important predictive factors in the child development and they provide a model of parental interaction with their children. This research had as objective to investigate the intergenerational transmission of the parental styles. Interviews were conducted with 21 women, from seven distinct families, respecting the trigenerational linearity, using the Adult Attachment Interview developed by George, Kaplan e Main and the Scales of Quality of Familiar Interaction Scales -EQIF of Weber and colaborators. It was used for the data analysis the non-parametric test Mann-Whitney U. Intergenerational transmission was found in 91.7% of the cases. From first to third generation the data showed that fathers were sensibly more authoritarian than the mothers and that they were more submissive. These results show that it is necessary to divulgate the adequated parenting practices as one prevention strategie.Key words: Intergenerationality; Parenting Styles; Parenting Practices. IntroduçãoO estudo da relação entre pais e filhos tem sido desenvolvido por vários pesquisadores por meio dos estilos parentais. Esta linha de pesquisa teve o seu início marcado com os estudos de Baumrind (1966, 1967,1971Baumrind & Black, 1967), que formulou três protótipos parentais (permissivo, autoritário e autoritativo), baseados no controle por parte deles. O primeiro -permissivo -corresponderia às relações entre pais e filhos nas quais aqueles cobram poucas responsabilidades da criança, permitindo que ela se auto-regule. Sua característica é o reforçamento positivo. O segundo (autoritário), é composto de pais que visam controlar e avaliar o comportamento dos filhos através de padrões, em geral, absolutos. Há restrições da autonomia da criança e o ponto de vista dela não é considerado. Estes pais utilizam com freqüênc...

Aim of the studyOur study investigates associations between social isolation and indicators of general mental health, well-being, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and stress in Brazilian adults. Variables to measure aspects to ease the isolation impact (ease-isolating variables) were also included.Subject or material and methods539 Brazilian adults were recruited by convenience from March 25 to April 07, 2020. We administered a questionnaire on isolation behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO-5, the GHQ-12, the CLA, the GAD-7, the PSS-10, and the CES-D. To analyze data, we relied upon the network analysis approach.ResultsCOVID-19 isolation variables showed positive relationships with mental health indicators, and ease-isolating variables presented mixed associations with mental health indicators. For instance, satisfaction with the quality of social interactions connected strongly and positively with the well-being variable, while negatively with loneliness and general psychological symptoms.DiscussionOur hypotheses were partially confirmed.ConclusionsWe can conclude that the damage to mental health associated with social isolation during the pandemic can be minimized by maintaining satisfactory interpersonal relationships. We have three direct recommendations: mental health professionals should (a) elaborate strategies that contemplate the use of virtual tools to alleviate depressive feelings resulting from isolation, (b) give particular attention to risk groups that are most impacted by the isolation imposed by a pandemic situation and may suffer from loneliness, and (c) consider anxiety control strategies for the anxiogenic adverse reaction generated by the worldwide alert in times of disease outbreaks.

Objective: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental disorder characterized by emotional crises. To date, crisis interventions for BPD have been conducted via telephone calls and emergency units, which are associated with an extra amount of resources. The aim of this research was to test the usability and satisfaction with a psychotherapeutic mobile app for self-managing crises in BPD. Method: The B·RIGHT app was designed based on Artificial Intelligence psychotherapeutic algorithms. Usability and satisfaction with the app were assessed in 25 outpatients diagnosed with BPD (84% female, mean age = 35.80 years) using the System Usability Scale (SUS) and other questionnaires. Clinical features were assessed using the Borderline Symptom List, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and Beck’s Depression Inventory. Results: Patients with BPD considered the app user-friendly (mean total score = 4.03) and highly satisfactory (mean total score = 4.02), resulting in a positive user experience (mean total score = 4.09). Total usability was negatively associated with age ( r = −.44), positively associated with educational level ( rho = .47) and with overall emotion dysregulation ( r = .51), and negatively associated with depression severity ( r = −.47). Conclusions: The usability and satisfaction testing of the B·RIGHT app showed promising findings, which warrant further research in order to validate its effectiveness.

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No presente estudo objetivou-se investigar e comparar, de forma qualitativa, as práticas parentais recebidas por dois adolescentes. Cada adolescente (de 16 e 17 anos, ambos do sexo masculino, provenientes do mesmo nível socioeducacional, foi selecionado de uma instituição diferente: um pertencia a uma ONG que patrocina os estudos particulares de alunos carentes com alto desempenho acadêmico e o outro estava detido provisoriamente à espera de julgamento por cometer ato infracional. Com autorização das instituições, foram realizadas entrevistas individuais, baseadas nas Escalas de Qualidade na Interação Familiar (Weber, Viezzer e Brandenburg, 2003). As categorias investigadas foram: relacionamento afetivo, reforçamento, envolvimento, regras e monitoria, comunicação, punição, auto-estima e envolvimento com pares desviantes. O relato do adolescente detido revelou pais com baixo envolvimento e demonstração de afeto; uso inadequado de reforçamento positivo, ausência de regras e monitoria, comunicação coercitiva, punições extremamente exageradas, além de envolvimento com pares desviantes. Já no relato do outro adolescente foi possível perceber pais com maior envolvimento e demonstração de amor, regras claras, uso adequado de reforçamento positivo, comunicação positiva, punições brandas e consistentes e o não-envolvimento do participante com pares desviantes. Pôde-se concluir que houve predominância de práticas parentais coercitivas na família do adolescente com comportamentos anti-sociais, e predominância de práticas parentais não-coercitivas na família do adolescente da ONG. Palavras-chave: interações familiares; práticas parentais; relação pais-filhos.

Two schema domains, disconnection/rejection and other-directedness, were directly associated with dimensional and categorical psychopathology among borderline personality disorder patients. These findings provide further information about the foundations and target interventions when implementing schema-focused therapy on this population.

Aim of the studyOur study aimed to investigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Brazilian healthcare workers who work directly with patients diagnosed with COVID-19.Subject or material and methods634 individuals divided into three groups. Non-health workers (n = 372) with a mean age of 36.6 years (SD = 9.14) and 85.5% female; Health Workers (n = 94) with a mean age of 37 years (SD = 7.97) and 90% female; COVID-19 Health Workers (n = 168) with a mean age of 36.23 years (SD = 7.97) and 90% female. We administer the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist - Civilian Version, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7, and Burnout Inventory. We conduct data collection via Google Forms.ResultsHealth workers working in the front line in the fight against COVID-19 showed higher levels of anxiety and psychological distress when compared to health professionals who do not deal directly with COVID-19 and professionals who are not in the area of health.DiscussionOur findings suggest that health professionals who work on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19 tend to have higher levels of concern and anguish about the future, a high level of stress, mental tiredness, irritation, and fatigue.ConclusionsThe findings indicate that these public demands psychological and psychiatric support to face the pandemic's challenges