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BRIEF CONTENTS

Foreword v

Organizing and Scientific Committee vii

Sponsors

Keynote Lecture

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Special Talk xiii

Index of Contents xv

Author Index

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FOREWORD

Dear Participants,

We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends

(InPACT) 2015, taking place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 2 to 4 of May.

Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of

understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and behavioral standpoints), from this academic

and practical scientific discipline, is aimed ultimately to benefit society.

This International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the several areas within the

Psychology field, new developments in studies and proposals for future scientific projects. The goal is to

offer a worldwide connection between psychologists, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of

academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in psychological issues. The

conference is a forum that connects and brings together academics, scholars, practitioners and others

interested in a field that is fertile in new perspectives, ideas and knowledge. There is an extensive variety

of contributors and presenters, which can supplement the view of the human essence and behavior,

showing the impact of their different personal, academic and cultural experiences. This is, certainly, one

of the reasons there are nationalities and cultures represented, inspiring multi-disciplinary collaborative

links, fomenting intellectual encounter and development.

InPACT 2015 received 368 submissions, from 31 different countries, reviewed by a double-blind process.

Submissions were prepared to take form of Oral Presentations, Posters, Virtual Presentations and

Workshops. 112 submissions were accepted for presentation in the conference (30% acceptance rate).

The conference also includes a keynote presentation from Miguel Angel Gonzalez Torres, MD, PhD,

working at the Department of Neuroscience in The University of the Basque Country (Spain), the

Psychiatry Department in Basurto University Hospital (Bilbao, Spain), and Centro Psicoanaltico de

Madrid, Spain, to whom we express our most gratitude.

This volume is composed by the proceedings of the International Psychological Applications Conference

and Trends (InPACT 2015), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science

(W.I.A.R.S.) and co-sponsored by the respected partners we reference in the dedicated page. This

conference addresses different categories inside Applied Psychology area and papers fit broadly into one

of the named themes and sub-themes. To develop the conference program six main broad-ranging

categories had been chosen, which also cover different interest areas:

In CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: Emotions and related psychological processes; Assessment;

Psychotherapy and counseling; Addictive behaviors; Eating disorders; Personality disorders; Quality

of life and mental health; Communication within relationships; Services of mental health; and

Psychopathology.

In EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: Language and cognitive processes; School environment and

childhood disorders; Parenting and parenting related processes; Learning and technology;

Psychology in schools; Intelligence and creativity; Motivation in classroom; Perspectives on

teaching; Assessment and evaluation; and Individual differences in learning.

In SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: Cross-cultural dimensions of mental disorders; Employment issues and

training; Organizational psychology; Psychology in politics and international issues; Social factors

in adolescence and its development; Social anxiety and self-esteem; Immigration and social policy;

Self-efficacy and identity development; Parenting and social support; and Addiction and

stigmatization.

In LEGAL PSYCHOLOGY: Violence and trauma; Mass-media and aggression; Intra-familial

violence; Juvenile delinquency; Aggressive behavior in childhood; Internet offending; Working with

crime perpetrators; Forensic psychology; Violent risk assessment; and Law enforcement and stress.

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In COGNITIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: Perception, memory and attention;

Decision making and problem-solving; Concept formation, reasoning and judgment; Language

processing; Learning skills and education; Cognitive Neuroscience; Computer analogies and

information processing (Artificial Intelligence and computer simulations); Social and cultural factors

in the cognitive approach; Experimental methods, research and statistics; and Biopsychology.

In PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOANALYTICAL PSYCHOTERAPY: Psychoanalysis and

psychology; The unconscious; The Oedipus complex; Psychoanalysis of children; Pathological

mourning; Addictive personalities; Borderline organizations; Narcissistic personalities; Anxiety and

phobias; Psychosis.

The proceedings contain the results of the research and developments conducted by authors who focused

on what they are passionate about: to promote growth in research methods intimately related to

Psychology and its applications. It includes an extensive variety of contributors and presenters by sharing

their different personal, academic and cultural experiences.

Authors will be invited to publish extended contributions for a book edited by Dr. Clara Pracana, to be

published by inScience Press.

We would like to express thanks to all the authors and participants, the members of the academic

scientific committee, sponsors and partners and, of course, to the organizing and administration team for

making and putting this conference together.

Hoping to continue the collaboration in the future.

Dr. Clara Pracana

Portuguese Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Portugal

Conference and Program Chair

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Conference and Program Chair

Clara Pracana

Portuguese Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Portugal

International Scientific Committee

Abdulqawi Salim Alzubaidi Sultan Qaboos

University, Oman

Accia Santos So Francisco University,

Brazil

Adilia Silva Independent Researcher/

Clinician, South Africa

Adriane Roso Universidade Federal de Santa

Maria - Ufsm, Brazil

Aleksander Veraksa Lomonosov Moscow

State University, Russia

Alessio Avenanti Universit di Bologna, Italy

Ali Kemal Tekin Sultan Qaboos University,

Oman

Alois Ghergut University Alexandru Ioan

Cuza from Iasi, Romania

Andr Francisco Pilon University of So

Paulo, Brazil

Andreja Bubic University of Split, Croatia

Andrew Day Deakin University, Australia

Angel Barrasa Universidad de Zaragoza,

Spain

Anna Alexandrova-Karamanova Institute

for Population and Human Studies - BAS,

Bulgaria

Antonio Aiello University of Pisa, Italy

Assunta Marano Themis Research Centre,

Italy

Atmane Ikhlef Qatar University, Qatar

Aukse Endriulaitiene Vytautas Magnus

University, Lithuania

Aurora Adina Colomeischi Stefan cel Mare

University, Romania

Ayse Aslan Istanbul University, Turkey

Ayse Karanci Middle East Technical

University, Turkey

Beata Kunat University of Biaystok, Poland

Bernard Sabbe University of Antwerp,

Belgium

Binnur Yesilyaprak Ankara University,

Turkey

Brij Mohan Louisiana State University, USA

Carla Guanaes University of So Paulo,

Brazil

Carmen Tabernero University of Cordoba,

Spain

Chris McVittie Queen Margaret University,

United Kingdom

Claire Metz University of Strasbourg, France

Clarissa M. Corradi-Webster University of

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Claudio Sica University of Firenze, Italy

Claus Stobaus Pontifcia Universidade

Catlica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

D. Bruce Carter Syracuse University, USA

David Aparisi Universidad de Alicante, Spain

Deborah Wooldridge Bowling Green State

University, USA

Diego Lasio University of Cagliari, Italy

Dinesh Chhabra University of Delhi, India

Dolores Galindo Federal University of Mato

Grosso, Brazil

Donatella Petretto Universit Degli Studi di

Cagliari, Italy

Dweep Chand Singh Aibhas, Amity

University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

Eda Kargi East Mediterranean University,

Cyprus

Edith Galy Aix-Marseille University, France

Edwiges Silvares University of So Paulo,

Brazil

Edwin Herazo Human Behavioral Research

Institute, Colombia

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Elena Levchenko Perm State University,

Russia

Eleni Petkari Middlesex University Dubai,

United Arab Emirates

Elias Kourkoutas University of Crete, Greece

Emel Kuruoglu Dokuz Eylul University,

Turkey

Emerson Rasera Federal University of

Uberlandia, Brazil

Eva Hofmann University of Vienna, Austria

Eugenia Mandal University of Silesia, Poland

Eva Hofmann University of Vienna, Austria

Eva Sollarova Constantine The Philosopher

University, Slovakia

Ewa Mortberg Stockholm University,

Sweden

Fabio Madeddu University of Milan,

Bicocca, Italy

Florian Zepf The University of Western

Australia, Australia

Fotios Anagnostopoulos Panteion University

of Social & Political Sciences, Greece

Gandharva Joshi Saurashtra University, India

Gianina-Ana Masari Alexandru Ioan Cuza

University of Iasi, Romania

Gianluca Serafini Sapienza University of

Rome, Italy

Gordana Jovanovic University of Belgrade,

Serbia

Greesh C. Sharma Lower Bucks Institute of

Behavior Modification, USA

Greta Defeyter Northumbria University,

United Kingdom

Grzegorz Pochwatko Polish Academy of

Sciences, Poland

Henry Grubb University of Dubuque, USA

Herbert Scheithauer Freie Universitt Berlin,

Germany

Hossein Kareshki Ferdowsi University of

Mashhad, Iran

Igor Menezes Federal University of Bahia,

Brazil

Isabella Corradini Themis Research

Centre, Italy

Ivana Hromatko University of

Zagreb, Croatia

Ivandro Soares Monteiro ORASI

Institute, Portugal

Jakob Pietschnig Middlesex University

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Janina Uszynska-Jarmoc University of

Bialystok, Poland

Joanne Dickson University of Liverpool,

United Kingdom

Jose L. Graupera-Sanz University of Alcala,

Spain

Kamlesh Singh Indian Institute of

Technology Delhi, India

Karen Goodall Queen Margaret University,

United Kingdom

Katherine Makarec William Paterson

University, USA

Kathleen Tait Macquarie

University, Australia

Laura Vilela E. Souza, Universidade Federal

do Tringulo Mineiro, Brazil

Lawrence T. Lam Hong Kong Institute of

Education, SAR, China

Liliana Silva WIARS, Portugal

Lisa Best University of New Brunswick,

Canada

Lisa Woolfson University of Strathclyde,

United Kingdom

Loredana Lucarelli Universit degli Studi di

Cagliari, Italy

Loreta Buksnyte-Marmiene Vytautas

Magnus University, Lithuania

Lozena Ivanov University of Zadar, Croatia

Luciana Kind Pontifical Catholic University

of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Luisa Puddu University of Florence, Italy

Maher Abu Hilal Sultan Qaboos University,

Oman

Marcello Nonnis University of Cagliari, Italy

Marcelo F. Costa University of So Paulo,

Brazil

Marco Giannini University of Florence, Italy

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Martin Eisemann Tromso University,

Norway

Mary Ivers All Hallows College, Ireland

Mehmet Dombayci Gazi University, Turkey

Michael Wang University of Leicester,

United Kingdom

Michael Zeiler Ludwig Boltzmann Institute

Health Promotion Research, Austria

Michal Miovsky Charles University in

Prague, Czech Republic

Mohammad Hakami Islamic Azad

University-Karaj Branch, Iran

Nadia Mateeva Bulgarian Academy of

Sciences, Bulgaria

Naved Iqbal Jamia Millia Islamia, India

Neala Ambrosi-Randic Juraj Dobrila

University of Pula, Croatia

Nuria Carriedo UNED, Universidad

Nacional de Educacin a Distancia, Spain

Olga Deyneka St. Petersburg State University,

Russia

Olga Orosova Pavol Jozef afrik University

in Koice, Slovakia

Ortrun Reidick O&P Consult GmbH,

Germany

Otilia Clipa Stefan cel Mare University,

Romania

Ovidiu Gavrilovici Alexandru Ioan Cuza

University of Iasi, Romania

Paolo Valerio Naples University Federico II,

Italy

Paraic Scanlon Birmingham City

University, United Kingdom

Patrizia Meringolo Universit Degli Studi di

Firenze, Italy

Philipp Mayring University of

Klagenfurt, Austria

Plamen Dimitrov The Bulgarian

Psychological Society, Bulgaria

Riccardo Russo University of Essex, United

Kingdom

Rivka Tuval-Mashiach Bar-Ilan University,

Israel

Robert Jay Lowinger Bluefield State

College, USA

Ronald Hambleton University of

Massachusetts, USA

Rosalba Raffagnino Florence University,

Italy

Seda Sarac Farkli Cocuklar, Center for

Learning Disabilities, Turkey

Sema Karakelle Istanbul University, Turkey

Sarah Sinnamon All Hallows College,

Ireland

Sharo (Shahrokh) Shafaie Southeast

Missouri State University, USA

Shulamith Kreitler Tel-Aviv University,

Israel

Sibusiso D. Mhlongo North West University,

South Africa

Silvia Cimino Sapienza University of Rome,

Italy

Suppiah Nachiappan Sultan Idris Education

University, Malaysia

Susana Corral University of Deusto, Spain

Sylvia Kwok City University of Hong Kong,

China

Tali Heiman The Open University of Israel,

Israel

Timothy Melchert Marquette University,

USA

Valentina Di Mattei Universit Vita-Salute

San Raffaele, Italy

Victor Martinelli University of Malta, Malta

Vittore Perruci Universit della Valle

d'Aosta, Italy

Wendy Greenidge University of South

Florida, USA

Willem Koops Utrecht University,

Netherlands

Wouter Vanderplasschen Ghent University,

Belgium

Zvjezdan Penezic University of Zadar,

Croatia

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SPONSORS

Sponsor: Co-sponsor:

http://www.wiars.org http://www.psiterra.ro

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KEYNOTE LECTURE

A THIRD WAY AHEAD FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS

Miguel Angel Gonzalez Torres

MD, PhD

Department of Neuroscience, The University of the Basque Country (Spain) Psychiatry Department, Basurto University Hospital, Bilbao (Spain)

Centro Psicoanaltico de Madrid (Spain)

Abstract

Today, there are two ways of conceiving psychoanalysis, a classical one focused on the search for truth

within the internal world of the patient, and a contemporary one perceiving the patienttherapist

relationship as the axis of exploration. Rortys criterion, which divides disciplines into either truth-based

or solidarity-based, may be applied to this dichotomy. These conflicting positions come from two

different historical periods: the Enlightenment and the contemporary world. They inhabit a sterile

environment without theoretical discussion or comparison. Possibly, these elements of truth and

solidarity, initially designed as complementary, integrative, and nonconflicting, can be found in the work

of some psychoanalysts specifically in Otto Kernbergs proposals. Kernberg makes a creative integration

of object relations theory, especially in its Kleinian approach, and ego psychology. In addition,

Kernbergs consideration of affects as key elements of the humans internal world reflects a third

psychoanalytical way, exposing the centrality of relational experiences from the earliest stages of life,

alongside constitutional drive forces that link us to our biological make-up and determine much of our

inner world and behaviour.

Keywords: Psychoanalysis, Psycho-analytical Psychotherapy, Freud.

Brief Biography

Miguel Angel Gonzalez Torres, MD, PhD, was born in Bilbao in 1957. Graduated from University of the

Basque Country Medical School, he specialized in Psychiatry at Salamanca University, where he also

obtained his PhD with a work on Personality and Family Structure of Substance Abusers. Psychoanalytic

training at Centro Psicoanaltico de Madrid and now Training Analyst at that Institute. Back in Bilbao,

obtained a Professorship at the Department of Neuroscience of the University of the Basque Country and

is Head of the Psychiatry Service at Basurto University Hospital in Bilbao. He is also President of OMIE

Foundation, dedicated to education and training in psychotherapeutic techniques. Member of the

Executive Committee of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) and the Board of

the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD). His clinical and research

activities are centered in Psychosis and Personality Disorders.

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SPECIAL TALK

INTRAOPERATIVE PARALYSIS AND EXISTENTIAL FEAR OF DEATH:

IS THERE A LINK?

Michael Wang1 & Jackie Andrade

2

1University of Leicester (UK) 2Plymouth University (UK)

Introdution

Patient reports of the psychological sequelae of accidental awareness under general anaesthesia (AAGA)

are variable in severity and content. Nevertheless traumatised patients commonly describe intra-operative

distress, post-operative flashbacks and nightmares around themes of existential death and burial (Wang,

2001). We set out to analyse systematically AAGA reports from the recent UK NAP5 project in terms of intra-operative experience and subsequent psychological sequelae.

Method

The UK Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

audit project NAP5 (Pandit et al., 2014) collected reports of accidental awareness under general anaesthesia from the whole of the UK and Ireland over a one-year period from all hospital anaesthesia

departments . These reports were carefully analysed by an expert panel of anaesthetists, psychologists

(including Wang and Andrade) and a patient representative.

Results

NAP5 received 141 reports that were judged as valid by the expert panel. 93% of these were from patients

in receipt of a muscle relaxant which is in contrast to a baseline anaesthesia activity survey (Cook et al.,

2014) that identified neuro muscular blockade in only 46% of general anaesthetics in the UK and Ireland.

Moreover, at least half of these patients experienced intraoperative distress and for the majority of these

(67%), distress was caused by neuromuscular blockade and dyspnoea (and not so much by pain).

Some patients feared they were about to die and two patients thought they were already dead as a direct

result of the unanticipated experience of intraoperative paralysis. Most (79%) of those with intraoperative

distress developed post-operative psychological sequelae such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Discussion

Fear of death is the most pervasive specific anxiety in children aged 7 to 10 (Slaughter & Griffiths, 2007).

Pre-school children commonly report believing that dead relatives and pets now live underground

perhaps in cemeteries. Nightmare content and themes reported by traumatised awareness patients with

explicit recall often involve being buried alive. This raises the possibility that experience of intra-

operative paralysis reawakens primitive childhood fears of death involving some form of disembodied

consciousness. There was evidence in the NAP5 reports that having some prior knowledge of muscle relaxants and their effects was protective against psychological sequelae.

References Cook, T., Sury, M., Palmer, J., & Pandit, J. J. (2014). The state of UK anaesthesia: a survey of NHS

activity in 2013. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 113, 575-584. Pandit, J. J., Andrade, J., Bogod, D. G., Hitchman, J. M., Jonker, W. R., Lucas, N., Mackay, J. H.,

Nimmo, A. F., OConnor, K., OSullivan, E. P., Paul, R. G., Palmer, J. H., Plaat, F., Radcliffe, J.

J., Sury, M. R., Torevell, H. E., Wang, M, Hainsworth, J., & Cook, T. M. (2014). 5th National

Audit Project (NAP5) on accidental awareness during general anaesthesia: summary of main

findings and risk factors. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 113, 549-559.

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INDEX OF CONTENTS

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Clinical Psychology

New domains of health capability of family caregivers: An exploratory study using the

grounded theory Barbara Bucki, Elisabeth Spitz, & Michle Baumann

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Integrative accompaniments for subjects with disabling mental disorders:

A neo-evolutionary design of the psychosocial rehabilitation Christophe Clesse, Isabelle Dumand, Michel Decker, Christine Savini, & Joelle Lighezzolo-Alnot

8

Loneliness and isolation after brain injury: Factors impacting survivor and caregivers

quality of life after injury Cecile Proctor & Lisa A. Best

13

Infantilization, civilization, and child abuse

Willem Koops 18

Associated factors of social anxiety: Metacognition and coping strategies Baak Bahtiyar & Tlin Genz

22

The influence of dance on the emotional intelligence of adolescents Suzie Savvidou & Konstantina Lambropoulou

26

The consequences of miscarriage or losing a child: The conclusions from the interviews

with women Maria Hornowska-Stoch

31

Cognitive and adaptive assessments of premature infants at 18 months: The importance

of parental reports Melanie A. Chan, Suan Peen Foo & Evelyn Law

36

Randomized controlled trial of habit reversal training for treatment of hair pulling in

youth Omar Rahman, Eric A. Storch, Amanda Collier, & Adam Lewin

39

Neurofeedback: From research to clinical practice Osnat Rubin

42

The relation between parental criticism, stress and competence, and quality of

parent-child interaction

Shulamit Pinchover & Cory Shulman

46

Predictors of life satisfaction: The role of personality, attachment, social connectedness,

and loneliness Lilly E. Both & Lisa A. Best

48

Preventing depression Introduction to the depression prevention programme in

Maopolska region

Agnieszka Fusiska-Korpik & Krzysztof Walczewski

53

Psychopathology: The cognitive orientation approach Shulamith Kreitler

58

Contemporary modes of subjectivation: The issue of aesthetical horizons

Gilberto Safra 63

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Problematic internet use and marriage: Analysis of life satisfaction and marital

adjustment Kuntay Arcan

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Addiction recovery that works: Clinically proven whole health treatment for substance

abusers and other addicts Constance Scharff

72

Comparative study of psychological well-being and posttraumatic growth indicators in

IDP and non-IDP citizens of Georgia Lili Khechuashvili & Salome Tsilosani

78

Maternal negative affect and infant sleep: Investigating bidirectional relationships using

structural equation modelling Hannah Fiedler, Delyse Hutchinson, & Ron Rapee

83

MCMI-III identified pathologically disabling profiles on MMPI-2 with

severe personality disorders in chronic pain patients

Abraham A. Argun

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Educational Psychology

The academic performance of third and fourth year college students of World Citi

Colleges with absentee parents Elenita M. Tiamzon, M Cristina J. Estioco, Jaime R. Buniao, M Isidora B. Dayanghirang, Karren L. Fortes, & M Doris P. Puzon

92

Developing creative and meaning potential in EFL writing through problem-based

instruction Tat Heung Choi

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School bullying from the Russian teachers point of view Alexandra Bochaver, Kirill Khlomov, & Alisa Zhilinskaya

102

CSCL in non-technological environments: Evaluation of a Wiki system with integrated

self- and peer assessment Gudrun Wesiak, Margit Hfler, Mohammad AL-Smadi, & Christian Gtl

107

Social Psychology

Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) on complex, major projects: Some facilitation

techniques David R. Stevens

112

The role of leadership ideology in bringing about socioeconomic inequality: The case of

Israeli Kibbutz communities Uriel Leviatan

114

PRISMA-RA: A set of tools for work related stress risk assessment Isabella Corradini, Assunta Marano, & Enrico Nardelli

118

Experiencing authenticity at work: The moderating effect of personality on the relation

between organizational climate and workplace authenticity Godiva Kwan, Fanny Cheung, & Winton Au

123

Does supervisory support ease pains of emotional labor? Moderating role of perceived

supervisors emotional labor Huan Zhang & Darius K.-S. Chan

126

Description of mental representations of attachment among teachers with and without

victimization experiences Kristi Kiv

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Proactive coping and adaptation to a new workplace Katarzyna lebarska

135

Dynamic career attitudes among master students: Social disparities in employment

capabilities Senad Karavdic & Michle Baumann

140

Influence of the personal potential on adaptation of young lawyers starting their

professional activities Liubov Kotlyarova

145

Dance movement therapy and stress in adolescents Mrignaini Goel

148

Social features of dynamics of moral orientation development in adolescence and youth Sergey Molchanov

152

Attitudes toward corruption: Two comparative studies Olga Deyneka

156

Analysis of the motivation and work climate of university teaching staff Rosa Mara Gonzlez-Tirados

161

Legal Psychology

Domestic crimes of violence: Psychological-criminalistic analysis Anastasia Kolesova & Liubov Kotlyarova

162

The evidence-based outcome effectiveness of peer counselling and cognitive-behavioral

therapy group intervention for aggressive school children Annis Lai Chu Fung

166

Identifying high-risk sexual offenders with phallometric testing Richard J. Howes

170

Cognitive and Experimental Psychology

Risk factors involved in the urban child pedestrians navigation: A meta-analysis Jordan Solt & Jrme Dinet

175

The risk of pedestrian injury in collisions with vehicle: An eye-tracking investigation Jordan Solt & Jrme Dinet

180

Decision-making among people with intellectual disability From theory to practice Agnieszka Fusiska-Korpik

184

Is digit ratio (2D:4D) related to cognitive-ability and educational variables? Answers from

a comprehensive meta-analysis Martin Voracek, Stefan Stieger, & Ulrich S. Tran

189

Cognition and bilingualism: Working memory and executive control operations in

Greek-Albanian bilinguals Zoe Bablekou, Elisavet Chrysochoou, Smaragda Kazi, & Elvira Masoura

190

Comparison of the classification ratios of depression scales used in Turkey Gaye Saltukolu & Arkun Tatar

191

Motorcycle awareness: A hazard perception experiment Laila Horan, Patricia Roberts, & Isabella McMurray

196

The usefulness of phantom latent variables in predicting the changing in the effects

among structural relations Marco Vassallo

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Connecting Pirons Law, the foreperiod effect and distribution shapes in a simple

reaction time task Valerio Biscione & Christopher M. Harris

205

Subjective speed perception among motor vehicle drivers (overestimation and

underestimation of driving speed - group comparison) Lucia Tvarozkova & Stanislav Michalsky

210

The negative attitudes towards androids: Beyond the uncanny valley and psychological

alternatives Jrme Dinet, Eval Spaeter, & Alexandre Sakorafas

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Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy

A consistency between projective and neuropsychological tests: Contributions for a

neuropsychoanalytic approach of psychosis Christophe Clesse, Isabelle Dumand, Joelle Lighezzolo-Alnot, Michel Decker, Ccile Prudent, & Claude De Tychey

220

The ontological nature of the oceanic feeling through the life of Ramakrishna Paulo H. C. Dias & Gilberto Safra

225

Embodied memory: The effects of somatic markers manipulation on memory

reconsolidation and its clinical implications Florian Chmetz, Mathieu Arminjon, Delphine Preissmann, A. Duraku, Pierre Magistretti & Franois Ansermet

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POSTERS

Clinical Psychology

Drug consumption among future healthcare professionals M. Eugnia Gras, Slvia Font-Mayolas, Mark J. M. Sullman, & Montserrat Planes

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Patterns of polydrug use among future healthcare professionals Slvia Font-Mayolas, M. Eugnia Gras, Montserrat Planes, & Mark J. M. Sullman

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Endometriosis: Live with the pain... all the time Sofia Nascimento, Ftima Simes, Carlos Silva, & Paulo Rodrigues

243

Life satisfaction, five-years after a coronary angiography, between physical exercise and

socio-economic inequalities

Michle Baumann, Etienne Le Bihan, Nathalie Lorentz, & Anastase Tchicaya

246

Factors linked to alcohol drinking of juveniles Anna Janovsk, Olga Orosov, Marianna Berinterov, & Beta Gajdoov

249

Development of the Comprehensive Health Check For Workers (CHCW) questionnaire Akira Tsuda, Ayumi Fusejima, Hisayoshi Okamura, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Yuko Odagiri, Teruichi Shimomitsu, Katsutaro Nagata, Hideyo Yamaguchi, & Tetsuro Yamamoto

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Home as a personal space and a source of well-being: Horizons of description Alexandra Bochaver, Sofya Nartova-Bochaver, Natalia Dmitrieva, & Sofya Resnichenko

255

The mental health state of Japanese parents during living abroad: The case of Nairobi

Japanese school Eriko Suwa, Minoru Takahashi, & Hirofumi Tamai

258

Descriptive normative beliefs, prototypes and gender in alcohol use among Slovak

university students Monika Brutovsk, Olga Orosov, & Lucia Majesk

261

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Stability of cognitive and adaptive functioning at 18 months, 3 years and 5 years of age

in premature infants Melanie A. Chan, Suan Peen Foo, Evelyn C. N. Law, Wei Wen Li, & Shang Chee Chong

264

The mental health of substance abusers and their family members in Hong Kong

Sze-Chai Ching, Kwok-Hei Tang, Yuk-Ching Lee, & On-Na Li 267

Early social communication and play: The effect on adaptive and cognitive functioning in

autistic children Suan Peen Foo, Melanie A. Chan, Guiyue Zhang, & Evelyn Law

269

Repentance in dialogue: The development of the capacity for concern in Winnicotts

theory and Christians Metanoia

Joo Pedro Jvera & Gilberto Safra

272

Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among Czech adolescents Helena Klimusov, & Iva Bureov

275

Personality characteristics of pathological gamblers

Franca Tani, Alessio Gori, Annalisa Ilari, Lucia Ponti, & Massimo Morisi 278

Cognitive bias distortions in pathological gamblers Franca Tani, Lucia Ponti, Annalisa Ilari, Alessio Gori, & Massimo Morisi

281

Autism Spectrum Disorder from birth to diagnosis through parents eyes Mlanie Bolduc, Nathalie Poirier, & Nadia Abouzeid

284

Educational Psychology

Can parental monitoring and the unplugged drug use prevention program contribute to

a change in alcohol consumption among Slovak adolescents? Olga Orosov, Marianna Berinsterov, Beta Gajdoov, & Anna Janovsk

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Transitioning to highschool: The perception of students with ASD as opposed to their

peers Ariane Leroux-Boudreault & Nathalie Poirier

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The change of volunteer students and the users: Evaluations of volunteering program in

elementary school in Japan Kie Sugimoto, Sachiko Kurosawa, Eriko Suwa, Kosuke Aoyagi, Kaoru Hirakue, & Junko Hidaka

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In defense of Homo Ludens and playful as a space for teaching-learning in higher

education: The playful and creative possibility in teaching Maria Vitoria Campos Mamede Maia & Maria Isabel Luna Simes Hallak

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The ludic as strategy for propitiate the learning in EJA: infantilization or space for

creation? Maria Vitoria Campos Mamede Maia & Priscilla Frazo

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Proactive coping among organizational newcomers Katarzyna lebarska

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Undergraduate students life satisfaction between employability and career capabilities Senad Karavdic & Michle Baumann

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Communication skills and stress at workplace Koshi Makino

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Resilience, accessibility of alcohol and alcohol refusal skills among adolescents Beta Gajdoov, Olga Orosov, Anna Janovsk, & Marianna Berinterov

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Types of vocational identity status in population of Slovak high school students Tom Sollr, Katarna Baasov, & Eva Sollrov

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Values and career motivation in the context of vocational identity Katarna Baasov, Tom Sollr, & Eva Sollrov

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Social support plays a different role in sexual risk sexual behaviour: A longitudinal

comparison of young adults from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia Ondrej Kalina, Andrea Lukacs, Vilma Kriaucioniene, Michal Miovsky, & Olga Orosov

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Subjective health problems in the context of personality characteristics and health-related

behavior in Czech adolescents Iva Bureov, Helena Klimusov, Martin Jelnek, & Jaroslava Dosedlov

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Psychological basis of female criminal behavior Gunel Aslanova

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On the perception of stalking by women Isabella Corradini & Assunta Marano

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Attachment and mentalization in context of school violence Szabolcs Urbn & Mnika Viszket Kissn

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Normality at a funeral in East Asia: Focusing on the need for uniqueness Yoriko Sano & Norihiro Kuroishi

342

Normality at a social comparison in East Asia: Focusing on individualism/collectivism

Norihiro Kuroishi & Yoriko Sano 345

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The role of decision-making styles and selfregulation in mental health Jozef Bavolar & Olga Orosov

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A new paradigm for investigating human decision strategy Valerio Biscione & Christopher M. Harris

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Directionality effects in the comprehension of if then and even if sentences Jos Antonio Ruz-Ballesteros & Sergio Moreno-Ros

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Sex differences in the perception of love and sex among Polish young adults Katarzyna Adamczyk & Monika Wysota

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Sex differences in Polish university students mental health Katarzyna Adamczyk, Monika Wysota, & Emilia Soroko

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Valentina E. Di Mattei, Letizia Carnelli, Elena Pagani Bagliacca, Paola Zucchi, Luca Lavezzari, & Fabio Madeddu

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Psychological distress and coping strategies among women who undergo cancer genetic

testing Valentina E. Di Mattei, Paola Zucchi, Elena Duchini, Rossella Di Pierro, & Fabio Madeddu

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Psychological aspects of motherhood after cancer Joanna Matuszczak-Swigon & Katarzyna Pyrgiel

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The body self and Anorexia Readiness syndrome Katarzyna Pyrgiel & Joanna Matuszczak-Swigon

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Before and after inspection: Attitudes of headmasters towards external evaluations Kristin Behnke

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The experiences of survivors of human trafficking in Australia and Singapore Wesley Tan & Doris McIlwain

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ORAL PRESENTATIONS

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NEW DOMAINS OF HEALTH CAPABILITY OF FAMILY CAREGIVERS:

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY USING THE GROUNDED THEORY

Barbara Bucki

1,i, Elisabeth Spitz

2, & Michle Baumann

1

1Institute Health and Behaviour, research unit INSIDE, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) 2EA 4360 APEMAC, Universit Paris Descartes, Universit de Lorraine, Metz (France)

Abstract

Background: Increased life expectancy, a declining economic growth, and the management of chronic diseases call for intergenerational solidarity but undermine the physical and psychological health of

family caregivers. Their health capability has already been studied through eight domains: physical and

psychological functioning, lifestyle value, self-efficacy towards health services, family support, social

capital, socio-economic conditions and access to health services. Our aim was to identify new domains.

Methods: A grounded theory method was applied. Family caregivers of stroke victims living at home were recruited in the Lorraine region (France; n=8) and Luxembourg (n=6). Semi-structured interviews

were led face-to-face about their health status, how they currently take care of their health, and what

internal resources they need to achieve optimal health. Verbatims were open-coded and grouped to form

new domains of health capability. Items reflecting the main idea of the categories were formulated.

Throughout the analyses, a control process was applied. Items were validated by consensus with an expert

group. Results: Seven women and seven men (age 63.610.1) participated. Seven new domains emerged: health knowledge, health self-efficacy, health value, life skills, health decision-making, motivation, and

attitude towards the future. 76 items were generated: 51 reflected generic abilities while 26 were specific

to family caregiving. Discussion: Content analysis of these domains is highly instructive. First, it allows guiding the preparation of innovative supports to promote health capability, and second, this list can serve

as a basis to elaborate a guide to which clinicians can refer to orient family caregivers according to their

needs.

Keywords: health capability, family caregiving, stroke, qualitative approach, grounded theory. 1. Introduction

Demographic changes (increased life expectancy), a declining economic growth (increasing social inequalities), and the current way of managing chronic diseases call for intergenerational solidarity

but meanwhile, it undermines the health of family caregivers. Indeed, compared to non-caregivers, family

caregivers have a higher risk of developing problems with their physical health (Vitaliano, Zhang, &

Scanlan, 2003) and to suffer from stress and depression (Pinquart & Srensen, 2003).

Health capability defines the capacity to achieve ones optimal health (Ruger, 2010b). Adapted

from the capability approach (Nussbaum, 2011; Sen, 1992), the health capability paradigm aims to

conceptualize a right to health. It is the duty of the society to, on the one hand, create environments which

are favorable for the health of the individuals and, on the other hand, to develop personal health-related

skills. In this framework, a capable person is able to make informed health choices. Health capability

requires a set of capabilities such as having sufficient health-related knowledge, a health-oriented attitude,

having social networks to help in the everyday life, or living in a safe environment, and in a country

where health care systems are enabling (Ruger, 2010a). Understanding the capacities required to develop

health capability is an undeniable interest for the well-being of family caregivers who daily support a

relative with chronic disease (Bucki, 2014a).

Based on the correspondences between this paradigm and the content of a national survey led

with family caregivers in Luxembourg, eight domains of health capability have previously been studied

(Bucki, 2014b): physical health, psychological functioning, lifestyle value, self-efficacy towards health

services, family support, social capital, socio-economic conditions and access to health services. A deeper

i Corresponding author: Barbara Bucki, E-mail:barbara.bucki@uni.lu

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knowledge is needed to understand what intrinsically contributes and impedes the health capability of

family caregivers. The grounded theory approach helps construct models which gather a theoretical

paradigm and the points of view of the concerned persons in a new construct.

The aim of our exploratory study was to identify, using a grounded theory approach, new

domains which complement the preliminary 8-domain model of health capability of family caregivers.

2. Methods

2.1. Study design, sample and recruitment After the aim of the survey has been explained to them, family caregivers were invited to

participate to a face-to-face interview at their home:

In the Lorraine region (France) All the family caregivers aged 45-80 years and caring for a stroke victim living at home since at least one year were contacted by two local associations:

France AVC Lorraine and the Ecole des Parents et Educateurs de Moselle.

In Luxembourg - Family caregivers who participated, four years before, to a national survey about living two years after a stroke were contacted again. A preliminary verification of deaths

having occurred among stroke patients and family caregivers has been made in the

Luxembourgish death registry.

2.2. Procedure Informed consent was obtained from family caregivers willing to participate. Semi-structured

interviews were led between February and May 2013 at the home of the participants about their health

status, how they currently take care of their health (including what helps/impedes a better agency), and

what internal resources they would need to achieve their optimal health. Three different persons trained at

qualitative methods led the interviews, so that the bias related to the interviewers sensitivity was avoided.

2.3. Data analysis Interviews were recorded and transcribed. The transcripts were analyzed using NVivo 8 in

accordance with the grounded theory approach (Glaser & Strauss, 2009).

In a first analysis, verbatims from the transcripts were open-coded and grouped to form

categories of health capability. When possible, statements have been classified within the internal

dimensions originally formulated in the paradigm. When a statement seemed not to belong to the initial

classification of Ruger, a new category was created. In addition, when Rugers generic classification did

not seem to best reflect the diversity of family caregivers perceptions and experiences, changes have

been made. This method allowed developing a stepwise theoretical interpretation grounded in data

collected from the participants.

A second analysis was used to refine and adjust the results. According to the criteria of quality of

qualitative research, the reliability of the results is partly based on the result comparison between several

researchers (Mays & Pope, 1995). Thus, throughout the analyses, a control process was applied where

items were validated by consensus with an expert group. Theoretical sampling and reflexivity were used

as the central validation procedures in the development of the conceptualization.

3. Results

3.1. Description of the participants Seven women and seven men (age 63.610.1) accepted to participate. They cared for the stroke

victims since average 7.3 years (2.9). Twelve were the partners of the stroke victims, one cared for her

mother and another accompanied her daughter. While most were retired, three caregivers were employed

at the time of the survey.

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Table 1. Characteristics of the participating family caregivers.

Country Sex Age Relationship Working Time since stroke Last position

A.01 Fr F 64 Spouse No 3 years, 6 months Schoolteacher

A.02 Fr F 61 Spouse No 8 years Housewife

A.03 Fr M 66 Spouse No 8 years, 4 months Laboratory technician

A.04 Fr F 80 Mother No 4 years, 9 months Typist

A.05 Fr M 79 Partner No 2 years, 4 months Director

A.06 Fr F 65 Spouse No 9 years Officer at the Post

A.07 Fr M 67 Spouse No 15 years Paper delivery person

A.08 Fr M 48 Spouse Yes 6 years, 2 months Foreman

A.09 Lux F 64 Daughter No 7 years, 8 months Secretary

A.10 Lux M 45 Spouse Yes 7 years, 1 months Teacher

A.11 Lux F 70 Spouse No 7 years, 9 months Accountant

A.12 Lux M 64 Spouse No 7 years, 4 months Mechanic

A.13 Lux F 51 Spouse Yes 7 years, 6 months Sales assistant

A.14 Lux M 66 Spouse No 7 years, 3 months Airline pilot

3.2. Description of the content of the new domains of health capability Seven new domains of health capability have emerged: health knowledge, health self-efficacy,

health value, life skills, health decision-making, motivation, and attitude towards the future. Of the 76

generated items, 51 reflect generic ability and 26 are specific to family caregiving. The following section

details the content of each new domain and illustrates the created sub-categories by selected verbatims.

3.2.1. Health knowledge. Three themes related to health knowledge emerged. The first regrouped the causal relationships between behaviors or lifestyle and health. While several caregivers

declared e.g. You cannot really influence your health, either you have it, or you do not (A.06), others cited a varied range of physical, recreational activities and nutritional behaviours that help maintain their

health. Second, the causal attribution of symptoms like pain, sleeping problems and fatigue was

mentioned by all the participants. Discourses ranged from I dont really know where my pain comes

from (A.08) to anyway I am sometimes a little more tired than normal because [...] I must do eight hours (A.05), reflecting that some symptoms directly derive from being a caregiver. Third, the knowledge about the means to acquire health-related information and knowledge were described,

comprising the TV, journals or even the Internet.

3.2.2. Self-efficacy and health-related skills. Self-efficacy has been mentioned as a factor of achieving an optimal health status: whats important is that I feel capable of having in better health (A.10). Other skills comprise the implementation of healthy behaviours now I pay attention to what I eat, I am a very good cook (A.05), adapting installations in the house in order to be relieved, and the ability to adopt protecting behaviours: By car, I was a little I loved to drive very fast, very... I calmed

down [...] telling me I have no right to accident (A.01).

3.2.3. Health value. The value of health emerged as an essential part of health capability in two ways. The first was general, as mentioned by A.01: I attach great value to health or conversely by A.04: I am not concerned about my health. Second, according to some participants, the value placed on health was directly influenced by becoming a caregiver. Either health became more important: now I have to take care of her so I am more careful (A.03), either less of a priority: I should now go to the physio for a problem of sciatica etc. As my husband goes to the hospital every morning, I realise that it passes after (A.01).

3.2.4. Life skills. The participants mentioned a set of skills to manage the everyday life. The ability to manage personal situations is put to the test, as shown by the following statements: Friends who drifted away after the stroke, I threw them out (A.05), I feel myself torn between him and the others (A.06). The aptitude to call for someone to solve problems or to relieve from the caregiving role was considered as beneficial to maintain their health: Given my health, I asked a nurse to come for his personal hygiene (A.01) or conversely I wont bother anyone (A.06). The aptitude to get arrangements from health services was expressed in statements which reflected their capacity to express their needs:

Sometimes it was necessary to grumble for information (A.05) or I am the one who asked to place her in a nursing home because it was getting steeper [] and after 10 years, I could not make her stand anymore (A.09). The capacity to express their needs and limits to the cared relatives was also cited by

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the caregivers as facilitating: He knows that on Thursday mornings, dont ask me anything! (A.01) and

is also well illustrated by the following statement from A.06: it was already a habit not to show that I am sick unless Im lying on the ground. Finally, three coping strategies have been mentioned in the attempt

of coping with the situation: denial, as shown by the following statement It's been more than ten years or fifteen years, anyway I always ignored that and that's all, it does not exist (A.05). Others related about an acceptance of the situation as I say to myself, it is like that, some will experience it earlier, some later, it is like that although A.07 stated the contrary: I have never accepted my wifes disease. Finally, some caregivers tried to relativize by reinterpreting their situation positively: it is not something that has been proposed to us and we think it could have been worse (A.06) or other relatives have more important health problems (A.13).

3.2.5. Health decision-making. This domain regroups the aptitude to identify health problems and to pursue an efficient prevention or treatment. This pattern has been especially evocated

about consulting a doctor: I go to see my doctor every three months (A.04; A.05) or on the contrary: I go to see my doctor when it goes wrong. I dont go for preventive (A.13). Other contexts of decision-

making were cited, as the prevention of back pain (I have serious back problems so I try to go slowly. Gardening, not more than one hour at a time; A.06), trying to eat better (I eat less, I hardly drink anything; A.10), taking medicines in prevention (if I stay here, I dont necessarily take my painkiller but if I go to my daughter for example twice a week, I always take it before leaving; A.04), and deciding to make activities outside the caregiving role. These activities mainly consist of walks, physical activities

and yoga, but it can sometimes also consist of activities like: At the moment, I avoid a little bit [about visiting her mother] because [...] I want to protect myself (A.02).

3.2.6. Motivation. Two types of motivation emerged from the analyses: the motivation to maintain health and the motivation to be a caregiver. The types of motivations to maintain health were

diverse: material reasons (I earn the most money so it is not very romantic, it is, if only for money, very important that I am in very good health; A.05), extrinsic motivation (my daughters, they say dont force mom, stop, we need you to stay healthy; A.06) or the responsibility of being a caregiver (in those moments, his presence allows me not letting go. Because I have to react for me and for him; A.06). Some caregivers were motivated by the desire to be here for their grandchildren: I want to see my grandchildren grow up [...] to often see them, play with them, all that, it motivates me and it gives me strength (A.06) and others were just intrinsically motivated it has to be your own choice. Its like you dont stop smoking because somebody tells you to. You stop smoking because you want it yourself

(A.14). The motivation to be a caregiver was particularly present among French participants with

statements like I was advised not to visit him every day, but if I dont I just feel guilty (A.02). The

reasons to care ranged from internal reasons like the need to see (A.02) the relative or love This is all about love. I think if I did not care about my wife, I would have gone (A.07) to a perception of the duty to care I'm not separated from my wife because I got engaged, I must hold on (A.07).

3.2.7. Attitude towards the future. Two types of attitudes towards the future were expressed: perspectives about health, and perspectives about the personal life. Health perspectives were,

on the one hand, optimistic. Some caregivers said they felt "positive" (A.06) or, as A.10 about reaching his optimal health, I think it is still feasible and I'm sure next year will be close. On the other hand, some caregivers felt concerned about the recurrence of a disease that had already occurred in the past,

such as depression or cancer. Regarding the perspectives about their personal life, some caregivers explained they make

efforts to think about the present rather than worrying about the future I decided that I wont ever worry

about our old days (A.01). Whether optimistic or pessimistic about their future life, some caregivers feel that the most important for the future would be that the situation stabilizes: thats all Im asking for, that

it wont get worse (A.06). Anxiety is present for some respondents, as A.09 who said Now it's over, I have enough, hopefully a new tile wont fall on my head [...] an anguish of the future. Finally, some envision the future with projects, but this view is tempered by the constraints associated with the state of

the stroke person such as habits to take, lack of time: we have projects, but what we need is time (A.10).

4. Discussion

This exploratory study completed our preliminary eight-domain model of health capability of

family caregivers with new domains. Based on the grounded theory, our qualitative analysis allowed to

build seven new domains: health knowledge, health self-efficacy, health value, life skills, health decision-

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making, motivation, and attitude towards the future. Together, the completed model contains 15 domains

which take in account psychological as well as social and environmental aspects of the health capability

of family caregivers.

Our results show the necessity to implement interventions to help family caregivers developing

certain aspects of their health capability. For example, developing their knowledge about the causal

relationships between the lifestyle or behaviours and health status can influence their decision-making

process. The relationships between the different domains of health capability are to be determined.

For this purpose, the next challenge is to operationalize the model of health capability of family

caregivers as a questionnaire. The preliminary eight-domain model has already been operationalized by

20 items (HCFC-8 domains) with satisfactory psychometric properties (Bucki, 2014b). The next step will

consist of completing the validation of the questionnaire with the items generated by the verbatims

stemming from the present study. To date, 76 potentially additional items have been selected (Bucki,

2014b). Among them 51 reflect generic capacities such as the ability to cope with personal situations,

health perspectives, knowledge about causal effects between behaviour/lifestyle and health, and

motivation to maintain ones health; and 26 refer to aspects directly related to the caregiving condition

such as the motivation to care and the ability to seek help to be relieved from the caregiving tasks. Since

our sample size was limited and did not reach idea saturation, a second wave of interviews will be led in

order to complete and adjust the content of the list. In order to strengthen the conceptualization of health

capability of family caregivers, it would be beneficial that this study is made by other research teams

from other countries. After a rigorous procedure of item reduction (Goetz et al., 2013), our work will lead

to the construction of the first questionnaire assessing health capability of family caregivers.

This questionnaire will have several topical utilities. First, it will guide the preparation of

innovative supports to promote health capability, and can also serve as a basis to elaborate a guide to

which clinicians can refer to orient family caregivers according to their needs of health capability. Finally,

it can be use among other indicators to assess the efficacy of complex health interventions.

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INTEGRATIVE ACCOMPANIMENTS FOR SUBJECTS WITH DISABLING

MENTAL DISORDERS: A NEO-EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF THE

PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION

Christophe Clesse1,2

, Isabelle Dumand1, Michel Decker

1,

Christine Savini1, & Joelle Lighezzolo-Alnot

2

1Jury-les-Metz Specialized Hospital, Metz (France) 2INTERPSY Laboratory, Universit of Lorraine, Nancy (France)

Abstract

In France, for fifteen years, research shown that the contribution of neuropsychology is a major asset

when it's devoted to the accompaniment of unadapted people or, to the subjects who present a reduced

autonomy. Indeed, these developments have helped to differentiate the cognitive disorders from the

psychic disorders and their respective inter-incidence on the adaptation of the user to its living

environment. All these theoretical advances helped the community psychiatry in the conceptualization of

the accompaniment especially in the field of psychosocial rehabilitation. On this point, we believe that

the formalization of an efficient support in psychosocial rehabilitation should build on the new elements

of research without refute the heritage that we obtained from the history of clinical psychiatry as the

psychoanalysis. To do this, we acted on the following neo-evolutionary fact : in an unadapted situation

the humans must find an environment that is suited to their difficulties or, they have to gradually adapt in

order to maintain his somatopsychic balance. Referring to this neo-evolutionary approach of the

environement adaptation, it now seems essential to simultaneously find both aspects in psychic

accompaniment. Consequently, we argue that the accompanying should think about mediatize in a same

time a dynamic of compensation (adapting the environment to the subject) and a reconstruction dynamic

(adapting the subject to the environment) to maximize its chances of reintegration into the social fabric. In

these two aspects, it is possible to combine some reconstructive approaches (cognitive remediation,

psychoanalytic work in the long term ...) to compensatory approaches (brief therapies, psychosocial skills

training, relaxation ...). During this presentation, we will mediatize a theoretical bedrock related to the

emergence of these new integrative accompaniments. Furthermore, we will emphasize that this movement

also causes a movement of reconciliation between psychoanalysis and cognitive neuropsychology.

Finally, we will justify and illustrate our words by presenting quantitative and qualitative results obtained

from the generalization of this work within two mobile teams of psychosocial rehabilitation.

Keywords: neo-evolutionary psychology, psychosocial rehabilitation, integrative theory, neuropsychology, psychoanalysis. 1. Introduction

The subject we are going to deal with echoes the clinical results we got from the psychosocial rehabilitation team at the hospital center of Jury Les Metz (France). In the rehab transdisciplinary field,

we aim to create a way of working with subjects with serious and disabling mental disorders admitted at

the hospital for a long period, who found difficult to reach autonomy in their everyday activities. In order

to do so, we had, in the first place, to conceptualize these patients feasible progressions as well as the

support we could bring them. From then on, what could be done of these patients who had fled from any

interaction with their environment through a withdrawal in an asylum, behind the walls of a hospital?

1.1. The adaptation of a subject to ones environment: From a theoretical

opposition to ones capacity to become integrated In order to answer that question, we referred to the works of Jakubowicz (2002) for whom the

process which surrounds the constant interaction between human beings and the ongoing world in which

they live [acts as] a complex dynamic that links the subjects different actions and various developments,

thus allowing the growth of transformation prospects. To enhance that dynamic, we decided to dwell on

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the concept of adaptation. For Tach (2003) this concept is updated via the information treatment and the

decision making, to repeatedly act on the inner organization of the subject, thus giving them the

possibility to adapt themselves to new situations. Generaly, we can consider that a subject isn't a given

object. They become so, when interacting with the environment where, they have been living since they

came to being.

Concerning the notion of adaptation, we referred to the neo-evolutionist theories. In those

theories, the two main premises meet in the act of integration useful to the understanding of the

adaptation process, this one being itself underlying the notion of interactive development of the species.

Thus the idea of a gradual adaptation (in its time held by the views of Lamarck, 1809) would meet with

the saltationist idea (held by C. Darwin, 1859). Briefly, we can mention that in Darwins point of view,

the environment is crucial in the adaptation process of the species. If one species cannot adapt to their

environment, their decent will be the victims of natural selection and will be extinct. From that angle, the

adaptation process of the living is consequently central and, it is experienced in a passive way, being

adapted or not. Consequently, the saltationist views see adaptation as a way of being in a world faced

with an environment which is either fit or leads to extinction. Concerning the gradual point of view from

Lamarck adaptation is not only considered from a passive angle. Actually, it is asserted that any living

species can progressively adapt themselves to their environment. Here, adaptation is seen as an active

process based on the inborn spontaneous or acquired appearance of new adaptive resources. In short, the

Lamarck views assert that the subject is in constant adaptation to their environment, even if this

environment undergoes changes. Linking the two views, the recent neo evolutionist theories are based on

the following assertion: The living must be adapted to their environment in order to avoid extinction

(here, its Darwin and his idea of a passive adaptation to the environment); but the living can also

influence the dynamics of natural selection by actively adapting themselves to the environment. Similarly,

these ideas had an impact on the evolutionist clinical psychology.

In the case of subjects suffering from severe and disabling mental disorders leading to an asylum

withdrawal at the hospital, this double adaptive process is very complex. Actually, the primary

environment of human beings today is society (Frisancho, 1993). And, for example, we know that the

lack of social cognitions of these subjects doesnt enable them to adapt themselves correctly to others and

by correlation to society. Often, these subjects tend to lose their autonomy, to withdraw into themselves

while trying to remain in tune with their own clinical problems, which is already very difficult in itself.

So what can be offered to these subjects? Seen from the Darwinian angle, only the environment can be

modified and, the only way to support these subjects is to modify their environment (and not the subject.)

It is on the basis of these thoughts that long term hospitalization formed itself in a (iatrogen) Darwinian

answer to chronic psychosis and its linked (prodroms) (borderline problems, precariousness). Despite

the importance of this unipolar view, this position can nevertheless lead to a negation of the abilities,

resources and potential of the subject to adapt to their environment as the Lamarck theories assert it. If

only seen from the Lamarck angle, it would only fall on the subject to find in them the ability to adapt

them. And all this by looking for personal support for development or, by changing their potential into

abilities. Of course, we can notice in our own everyday practice how much our patients have this ability

to surprise us by gathering their sometimes hidden resources. The strict application of the Lamarckian

ideas can be found, for example, in the movement called antipsychiatry applied for example in certain

countries and for that reason its excluded lot. For all that, grasping a subject only under the angle of the

possible amounts to denying their impossible and to making the field of possible common. In the

psychological handicap field, it amounts to neglecting the lacks in the subject while ignoring the

sometimes massive symptomatology that can empered the adaptation process to the social environment.

In the end, we assert that this conception, arbitrary applied, can be against-productive since it would

increase the cleavage between healthy and pathological parts.

As can be understood, these two approaches initiate different levers so as to allow a better

adaptation of the subject to their environment. If considered separately, each of these conceptions deny

one of the subjects aspects: either their abilities to evolve or their vulnerability confronted to realities.

So, bearing this fact in mind, it seemed essential to us to conjugate these two approaches in order to be

closer to the adaptive dynamic of the subject to their environment (first themselves, then their families

and finally the social network, the territory).

1.2. What support in rehab? From the opposition of two models of rehab to

their integrativity So, starting from the idea that we had to link the two adaptive approaches to get efficient

support, we started thinking more precisely about the support models in psychosocial rehabilitation. As

MacLachlan & Mannan, (2014), we think that an interdisciplinary psychosocial work of rehabilitation is

preferable. Usually, it's common to consider that there are two models of psychosocial rehabilitation. One

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is inspired by an Anglo-Saxon model and the other is rather European. We could call this latter a

biosocio- psychological model. Concerning the Anglo-Saxon rehabilitation model, we could recognize

once more the Lamarck evolutionist conceptions. So this model stems from the postulate that the subject

can adapt themselves through an increase in their autonomy when developing their ability to manage

some actions owing to an active and passive stimulation of their abilities and resources. Indeed, the

Anglo-Saxon model of psychosocial rehabilitation is almost completely based on the recovering and

developing of know-how through, for example, iterative stimulation or cognitive remediation or training

to psychosocial abilities This care does therefore mainly dwell on the cure system. Cure is meant in

the way of dealing with the symptoms a person shows. This term shows the subject in a more passive way

in which they benefit from a specific cure aiming at diminishing their disorders. The bio-socio

psychological model of rehabilitation takes its essence in the legacy of the European psychopathology. Its

peculiarity is to work on the possible outing of the subject by giving them a role in society. To do so,

professionals reflect on and adapt the subjects environment in order to make their adaptation to the social

environment easier. This movement, linked to the post-asylum movement of psychiatry (Bonsack and

Favrod, 2013) is consequently based on the softening of the subjects psychics difficulties, their

education and ritualization. The French way in psycho-social rehabilitation work is based on the

professional fit, adapting the environment and taking in account all factors which would interfere with the

performance of its reintegration. This care is directly influenced by the Darwinian views on adaptation

since it is mainly the environment which is changed to fit the subjects expectations. Here, if the subject is

not cured, he is led towards reinsertion. In this specific case, they no longer are in a model based on the

cure system, but on the care system. It means taking care of a thing or a person. In that way, we can

assert it fits the Darwinian conception on the psychopathology of evolution.

Though these two models act on the subjects life, they work in different ways. In the Anglo-

Saxon psychosocial rehabilitation model, re-adaptation is in the center of the process. It can be defined as

a field specialized in health care which aims at bettering the function and/or prevent the damaging of

the function, and at providing the highest level of physical, psychological, social and economic

autonomy, so as to better life quality at its most and lower the long term needs of health care and the

community support to the needs of these persons (Australian faculty of medicine). The dynamic impulse

here is therefore a dynamic of reconstruction. Unfortunately we also know that the subject with a mental

handicap can be limited in his recovery by treating his symptoms. This can lead to a vulnerability putting

the cure into difficulty. On the other hand in the European bio-socio-psychological model we have seen

that such accompaniment is massively focused on reintegration in society. According to different authors

like Ehmann (2004) we can define it as the process of developing and exercising interpersonal

relationships and social connectedness; a stage that occurs after stabilization when psychosocial strengths

have been rebuilt. But targeting only on this issue can mean denial of the subject appetitive potentials.

From then on, we make the hypothesis that if only one of these two accompaniment modalities is

chosen, then the subject will rapidly be confronted to certain limits. In the case of an accompaniment

purely centered on an European psychosocial rehabilitation model, the reconstruction of patient's

competences would be less valued, leaving interest to compensating subject's difficulties by adjusting the

environment. In this case the subject can remain unsuitable for society but integrated in an over adapted

environment. In the case of accompaniment centered on the Anglo-Saxon approach of psycho-social

rehabilitation, this mean using many cognitive reconstructive exercises to enhance subject's autonomy,

associated with a therapeutic subjective reconstruction. But the population targeted by this process is

sometimes limited and we can wonder if this model is not too elective, outgoing some serious categories

such as chronic psychosis. In short even if these models of psycho-social rehabilitation have each key to

improve subjects live quality, using exclusively can be limited due to the foundation of the adaptive

concepts on which they are based. Here on the limit of the model we find the strength of the other; we

therefore support an instauration of an integrative model composing the adjunction and the conjunction of

both models of psycho-social rehabilitation.

1.3. From the integrative model of psycho-social rehabilitation toward its

personalized accompaniment: A clinical dosing related to subjects difficulties Regarding to this integrative psycho-social rehabilitation model, the adaptation dynamic is

facilitated by a double movement whose neo evolutionist origin was described above. This movement is

constituted of compensation and a reconstruction dynamic. As a consequence, this double dynamic then

associate the two movements related to psychic accompaniment the cure aimed at remission and the

care aimed at recovery. According to Buckley et al. (2007), recovery is a process rather than an

outcome, focus on the individual and his/her journey toward attaining goals rather than the absence of

symptoms. More concretely the accompaniment part centered on the cure aims at remission of

symptoms. As a consequence it includes all the approaches to major changes in the subjects, like

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cognitive remediation therapy, psychoanalytical therapy but also, includes compensatory approaches

(brief therapies, psycho-social skills training, relaxation...). This integrative approach can also be

achieved by adjusting the environment and working in deep on improving subject's potentials. In different

terms, combining those approaches help the subject into self-restoration in order to be adapted to his

environment while getting benefit from environmental adjustment, which helps him to progress. For us, in

this way the subject maximize his changes to live in society more easily.

Now, we have to remind the need to distinguish the notion of readaptation from that of

reintegration. That keeping in mind, an efficient psycho-social rehabilitation work is constituted of these

two entities (Goyet et al., 2013). In reintegration, accompaniment is targeted, as we said before, at

adjusting the environment to the subject. This approach consists on offering a maximum of interventions

from professionals to compensate his lacks and deficiencies. In this meaning the subject will be less

confronted to these deficiencies because professionals supply for his needs and reduce the gap between

his capacities and needs. Accompaniment is offered according to the actual degree of autonomy and it

does not really pay interest on the potential of evolution of the subject. More precisely it's a compensatory

accompaniment that proposed here so costly in terms of mean it consists on adapting his daily life with

multiple interventions of different professionals. On the other hand, when it comes to readapt ion

accompaniment is different. It stands on two aspects: an affective one by a subjective reconstruction of

self where he is brought to work profoundly on his life history to give it another sense than the one he had

until now. Psychoanalysis is one of those methods that address this affective aspect, and that we believe,

has its entire place in the accompaniment of chronic psychotic subject. Also there is a place for mediation

therapies, Rogerian approach, systemic therapies and secondly can be added a re-adaptation of

cognitive functions.

Defining in this way, we can see in an arbitrary way than Darwinian approach of adaptation to

the individual has generated an European of psycho-social rehabilitation centered on the compensation

dynamic and the care accompaniment. And, with fact, it generated working dynamics in rehabilitation

majority centered on social reintegration. To the opposite, the Lamarckian approach of adaptation

generated an Anglo-Saxon psycho-social rehabilitation concept centered on the dynamic of restoration

(reconstruction), the cure accompaniment. In the fact it generated a working dynamic centered on

subject re-adaptation. It's evident that, practically, reintegration and re-adaptation do not exist in pure

form. They are many colorations as they are individuals, but we still consider that there are three major

profiles of accompaniment in integrative psycho-social rehabilitation. The first is called psycho-social

reintegration; it is constituted of 75% reintegration and 25% re-adaptation. The second is called psycho-

social re-adaptation it is constituted of 75% re-adaptation and 25% reintegration. At last psycho-social

rehabilitation comprises equivalent readaption and reintegration. Establishing those three profiles seems

relevant when it comes to conceptualize an accompaniment for a subject. Coming to the end of our

thinking, we have designed a research work to test the supposed efficiency of our thinking; we then are

going to present this procedure and the results we have obtained.

2. Methodology

To start, we wish to remind that our work is a field clinical research. As a consequence, our

methodology is rather empirical where many biases may have occurred than only fundamental research

can present. Nevertheless, despite this, it seems to us pertinent to present our results using quantitative

and qualitative indicators. First it is important to precise that the integrative psycho-social rehabilitation

approach that we defined was put in place in 2014 by a mobile ambulatory team (ERAH) where are

followed subjects reintegrated in society. At the same moment we continue our work having created an

intra-hospital team (UPAH). Its purpose is to help subjects living in the institution on the long run with

severe and invalidating disorders, to be able to take advantage of an efficient rehabilitation

accompaniment with the hope to help them leave the institution. Here we present our result after

implementing this new working dynamic in a relay house lodging 12 patients. Another three places

apartment since (in 2014). with constant personal and material means per patient, we present simple and

sequential readmission rates, as well as the rate of acting out, for year 2012 (N = 12), 2013 (N = 12),

2014 (N = 15), we present these results in two summarizing tables. To these quantitative results related to

residents' symptoms and degree of autonomy.

3. Results

At first, result analysis show that implementing of an integrative accompaniment dynamic in psycho-social rehabilitation has a significant impact on readmission rate and on the number of acting out.

Considering readmission rate we can note a decrease of more than 82% between 2013 and 2014. Besides,

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this decrease is also significant between 2012 and 2014 (65%). We can also consider that implementation

of this approach had a major impact on readmission rate considering acting out number we can note a

decrease of more than 89% between 2013 and 2014. This decrease is also important comparing 2012 and

2014 (86%). So we can think that this approach as also a major impact on acting out rate. Finally,

considering the sequential admission rate, results were not found relevant. As for qualitative results, all

careers from sanitary and medico-social sectors have noted a progress in the degree of autonomy of all

patients. This was notice in daily activities (preparing meals, cleaning their apartment, taking a shower,

budget managing ). A symptom improvement was also felt by medical careers and in many patients

which also was noticed by the decrease of acting out rate. Also, the whole group of resident benefited of a

better life quality investing more in social life, family bonds and non-stigmatizing groups activities. As a

sum, all this results lead us to consider that integrative approach in psycho-social rehabilitation generates

many benefits to the accompanied subjects.

4. Conclusion

Seeing those first results that we judge encouraging it seems that combining compensatory and

reconstructive approaches helps subjects in decreasing their readmission rate and duration. In our sense,

even though it is extremely difficult to evaluate the impact of a therapeutic approach, the presented data

seem to embrace the idea that adapting the subject to his environment is facilitated when both adaptive

approaches are simultaneously considered in accompanying the subject. To conclude we think that

complementary neo-evolutionist approaches (Darwinian and Lamarckian) can open ways to more

possibility in psycho-social rehabilitation. Besides, we think that this interactivity leads to the conjunction

of different approaches in clinical psychology, simultaneously. Putting adap