Changing meanings through art: a systematization of a psychosocial intervention with Chilean women in urban poverty situation.

This study explores the experiences that women in urban poverty situation have about their participation in a psychosocial group intervention mediated by artistic techniques. An investigation was done using a qualitative methodology. Participants were ten women older than 21 years old who live in Santiago de Chile in poverty situation.

[Adaptation of the Multidimensional Trauma Recovery and Resilience (MTRR) questionnaire in a sample of Chilean mothers with a history of child abuse].

Objective: Adaptation of the Multidimensional Trauma Recovery and Resilience (MTRR) in a Chilean sample.

Method: Participants were 80 mothers drawn from two large metropolitan areas (Santiago and Temuco). Sample participants (in a case control design) were redivided in two groups: 40 mothers identified as physical abusers with history of physical child abuse and 40 mothers identified as nonabusers with history of physical child abuse.

[Adaptation of Child Abuse Potential Inventory in Chile: analysis of the difficulties and challenges in the application in Chilean studies].

Objective: This paper describes two studies aimed at validating the Chilean version of Child Abuse Potential (CAP). The paper also discusses problems in what respects conceptualizing and detecting maltreatment within a process of research as it relates to a specific culture.

Method: An instrument based on the Child Abuse Potential Inventory was administered to two different samples of 134 people and 280 people, respectively.