[Binational study on partner aggression in university students].

This research assesses violence in university students couples from Argentina and Ecuador. It focuses on its association with jealousy and other variables. Seven hundred and fourteen students (528 from the National University of La Plata, Argentina, and 186 students from the University of Cuenca, Ecuador) were surveyed using a cross cutting design.

[When legal procedures facilitate abandonment. New forms of Ghosting].

Ghosting has become a way to end abruptly short/casual relationships. It is the practice of ending a personal relationship suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication. Nowadays at family courts, the quality of psychology expert witness reports is limited to transcribe the interviewed person words, without applying any professional method tending to elaborate a diagnosis.

[Jealousy and violence on university student intimate partners].

The deleterious effect of dating violence motivates the empirical exploration of the influential factors that may be targets of prevention. The aims of this study are to investigate violence in couples of university students and explore their relationship with jealousy and other correlates. Method: with a cross-sectional design, we surveyed 84 medical students from the National University of La Plata, Argentina.

[The assessment of competence to stand trial in juveniles].

Introduction: Despite the relevance of adolescents' psycholegal capacities to judicial decisions, no assessment tool exists in Latin America to evaluate these competence-related abilities.

Objective: To explore aspects of the reliability of the Test de competencia para el desempeño en proceso del fuero de responsabilidad penal juvenil MacArthur: Versión Argentina - MacCAT-CA:VA, wich is the Argentinian adaptation of the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA).

Method: Mental health professionals trained in the use of MacCAT-CA:VA administered the instrument to 46 adolescents (23 court-ordered to a secure facility; 23 public high school students).

[Mental disorders and working capacity evaluation in psychiatric boards].

Introduction: The evaluation by a "Psychiatric Board" of workers in certified sickness absence is a complex practice, and its results have significant effects from a work and health standpoint.

Objectives: To evaluate the inter-rater reliability in the psychiatric board and the association between self-reported measurement and the board judgment.

Materials And Method: information was obtained from 68 school teachers on sick leaves through self-reported scales (Zung and Conde Self-rating Scale for Depression; Maslach Burnout Inventory; Effort-reward Imbalance Questionnaire; and Self Reported Present Health State Scale).