Publications by authors named "Lucas Bloc"

Article Synopsis
  • There is currently no consensus on what alcohol addiction recovery means beyond simply controlling substance use, affecting the development of treatment strategies.
  • A study utilized dialectical phenomenological psychopathology to analyze online interviews from eight individuals in São Paulo, Brazil, who identified as recovering from alcohol addiction.
  • Participants' experiences revealed two main themes: changes in their self and relationships and personal interpretations of recovery, highlighting the ongoing nature of recovery and its multifaceted dimensions like spirituality and moral transformation.
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Multiple diagnoses are the rule in Mental Health and alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a psychopathology with many comorbidities, requiring interventions that consider common factors, which means using a transdiagnostic perspective. This study aimed to identify in the scientific literature the main common transdiagnostic factors that link AUD to other psychopathologies in people over 18 years of age. A systematic review of the literature was carried out in the portals of the databases Pubmed, PsychINFO and CAPES.

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The pandemic has affected people's mental health and university students are considered one of the most vulnerable groups, encouraging the development of psychological interventions that can minimize the suffering and illness of this public. Among the possibilities of intervention, virtual clinical listening groups were created which, during the period of social isolation, had the purpose of opening up a listening space for university students suffering from emotional distress. The focus of the group meetings was how university students were experiencing the pandemic, as well as the consequences of this experience.

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Family components can play roles both as protective factors and maintenance mechanisms of eating disorders. We aimed to investigate the role of food in the family relationships of adolescents with anorexia nervosa and bulimia in northeastern Brazil. Using photo elicitation, a visual narrative method that gives insight into the participants' perspective through photograph, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 26 people: four teenage girls with anorexia, four with bulimia, eight mothers, four fathers, five grandmothers, and one sister.

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