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Working with Vulnerable Populations: Final Reflections and Implications
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
Castaños-Cervantes, Susana
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Ojeda García, Angélica
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Reitz-Krueger, Cristina L.
Although complex and multifactorial, vulnerability reflects various trajectories with manifold implications, three primary dimensions of vulnerability—physical, psychological, and social—have been depicted across this book from a non-Western framework to accurately depict specific characteristics, interventions, and practices across multiple groups and contexts. Our authors have placed at the center of vulnerability research the perspectives and voices of those deemed vulnerable and potential stakeholders, such as practitioners and service managers, enlightening policy and practice shortcomings and biases to be addressed. Thus, after analyzing the edited collection and the work of our contributors, we seek to critically contribute to vulnerability research with an intersectionality lens so that vulnerability and vulnerability groups in low- and middle-income countries or emerging and developing countries are reframed seeking to respond appropriately and have a positive impact that will help build more just, inclusive, equitable, and diverse contemporary societies. ©The authors ©Springer
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Violence and Its Associated Psychosocial Factors in Mexican Homeless Females
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
Castaños-Cervantes, Susana
Violence in Mexican homeless females has not been addressed. This study examined the differences in several psychosocial factors associated with violence among a group of 240 Mexican homeless females selected non-randomly. The main results showed that homeless female victims of physical or sexual violence presented a lower level of subjective well-being compared to victims of psychological violence, who instead exhibited a higher index of depression. These findings indicate that intervention strategies must focus on psychosocial factors linked to specific forms of violence in homeless females so they can achieve a healthier developmental trajectory and a higher quality of life. ©The author. ©Springer
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Psychosocial Predictors of Suicide Risk in Medical Students
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
Domínguez-González, Alejandro Daniel
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Castaños-Cervantes, Susana
In Mexico, suicides occur every 90 min. It ranks second among 15–19-year-olds and fifth among 10–14-year-olds, underlining the need for targeted prevention strategies. Both practicing doctors and medical students are among the groups with the highest risk of suicide. The results of our path model analysis of suicide risk show that depression and emotional dysregulation are key predictors of suicide risk. Early detection and care programs should be implemented for students with this mental disorder. In Mexican medical male students, interventions must include techniques to address the emotional dysregulation strategy of denial, while in females they should also incorporate the emotional dysregulation strategy of suppression. ©The authors ©Springer.
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Understudied Populations Within the Sexual Assault Literature
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
Reitz-Krueger, Cristina L.
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Guarnera, Lucy A.
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Castaños-Cervantes, Susana
This chapter explores the often-overlooked subpopulations within the domain of sexual assault, shedding light on the experiences of women who conceive in rape, homeless female youth, and male college students. Despite the extensive research attention directed toward sexual violence, these groups have received comparatively less empirical investigation, leaving significant gaps in understanding and intervention. Through a comprehensive review of existing literature and recent research findings, this chapter illuminates the distinct vulnerabilities, challenges, and consequences faced by each understudied population. ©The ahuthors ©Spring.
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Working with Vulnerable Populations : A Multicultural Perspective
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
Castaños-Cervantes Susana
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García Ojeda, Angelica
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Reitz Krueger, Cristina L.
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Susana Castaños-Cervantes
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Angélica Ojeda García
This book explores vulnerability in many forms and among diverse understudied vulnerable populations worldwide from different perspectives, particularly from non-western contexts. It examines characteristics and profiles of vulnerable populations, intervention strategies, and recommendations for public policy actions in developing and emerging countries. As the world becomes increasingly connected and localities become more diverse, researchers and practitioners working to ameliorate human suffering cannot rely on one-size-fits-all solutions, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable members of society. The book argues the need for interdisciplinary research and action, and it challenges popular discourse on vulnerable groups and intervention strategies in Western societies and developed countries. In particular, it includes a Latin American perspective seldom considered in research about vulnerability worldwide. With interdisciplinary contributors from four continents, working in diverse fields such as social psychology, pedagogy, community psychology, medicine, sociology, clinical psychology, anthropology, and social work, this edited collection brings together theoretical and applied research evidence on three vulnerable population categories: physical vulnerability, psychological vulnerability, and social vulnerability. The book not only presents exhaustive solutions to any of the problems discussed therein, but it also offers examples of the considerations that should be afforded when working with groups who have unique vulnerabilities. ©The authors ©Springer
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Sexual Assertiveness in Mexican Homeless Female Youth: A Qualitative Approach
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
Castaños-Cervantes, Susana
Homeless female youth are among the most vulnerable understudied groups worldwide. They do not know their sexual rights and are denied their right to exercise them. This study qualitatively explored the sexual assertiveness of a group of Mexican homeless female youth to identify factors shaping sexual assertiveness and plausible pathways that may explain its effects. Two hundred homeless females aged 10–19 years old participated in this study. A semi-structured interview assessing dimensions of sexual assertiveness was conducted. The main findings revealed a low level of sexual assertiveness and of exercising sexual rights, a high level of sexual violence, a lack of sexual education and knowledge, and a lack of understanding of sexual rights. This study encourages the design and implementation of effective research-based programs and policies that can positively impact the sexual health of homeless female youth. ©The author ©Springer.
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Assertiveness and Human Rights Origins, Exercise, Education and Duties: How Assertiveness Can Help Us Better Understand Human Rights
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
This chapter will explore the relationship between assertiveness and human rights. The concept of “rights” is present in many definitions of “assertiveness”, in that being assertive means standing for one’s rights in a particular manner. In that sense, the author begins by explaining the origins of the relationship between the two concepts. Afterwards, he analyses the connection between human rights and assertiveness through three aspects that help better understand both ideas: first, what it means to exercise a right; second, how assertiveness can be explained through human rights education; and lastly, he suggests that to comprehend the two ideas better, it is necessary to also think in terms of “human duties”. ©The author. ©Springer.
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Tracing Classical Roots of Assertiveness: The Aristotelian Virtue
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
Siqueiros Fernández, José Enrique
This chapter traces the conceptual origins of assertiveness back to the Aristotelian notion of virtue: a purposive disposition, mid-point between two vices, determined by the right reason. First, it defines common and technical uses of assertiveness. Second, it justifies using Aristotle’s notion of virtue to better understand its conceptual complexity and practical training. Third, it analyses Aristotelian origins in each of the contemporary senses addressed by Peneva and Mavrodiev’s study A Historical Approach to Assertiveness: (1) as a method to diagnose and control mental illnesses, (2) as a mean of self-advocacy, (3) as a way of achieving human flourishing and, finally, (4) assertiveness as a social and professional skill. The author claims that these historical perspectives are rooted in the same moral classical principle: a virtuous disposition as understood in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (NE), Politics (P) and Rhetoric (Rh). ©The author ©Springer.
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Assertiveness: A Tool for Social Change and Shared Value
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
Agudín Colmenares, Mary Paz
With a systemic-qualitative approach, the author presented a proposal to begin with the implementation of an assertiveness strategy in law schools as a sort of prototype that can be adapted to other disciplines so that all professionals can be educated in a different way that will enable them to project fairer social norms on the outside. Assertiveness is a broad term whose meaning needs to be clarified for the simple onlooker. It requires the effort of self-observation to go beyond oneself and decipher this code of essence, feeling, and thought. It would be a powerful tool for social change and shared value due to its heterogeneous alignment of formulas that support the projection of a direct influence on others. ©The author ©Springer.
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“I’m OK, You’re OK” Philosophy: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Equity, Justice, and Peace Through Assertiveness—An Introduction
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
Castaños-Cervantes Susana
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Assertiveness is a human right essential for belonging and cultivating a culture of peace, equity, justice, and respect. Its importance lies in fostering culturally appropriate interactions and in the ability to express clearly, confidently, and respectfully personal needs, opinions, desires, and emotions while considering and respecting the rights and perspectives of others. It is a valuable tool since it contributes to improving, among other aspects, interpersonal relationships, quality of care, work efficiency and productivity, teamwork, psychosocial well-being, and health outcomes. This chapter qualitatively analyses assertiveness as a human right and as the fundamental factor for intercultural competencies, which, in turn, help establish diverse and inclusive societies. As a result, peace, justice, and equity are settled amongst communities, and a culture of belonging, enrichment, and thriving is cultivated. It examines how education paves the way for communicating, behaving assertively, and exercising the human right to be assertive. Thus, education provides the foundation for learning to live together through assertiveness. Finally, this chapter synthesises and analyses the book to give a general overview of its content. This book will pave the way for future research on assertive rights. It will encourage studies of assertiveness as a human right and as a way of promoting a culture of respect, justice, and peace within diverse, inclusive, and culturally competent societies. ©The authors ©Springer.

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