Carles Pérez Testor

• MD, PhD
• Emeritus Chair Professor at Ramon Llull University

Background Dating violence (DV) is recognized as a public health problem, so there is still a need to delve deeper into the different perceptions of adolescents about DV, specifically considering the diversity of gender and context. . Purpose This study has been in order to explore the phenomenon of DV from the perspective of Chilean adolescents,...

Background: Violence legitimization has been associated with the myths of romantic love. In the Portuguese context, there are no available standardized tools to assess it. This study aimed to develop the adaptation and validation of the Portuguese version of the Scale of Myths of Romantic Love (SMRL) in youth and emerging adults. Also, the acceptan...

Background: Open adoption is a kind of adoption in which some degree of communication is formalized between the biological family and the adopted child or adoptive family. The present study analyzes the psychometric properties of the Spanish adaptation of the Open Adoption Scale, an instrument that assesses various negative attitudes toward open ad...

Background. Gender equality education in schools is the most effective tool to combat inequality and gender-based violence (GBV). Teachers often lack the necessary equality knowledge and skills. Objective. The aim of this study was to develop, implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a pilot gender equality programme for prospective teachers. Me...

Chronic sexual abuse in childhood can be directly associated with the formation of personality disorders such as BPD, with the majority of this abuse occurring in the family context. The objective of this article is to reference the importance of clinical and psychotherapeutic intervention from a systemic approach, prioritizing the analysis of inte...

This study examined attachment style and its relationship with sexual self-esteem during COVID-19 confinement. COVID-19 has caused changes in the way couples interact intimately and sexually around the world; some have found improvements and others an increase in difficulties. This article uses a retrospective pre post approach to evaluate 120 men...

Background: Suicidality in adolescents is a growing concern and is currently a public health issue in Chile and the world. Objective: To determine the association between the risk of suicidality with self-harm, sociodemographic parameters (that is, gender and type of school), psychosocial variables, and social and family support in Chilean adole...

This study examined dyadic adjustment, which is an essential aspect for a couple’s functioning, and its relationship with sexual self-esteem during COVID-19 confinement. This article presents data from before and during the confinement due to COVID-19 in Spain. 120 men and 89 women who were part of a couple at the time of confinement and completed...

This report supports validation for the Spanish 18-item short version of the Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO), a self-reported instrument for the assessment of personality organization, according to Kernberg’s object-relation based model. The IPO is used to depict personality structure types, using three scales: psychological defense mec...

During the recent COVID‐19 outbreak in Spain we explored the individual and relational wellbeing of people confined together with their partners and/or children during the first three weeks of state‐regulated lockdown. Adults 18 years or older (N =407) completed an online survey that included demographic, household, and employment information along...

Adverse early experiences of adopted children tend to entail emotional deprivation, which may have impaired their attachment relationships. Using an adaptation of a projective test specifically devised to assess attachment in teenagers, the relational histories of 70 Spanish adolescent international adoptees were explored and compared to non-adopte...

The contribution, through the presentation and discussion of a clinical case, illustrates an approach to the couple’s consultation considered a form of specific clinical intervention. The basic elements that define it conceptually are the focus on the relational nature of the crisis and the prevailing attention to the bond of the couple, observed i...

The reflective function (RF) or mentalization is nowadays considered a concept with a great explanatory and therapeutic potential. In this article we present the adaptation and validation of Parent Development Interview-Revised (PDI-R) to the Spanish and Catalan languages. It was performed by a cross-sectional design with a non-clinical sample of 6...

This study evaluated the predictive relationship between the communicative openness and psychological adjustment of adopted adolescents, controlling for preplacement risk factors. One hundred Spanish international adoptees aged 12–18 took part in the study. Data were gathered with a structured interview, the Youth Self Report and the Adoption Commu...

The main goal of the study is to analyze the metric goodness of the Spanish version of the Adult Prosocialness Scale (Caprara, Steca, Zelli, & Capanna, 2005). Analysis of construct and concurrent validity in two similar samples of young adults, a Spanish sample (target of the adaptation) and an Italian sample (source language), revealed the adequac...

Frequently, behavioural alteration of adopted children is the reason for consultation of many adoptive families. Different studies have related the lack of emotional care during the prior period to adoption as a risk factor for the development of a secure attachment. From our point of view, some of the maladaptive behaviours that they present once...

Attachment and linkage are two different concepts that are misused as synoyms frequently in the literature. The research on the attachment styles thar are developed within the family or the friends enviroment keeps growing at fast pace and on this context the definition and use of the concept must be the appropiate one. In this article we define bo...

The re ective function (RF) or mentalization is nowadays considered a concept with a great explanatory and therapeutic potential. In this article we present the adaptation and validation of Parent Development Interview-Revised (PDI-R) to the Spanish and Catalan languages. It was performed by a cross-sectional design with a non-clinical sample of 61...

Objective: Caregivers experience physical and mental stress that ends up lowering their quality of life (QoL). Our goal was to research (a) the level of caregivers QoL; (b) the relationships between the demographic characteristics of the caregivers, their caregiving burden, their family functioning, their social and professional support and their Q...

Workplace violence is a phenomenon affecting healthcare professionals. One of its explanatory models is Chappell and Di Martino's interactive model (2006). These authors assert that workplace violence occurs due to the interaction of multiple risk factors and according to these scholars the greater the knowledge of the phenomenon, the greater the l...

INTRODUCTION: This study aims to collect the most significant studies as effective in family therapy is concerned. In the 50s some studies were already talking about the therapeutic power of family therapy, but not until recently that this specialty has been consolidated in the psychological care setting. CURRENT ANALYSIS: Several studies are talki...

Resumen El diario de la relación es una herramienta para trabajar una relación conflictiva dentro de la terapia cognitiva interpersonal desarrollada por David D. Burns (2008) Su uso es eficaz para mejorar la satisfacción, cercanía y proximidad en la relación de pareja. En este artículo vamos a explicar con detalle la estructura y funcionamiento de...

Research in inter-country adoption is usually focused on being able to determine whether adopted children have more or fewer behavioral problems than non-adopted children. However, there is not enough to enable us to understand the feelings and bonds of the often complex life situations of being an internationally adopted child. This qualitative st...

Resumen. Los programas de entrenamiento de la memoria son programas psicoeducativos dirigidos a personas adultas y mayores sin deterioro cognitivo. Su fin es entrenar la memoria y optimizar su rendimiento. El objetivo de este estudio es medir la transferencia de conocimientos del programa de memoria Si entrenamos, recordamos. Este programa se estru...

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to elaborate and validate a tool to evaluate the professional support given to schizophrenics' caregivers. The main factors involved in burden perception are well known. However, it has not been explored whether the professional support received by caregivers can influence it too. To our knowledge, we...

This study analyzes young adults’ individuation with mother (IM) and father (IF) as a function of dysfunctional family patterns (DFPs)—caught between, parental pressure, unfair caregiving, and feeling deprived—as well as gender and parental divorce. It examines if parental divorce is associated with the presence of DFP in the young adults’ family o...

Ponencia presentada en el 50 aniversario del CPM sobre el futuro de la pareja.

Investigaciones recientes relacionan la superación de las relaciones triangulares con el apego seguro. El objetivo de este estudio es presentar el diseño y validación de un Registro de Evaluación de las Relaciones Triangulares (RERT) a través del test proyectivo Pata Negra o Patte Noire (P.N.) de Corman, a partir de una muestra de 100 participantes...

The Adoption Communication Scale (ACS) is a 28-item child-report instrument used to assess adoptees' perception of communication openness in the family. The aim was to develop a Spanish language version of the scale (ACS-S) and to assess the instrument's psychometric properties in a sample of 55 adopted adolescents. The ACS-S was found to have high...

Resumen La agresión a los profesionales sanitarios es un fenómeno en España. Se han realizado diversos estudios para conocer el alcance y los factores de riesgo, pero se desconoce su incidencia, agentes y factores implicados. El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer el alcance de la agresión hacia los profesionales mediante una revisión de la literat...

El interés de la psicología por las distintas formas de expresión artística tiene ya una larga tradición que arranca desde sus mismos inicios y que experimenta un fuerte impulso tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A las posibilidades expresivas y comunicativas de las diferentes actividades artísticas se les une su utilidad en la rehabilitación y la rei...

Aquest article de caràcter descriptiu té la finalitat d’exposar un fenomen existent com és la violència laboral. La violència laboral, un constructe amb pocs anys d’estudi, afecta totes les professions i les diferents categories professionals. S’estructura en cinc apartats. En el primer, es defineix pròpiament l’objecte d’estudi; en el segon, les d...

Including couple treatment in psychoanalysis has required the setting of new parameters beyond the classical psychoanalytical setting, in which the treatment is individual. This article aims to define the clinical criteria for, and benefits of, recommending couple treatment rather than individual psychoanalysis or psychotherapy, and to identify the...

Se presentan los resultados de las investigaciones del grupo de clínicos de la UNADOM (Unidad de atención a la mujer maltratada) de la Fundació Vidal i Barraquer y de los investigadores del Grupo de Investigación de Pareja y Familia (GRPF) de la Universitat Ramon Llull. Se aborda el papel del odio y la violencia en las relaciones de pareja, los fac...

Background Investigating Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) is considered determinant in patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) in clinical as in research field. The aim of the present study is to explore the most relevant aspects of personality of the patients with AIS and its relationship with HRQL. Method 50 patients (mean age =...

Acts of violence recounted by 161 female victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) attended at a psychological care service in Spain are presented. The relationship between acts of violence and feelings of danger, childhood abuse, and dyadic adjustment are analyzed. Reported acts of IPV were obtained through a Semi-structured Interview on Domestic...

Background: Workplace violence is a real phenomenon at nursing homes. This article studied this phenomenon in Barcelona.OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine whether type II workplace violence takes place in senior citizen residences in Barcelona.METHODS: To conduct this exploratory, descriptive and transversal study, the ad hoc...

This study investigates if perceived self-efficacy during an emergency situation has a protective role in the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms among Italian and Spanish survivors of several emergency situations. We explored the impact of self-efficacy in a multiple regression model including other predictors of posttraumatic stress symp...

The aim of this study was to investigate human behaviour during the 2012 Northern Italy Earthquakes. Furthermore, the current study used Kuligowski and Mileti’s (Fire Saf J 44:487–496, 2009) extended model and the Social Attachment Model as a framework to explain the behavioural responses. The study included 1839 participants who were affected by t...

Hatred in couple : neither you nor without you “Neither you nor without you there is remedy for my misfortune : with you because you kill me, without you because I die.” The feeling of hatred in relationships is addressed from a clinical vignette. Hatred is not the opposite of love. Love and hatred coexist in most couples. In the obsessive collusio...

Background Newly arrived immigrant patients who frequently use primary health care resources have difficulties in verbal communication. Also, they have a system of beliefs related to health and disease that makes difficult for health care professionals to comprehend their reasons for consultation, especially when consulting for somatic manifestatio...

This article talks about how to comprehend the mentalization concept as it has been reformed from the psychoanalytic perspective and from the attachment theory.

This study explores the personality profiles and the influence of childhood abuse on personality profiles of a group of 142 female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) who attended a specialized, free care, public outpatient psychological care service in Spain. Characteristics of the abuse were obtained through a semi-structured interview, an...

Purpose The present study aims at evaluating the effects produced on HRQOL by two different methods of physiotherapy in adolescent population with Idiopathic Scoliosis (IS): SEAS, used in Milan (Italia) in ISICO center, and Barcelona Sco-liosis Physical Therapy School, in E. Salvá Institut (Spain).

We investigated the relation between posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic stress symptoms among survivors of fires, earthquakes and floods. Furthermore, we explored the contribution of several predictors to these outcomes. Participants were 173 survivors of several events, which have occurred in Italy in the last decade. Posttraumatic growth was...

In Spanish families, parent-child relationships play a crucial role, but they also present specific risks for the children’s transition to adulthood which may hinder their individuation and foster the creation of dysfunctional family patterns in their family of origin. In Spain there is a lack of instruments to assess parent-child relationships in...

Resumen Este estudio evalúa la eficacia de la Psicoterapia Psicoanalítica Focal y Breve (PPFB) en 46 mujeres maltratadas por su pareja atendidas en la Unitat d'Atenció Especialitzada per a Dones Maltractades (UNADOM) de la Fundació Vidal i Barraquer de Barcelona, a través del Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCMI-II). La UNADOM es un servic...

A partir de un grupo psicoterapéutico de familiares de personas con trastorno mental severo se expone, a través del análisis y observación grupal, las dinámicas grupales y aspectos técnicos de este tipo de grupos. También, y desde las necesidades de las familias en el grupo, se reflexiona acerca del papel de las familias en el proceso terapéutico y...

Els autors, un grup de professors que imparteix docència a 3r curs de la Llicenciatura en Psicologia, reflexionen sobre el procés d’ensenyament-aprenentatge i les competències a assolir pels estudiants dins el marc de l’Espai Europeu d’Educació Superior. Considerant la rellevància de l’avaluació psicològica i de l’entrevista com a eina fonamental p...

The aim of this work was the psychometric study of six scales designed to assess the familial relationships of young adult children of separated parents. The analyzed constructs are interparental conflict, loyalty conflict, coalition, parentification, children's perceptions of the parent–child relationships, and young adult perception of the separa...

BSSQ (brace).es (The Spanish validated version).

As a result of scientific and medical professionals gaining interest in Stress and Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL), the aim of our research is, thus, to validate into Spanish the German questionnaire Bad Sobernheim Stress Questionnaire (BSSQ) (mit Korsett), for adolescents wearing braces. The methodology used adheres to literature on trans-cu...

La violenza di coppia nella collusione ossessiva, di Carles Perez Testor Presenteremo varie situazione di aggressione e violenza partendo da alcune vignette cliniche estratte da sedute di psicoterapia psicoanalitica di coppia. Partendo da queste situazioni, esploreremo il tipo di collusione predominante (Dicks, 1967), che si declina nell'identifica...

Schools play a key role in transmitting attitudes towards sexual diversity. Many studies stress the importance of teachers' and other professionals' attitudes towards gay men and/or lesbian women. This study evaluates attitudes and prejudices toward homosexuality in a sample of 254 elementary and high school teachers in Barcelona and its surroundin...

The main theoretical and technical contributions in the realm of couples psychotherapy are surveyed, as is the empirical evidence on the efficacy and effectiveness of this treatment. From the theoretical perspective, this study focuses on the modalities of couples psychotherapy that primarily draw from the school of object relations in its British...

La definición de familia con la que trabajamos es: "La familia es el grupo donde se nace y donde se asumen las necesidades fundamentales del niño. Es un grupo en el cual los miembros se cohesionan, se quieren, se vinculan y así se ayudan recíprocamente a crecer vitalmente, a vivir como personas en todas sus dimensiones: cognitiva, afectiva, relacio...

Personality patterns, psychopathological symptomatology, dyadic relationship adjustment, and the characteristics of abuse suffered by a sample of women who attended residential services for battered women in Barcelona (Spain) are evaluated in this study. Over half the women had suffered psychological, physical, and sexual abuse on the part of her p...

El divorcio o la separación de una pareja es una ruptura vincular y desde la perspectiva psicoanalítica puede considerarse como un proceso de duelo. En este artículo pretendemos explicar cómo puede organizarse un proceso de duelo normal y otro patológico en una situación de ruptura conyugal así cómo describir el impacto emocional que puede producir...

This paper, based on three cases, explores the psychologic features of Behcet's disease. Having revised literature on the subject and having studied the psycopathology connected to the above-mentioned disease, we conclude that the psychiatric alterations which appeared in these patients were not specific but were rather secondary to the chronicity...

Resum A Espanya i, especialment a Catalunya, la primera dècada del segle xxi ha estat marcada per un increment excepcional de les adopcions internacio-nals, configurant així un nou model de famílies i una nova realitat social. Des de la perspectiva de salut mental, s'inicia ara una etapa postadoptiva molt necessitada d'investigacions teòriques i em...