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    APUNTES SOBRE LAS NOCIONES DE SALUD Y SALUD MENTAL
    (2016) Laura Trujillo Tapia
    Both conceptions of health - illness as mental health-mental illness are held in three approaches, which in turn generate different levels of anal- ysis. In this present work, we review these approaches and from them we re- flect the need to take into account a perspective which allows as under- stand and explain, in a deeper way, the reality about health and mental health, to avoid superficial or fragmentary analyzes that may contribute to the reproduction of misconceptions that restrict the possibilities of social change.
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    “My Partner Will Change”: Cognitive Distortion in Battered Women in Bolivia
    (SAGE Publishing, 2015) Eva Heim; Laura Trujillo Tapia; Ruth Quintanilla Gonzáles
    This study examines the role of cognitive distortion in women's decision to stay with or leave their violent partner in a sample of Bolivian women. Our study is based on a consistency model: Cognitive distortion is assumed to play an important role in maintaining cognitive consistency under threatening conditions. Eighty victims of partner violence aged 18 to 62 years who sought help in a legal institution were longitudinally assessed three times over a time period of 6 months. Measures were taken from previous studies and culturally adapted through qualitative interviews. Nearly half of the participants decreased their intention to leave the violent partner in the time span of 1 month between the first and second interview. Women who had decreased their leaving intention had concurrently increased their cognitive distortion: They blamed their partner less, were more convinced that they could stop the violence themselves, and were more likely to believe that their partner would change. Cognitive distortion was not observed among women who remained stable in their intention to leave. Women whose intention of leaving decreased and who displayed more cognitive distortion after 1 month were more likely to live with the violent partner 6 months later than women whose leaving intention remained stable or increased. Socio-demographic variables were not related to cognitive distortion or stay-leave decisions in this study. We conclude that cognitive distortion plays a role for women's decision to stay, enhancing their risk of re-victimization.