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Chair: Kerry John Kennedy, Hong Kong, China
1090.1 The dynamics of Identity Traumas: Suicide and suicide terror, Ibrahim Kira, ACCESS
Community Mental Health and Research Center, USA
There are four kinds of identity trauma: Physical, personal, interpersonal and collective identity
traumas. Mental life is regulated in accordance with appraisals of safety and danger associated
with the pursuit of various developmental goals, and not only of threat to physical survival. While
physical traumas can prime mortality salience and activate death fears. Traumas that threaten the
individual’s personal and collective identity can cause two kinds of annihilation anxiety:
self-annihilation and group annihilation fears. Self-annihilation fears deactivate mortality salience
causing suicidal tendencies, or psychotic symptoms to surface. Suicide can be seen in this case as
an attempt to provent.
1090.2 Reflections about psychotherapy in Latin America, Osvaldo Jose Filidoro 1 , Luciana
Marisa Louro 2 , 1 Universidad del Salvador, Argentina; 2 Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
The use of Psychotherapeutic resources must be the response to the needs as the multiple services
arise. Furthermore, a strict supervising System can be required so as to guarantee an efficient
therapy. It becomes necessary to recognize that in Psychotherapy our subject matter can be
analyzed in an indirect way. We need to tend to a new view in the analysis of the scientific theory
supporting the Empirics as a group of conjectures about the way that a sector of the reality
behaves. We must also be adjusted to a juridical frame of reference.
1090.3 Political socialization of Irainian schoolchildren, Rahmatollah Marzooghi, Shiraz
University, Iran
The present research investigated the political socialization of Iranian school children.Based on
the devine/humanly legitimacy theory of government and the general orientation of Irainian
educational system,The model of the desired poltical socialization curriculum in the dimensions of
orientation, principles, objectives, contents, teaching/learning methods and evaluation was
designed. The findings showed some congrunencies between the desired model and the existing
situation. But the general conclusions of the research indicates that there is no a coherent and
systematic planning about political socialization in Iran s general education system. In this respect,
some guidelines are suggested.
1090.4 The new “Gender Gap”: Issues for Australian adolescents’ political socialization, Kerry
John Kennedy, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, China
This paper will report on the Australian component of the IEA Education Civic Study. Three
thousand fourteen year old students were tested on political knowledge and surveyed on political
issues. The partial credit model was used for data analysis enabling a fine grained measure of
latent traits. Significant gender differences (p