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Abstract. This study evaluates the utility of Muñoz's Mood Screener for detection of major depressive episodes in a nonclinical Spanish population. The Mood Screener was administered by face-to-face interview to 554 subjects (65.9% women; age 18-34 years) who were recruited by stratified random sampling from a population of 27,587 university students. Thereafter, two expert clinicians who were blind to the Mood Screener results independently administered a clinical interview (SCID-CV) as an aid in evaluating the subjects for the same disorder. κ for agreement between the clinicians' consensus diagnosis and the Mood Screener was 0.758, and with the clinicians' diagnosis as reference the Mood Screener had a sensitivity of 0.969, a specificity of 0.967, positive and negative predictive values of 0.646 and 0.998, respectively, and positive and negative likelihood ratios of 29.75 and 0.032, respectively. These results support the interviewer-administered Mood Screener as a valid instrument for screening for major depressive episodes in the target population.

A 12-session Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment (CBT) protocol for depression developed at San Francisco General Hospital was pilot tested with Latinas in New York City. Viability of the protocol and indication of treatment efficacy was sought as a rationale for more controlled investigation of the intervention on Latino urban populations in the Northeast. The pre-and post-treatment BDI scores for all five participants declined an average of 12 points (95% CI: [3, 21], p < 0.01). Given the lack of control group and small sample size, these findings must be interpreted with caution. Nevertheless, the significant before-after improvement is consistent with previous findings regarding this protocol, and the potential effectiveness of this particular treatment among this population warrants more rigorous examination. Furthermore, the feasibility of social workers evaluating the impact of their interventions is demonstrated.

Hace ya casi treinta años que ha comenzado el denominado giro afectivo en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales y con él han aparecido los primeros trabajos que profundizan en la importancia de la inclusión del componente emocional para el análisis del comportamiento, y en el caso que nos ocupa del comportamiento político. Partiendo de una revisión de estas aportaciones desde los años noventa del siglo xx en adelante, este trabajo pretende aportar evidencia empírica respecto de la importancia de la consideración de las emociones expresadas hacia los partidos políticos y los líderes a través de una visión basada en tres dimensiones de la emoción: presencia, intensidad y persistencia. Para llevar a cabo el análisis se utilizarán dos estudios demoscópicos propios realizados tras las elecciones generales de 2016 y 2019 en España.