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 surrounding area. The results obtained using a scale of overt and subtle prejudice and a scale of perceived discrepancy of values indicate that discrepancy between likely behavior and personal values was significantly greater in women, those who hold religious beliefs, churchgoers and people without any gay or lesbian acquaintances. Approximately 88% of the teachers showed no type of prejudiced attitudes towards gay men and lesbian women. The experience of proximity to gay men and/or lesbian women reduces not only the discrepancy between personal values and likely behavior but also the presence of homophobic prejudice. It would be advisable to expand specific teacher training in the subject of sexual diversity in order to reduce prejudicial attitudes, thus fostering non-stereotyped knowledge of homosexuality.Keywords: attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women, subtle prejudice, overt prejudice, homophobia, teachers.La escuela juega un rol clave en la transmisión de actitudes hacia la diversidad sexual. Muchos estudios subrayan la importancia de las actitudes de los profesores y de otros profesionales hacia hombres gay y/o mujeres lesbianas. Este estudio evalúa actitudes y prejuicios hacia la homosexualidad en una muestra de 254 profesores de escuelas de primaria y secundaria de Barcelona y su zona metropolitana. Los resultados obtenidos al aplicar una escala de prejuicio manifiesto y sutil, y una escala de discrepancia percibida de valores, indican que la discrepancia entre la conducta probable y los valores personales son significativamente mayores en mujeres, aquellos que tienen creencias religiosas, los que practican la religión y las personas que no conocen a gays o lesbianas. Aproximadamente el 88% de los profesores no mostraron ningún tipo de actitudes prejuiciosas hacia los gays y lesbianas. La experiencia de proximidad a hombres gay y/o mujeres lesbianas no sólo reduce la discrepancia entre los valores personales y la conducta probable sino también la presencia de prejuicio homófobo. Sería recomendable ampliar la formación específica del profesorado en el tema de la diversidad sexual para reducir actitudes prejuiciosas, fomentando así un conocimiento de la homosexualidad no estereotipado.

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The Adoption Communication Scale (ACS) is a 28-item childreport 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 internal consistency (α = .93) and moderately high testretest stability (.68). An exploratory factorial analysis yielded two factors, the first loaded on satisfaction with emotional communication items and the second encompassing satisfaction with the completeness of the information offered by the parents. These factors are coherent with the theory underlying the scale. The total ACS-S score was significantly positively correlated with adolescent Global Satisfaction with Openness as measured by a Visual Analogue Scale. The ACS-S scale appears to be a valid tool in assessing communication openness in Spanish adopted adolescents.

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« Ni avec toi, Ni avec toi ni sans toi mes maux n’ont de remède : avec toi parce que tu me tues, sans toi parce que je meurs. » En partant d’une vignette clinique on traite le sentiment de haine dans les relations de couple. La haine n’est pas le contraire de l’amour. L’amour et la haine coexistent dans la plupart des couples. Dans la collusion obsessionnelle, les membres du couple ne tolèrent pas de vivre ensemble mais ils ne peuvent pas être séparés, parce que cette collusion se base sur le contrôle mutuel, la provocation ambivalente et la dépendance inséparable. Dans beaucoup d’autres situations et d’autres types de collusion, les couples peuvent métaboliser la haine et réparer la souffrance causée, mais, pour le clinicien, le fait de détecter si la collusion qui prédomine est de type obsessionnel lui permet de comprendre pourquoi ces couples montrent autant de difficultés à introduire des changements dans leur relation, en perpétuant le fonctionnement destructif et en transmettant transgénérationnellement un type de relation pathologique.