Javier Saavedra Macias
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 887666 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Javier Saavedra Macias |
| PRENOMES | Javier Saavedra |
| SOBRENOME | Macias |
| ASSINATURA | MACIAS J S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universidad de Sevilla |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2328-7708 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Caring in the Diaspora
Care operates at the intersection of intimacy and structure, becoming a key lens through which to understand how migration reshapes gendered lives. This article explores how African migrant women living in Southern Spain negotiate caregiving practices across migration, focusing on the reconfiguration of care responsibilities, support networks, and gender relations in their everyday lives. The study adopts an intersectional feminist perspective to…
Academic writing groups for publication
Impact of philosophical workshops on the prison population
Background Prison creates philosophical needs due to the exceptionality of the situation. This study explores how philosophy can meet these needs by focusing on three aspects: critical thinking, personal relationships and the government of passions. It builds on similar interventions in several countries and is proposed as a research that bypasses some limitations of previous projects in prisons.Method Following the participation of 81 inmates in…
What Do We Do Now?”
Professionals’ public stigma toward intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) survivors represents a significant barrier to the recovery from violence. The aim was to analyze the actions that professionals working in various sectors involved in integrated care consider relevant to preventing professionals’ stigma. Semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with 25 professionals working in Spain. A thematic analysis was employed. The …
Am I the only one who will Spread the Virus
Previous studies have suggested that COVID-19 led to an increase in stigma towards the Asian population with a negative impact on their health. This study aims to explore this phenomenon and its impact on health through the qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with 26 people of Asian origin living in Spain from September 2020 to September 2021. Among the results, it was found that, prior to the pandemic, discrimination was…
Perceived Detention Environment and Mental Health of Detainees in Immigration Detention Centers in Spain
The increase in migratory flows worldwide has led to the creation of detention centers as a form of control of irregular migration. Recipient countries are responsible for protecting detainees' right to mental health, but the literature suggests that immigration detention centers are environments associated with complex mental health needs among the detainees. This study aims to approach the mental health of people detained in the immigration det…
Understanding Social Workers and Health Professionals’ Public Stigma against Women who Experience Intimate Partner Violence in Spain
Purpose Social workers and health professionals play a relevant role in the detection and intervention of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW). However, these professionals may exert public stigma against IPVAW survivors, which prevents disclosure, help seeking and affects women’s health. There are no comprehensive models that explain stigma functioning in Spain. Our aim was to explore the functioning of such stigma that may be exercis…
Mother alone
The aim of this study was to analyze identity construction regarding caregiving amongst Senegalese women in diaspora, and to identify what challenges and negotiations they face in their caregiving practices. We conducted semistructured interviews with seven women of Senegalese origin who live in Andalusia, southern Spain. We conducted voice and I-position analysis, which highlighted power inequalities and was sensitive to the dynamic and dialogic…
Caring through the Lens of African Feminisms
This study presents a systematic review of the research into care practices by African authors with a feminist perspective. The research question has been developed through the strategy known as PICo: participants, phenomenon of interest and context. In our case, these are women, feminism and care practices, and sub-Saharan Africa respectively. After the process of filtering 102 selected articles, twenty studies met the inclusion criteria. They w…
Social Positioning Analysis as a Qualitative Methodology to Study Identity Construction in People Diagnosed With Severe Mental Illnesses
Severe mental illnesses (SMI) in general, and schizophrenia in particular, have been characterized as alterations of the experience of self and identity. When first diagnosed with SMI, the subjective experiences and specific narrative challenges faced by this population are particularly important. Therefore, qualitative approaches which allow to analyze these subjective experiences should be developed. This article presents in detail a specific m…
Designing and assessing of an art-based intervention for undocumented migrants
The study suggests that the art-based intervention decreased depressive symptoms and stress, redirecting the narratives of the participants towards the future and increasing the sense of community
Remembering the medical practices
People from different labor contexts and practices often narrate diverse memories about their past professional experiences. By analyzing professional memories, we can increase our understanding of how health professionals are able to integrate the diverse problems, which they may encounter within their profession. We have focused on the analyses of the most negative memories of a particular group of doctors related to their work experience. Afte…
Art and intellectual disability
The present work offers an exploratory evaluation of the possible benefits of the diARTE programme. This programme was applied to a group of adults with mild intellectual disability (ID) and/or learning disorders from a pre-working centre in Seville (Spain). The intervention was characterized by the use of different artistic disciplines in order to improve their social skills. It was applied in eight sessions, each of them two hours long, for two…
Impact of creative workshops for people with severe mental health problems
Background: In line with recovery theories, psychosocial programmes for people diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) should focus more on well-being and social connectivity outcomes rather than clinical symptoms. This paper assesses the impact of creative workshops participation on the psychological well-being, social connectivity and subjective experience of people diagnosed with SMI.Method: After participating in a creative workshop in a m…
La recuperación mutua en personas con trastornos psicológicos o diversidad funcional a través de la práctica creativa
In this paper we introduce the concept of “mutual recovery” and we propose creative practices as efficient recovery tools people with both mental health problems as some sort of functional diversity. Compared with the traditional concept of “art therapy” we propose the concept of “creative practice” as more consistent with the model of “mutual recovery.” To do this, we first make a brief critical review of the relationship between art and madness…
La competencia cultural como dimensión de identidad profesional. Un estudio cualitativo en sanitarios y maestros
Las competencias culturales (CC) son habilidades profesionales esenciales en comunidades diversas, especialmente en el ámbito educativo y sanitario. Diversos programas de formación en CC han mostrado resultados variados. En este artículo se defiende que las CC deben integrarse en la identidad profesional para que sean eficaces. Analizamos las distintas formas de integración de las CC en seis profesionales de un barrio multicultural mediante una t…
El cuidado
Cuidar a un familiar dependiente es una actividad cada vez más necesaria debido al aumento de la esperanza de vida, pero a la vez más conflictiva y dependiente de las características legislativas y cambios sociales ocurridos en cada país, como la incorporación de la mujer al mercado laboral. Las cuidadoras familiares constituyen una población especialmente vulnerable cuya salud física y psicológica está en riesgo y que requiere de especial atenci…
Does Employment Promote Recovery? Meanings from Work Experience in People Diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness
Cognitive and Social Functioning Correlates of Employment Among People with Severe Mental Illness
Function and meaning in religious delusions
Religious delusion complexes (RDC) are phenomena sometimes experienced by people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The prevalence of this type of delusion varies according to area, culture and religious practice. Religious delusions have been associated to worse responses to treatment and worsening psychopathological conditions. However, religious beliefs and practices have also been described as factors of protection. Religious delusions are multidi…
Universidad y cambio social en tiempos de crisis
This paper describes and analyzes a university teaching practice in the street by adapting the content of some subjects to social problems caused by the economic crisis. A focus group with students and an open question to people involved in teaching in the street were carried out. Students’ perspective on the practice and the University’s potential to achieve social change and contributing to the start of the crisis were discussed. The teaching p…
Everyday Life, Culture, and Recovery
The Other Self
Cómo encontrar un lugar en el mundo
Se realiza una revisión histórica, conceptual y cultural del concepto de recuperación en el contexto de la salud mental. Se revisan y discuten los resultados de los trabajos realizados en la última década sobre experiencias subjetivas de personas con trastornos mentales graves en proceso de recuperación y se analizan las diferencias entre los conceptos de rehabilitación, integración y recuperación. Tras una introducción histórica, la descripción …
Schizophrenia, Narrative and Change
Incomprehensibility in the Narratives of Individuals With a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
The fact that individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have difficulties in terms of ordering and communicating their life stories is well known, and undoubtedly these dysfunctions are linked to the experience of alienation and isolation. In this article we contribute to the debate by studying life narratives of ten patients with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia living in care homes in Andalusia, Spain. Patients were selected through me…
Everyday Life, Culture, and Recovery
Does Employment Promote Recovery? Meanings from Work Experience in People Diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness
Understanding Social Workers and Health Professionals’ Public Stigma against Women who Experience Intimate Partner Violence in Spain
Purpose Social workers and health professionals play a relevant role in the detection and intervention of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW). However, these professionals may exert public stigma against IPVAW survivors, which prevents disclosure, help seeking and affects women’s health. There are no comprehensive models that explain stigma functioning in Spain. Our aim was to explore the functioning of such stigma that may be exercis…
Cómo encontrar un lugar en el mundo
Se realiza una revisión histórica, conceptual y cultural del concepto de recuperación en el contexto de la salud mental. Se revisan y discuten los resultados de los trabajos realizados en la última década sobre experiencias subjetivas de personas con trastornos mentales graves en proceso de recuperación y se analizan las diferencias entre los conceptos de rehabilitación, integración y recuperación. Tras una introducción histórica, la descripción …
Mother alone
The aim of this study was to analyze identity construction regarding caregiving amongst Senegalese women in diaspora, and to identify what challenges and negotiations they face in their caregiving practices. We conducted semistructured interviews with seven women of Senegalese origin who live in Andalusia, southern Spain. We conducted voice and I-position analysis, which highlighted power inequalities and was sensitive to the dynamic and dialogic…
Impact of creative workshops for people with severe mental health problems
Background: In line with recovery theories, psychosocial programmes for people diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) should focus more on well-being and social connectivity outcomes rather than clinical symptoms. This paper assesses the impact of creative workshops participation on the psychological well-being, social connectivity and subjective experience of people diagnosed with SMI.Method: After participating in a creative workshop in a m…
Cognitive and Social Functioning Correlates of Employment Among People with Severe Mental Illness
Designing and assessing of an art-based intervention for undocumented migrants
The study suggests that the art-based intervention decreased depressive symptoms and stress, redirecting the narratives of the participants towards the future and increasing the sense of community
Remembering the medical practices
People from different labor contexts and practices often narrate diverse memories about their past professional experiences. By analyzing professional memories, we can increase our understanding of how health professionals are able to integrate the diverse problems, which they may encounter within their profession. We have focused on the analyses of the most negative memories of a particular group of doctors related to their work experience. Afte…
Schizophrenia, Narrative and Change
Incomprehensibility in the Narratives of Individuals With a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
The fact that individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have difficulties in terms of ordering and communicating their life stories is well known, and undoubtedly these dysfunctions are linked to the experience of alienation and isolation. In this article we contribute to the debate by studying life narratives of ten patients with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia living in care homes in Andalusia, Spain. Patients were selected through me…
The Other Self
Cómo encontrar un lugar en el mundo
Se realiza una revisión histórica, conceptual y cultural del concepto de recuperación en el contexto de la salud mental. Se revisan y discuten los resultados de los trabajos realizados en la última década sobre experiencias subjetivas de personas con trastornos mentales graves en proceso de recuperación y se analizan las diferencias entre los conceptos de rehabilitación, integración y recuperación. Tras una introducción histórica, la descripción …
Everyday Life, Culture, and Recovery
Universidad y cambio social en tiempos de crisis
This paper describes and analyzes a university teaching practice in the street by adapting the content of some subjects to social problems caused by the economic crisis. A focus group with students and an open question to people involved in teaching in the street were carried out. Students’ perspective on the practice and the University’s potential to achieve social change and contributing to the start of the crisis were discussed. The teaching p…
Function and meaning in religious delusions
Religious delusion complexes (RDC) are phenomena sometimes experienced by people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The prevalence of this type of delusion varies according to area, culture and religious practice. Religious delusions have been associated to worse responses to treatment and worsening psychopathological conditions. However, religious beliefs and practices have also been described as factors of protection. Religious delusions are multidi…
Cognitive and Social Functioning Correlates of Employment Among People with Severe Mental Illness
La recuperación mutua en personas con trastornos psicológicos o diversidad funcional a través de la práctica creativa
In this paper we introduce the concept of “mutual recovery” and we propose creative practices as efficient recovery tools people with both mental health problems as some sort of functional diversity. Compared with the traditional concept of “art therapy” we propose the concept of “creative practice” as more consistent with the model of “mutual recovery.” To do this, we first make a brief critical review of the relationship between art and madness…
La competencia cultural como dimensión de identidad profesional. Un estudio cualitativo en sanitarios y maestros
Las competencias culturales (CC) son habilidades profesionales esenciales en comunidades diversas, especialmente en el ámbito educativo y sanitario. Diversos programas de formación en CC han mostrado resultados variados. En este artículo se defiende que las CC deben integrarse en la identidad profesional para que sean eficaces. Analizamos las distintas formas de integración de las CC en seis profesionales de un barrio multicultural mediante una t…
El cuidado
Cuidar a un familiar dependiente es una actividad cada vez más necesaria debido al aumento de la esperanza de vida, pero a la vez más conflictiva y dependiente de las características legislativas y cambios sociales ocurridos en cada país, como la incorporación de la mujer al mercado laboral. Las cuidadoras familiares constituyen una población especialmente vulnerable cuya salud física y psicológica está en riesgo y que requiere de especial atenci…
Does Employment Promote Recovery? Meanings from Work Experience in People Diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness
Art and intellectual disability
The present work offers an exploratory evaluation of the possible benefits of the diARTE programme. This programme was applied to a group of adults with mild intellectual disability (ID) and/or learning disorders from a pre-working centre in Seville (Spain). The intervention was characterized by the use of different artistic disciplines in order to improve their social skills. It was applied in eight sessions, each of them two hours long, for two…
Impact of creative workshops for people with severe mental health problems
Background: In line with recovery theories, psychosocial programmes for people diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) should focus more on well-being and social connectivity outcomes rather than clinical symptoms. This paper assesses the impact of creative workshops participation on the psychological well-being, social connectivity and subjective experience of people diagnosed with SMI.Method: After participating in a creative workshop in a m…
Remembering the medical practices
People from different labor contexts and practices often narrate diverse memories about their past professional experiences. By analyzing professional memories, we can increase our understanding of how health professionals are able to integrate the diverse problems, which they may encounter within their profession. We have focused on the analyses of the most negative memories of a particular group of doctors related to their work experience. Afte…
Designing and assessing of an art-based intervention for undocumented migrants
The study suggests that the art-based intervention decreased depressive symptoms and stress, redirecting the narratives of the participants towards the future and increasing the sense of community
Caring through the Lens of African Feminisms
This study presents a systematic review of the research into care practices by African authors with a feminist perspective. The research question has been developed through the strategy known as PICo: participants, phenomenon of interest and context. In our case, these are women, feminism and care practices, and sub-Saharan Africa respectively. After the process of filtering 102 selected articles, twenty studies met the inclusion criteria. They w…
Social Positioning Analysis as a Qualitative Methodology to Study Identity Construction in People Diagnosed With Severe Mental Illnesses
Severe mental illnesses (SMI) in general, and schizophrenia in particular, have been characterized as alterations of the experience of self and identity. When first diagnosed with SMI, the subjective experiences and specific narrative challenges faced by this population are particularly important. Therefore, qualitative approaches which allow to analyze these subjective experiences should be developed. This article presents in detail a specific m…
Mother alone
The aim of this study was to analyze identity construction regarding caregiving amongst Senegalese women in diaspora, and to identify what challenges and negotiations they face in their caregiving practices. We conducted semistructured interviews with seven women of Senegalese origin who live in Andalusia, southern Spain. We conducted voice and I-position analysis, which highlighted power inequalities and was sensitive to the dynamic and dialogic…
Understanding Social Workers and Health Professionals’ Public Stigma against Women who Experience Intimate Partner Violence in Spain
Purpose Social workers and health professionals play a relevant role in the detection and intervention of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW). However, these professionals may exert public stigma against IPVAW survivors, which prevents disclosure, help seeking and affects women’s health. There are no comprehensive models that explain stigma functioning in Spain. Our aim was to explore the functioning of such stigma that may be exercis…
Academic writing groups for publication
Impact of philosophical workshops on the prison population
Background Prison creates philosophical needs due to the exceptionality of the situation. This study explores how philosophy can meet these needs by focusing on three aspects: critical thinking, personal relationships and the government of passions. It builds on similar interventions in several countries and is proposed as a research that bypasses some limitations of previous projects in prisons.Method Following the participation of 81 inmates in…
What Do We Do Now?”
Professionals’ public stigma toward intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) survivors represents a significant barrier to the recovery from violence. The aim was to analyze the actions that professionals working in various sectors involved in integrated care consider relevant to preventing professionals’ stigma. Semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with 25 professionals working in Spain. A thematic analysis was employed. The …
Am I the only one who will Spread the Virus
Previous studies have suggested that COVID-19 led to an increase in stigma towards the Asian population with a negative impact on their health. This study aims to explore this phenomenon and its impact on health through the qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with 26 people of Asian origin living in Spain from September 2020 to September 2021. Among the results, it was found that, prior to the pandemic, discrimination was…
Perceived Detention Environment and Mental Health of Detainees in Immigration Detention Centers in Spain
The increase in migratory flows worldwide has led to the creation of detention centers as a form of control of irregular migration. Recipient countries are responsible for protecting detainees' right to mental health, but the literature suggests that immigration detention centers are environments associated with complex mental health needs among the detainees. This study aims to approach the mental health of people detained in the immigration det…
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