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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,195 Views
25 Pages

Chatbots and Empowerment in Gender-Based Violence: Mixed Methods Analysis of Psychological and Legal Assistance

  • Miluska Odely Rodriguez Saavedra,
  • Erick Alexander Donayre Prado,
  • Adolfo Erick Donayre Sarolli,
  • Paola Gabriela Lujan Tito,
  • Jose Antonio Escobedo Pajuelo,
  • Ricardo Enrique Grundy Lopez,
  • Orlando Aroquipa Apaza,
  • María Elena Alegre Chalco,
  • Wilian Quispe Nina and
  • Ruben Washington Arguedas Catasi
  • + 2 authors

21 October 2025

The research explores how artificial intelligence-based chatbots transform psychological and legal assistance in situations of gender-based violence, evaluating their effect on women’s digital empowerment. A cross-sectional design with a mixed...

(This article belongs to the Section Gender Studies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,959 Views
13 Pages

Why Motive Matters: The Appraisal of Criminal Aims

  • Keelah E. G. Williams,
  • Ashley M. Votruba and
  • Ross S. Eagle

12 September 2025

In a strict legal sense, motive is often irrelevant in U.S. criminal law. Whether one smothered their grandmother with a pillow to ease her pain or to fraudulently collect her social security benefits, they are legally guilty of murder all the same....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Cognitive Processes in Legal Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
877 Views
14 Pages

13 November 2025

This research examines how perceived social support shapes the legal motivation of Chinese university students by unraveling the underlying psychological pathways. Integrating the relational legal socialization framework with self-determination theor...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,504 Views
5 Pages

Behind the Behaviour: Supporting Young Offenders Through Forensic Psychology

  • Iris Almeida,
  • Ana Francisca Matos,
  • Diana Pais and
  • Carolina Nobre

3 September 2025

This study highlights the role of forensic psychology in supporting juvenile offenders within the Portuguese Justice System. Forensic psychologists ensure that legal proceedings are developmentally appropriate and psychologically informed, helping mi...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of

7th CiiEM International Congress 2025—Empowering One Health to Reduce Social Vulnerabilities

)
  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,197 Views
16 Pages

Biological, Psychological, Social, and Legal Aspects of Trans Parenthood Based on a Real Case—A Literature Review

  • Maria-Elisa de-Castro-Peraza,
  • Jesús Manuel García-Acosta,
  • Naira Delgado-Rodriguez,
  • Maria Inmaculada Sosa-Alvarez,
  • Rosa Llabrés-Solé,
  • Carla Cardona-Llabrés and
  • Nieves Doria Lorenzo-Rocha

Trans men are people who, based on their genitals, were assigned the status of female at birth. However, their identity and their way of living gender do not correspond to the socially established norms. In this paper, we discuss the different perspe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,744 Views
25 Pages

Developing Small-Cargo Flows in Cities Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Aldona Jarašūnienė,
  • Margarita Išoraitė and
  • Artūras Petraška

Modern technology allows for the simplification of a number of functions in industry and business. Many companies have achieved a high level of robotisation and automation in the use of services, including companies operating in the transport sector,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,535 Views
14 Pages

Australian Health Professionals’ Attitudes toward Voluntary Assisted Dying: A Cross-Sectional Survey

  • Moira O’Connor,
  • Charlene Martin,
  • Lindy Willmott,
  • Darren Haywood,
  • Blake J. Lawrence and
  • Lauren J. Breen

7 November 2021

Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) is when a terminally ill person with decision-making capacity consensually ends their life with assistance from an authorised professional. Many countries have legalised VAD, and health professionals’ roles within VAD f...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Policy and Welfare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,733 Views
12 Pages

Euthanasia in Mental Disorders: Clinical and Ethical Issues in the Cases of Two Women Suffering from Depression

  • Giuseppe Bersani,
  • Angela Iannitelli,
  • Pascual Pimpinella,
  • Francesco Sessa,
  • Monica Salerno,
  • Mario Chisari and
  • Raffaella Rinaldi

16 August 2025

Background/Objectives: The extension of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide to individuals with mental disorders presents a profound ethical, clinical, and legal challenge. While increasingly accepted in some jurisdictions, their application in...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1,447 Views
11 Pages

Time of Care and Time of Dying: A Multidisciplinary Case Report on End-of-Life Experience Within the Italian Legal Framework

  • Letizia Iannopollo,
  • Eleonora Pinto,
  • Pamela Iannizzi,
  • Flavia Salmaso and
  • Alessandra Feltrin

29 October 2025

In this segment of the Palliative Care Unit case series, we introduce a patient with a long history of oncological treatments for recurrent breast cancer. After active treatments and a global control of the neoplasm, disease progression made the pati...

  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,198 Views
12 Pages

29 November 2021

Care robots represent an opportunity for the health domain. The use of these robots has important implications. They can be used in surgery, rehabilitation, assistance, therapy, and other medical fields. Therefore, care robots (CR)s, have both import...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rehabilitation and Robotics: Are They Working Well Together?)
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,870 Views
11 Pages

Psilocybin for Depression: From Credibility to Feasibility, What’s Missing?

  • Antonio Munafò,
  • Davide Arillotta,
  • Guido Mannaioni,
  • Fabrizio Schifano,
  • Renato Bernardini and
  • Giuseppina Cantarella

31 December 2022

Psilocybin has been suggested as a promising transdiagnostic treatment strategy for a wide range of psychiatric disorders. Recent findings showed that psychedelic-assisted/”psycholitic” psychotherapy should provide significant and sustain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Psychoactive Substances: Pharmacology and Toxicology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,989 Views
21 Pages

8 February 2025

This paper aims to identify the barriers to accessing social services for persons with disabilities among Ukrainian refugees and to examine how stakeholders can reach them through communication channels. The article analyzes the challenges faced by d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health and Migration Challenges for Forced Migrants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
12,917 Views
22 Pages

6 April 2025

This study examines the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in judicial decision-making, focusing on bail and sentencing contexts. We examined public perceptions of judges who use AI tools compared to those who rely solely on expertise. Using an exp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Cognitive Processes in Legal Decision Making)
  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,154 Views
11 Pages

The use of physical restraints is a common practice in the care of hospitalised and institutionalised elderly people. This use is determined by factors related to the patients, their families, the healthcare professionals, the institution, and prevai...

(This article belongs to the Section Aging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,577 Views
19 Pages

Work-Related Psychosocial Demands and Resources in General Practice Teams in Germany. A Team-Based Ethnography

  • Elena Tsarouha,
  • Christine Preiser,
  • Birgitta Weltermann,
  • Florian Junne,
  • Tanja Seifried-Dübon,
  • Felicitas Stuber,
  • Sigrid Hartmann,
  • Andrea Wittich,
  • Monika A. Rieger and
  • Esther Rind

General practices are established microenterprises in Germany providing a variety of preventive and therapeutic health care services and procedures in a challenging working environment. For example, general practice teams are confronted increasingly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Determinants of Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,811 Views
11 Pages

Second Victims among German Emergency Medical Services Physicians (SeViD-III-Study)

  • Hartwig Marung,
  • Reinhard Strametz,
  • Hannah Roesner,
  • Florian Reifferscheid,
  • Rainer Petzina,
  • Victoria Klemm,
  • Milena Trifunovic-Koenig and
  • Stefan Bushuven

Background: Patient care in the prehospital emergency setting is error-prone. Wu’s publications on the second victim syndrome made very clear that medical errors may lead to severe emotional injury on the caregiver’s part. So far, little...