Vulnerability Theory Research Articles

Attending to Emotional Faces: Interpersonal Connections and Depression History

Although cognitive and interpersonal theories of depression vulnerability have long implicated selective attention, rumination, and ineffective interpersonal behavior (e.g., Beck, 1976; Coyne, 1976), relationships among these factors are still poorly understood. The present cross-sectional study examined such relationships in formerly depressed and never depressed participants presumably at increased or decreased risk for depression, respectively. Participants completed a dot-probe task assessing attention toward sad, happy, and neutral facial expressions, as well as measures of reassurance-seeking, negative feedback-seeking, fear of negative evaluation, interpersonal competence, and rumination. Regression models examined associations between these factors and attention allocation. Between-group differences in attention allocation were not found, but regression model factors accounted for significant variance in attention in the full sample and in the formerly depressed subsample. In particular, attention to sad faces correlated with negative feedback-seeking, depressive symptoms, and interpersonal competence. Attention to happy faces correlated negatively with rumination. Although these data cannot speak to cause or directionality, they implicate theory-consistent connections between directing attention toward facial emotion and patterns of behavior and thought relevant to interpersonal functioning and feedback about the self. These findings may facilitate increased understanding of relations between interpersonal behaviors related to depression and patterns of attention allocation.

Meaning in Life as a Protective Factor for the Emergence of Suicide Ideation That Leads to Suicide Attempts Among Military Personnel and Veterans With Elevated PTSD and Depression

The current study examines the fluid vulnerability theory (FVT) to determine how the presence of meaning in life explains the emergence of suicide ideation and the transition from suicide ideation to attempts among military personnel and veterans with elevated symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. We used path analysis to determine if the presence of meaning in life and the search for life meaning mediate the relationship between PTSD/depression and suicide ideation that leads to suicide attempts. A total of 393 U.S. service members and veterans (69.7% male; 82.5% Caucasian; mean age = 36.26) enrolled in college completed an anonymous online survey assessing basic demographic information, posttraumatic stress, depression, meaning in life, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts. Results indicate that meaning in life may be an important factor for explaining why some military personnel and veterans do not become suicidal despite their risk of suicide due to clinical conditions (PT...

Towards metrics of sustainable food systems: a review of the resilience and vulnerability literature

Food and nutrition security is a persisting global issue and, in addition, food systems are now facing a new set of intersecting economic, social and environmental challenges. Recurrent socio-economic and biophysical changes put the sustainability of food systems at risk. There is an urgent need to develop knowledge-based tools to assess and monitor food sustainability and to identify pathways for food security and resource conservation. The systemic nature of these interactions calls for multidimensional approaches and integrated assessments for decision-making to guide change. This paper reviews social–ecological system frameworks with the view to conceptualize the sustainability issues that affect the food systems. It is argued that the understanding of the food systems as social–ecological systems, and inputs from the theories of vulnerability and resilience in particular, can provide the concepts necessary to understand and model the complex system dynamics involved in the multiple interactions between human and natural components.

华北地区冬小麦灌溉制度及其环境效应研究进展

PDF HTML阅读 XML下载 导出引用 引用提醒 华北地区冬小麦灌溉制度及其环境效应研究进展 DOI: 10.5846/stxb201505241039 作者: 作者单位: 作者简介: 通讯作者: 中图分类号: 基金项目: 公益性行业专项资助项目（GYHY201106030）；国家自然科学基金重点项目（41330531） Review on research of irrigation regime and its environmental effect in winter wheat field of North China Plain Author: Affiliation: Fund Project: 摘要 | 图/表 | 访问统计 | 参考文献 | 相似文献 | 引证文献 | 资源附件 | 文章评论 摘要:充分利用有限的灌溉水资源确保冬小麦安全生产是华北地区冬小麦稳产高产面临的严峻挑战，解决这一问题的关键在于如何基于环境效应科学地进行灌溉管理。综述了国内外有关冬小麦的灌溉管理制度，即充分灌溉与非充分灌溉管理制度以及冬小麦关键灌溉期的环境效应，在此基础上提出了华北地区冬小麦科学灌溉拟重点关注的研究任务：（1）冬小麦生长发育需水时间与需水量的控制机制研究；（2）冬小麦干旱发生发展过程与致灾临界气象条件研究；（3）气候变化背景下极端干旱事件的冬小麦脆弱性诊断与适应性管理，以为华北地区冬小麦安全生产措施制定提供依据。 Abstract:The North China Plain known as "China granary" is the main winter wheat producing areas. However, it has been frequently and seriously affected by drought because of monsoon climate, especially winter drought and spring drought have been frequent and serious during recent decades. Making full use of the limited irrigation water resources to guarantee the safety of winter wheat production is a serious challenge for ensuring stable and high yield of winter wheat in the North China Plain. The key to solving this problem is how to make a scientific irrigation management based on the environmental effects. Although many studies have been done on drought and water-saving irrigation systems of winter wheat, there were less comprehensive commentary recently and still a lot of insufficiencies on interactive combinations of irrigation time, irrigation frequency and the environment effects, which have been based on overwintering water and the first springing water, especially for the adverse effects of current climate change and water shortage. This paper reviews the latest researches at home and abroad on the irrigation management systems (sufficient irrigation and deficit irrigation) and the environmental effects of irrigation in the key irrigation periods of winter wheat in the North China Plain. The responses of various developmental stages and physiological processes of winter wheat to water deficit are different. In particular developmental stages, the water deficit is not entirely negative effects, and it might have some adaptive effects on moderating water deficit to a certain extent. Deficit irrigation is through the artificial stage regulation to form state water budget at different developmental stages of winter wheat. Based on the theory of vulnerability and adaptability to drought, winter wheat will adjust its distribution pattern of assimilation to various organs. This process includes the impacts on many aspects:such as the development stages, weather conditions, the soil's physical, chemical and biological properties, and winter wheat yield. Eventually winter wheat will achieve the change of passive responses on water deficit. The purpose is to improve the conversion efficiency at each stages of irrigation water-soil water-plant water-photosynthesis-biomass-yield. The key to ensure stable and high yield of winter wheat in the North China Plain with deficit irrigation is to determine the critical water demand period under different environmental conditions. Overwintering water (usually is replaced by sowing water or in advance of reviving water), the first spring water and their irrigation interactive combination will make different environment effects, and affect the time and frequency of the other irrigation waters, various stages of growth and development of winter wheat, especially in reviving and the late growth. Finally the future research tasks of winter wheat scientific irrigation in the North China Plain are proposed, including (1) Control mechanisms on temporal and amount dynamics of water demand for the growth and development of winter wheat; (2) Processes of occurrence and development of winter wheat drought and its critical meteorological conditions for causing disasters; (3) Vulnerability diagnosis and adaptive management of winter wheat responding to extreme drought events under climate change. These researches would provide reference for the development of measures to safety production of winter wheat in the North China Plain. 参考文献 相似文献 引证文献

Uncovering the Human Rights of the Vulnerable Subject and Correlated State

Vulnerability is an emerging notion that has contributed to refine judgments made by regional human rights courts and thereby increase State accountability. Similarly, recent developments in the vulnerability theory pose interesting challenges to the core premises underlying liberalism and especially the notion of legal subjectivity, an arguably inaccurate portrayal of the real-life individual. Moreover, the vulnerability theory suggests a promising intertwining with the theoretical framework underpinning human rights. In this paper, I advocate for a paradigm shift from the traditional legal subject to the vulnerable subject in the liberal human rights order. To support my case, I argue that vulnerability’s ethical-normative implications for the realm of human rights are twofold. First, vulnerability consists of an alternative conceptual underpinning for human rights theory, supplementing the so-called capabilities approach to human rights. Second, it can be used as a conceptual device for human rights adjudication by shedding light on how to better delineate the scope of State duties. I aim to demonstrate how vulnerability highlights the importance of ensuring the equality of opportunities and capabilities of individuals under the State’s jurisdiction, widening State responsibility to encompass social conditions which allow vulnerability to be mitigated and human agency to flourish. NB: full text available here: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1493223/

War, Healing, and Trauma: Reading the Feminine Aesthetics and Politics in Rubaiyat Hossain’s Meherjaan

The Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal set up in 2010 to investigate war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity during the 1971 war and activist efforts to seek justice for the mass survivors of wartime rape, form the backdrop to the controversial reception of Rubaiyat Hossain’s debut film, Meherjaan (2011). In official and unofficial histories, and cultural memorializations of the 1971 war for Bangladeshi independence, the treatment of women’s experiences—more specifically the unresolved question of acknowledgment of and accountability to birangonas, “war heroines” (or rape survivors)—have been met with narratives of erasure and victimization. By contrast, the film revolves around the stories of four women during and after the war. In this essay, I investigate the anxieties underlying the responses to Meherjaan, particularly in association with themes of trauma, non-normative gender frames of national sexuality, and the notion of loving the Other. Drawing from transnational feminist theories of vulnerability, ethics and love, I explore these themes at two levels: the film’s political messages, and its aesthetics and affects. Finally, I comment on the film’s potential, as feminist art, for furthering a transnational dialogue around healing and ethical memorialization in relation to 1971 in Bangladesh.

Vulnerability, resilience, and the adaptive cycle in a crisis-prone tourism community

ABSTRACTIn light of the growing impact of natural disasters around the globe, the development of sustainable, community-based tourism today requires an understanding of the vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity of communities to manage sudden change. These theories have developed differently over time, and each offers distinct insights and limitations. An analysis of the implications of these three perspectives provides an integrated framework of the time process, structure-agency, and essential meaning that enables an understanding of how communities respond to disasters through three dimensions: (1) sensitivity--stability, (2) maladaptive capacity-recovery, and (3) transformation. In addition, using the theories of vulnerability and resilience along with the adaptive cycle model of change over time, we can reinterpret the four phases of growth, conservation, release, and reorganization as a more logical way of thinking through fluctuation and comprehensiveness. The Shanmei community in Taiwan, following Typhoon Morakot in 2009, provides a case in point. We conducted qualitative research and employed literature reviews, an environmental investigation, observations, and in-depth interviews to gather data and information. The findings indicate that the perspective of exposure in the theory of vulnerability should consider the multiple spatial scale and distinguish socio-economic stability, recovery through social networks, and transformation as sustainable elements of this community-based tourism using the integrated framework of vulnerability and resilience. In the adaptive cycle model, the integration of vulnerability and resilience theory shows that in a tourism landscape in a mountainous area, the cycle between destruction and reproduction becomes more rapid.

Vulnerability and disability: a citizenship perspective

This article discusses vulnerability and disability focusing on inclusion and citizenship, inspired by Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach and Martha Fineman’s vulnerability theory. A public speech held at the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Constitution is used as an exemplary case. The speaker, a woman with Down syndrome, challenges the Norwegian politic of inclusion. By drawing on perspectives from Nussbaum and Fineman, the article argues that a political concept of the person must emphasize individuals as vulnerable together with a recognition of disability as inherent in humanity. Vulnerability and disability are equally important for building future societies characterized by non-discrimination and equal citizenship.

The Empathetic Lawyer's Training Ground: Fostering Resilience to Vulnerability in Legal Education Through Transformation of Reactive Institutions to Reflective Institutions and Waking the Sleepy Responsive State

This paper applies vulnerability theory to mental health issues in the context of the legal profession. A vulnerability approach argues that the “autonomous liberal legal subject” is the veritable linchpin of modern legal thought and fails due to the concept’s inability to capture the realities of the human condition and, thus, should be replaced with a “vulnerable legal subject.” Vulnerability theory recognizes that both individuals and institutions, including state government and private corporations, can be vulnerable subjects. The vulnerable legal subject, as theorized, is embodied and embedded in all social contexts.

Temporal changes in attention to sad and happy faces distinguish currently and remitted depressed individuals from never depressed individuals

Depression is associated with attentional biases for emotional information that are proposed to reflect stable vulnerability factors for the development and recurrence of depression. A key question for researchers is whether those who have recovered from depression also exhibit attentional biases, and if so, how similar these biases are to those who are currently depressed. To address this question, the present study examined attention to emotional faces in remitted depressed (N=26), currently depressed (N=16), and never depressed (N=33) individuals. Participants viewed sets of four face images (happy, sad, threatening, and neutral) while their eye movements were tracked throughout an 8-s presentation. Like currently depressed participants, remitted depressed participants attended to sad faces significantly more than never depressed participants and attended to happy faces significantly less. Analyzing temporal changes in attention revealed that currently and remitted depressed participants did not reduce their attention to sad faces over the 8-s presentation, unlike never depressed participants. In contrast, remitted depressed participants attended to happy faces similarly to never depressed participants, increasing their attention to happy faces over the 8-s presentation. The implications for cognitive theories of depression and depression vulnerability are discussed.

Health Care and the Myth of Self-Reliance

Both pillars of the Affordable Care Act that are designed to facilitate universal coverage — the low-income tax subsidy and Medicaid expansion — have been subject to high-profile Supreme Court cases. While in King v. Burwell the Court saved the ACA’s low-income subsidy, in NFIB v. Sebelius the Court frustrated Medicaid expansion, at least temporarily. We argue that there is a deeper story about health care access for the poor. Drawing from the history of the American health care system, vulnerability theory, and demographic data, we demonstrate that all Americans lead subsidized lives and could find themselves quickly moving from the private to the public system. We contend that the apparent political preference for private, or “hidden,” government assistance over public, or “visible,” government assistance has its roots in the American myth of self-reliance. Our analysis debunks this myth and reveals that the line between hidden and visible government assistance fails both theoretically and empirically. We conclude that a single government program for the poor would be more economically and administratively efficient.

Displacing Marginalized Bodies: How Human Rights Discourses Function in the Law and in Communities

In this article, we examine disability and eugenics discourses and the ways they function in spaces where vulnerable persons have been historically excluded by the state and blamed for their own “immiseration.” We ask how queer theories of repudiation, abjection, and vulnerability lend insight into the ways that people with intellectual disabilities are discursively located outside normative discourses of home, care, and quality of life, and whether these discourses shifted to serve this vulnerable population when historically the very places in question repudiated them, infringed on their human rights, and questioned their sexuality. To address these questions, we focus on the recent and impending closures of Virginia’s Training Centers, residential institutions for persons with intellectual disabilities now scheduled for staggered closures before 2020.

Suicide in the U.S. army: stressor-strain hypothesis among deployed and nondeployed Army National Guard soldiers

Purpose – Study samples, having responded to similar survey content, allowed examination of suicide risk factors for deployed soldiers relative to nondeployed or home station soldiers. Specific research questions addressed by this study are: First, what is the prevalence of suicidal behaviors among Army National Guard (ARNG) soldiers – deployed or not, and how do these rates compare with known US national and international rates? Second, what are stressful life events associated with suicidal risk? How do these compare between deployed and nondeployed soldiers? Third, what specifically about combat exposure makes soldiers at risk for suicide? And fourth, is there any evidence of stress-buffering effect between risk factors and suicidal behaviors? The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Three data sources were used. First, the responding sample for the Unit Risk Inventory consisted of 180 company-sized units with a total of 12,567 responding soldiers. Second, the responding sample for the Unit Risk Inventory-Reintegration consisted of 50 company-sized units with a total of 4,567 soldiers. The third data source was all ARNG suicides for calendar years 2007 through 2012. For each calendar year, a random sample of 1,000 ARNG soldiers was drawn to represent nonsuicides. This resulted in a study sample size of 6,523, including the 523 suicides for the years 2007 through 2012 plus 1,000 nonsuicide cases for each calendar year. Findings – Prevalence of suicidal behaviors among soldiers was higher (for thoughts, plans, and attempts, respectively, 4-6, 1.3-2.2, and 0.7-0.08 percent) than among civilian populations (respectively, 2.6, 0.7, and 0.4 percent). Risk was highest among home station than deployed soldiers. Stressful life events associated with suicide risk included personal feelings of loneliness, anger, and frustration, followed by interpersonal behavioral problems, such as aggressive behavior toward a significant other and having committed a crime. Also evident are the beneficial effects (as a main effect and buffering effect) of feelings of cohesiveness, quality leaderships, and job satisfaction on suicidal behaviors. Research limitations/implications – Findings here were consistent with the stressor-strain hypothesis. Stressful life events were associated with suicide risk, especially, personal feelings of loneliness, anger, and frustration, followed by interpersonal behavioral problems, such as aggressive behavior toward a significant other and having committed a crime. Evident, too, were the beneficial effects of feelings of cohesiveness, quality leaderships, and job satisfaction on suicidal behaviors. Soldiers reporting these events were less likely to report suicidal behaviors and social support lessened the cumulative effect of risk factors on suicidal behaviors. Given these findings, it seems that suicide risk in the military is not uniquely different from that observed in civilian populations. The higher prevalence of suicides in the military likely has to do with proportionally more individuals who have historically shown to be at risk for suicide, namely, young males. Practical implications – Strong association of individual-level attributes with suicidal behaviors, such as age, gender, and race, suggest individual-level vulnerability to suicidal behaviors. This expectation is consistent with the stress/suicide vulnerability theory (Bryan, 2014; Nock et al., 2013). Such vulnerabilities may include negative affectivity (one of the Big Five personality dimensions) and early childhood trauma to suicidal behaviors (Griffith, 2012a, 2014). Social implications – Suicide, related constructs, and their underlying processes need to be further examined in future research. Their understanding would be useful in screening individuals most at risk for suicidal behaviors, with referral and treatment, if needed. Practically, such vulnerabilities in relation to what specific experiences could be determined, potentially describing which individuals are suited best to adapt to which environments. Originality/value – There has been much research on the increased suicides in the military, and to date, studies have focussed primarily on traumatic events, such as, deployments and combat exposure associated with suicidal behaviors. Yet, studies have almost exclusively examined the combat-suicide connection without reference to suicide risk factors among nondeployed or home station soldiers. This study fills this gap by examining survey responses to standardized questionnaires administered to ARNG soldiers during calendar year 2010 – one sample of deployed units either to Iraq or to Afghanistan and another sample of nondeployed or home station units.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Vulnerability of Children

Children share a universal vulnerability with other human beings, yet have a particular vulnerability as children and even more so as being individually positioned within that group. In this article the Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc) and the jurisprudence of the Committee on the Rights of the Child are analysed in the light of vulnerability theory. The article questions the theory’s view of non-discrimination as a solely individualized approach, as well as its reluctance to designate vulnerable groups of children. The geography of vulnerability is considered in relation to children migrating or being displaced, and general measures of implementation are related to the need for societal institutions to meet children’s vulnerability. The article concludes by focusing on the enhancement of children’s participation in society as a necessary response to their vulnerability.

Building Back: Stratified Recovery After an EF–4 Tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

On April 27, 2011, an EF–4 tornado struck Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Historic damage from the storm coincided with a recessionary economy, a double blow from which the city has yet to recover. This study applied disaster vulnerability theory to a mixed–methods analysis involving qualitative research, photography, and geographic information systems (GIS) analysis in order to document the recovery of three neighborhoods in the tornado zone. One measure of progress is easy to see. Two neighborhoods, both financially stable, have been rebuilt. The third neighborhood has lagged behind the other two, although residents, community leaders, and city planners seek to revitalize this blighted community. Tuscaloosa's experience suggests that prestorm vulnerabilities lead to uneven recovery and proposals for the gentrification of poor neighborhoods that reproduce preexisting patterns of residential segregation.

The theory of latent vulnerability: Reconceptualizing the link between childhood maltreatment and psychiatric disorder.

Maltreatment in childhood is associated with a significantly increased likelihood of psychiatric disorder that endures across the life span. If disorders emerge they tend to be more severe and less responsive to treatment. We introduce the concept of latent vulnerability as a way of conceptualizing the nature of this psychiatric risk. We argue that vulnerability to mental health problems can be understood as changes in a suite of neurocognitive systems that reflect adaptation or altered calibration to early neglectful or maltreating environments. Altered threat processing is presented as one exemplar candidate system. Heightened neurocognitive vigilance to threat is argued to reflect a calibration to an early at-risk environment that becomes maladaptive (and instantiates vulnerability) in the longer term. Other neurocognitive domains, including reward and memory processing, represent equally promising candidates for indexing latent vulnerability and warrant future enquiry. We suggest that the operationalization of latent vulnerability has the potential to guide a preventative psychiatry approach. Intervention currently occurs at two stages when maltreatment is confirmed: first, by addressing issues of risk; and second, by providing clinical intervention if a child meets criteria for psychiatric disorder. We argue that indexing latent vulnerability represents a third intervention opportunity, with the potential to target an indicated prevention approach for the most vulnerable children, offsetting risk trajectories before psychiatric disorders emerge.

The dynamics of vulnerability: why adapting to climate variability will not always prepare us for climate change

Recent reports and scholarship suggest that adapting to current climate variability may represent a ‘no regrets’ strategy for adapting to climate change. Addressing ‘adaptation deficits’ and other approaches that target existing vulnerabilities are helpful for responding to current climate variability, but we argue that they may not be sufficient for adapting to climate change. Through a review and unique synthesis of the natural hazards and climate adaptation literatures, we identify why the dynamics of vulnerability matter for adaptation efforts. We draw on vulnerability theory and the natural hazards and climate adaptation literatures to outline how adaptation to climate variability, combined with the shifting societal landscape can sometimes lead to unintended consequences and increased vulnerability. Moreover, we argue that public perceptions of risk associated with current climate variability do not necessarily position communities to adapt to the impacts from climate change. We suggest that decision makers faced with adapting to climate change must consider the dynamics of vulnerability in a connected system—how choices made in one part of the system might impact other valued outcomes or even create new vulnerabilities. We conclude by suggesting the need for greater engagement with various publics on the tradeoffs involved in adaptation action and for improving communication about the complicated nature of the dynamics of vulnerability. WIREs Clim Change 2015, 6:413–425. doi: 10.1002/wcc.341This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

Exploring the plexus of context and consequences: An empirical test of a theory of disaster vulnerability

What determines the disaster vulnerability of countries? In this study a theoretical model was tested, linking disaster vulnerability to physical hazards and cultural and historical factors. Associations between the World Vulnerability Index and Hofstede's cultural dimensions scores were explored using quantitative methods, while taking exposure to natural hazards into account. Data of 60 countries could be matched. Less exposed countries in this sample are significantly less vulnerable. Culturally, particularly countries with a lower power balance and a higher level of individualism are less vulnerable as well; two features linked to higher levels of wealth. Approximately 70% of the variance in vulnerability could be explained in this way. These results should, however, be interpreted with some caution as longitudinal data were unavailable and disaster vulnerability itself may be seen as a cultural derivate, making it impossible to clarify causal mechanisms. Despite these and other limitations, the study points at interesting associations that, firstly, should be expanded and replicated in larger samples, allowing more advanced analysis, and secondly, encourage a more thorough examination of different local contexts and cross-level interactions than was possible in this exploratory endeavor.

When Love and Violence Meet: Women's Agency and Transformative Politics in Rubaiyat Hossain's Meherjaan

In official and unofficial histories, and in cultural memorializations of the 1971 war for Bangladeshi independence, the treatment of women's experiences—more specifically the unresolved question of acknowledgment of and accountability to birangonas, “war heroines” (or rape survivors)—has met with stunning silence or erasure, on the one hand, or with narratives of abject victimhood, on the other. By contrast, the film Meherjaan (2011) revolves around the stories of four women during and after the war, and most centrally the relationship between a Bengali woman and a Pakistani soldier. In this article, I investigate the anxieties underlying the responses to Meherjaan, particularly in association with themes of trauma—its absence or omnipresence—to nonnormative gender frames of national sexuality, and the notion of loving the Other. Drawing from feminist theories of vulnerability, ethics, and love, I want to explore these themes at two levels: the political message the film transmits, and its aesthetic choices and affects. Finally, I want to comment on the potential of this film, as feminist art, in furthering a dialogue around healing and ethical memorialization in relation to 1971 in Bangladesh.

Intervenção Psicoeducativa em DST para Adolescentes Jovens

O objetivo deste trabalho foi elaborar uma estratégia de intervenção psicoeducativa para a prevenção das DSTs e gravidez não planejada para adolescentes jovens. A população do estudo foi constituída por participantes de 15 a 20 anos, matriculados em escolas públicas e privada de ensino médio da cidade de João Pessoa. Foi construída uma intervenção psicoeducativa, com base na Teoria da Vulnerabilidade e do Comportamento Planejado. A intervenção resultou em três encontros em dias consecutivos no qual foi discutida a iniciação sexual, as ideologias de gênero, negociação e benefícios do uso do preservativo. Para análise dos resultados foram gravados os 15 minutos finais de cada dia, no qual foi discutida a percepção dos participantes sobre a intervenção e analisados por categorização temática. Os dados demonstraram a adequação da intervenção para o público adolescente.Palavras-Chave: Intervenção; Adolescência; Teoria da vulnerabilidade; Teoria do comportamento Planejado.