Síndrome de alcancía

English translation: Piggy-bank syndrome

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Spanish term or phrase:Síndrome de alcancía
English translation:Piggy-bank syndrome
Entered by: patinba

14:13 Jul 20, 2019
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Medical - Psychology / Group activity
Spanish term or phrase: Síndrome de alcancía
I'm working on an evaluation sheet that the therapist uses to circle the behavior that he observes in his patient. One section reads: FOLLOW-UP ON NEXT GROUP ACTIVITY and that is where the term "síndrome de alcancía" shows up.
I appreciate your help with this.
Karla Rodríguez
El Salvador
Local time: 05:51
Piggy-bank syndrome
Explanation:
It certainly exists, but I can't find any reference in the context of psychology
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patinba
Argentina
Local time: 08:51
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Summary of answers provided
2 +2Piggy-bank syndrome
patinba
Summary of reference entries provided
piggy-back vs piggy-bank
neilmac

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Piggy-bank syndrome


Explanation:
It certainly exists, but I can't find any reference in the context of psychology

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 08:51
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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agree  Chema Nieto Castañón: Neither in Spanish. Some specific context might surely help
1 day 23 hrs

agree  Maria Benmaor: I can only think about its relation with the 'group activity' so it can be related to group therapy as its context?
21 days
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Reference comments


2 hrs
Reference: piggy-back vs piggy-bank

Reference information:
I have no idea if this has much to do with the query, as the lack of context isn't helping much. However, all the references to "piggy bank" I found in a brief search repair to financial contexts, whereas "piggyback" (with or without a hyphen) appears in medical, mainly post-hepatic transplant contexts.

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https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/piggyba...

The term is used here in a psychology context:
Connectedness in Psychology: Definition & Theory | Study.com
https://study.com/academy/lesson/connectedness-in-psychology...
... It is feeling someone's emotion the way that person feels it, rather than piggy-backing your own emotion onto what the other person is ...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2019-07-20 17:12:38 GMT)
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The term is used here in a psychological context:
Connectedness in Psychology: Definition & Theory | Study.com
https://study.com/academy/lesson/connectedness-in-psychology...
... It is feeling someone's emotion the way that person feels it, rather than piggy-backing your own emotion onto what the other person is ...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2019-07-20 17:13:11 GMT)
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Sorry for posting twice, it didn't seem to have uploaded the first time.

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Note added at 1 day 17 hrs (2019-07-22 07:36:32 GMT)
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FWIW, in Spain the only term I've heard for piggy-bank is "hucha"...

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hucha

Example sentence(s):
  • The piggy-back caval anastomosis technique is widely used in ..

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18549945
neilmac
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
neutral  Charles Davis: But "alcancía" means a piggy bank; it can't have anything to do with"piggy-backing".
4 hrs
  -> Exactly. That's the problem - and why I posted the reference rather than trying to suggest a solution.
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