Carmem Lúcia Brito Tavares Barreto

Probation supervision and psychotherapeutical attitude: nn educational proposal

This article discusses a supervision modality in clinical psychology as educational practice in existential phenomenological perspective. Reference is made to scholars who allow links between the condition of “being in the world,” as proposed by Heidegger and the writings in the field of education, in particular, as explained by Paulo Freire. It is understood that Freire’s pedagogy, consolidated in a liberating conception of man, allows the human takes ownership of their existential condition in order to build a life shrouded in meaning’s spheres, fact that illustrates the proposition of a clinical supervision linked to demands of who seeks psychotherapeutic help. The theoretical approaches explicited allow propose, among the various phenomena that characterize the psychological clinic in dialogue with the Heidegger’s thought, a psychological practice that can respond to the demands addressed.

Sons and daughters with a parent hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit

The aim of this study, in the area of Hospital Psychology, was to comprehend the experience of sons and daughters whose mother or father was hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit. Participants were 10 sons and daughters who responded to a socio-demographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview, which were submitted to Content Analysis. The following were verified in the interviews: feelings of suffering and fear; concerns regarding the fact that the patient spends most of the time alone; lack of trust regarding the treatment offered by the healthcare team for the patient; lack of motivation to continue day by day routines; positive reappraisal such as personal, spiritual and professional growth, and satisfaction with the hospital teams care to the family. This data highlights the needs of these sons and daughters during their parents hospitalization in an Intensive Care Unit and may support more effective care from the healthcare team for this population.

Ampliando as possibilidades de compreensão psicológica na clínica em saúde pública a partir da imaginação poética de Bachelard

A crescente insercao do psicologo na saude publica tem trazido algumas questoes, tais como a inadequacao de suas praticas tradicionais para a atuacao nessa area. Este trabalho teve como objetivo propor novas possibilidades de compreensao psicologica para clinica no servico publico de saude, por meio de pesquisa bibliografica, reflexao teorica e estudos de casos clinicos. Considerando a psicologia em seu formato modular e racionalista, tradicionalmente voltada a elite, nao se deve estranhar as dificuldades dos psicologos nesse servico, cuja clientela principal e de baixa renda e nao tem familiaridade com o pensamento intelectual academico. O servico publico, alias, deve preparar-se para atender a uma clientela, cada vez, mais diversificada tanto em relacao a classe socioeconomica quanto a referenciais culturais. A novidade de uma clinica inspirada na poetica, diz respeito a linguagem, ao modo de ser, de escutar e de se encontrar que podem permitir abertura de compreensao a qualquer paciente, independentemente de sua classe sociocultural. Nao se trata da proposicao de uma nova tecnica psicoterapica voltada a determinada classe social, o que consideramos o mesmo impasse do qual pretendemos contribuir para uma possivel ultrapassagem. Nossa reflexao, portanto, partiu do atendimento psicologico no servico publico, buscou nova concepcao de linguagem para ampliar a compreensao psicologica e indicou que tal compreensao pode servir a acao psicologica de modo geral e nao somente ao âmbito especifico da saude publica.