Kátia Cristina Tarouquella Rodrigues Brasil

Adolescentes e jovens em situação de risco psicossocial: redes de apoio social e fatores pessoais de proteção

Adolescence and youth at risk situation: social network and personal protective factors. This study aimed to investigate social and personal factors that can serve as protection to adolescents and youths in situation of social and personal risk. The participants were 852 adolescents and youths of public schools of the Federal District, aged 13 to 27 years, who answered a questionnaire with 109 items about risk and protection in their development. The results focused on the protection networks (family, school, friends) and the personal factors (self-esteem, religiosity-spirituality). The adolescents and youths presented processes of global resilience (social, emotional and academic), evidencing the trust in themselves and in the composed network by school, family and friends. The data analyses show the importance of understanding adolescence and youth as a contextual process in Brazil and the necessity of youth’s public polices to exercise and to internalize positive and protective experiences.

Fatores de risco na adolescência: discutindo dados do DF

This study had as objectives to investigate and to discuss the risk situations for adolescents from the Distrito Federal, Brazil, based on the Ecological Theory Approach. 852 questionnaires were applied in adolescents from the public schools of the DF, localized in some regions previously identificated as in risk situation. The data show that the violence, the suicide attempt, the presence of drugs and the sexuality are indicators of risk. Nevertheless, the same data show that these adolescents are capable of developing protective strategies to the promotion of their health such as condom use in their sexual relationships, family daily contact and support expectation from the neighborhood. On observe that hese data can be specific from the DF but it is necessary to create and to apply Public Politcs related to the domestic violence prevention and to the economical support to this young people.

Concepções de saúde e doença mental na perspectiva de jovens brasileiros

O estudo investiga a perspectiva de adolescentes e jovens acerca de suas concepcoes de saude e doenca mental. Compreende-se que o processo de construcao da saude-doenca e influenciado pela perspectiva individual, familiar e sociocultural. Participaram do estudo 1163 jovens de ambos os sexos, com idade media de 15,84 anos. Utilizou-se como instrumento um questionario autoaplicavel, formulado em estudo anterior com jovens suicos de lingua portuguesa. Investigaram-se as concepcoes de saude e doenca mental, dentre outros aspectos do tema. Nos resultados, observaram-se aspectos da visao holistica e do modelo tradicional de saude mental. A doenca mental foi caracterizada como uma desordem emocional, revelando a influencia das experiencias internas e relacionais na concepcao de adoecimento mental. Diferencas de nivel socioeconomico foram observadas nas concepcoes de saude e doenca mental.

Avosidade x maternidade: a avó como suporte parental na adolescência

This is a case study aimed to identify and discuss the place of the grandmother as parental support for a 15-year-old patient. It was based on reports of their psychotherapy sessions, which showed the helplessness of the adolescents regarding the lack of a social safety net and institutional and pointed the mother’s fragility to resist the acts of destructiveness imposed by her teenager. It was found that the grandmother occupied a place of emotional support for this teen as her mother had difficulties in exercising her parental role. The adolescent in psychotherapy could work challenges related to her mother and grandmother. It is hypothesized that adolescent transgression relates to conscious or unconscious signification that searches limits and direc ted the recognition of these two female figures. The psychotherapeutic process allowed this teen to experience her instinctual

O trabalho interdisciplinar no contexto da exclusão

This article presents a psychoeducative, social and cultural intervention program focusing children and adolescents in situation of risk. It is discussed a model of attention by means of an interdisciplinary comprehension. It is proposed an action in different levels liking up clinical attention, psychoeducative and theater workshops. In sum, It is noticed that the institution as a set of rules, the professionals as model figures and the group as a possibility to be part of a whole, enable to insert adolescents into a process of exchanging their own experiences encouraging new relationships and enablig a rescue and appropriation of their own histories.

METÁFORAS EM PSICOTERAPIA: EXPRESSÃO DO CONFLITO DA RELAÇÃO ENTRE MÃE E FILHO NA PSICOSE

Metaphors in psychotherapy: expression of the conflict in the relationship between a mother and son in psychosis. The pre- sent article explores the occurrence of metaphors in the context of psychotherapeutic care of psychoanalytic orientation of the mother of a psychotic adolescent. One of the patients main conflicts was her inability to differentiate from her son. It was identified how the metaphors expressed by this patient in the beginning of the process shifted as the treatment progressed and how the relationship between mother and son was impacted by this transformation. This process contributed to a rearranged psyche for the patient and even allowed the disruption of the familys rigidly established dynamics.

Grandmotherhood x motherhood: the grandmother as parental support in adolescence

This is a case study aimed to identify and discuss the place of the grandmother as parental support for a 15-year-old patient. It was based on reports of their psychotherapy sessions, which showed the helplessness of the adolescents regarding the lack of a social safety net and institutional and pointed the mother’s fragility to resist the acts of destructiveness imposed by her teenager. It was found that the grandmother occupied a place of emotional support for this teen as her mother had difficulties in exercising her parental role. The adolescent in psychotherapy could work challenges related to her mother and grandmother. It is hypothesized that adolescent transgression relates to conscious or unconscious signification that searches limits and direc ted the recognition of these two female figures. The psychotherapeutic process allowed this teen to experience her instinctual

Abuelidad x maternidad: la abuela como apoyo parental en la adolescencia

This is a case study aimed to identify and discuss the place of the grandmother as parental support for a 15-year-old patient. It was based on reports of their psychotherapy sessions, which showed the helplessness of the adolescents regarding the lack of a social safety net and institutional and pointed the mother’s fragility to resist the acts of destructiveness imposed by her teenager. It was found that the grandmother occupied a place of emotional support for this teen as her mother had difficulties in exercising her parental role. The adolescent in psychotherapy could work challenges related to her mother and grandmother. It is hypothesized that adolescent transgression relates to conscious or unconscious signification that searches limits and direc ted the recognition of these two female figures. The psychotherapeutic process allowed this teen to experience her instinctual