Maria Alexina Ribeiro

Grupo multifamiliar: espaço para a escuta das famílias em situação de abuso sexual

We present an evaluation research of the participation of families, who received a notification and were handed over by the Justice, in the Multifamiliar Groups. These families passed by the psychosocial study as a consequence of having one child or adolescent in a situation of sexual abuse. Twenty eight families were contacted but we could only interview eight. Our objective was to focus on the relation among the families, among the internal groups of each family unit and among the families and the professionals present in the Multifamiliar Group sessions. We sought to know the benefits and limits of the psychosocial intervention. The evaluated changes occurred in the relationships with a higher physical contact with the children, in a higher conversation among the family members and in the acceptance of orientation from professionals. The results also indicated the need for creating leisure opportunities with the children/adolescents who were abused and for having time available to listen to them.We present an evaluation research of the participation of families, who received a notification and were handed over by the Justice, in the Multifamiliar Groups. These families passed by the psychosocial study as a consequence of having one child or adolescent in a situation of sexual abuse. Twenty eight families were contacted but we could only interview eight. Our objective was to focus on the relation among the families, among the internal groups of each family unit and among the families and the professionals present in the Multifamiliar Group sessions. We sought to know the benefits and limits of the psychosocial intervention. The evaluated changes occurred in the relationships with a higher physical contact with the children, in a higher conversation among the family members and in the acceptance of orientation from professionals. The results also indicated the need for creating leisure opportunities with the children/adolescents who were abused and for having time available to listen to them.

O desafio da supervisao e pesquisa-açao em casos de abuso sexual: os professores e suas questoes

After four years developing an action research directed to family care in groups, involving cases of sexual abuse in children and adolescents, the researchers tried to learn the feelings and difficulties, in the research implementation, experienced by teachers who coordinate, supervise, attend and are responsible for the project. Six university teachers, responsible and active in the project were the study subjects: five were female and one male, with ages between 30 and 57 years, bachelors degree from 10 to 33 years. The instrument was sent and replied by e-mail. The results showed that emotional issues, gender and personal experience are present in the supervision of this theme. The female supervisors, although seen as fragile for being women, significantly contribute for public and political life through the creation of opportunities for women and children, so that they can express themselves and also evidence hierarchy and power issues.

Unidos em torno da mesa: a dinâmica familiar na obesidade

United around the table: the family dynamics in Obesity. From the perspective of the Family Systems Approach, a case study of a patient with severe obesity being prepared to perform surgery to reduce stomach in a public hospital in Brasilia-DF is presented. Data collection was performed in two home visits to construction of the genogram, family collage made by family and carry out two tasks. The study demonstrates the strong link between food and family membership, and strengthen aspects of family dynamics of systems with obese members of the literature, such as diffuse internal borders and external rigid, few leisure activities, emphasis on family loyalty; obesity seen as single family problem avoidance conflict. Finally, the authors suggest to expand the inclusion of family therapy in the preoperative and postoperative patients with severe obesity.

Multifamiliar group: space for listening to the families in situation of sexual abuse

We present an evaluation research of the participation of families, who received a notification and were handed over by the Justice, in the Multifamiliar Groups. These families passed by the psychosocial study as a consequence of having one child or adolescent in a situation of sexual abuse. Twenty eight families were contacted but we could only interview eight. Our objective was to focus on the relation among the families, among the internal groups of each family unit and among the families and the professionals present in the Multifamiliar Group sessions. We sought to know the benefits and limits of the psychosocial intervention. The evaluated changes occurred in the relationships with a higher physical contact with the children, in a higher conversation among the family members and in the acceptance of orientation from professionals. The results also indicated the need for creating leisure opportunities with the children/adolescents who were abused and for having time available to listen to them.We present an evaluation research of the participation of families, who received a notification and were handed over by the Justice, in the Multifamiliar Groups. These families passed by the psychosocial study as a consequence of having one child or adolescent in a situation of sexual abuse. Twenty eight families were contacted but we could only interview eight. Our objective was to focus on the relation among the families, among the internal groups of each family unit and among the families and the professionals present in the Multifamiliar Group sessions. We sought to know the benefits and limits of the psychosocial intervention. The evaluated changes occurred in the relationships with a higher physical contact with the children, in a higher conversation among the family members and in the acceptance of orientation from professionals. The results also indicated the need for creating leisure opportunities with the children/adolescents who were abused and for having time available to listen to them.

The Participation of a Brazilian Family in Psychosocial Counseling of Obese Children and Adolescents

Regarded by the World Health Organization as a public health matter, an analysis of the statistics shows a significant increase of obesity in children, adolescents, and adults in many parts of the world. Family inclusion in childhood obesity treatment has been recommended in many scientific studies, and an intervention including families presupposes knowledge of their dynamics and influence on disease onset and maintenance. In this sense, the present work aims to present data of research with one family that is part of psychosocial counseling of families with obese children and adolescents. The sample family is composed of the father, 43 years old, the mother, 36, and their obese daughter, 10, currently weighing 178 pounds and 1.25 meters in height. The data were collected through an interview focusing on the family life cycle, from the new couple stage through the present. Data analysis revealed that the following features interfere with child obesity treatment: parental omission in the daughter’s diet; the mother’s illness complicating fulfillment of parental functions; parents’ marital difficulties; lack of marital harmony between parents endangering their complicity in the child’s protection and education; and family resistance in accepting and adhering to child obesity treatment. The data reinforce the need for understanding dynamics of families with obese children and for family inclusion in childhood obesity treatment.

Os pais frente ao adoecimento psíquico do filho

O presente trabalho refere um estudo teorico embasado psicanaliticamente que tem como objetivo elucidar a contribuicao de teoricos da psicanalise sobre o impacto nos pais da comunicacao de sofrimento psiquico do filho. Envolve os conceitos e discussoes acerca da saude na infância, as manifestacoes de dificuldades dos pais frente a doenca psiquica do filho, bem como impossibilidade de reconhecimento dos sintomas, sentimentos e aspectos inconscientes que permeiam o processo de adoecimento, entre eles, rivalidade, medo, culpa, idealizacao, amor, ambivalencia. Os resultados do estudo reafirmam a importância do conhecimento sobre o que suscita nos pais o sofrimento psiquico da crianca, ja que a isso esta relacionado a vida familiar, conduta profissional e o exito do proprio tratamento que implica em possibilidade de prevencao, bem como qualidade de vida para ambos. Alem dos ganhos que a crianca obtem com uma avaliacao correta que priorize o entendimento do que denota a sintomatologia apresentada, novas possibilidades de intervencoes se impoem diante dos pais que se mostram tao sofridos psiquicamente quanto os filhos, em especial, ressalta-se o carater inconsciente do contato com a problematica do filho, o que implica o entendimento dos autores de que a crianca personifica conflitos inconscientes dos pais, seja enquanto casal, homem, mulher ou mesmo filhos que foram.

Grupo multifamiliar: espacio para la escucha de las familias en situación de abuso sexual

We present an evaluation research of the participation of families, who received a notification and were handed over by the Justice, in the Multifamiliar Groups. These families passed by the psychosocial study as a consequence of having one child or adolescent in a situation of sexual abuse. Twenty eight families were contacted but we could only interview eight. Our objective was to focus on the relation among the families, among the internal groups of each family unit and among the families and the professionals present in the Multifamiliar Group sessions. We sought to know the benefits and limits of the psychosocial intervention. The evaluated changes occurred in the relationships with a higher physical contact with the children, in a higher conversation among the family members and in the acceptance of orientation from professionals. The results also indicated the need for creating leisure opportunities with the children/adolescents who were abused and for having time available to listen to them.We present an evaluation research of the participation of families, who received a notification and were handed over by the Justice, in the Multifamiliar Groups. These families passed by the psychosocial study as a consequence of having one child or adolescent in a situation of sexual abuse. Twenty eight families were contacted but we could only interview eight. Our objective was to focus on the relation among the families, among the internal groups of each family unit and among the families and the professionals present in the Multifamiliar Group sessions. We sought to know the benefits and limits of the psychosocial intervention. The evaluated changes occurred in the relationships with a higher physical contact with the children, in a higher conversation among the family members and in the acceptance of orientation from professionals. The results also indicated the need for creating leisure opportunities with the children/adolescents who were abused and for having time available to listen to them.