Maria Fernanda Barboza Cid

Adolescentes com dificuldades relacionadas à saúde mental, moradores de áreas rurais: percepções sobre família, escola e contexto de moradia/Adolescents with mental health challenges residents of rural areas: perceptions about family, school and neighborh

Objective: This study aimed to identify the perceptions of adolescents residents in a rural area, linked to a Family Health Unit due mental health challenges, about their relationships with family and friends, school, situations of stress and support experience, as well about the region where they live, and compare them with the perceptions of adolescents also residents in a rural area who don’t have mental health challenges. Method: The study included 10 adolescents residents in a rural area of a city in São Paulo state, divided in two groups, A e B (with and without mental health challenges). Data were collected from questionnaire identification and a semi-structured interview and analyzed using analysis of contents. Results: The results indicated that, in view of the participants, the family is considered the main source of support, and in the group of adolescents with mental health challenges it is indicated also as an important source of stress. The school is seen, generally, as a socialization space for teens. About neighborhood context, perceptions are predominantly positive, and one of the reported negative aspects refers to the lack of leisure facilities. Conclusion: We observed few differences in the perception of both groups on the issues addressed. The neighborhood context, although it is appointed as restricted in terms of activities possibilities, seems to guarantee membership in groups and environments, which may have a protective role in coping with psychological suffering.

Conceptions of Mental Health Professionals about the Therapeutic Activity in the CAPS

This is a qualitative research of exploratory design on the conceptions of mental health professionals about the use of therapeutic activities in their practices in psychosocial care centers (CAPS). Understanding the knowledge that subjects the use of therapeutic activity is of paramount importance in the evaluation of services and in the construction of new models of mental health. Three focal groups were held with professionals from three CAPS cities in the southeast region of the country. The analysis of the data was done through content analysis of thematic modality. The articulated analysis with the theoretical reference concerning the paradigm of the practices in mental health pointed out that the professionals recognize the activities carried out in a decentred clinic of the symptom and the medicalization of the mental disorder, as a form of reception, centered in the therapeutic process, but with few mentions Concrete actions in the territory and community integration of people with mental disorders.

Ações De Promoção À Saúde Mental Infantojuvenil No Contexto Escolar: Um Estudo De Revisão / Promotion Actions To Mental Health Chindren Youth Inschool Context: Literature Review

Objetivo: realizar uma revisao bibliografica nacional e internacional sobre acoes de promocao e prevencao em saude mental ocorridas no ambiente escolar. Metodo : os dados foram coletados a partir da busca nas bases Scielo, Portal de Periodicos da CAPES e banco de Teses e Dissertacoes da CAPES, utilizando os seguintes unitermos: mental health promotion, teacher – student relationship, school-families relatonship, school, intervencao, saude mental; problemas de comportamento, intervencao de saude e escola, focalizando publicacoes do periodo de 2003 a junho de 2013. Os resultados encontrados foram analisados a partir de um protocolo de registro adaptado para este estudo. Resultados: foram selecionados um artigo nacional; uma dissertacao de mestrado nacional e 17 artigos internacionais.Verificou-se que ha uma escassez de estudos na literatura nacional e internacional, podendo isto estar relacionado ao fato de que politicas e pesquisas no campo da saude mental infantojuvenil ainda sao recentes, ou, ainda ao fato de a area da saude ser o principal setor em que acoes de promocao de saude sao realizadas. Conclusao: observou-se que as acoes relatadas parecem pontuais e desarticuladas de outros equipamentos de atencao a saude de criancas e adolescentes e, alem disso, nao consideram as realidades e demandas das populacoes-alvo no planejamento das acoes. Por outro lado, nos trabalhos internacionais, foi possivel verificar alguns que focalizaram diferentes autores, o que vai ao encontro da literatura que trata de intervencoes em saude mental infantil. Palavras-Chaves: Promocao. Saude Mental. Contexto Escolar. Infantojuvenil. ABSTRACT Objective: To that purpose, the objective was then to conduct a national and international literature review of mental health promotion and prevention actions which had taken place in school environments. Methods: The data was collected from scielo databases, the CAPES Journal Portal and bank Theses and Dissertations CAPES, by using the following key words while focusing on publications from 2003 to June 2013: mental health promotion, teacher-student relationship, school-families relationship, school, intervention, mental health, behavior problems, and health and school intervention. The results were analyzed through an appropriate registration protocol. Results: found to be a particular national article; a national masters thesis and 17 international articles. It was found that there is a lack of studies in national and international literature, which may be related to the fact that policy and research in the field of infant-juvenile mental health are still fresh or even the fact that the health sector is the foremost one in which health promotion actions are performed. Conclusion: It was observed that the reported actions appear to be limited and disconnected from other equipment which attends to the health of children and adolescents and also it does not consider the realities and demands of the targeted market when planning its actions. On the other hand, it was found in the international articles some works that focused on different actors, which coincides to the literature that deals with interventions in children’s mental health. Keywords : Promotion. Mental Health. School Context.

Famílias de adolescentes em Medida Socioeducativa: práticas parentais, cotidiano e contexto familiar

Atualmente, associar violencia e juventude tem sido algo constante no meio de comunicacao. Isso tem despertado preocupacao nos diversos segmentos da sociedade e interesse das autoridades e do meio academico. Os adolescentes sao vistos hoje, pela grande maioria da sociedade, como os principais causadores de violencia, culpabilizando e criminalizando os jovens e adolescentes que comentem ato infracional.