Maria Raquel Barbosa

As Relações de Vinculação e a Imagem Corporal: Exploração de um Modelo

The present study explored the differential effects of the principal development contexts (attachment to parents and peers) on the way in which adolescents experience their bodies. Six hundred and ninety adolescents and young adults (242 male and 448 female) participated in this study, with ages varying between 15 and 23 years (M = 17,8 and SD= 2,00). The results of the prediction model revealed that gender and romantic attachment were the variables that showed the strongest effect on the variation in body image. A mediation effect was observed among attachment to parents and body image through romantic and friendship relationships. The results highlight the need of understanding body experience in an interpersonal context.

Variáveis psicossociais associadas à cirurgia ortognática: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

Orthognathic surgery is a type of orthodontic treatment recommended for patients with dentofacial deformities. This issue has grown in the scientific community and, more recently, in the field of psychological science since there is an increasing number of people resorting to this type of treatment and psychologists are being hired to meet emotional needs of such patients. This paper focuses on a review of the literature from the last nine years and seeks to determine if some of the psychosocial characteristics of the patient contribute to the effectiveness of orthodontic-surgical treatment. Our research identified 14 studies and the results are presented according to the following: (a) pre-surgical phase; (b) short-term and mid-term post-surgical phases; and (c) long-term post-surgical phase. We observed that some of the patients characteristics and a closer patient-caregiver relationship seem to contribute to the satisfaction of the treatment. However, it is the quality of preventive psychological support towards risk factors that seems to determine the success of this orthodontic treatment. Overvaluation of expectations towards psychological benefits, insecurity in the decision making, lack of knowledge about the emotional costs of the surgery, lack of social support (or family pressure) as well as psychopathological disorders justify the need of psychological support. Finally, some positive and negative patient characteristics have been pointed out in this paper, and suggestions for future investigations have been made.

UM OLHAR SOBRE O CORPO: O CORPO ONTEM E HOJE

to understand the ways in which people make meaning out of the body nowadays, it is necessary to go back in time, even if briefly, through history, through the ways in which the body has been experienced. Thus, it is the aim of these structured reflections, having the body as its focus, to think about some of the social and cultural aspects influencing its construction in our society, how it has been and can be seen and perceived.O entendimento dos sentidos construidos para o corpo na actualidade requer uma caminhada, ainda que breve, pela historia, pela forma como o corpo foi pensado e sentido. Deste modo, neste ensaio em torno do tema do corpo, propomos pensar nalguns aspectos sociais e culturais, que contribuiram para a construcao do corpo na nossa sociedade, a forma como ele tem sido e pode ser olhado e representado.

A glance into the body: yesterday's and today's body

to understand the ways in which people make meaning out of the body nowadays, it is necessary to go back in time, even if briefly, through history, through the ways in which the body has been experienced. Thus, it is the aim of these structured reflections, having the body as its focus, to think about some of the social and cultural aspects influencing its construction in our society, how it has been and can be seen and perceived.O entendimento dos sentidos construidos para o corpo na actualidade requer uma caminhada, ainda que breve, pela historia, pela forma como o corpo foi pensado e sentido. Deste modo, neste ensaio em torno do tema do corpo, propomos pensar nalguns aspectos sociais e culturais, que contribuiram para a construcao do corpo na nossa sociedade, a forma como ele tem sido e pode ser olhado e representado.