Rosa Maria S. Macedo

Família e projetos sociais voltados para jovens: impacto e participação

O presente trabalho tem como foco o estudo de projetos sociais voltados para jovens e o impacto destes projetos nas familias destes jovens. Buscou-se atraves deste, entender que alcance podem ter tais projetos no que se refere a ampliacao de possibilidades relacionais, de autonomia e de protagonismo dos envolvidos. Ou seja, pretendeu-se levantar, por meio de entrevistas com profissionais, jovens e com seus familiares, as mudancas que ocorreram com os participantes, com suas familias e em suas relacoes sociais, durante a participacao do jovem no projeto. Para isso, partiu-se do enfoque sistemico-cibernetico novo-paradigmatico, com enfase nas relacoes e nas interacoes. A realidade e vista como construida, de acordo com a otica construcionista social (GRANDESSO, 2000), a partir da qual procura-se entender os individuos como autores que influenciam e, ao mesmo tempo, sao influenciados pelo meio em que vivem; individuos que constroem sua experiencia socialmente, na linguagem; individuos que afetam e sao afetados pela cultura na qual estao imersos (MOTA e CIURANA, 2002). Baseou-se tambem em estudos sistemicos sobre a importância da rede social na saude dos individuos e no desenvolvimento de um ser humano, de sua familia e comunidade (SLUZKI, 1997) e, em propostas de projetos sociais. Desenvolveu-se, entao, um estudo qualitativo, com analise e interpretacao do conteudo de dezessete entrevistas. Elas foram realizadas com sete profissionais que atuam em tres projetos sociais e que ja atuaram em mais de dez projetos: esportivos, culturais, de cidadania, de liberdade assistida, de inclusao digital e de tutoria; com cinco jovens e com cinco familiares de jovens. Foi identificada, nessas entrevistas, a necessidade de aproximar as familias dos jovens, que participam nos projetos sociais. Esta aproximacao mostrou-se importante para elas mesmas, para os jovens e para o fortalecimento de suas redes sociais; uma vez fortalecidas, estas redes podem dar suporte as familias de menor renda, que consequentemente poderao ampliar a participacao social implicando a reducao da miseria e da desigualdade social. Porem, foram constatadas dificuldades no trabalho com as familias por diferentes motivos, tais como: falta de verba, despreparo dos profissionais para realizar atividades em que elas estejam envolvidas e dificuldade em acessa-las, nas poucas atividades a elas direcionadas. O trabalho foi a necessidade mais apontada pelos entrevistados, o que aparece como um fator ligado a vulnerabilidade e ao sofrimento nas populacoes menos favorecidas do ponto de vista material

Valores positivos e desenvolvimento do adolescente: perfil de jovens paulistanos

This research is part of the project “The positive values and the adolescent development: from vulnerability to responsibility” that begun with the cultural adaptation of Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors, an instrument that aims to access the developmental assets present in adolescents of specific groups, proven to be very useful as a base from where to start planning actions to promote better lives to communities, families and their children. The adapted form of the instrument has been applied in a sample of 2725 adolescents from all regions of SP City, males and females, from 11 to 19 years, categorized by their social vulnerability (IPVS, SEADE, 2005) to design a map of positive values present in this population. The data showed that young people present a low number of positive values and that its variability is linked to sex and age, more than to social vulnerability. It also turns evident the necessity to review our health promotion strategies based in risk taking behaviors and grounded it in the promotion of positive values.

Um estudo das relações interpessoais em famílias com farmacodependentes

This study has as main objective to emphasize the implications of mood patterns in the maintenance of the drug addiction cycle, in family systems with chemical dependents, assuming that there is a correlation between drug addiction and mood disorders or perturbations. We considered important to investigate how depression and mania patterns, recursively, affect and are affected by the family system with a chemical-dependent member. We presented a case study of structural and strategic family therapy, in a family with an addicted member. We analyzed the results of the study, by focusing on both, the data that emerged from those models of therapy, and on descriptive categories related to mood patterns created by Stierlin, Weber, Schmidt and Simon (1986), who worked with families presenting mood disorders. The study helped to enlarge our views on the several factors that can influence the maintenance of drug dependence in family systems with addicted members.This study has as main objective to emphasize the implications of mood patterns in the maintenance of the drug addiction cycle, in family systems with chemical dependents, assuming that there is a correlation between drug addiction and mood disorders or perturbations. We considered important to investigate how depression and mania patterns, recursively, affect and are affected by the family system with a chemical-dependent member. We presented a case study of structural and strategic family therapy, in a family with an addicted member. We analyzed the results of the study, by focusing on both, the data that emerged from those models of therapy, and on descriptive categories related to mood patterns created by Stierlin, Weber, Schmidt and Simon (1986), who worked with families presenting mood disorders. The study helped to enlarge our views on the several factors that can influence the maintenance of drug dependence in family systems with addicted members.

Constructing Empowerment and Resilience Contexts: Systemic Interventions in Communities

One of the major problems in Brazil is unfair income distribution. Statistical data show that the wealthy, a group of 1.8 million, comprise 50% of Brazil’s wealth while the other 50% is distributed among 178 million people. This enormous gap between classes has severe social consequences, chief among which is social and economic inequality. A therapy approach based on culturally sensitive practices in community settings by authors such as Freire, Minuchin and Colapinto, Stephens et al., Waldegrave, Dabas and Najmanovich, Barreto, Macedo, and Grandesso is presented along with successes and challenges of the approach.

Positive values and adolescent development: a profile in São Paulo city

This research is part of the project “The positive values and the adolescent development: from vulnerability to responsibility” that begun with the cultural adaptation of Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors, an instrument that aims to access the developmental assets present in adolescents of specific groups, proven to be very useful as a base from where to start planning actions to promote better lives to communities, families and their children. The adapted form of the instrument has been applied in a sample of 2725 adolescents from all regions of SP City, males and females, from 11 to 19 years, categorized by their social vulnerability (IPVS, SEADE, 2005) to design a map of positive values present in this population. The data showed that young people present a low number of positive values and that its variability is linked to sex and age, more than to social vulnerability. It also turns evident the necessity to review our health promotion strategies based in risk taking behaviors and grounded it in the promotion of positive values.

Valores positivos y el desarrollo del adolescente: perfil de jóvenes paulistanos

This research is part of the project “The positive values and the adolescent development: from vulnerability to responsibility” that begun with the cultural adaptation of Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors, an instrument that aims to access the developmental assets present in adolescents of specific groups, proven to be very useful as a base from where to start planning actions to promote better lives to communities, families and their children. The adapted form of the instrument has been applied in a sample of 2725 adolescents from all regions of SP City, males and females, from 11 to 19 years, categorized by their social vulnerability (IPVS, SEADE, 2005) to design a map of positive values present in this population. The data showed that young people present a low number of positive values and that its variability is linked to sex and age, more than to social vulnerability. It also turns evident the necessity to review our health promotion strategies based in risk taking behaviors and grounded it in the promotion of positive values.

Un estudio de las relaciones interpersonales en familias con farmacodependientes

This study has as main objective to emphasize the implications of mood patterns in the maintenance of the drug addiction cycle, in family systems with chemical dependents, assuming that there is a correlation between drug addiction and mood disorders or perturbations. We considered important to investigate how depression and mania patterns, recursively, affect and are affected by the family system with a chemical-dependent member. We presented a case study of structural and strategic family therapy, in a family with an addicted member. We analyzed the results of the study, by focusing on both, the data that emerged from those models of therapy, and on descriptive categories related to mood patterns created by Stierlin, Weber, Schmidt and Simon (1986), who worked with families presenting mood disorders. The study helped to enlarge our views on the several factors that can influence the maintenance of drug dependence in family systems with addicted members.This study has as main objective to emphasize the implications of mood patterns in the maintenance of the drug addiction cycle, in family systems with chemical dependents, assuming that there is a correlation between drug addiction and mood disorders or perturbations. We considered important to investigate how depression and mania patterns, recursively, affect and are affected by the family system with a chemical-dependent member. We presented a case study of structural and strategic family therapy, in a family with an addicted member. We analyzed the results of the study, by focusing on both, the data that emerged from those models of therapy, and on descriptive categories related to mood patterns created by Stierlin, Weber, Schmidt and Simon (1986), who worked with families presenting mood disorders. The study helped to enlarge our views on the several factors that can influence the maintenance of drug dependence in family systems with addicted members.

A study of inter-personal relationships in families with a drug addicted

This study has as main objective to emphasize the implications of mood patterns in the maintenance of the drug addiction cycle, in family systems with chemical dependents, assuming that there is a correlation between drug addiction and mood disorders or perturbations. We considered important to investigate how depression and mania patterns, recursively, affect and are affected by the family system with a chemical-dependent member. We presented a case study of structural and strategic family therapy, in a family with an addicted member. We analyzed the results of the study, by focusing on both, the data that emerged from those models of therapy, and on descriptive categories related to mood patterns created by Stierlin, Weber, Schmidt and Simon (1986), who worked with families presenting mood disorders. The study helped to enlarge our views on the several factors that can influence the maintenance of drug dependence in family systems with addicted members.This study has as main objective to emphasize the implications of mood patterns in the maintenance of the drug addiction cycle, in family systems with chemical dependents, assuming that there is a correlation between drug addiction and mood disorders or perturbations. We considered important to investigate how depression and mania patterns, recursively, affect and are affected by the family system with a chemical-dependent member. We presented a case study of structural and strategic family therapy, in a family with an addicted member. We analyzed the results of the study, by focusing on both, the data that emerged from those models of therapy, and on descriptive categories related to mood patterns created by Stierlin, Weber, Schmidt and Simon (1986), who worked with families presenting mood disorders. The study helped to enlarge our views on the several factors that can influence the maintenance of drug dependence in family systems with addicted members.