This study investigates how the religious experiences of Umbanda practitioners influence their individuation processes and contribute to transformations in collective consciousness. The research is anchored in Carl Gustav Jung's Complex Psychology, articulated with the notion of colonization of the imaginary proposed by historian Serge Gruzinski, also integrating contributions from sociology, anthropology, and religious sciences. The methodological approach combines Clifford Geertz's interpretative ethnography, through participant observation, in-depth interviews and analysis of ritual and symbolic elements, with the symbolic-archetypal processing method developed by Eloísa Penna, allowing access to the unconscious meanings emerging from religious experiences at multiple levels. The empirical fieldwork was conducted at an Umbanda temple located in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The results indicate that Umbanda offers a liminal space of welcome where body and psyche are no longer understood as separate spheres. Mediumistic practices and religious rituals function as symbolic mediation devices between the unconscious and consciousness, enabling emerging images to be recognized, elaborated and integrated. This process promotes psychosomatic health, strengthens the identity of practitioners and catalyzes the transformation of affective complexes through the symbolic updating of their contents. At the same time, the terreiro is a space for reworking historical social wounds, such as those of a racial nature, acting on collective memory and offering symbolic compensation that legitimizes and reinscribes previously marginalized knowledge. The research shows that Umbanda religiosity acts as a means of listening, caring for, and integrating unconscious content into consciousness, articulating subjective processes and collective dimensions in a ritual field that embraces Brazilian symbolic diversity. This set of findings reveals promising possibilities for future research, such as the impact of ritual practices on indicators of physical and mental health; the articulation between psychic energy, healing, and psychosomatic processes; the phenomenology of altered states of consciousness; the effects of music, song, and dance on affective regulation; and differential criteria for distinguishing constructive symbolic expressions from psychopathological conditions. These fronts confirm Umbanda, a religion that synthesizes the dynamics of Afro-Amerindian and European matrices, as a privileged laboratory for the advancement of Complex Psychology in dialogue with plural cultural contexts, by highlighting unique modes of symbolic mediation between the individual and the collective.

The experience of mental distress among Black women in Brazil is shaped by structural inequalities resulting from racism, sexism, and socioeconomic precarity, factors that influence both illness and access to care. Self-stigma refers to the incorporation of devaluing beliefs and stereotypes about one’s own mental disorder, impacting self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-care practices. The research aimed to analyze how internalized stigma influences mental health care and self-care among Black women with mental disorders receiving treatment within the public health and social protection network of Volta Redonda. The study employed a brief socioeconomic survey, the ISMI-BR Scale to assess internalized stigma, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, considering its connection with self-stigma. Additionally, semi-structured interviews explored experiences of discrimination based on race, color, and gender. Inclusion criteria encompassed women self-identifying as Black or Brown who were engaged in mental health care via municipal public health services. Results indicated moderate to high ISMI-BR scores (ranging from 45% to 85%), with concentrations between 59% and 76%, indicating a significant impact of self-stigma on alienation, stereotype endorsement, perceived discrimination, and social withdrawal. Reports of discrimination in health services highlighted issues related to gender (35.3%) and unequal or disrespectful treatment (20% to 29%). Participants displayed socioeconomic vulnerability, characterized by low educational attainment, limited labor market participation, and high dependence on government programs. Qualitative analysis revealed a spectrum of perceptions about discrimination, fluctuating from denial and minimization to explicit acknowledgment of racial and gender-based violence. The study concludes that self-stigma interacts with racial, gender, and class inequalities, affecting autonomy, self-care, treatment adherence, and relationships with health services.

This study aimed to analyze the processes of subjectivity production within the Escrevivências in Scene workshop, held at the Dona Ivone Lara Center for Conviviality and Culture (CECO) in Niterói, through the articulation between Escrevivência, inspired by Conceição Evaristo, and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. Grounded in an antimanicolonial perspective and Afro-diasporic epistemologies, the research adopted Escrevivência as both a method of knowledge production and analysis, bringing together participants’ narratives, theatrical scenes, and the researcher’s situated and implicated records. The analysis of three trajectories revealed that the device produces shifts in the ways experiences of suffering are narrated, enabling movements from silence to authorship, from stigmatization to collective recognition, and from individualized experience to the construction of shared knowledge. The circulation of speech, the legitimation of suffering and modes of existence, and mutual support practices configured care as a relational and collective process, fostering forms of aquilombamento. Writing and performance functioned as technologies of symbolic de-objectification, allowing racialized and marginalized experiences to be reinscribed within the social bond. The findings indicate that the workshop operates as an aesthetic-political device of care within the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS), sustaining processes of authorship, territorial self-determination, and collective memory production, while challenging manicolonial logics that fix pathologized identities and individualize suffering. Based on the identified social codes—authorship, recognition, collective knowledge, relational care, and destigmatization of experience—the study demonstrates that Escrevivência in Scene expands antimanicolonial practices in mental health. It concludes that the integration of Escrevivência and the Theatre of the Oppressed in the CECO context contributes to the construction of non-colonial modes of subjectivation, in which care is realized through the production of social bonds, circulation of knowledge, and the opening of possible futures, offering theoretical and methodological contributions to critical Social Psychology and to the strengthening of territorial practices in psychosocial care.

Health is guaranteed as a human right and is therefore an instrument of transformation aimed at social justice related to full citizenship and equity. However, the dynamics of stigma and discrimination against lesbianand bisexual women manifest themselves in symbolic barriers that prevent access to health actions and services, and even their free movement across their territory. In this sense, this study aims to understand the reality of integrated health care for lesbian and bisexual women in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. It is an intervention study based on a mainly Latin American theoretical and methodological framework, combined with interviews analyzed through intersectionality with the aforementioned population. The research revealed that inside formal healthcare spaces in the territory, there is no protocol for the sexual healthcare of lesbians and bisexuals, and points to a lack of specific knowledge about the impacts of social determination on the health-care-illness process through stigmatizing and discriminatory social dynamics that are LGBTphobic, sexist, racist, and classist, perpetuating a place of marginalization in formal healthcare settings. Fieldwork within four collectives and social organizations in Rio de Janeiro's West Zone highlights the power of community connection and the construction of comprehensive healthcare networks, anchored in ideals of good living and collectivity. Interviews with lesbian or bisexual women in the territory, aged between 20 and 36, who are not organized in collectives reveal that lesbophobia and biphobia, which are morally and culturally naturalized in the West Zone, can prevent these women from moving safely around their own territory, which can lead to chronic stress and possible health problems. This population is left with the almost unilateral responsibility of devising personal strategies for health care and even safety. Groups of women or groups focused on promoting and valuing cultura in the West Zone absorb some of these issues, and when there are no support networks, women leave their own territory in search of a fuller and healthier life. The research points to the existence of a border identity among these women, assimilating the unique construction of their identity in that territory. Thus, it points to present and future possibilities for coordination between community agents and existing care networks in the West Zone, in order to absorb the needs of the lesbian and bisexual population and include them in the daily routine of formal health spaces to realize their right to health in an equitable manner. 

Talking about fear is talking about affection; discussing emotions is also discussing ethical-political matters e talking about ethical-political suffering (Sawaia, 1999), is talking about the social pain of being put in a place of abjection, as theorized by Butler (1993). For this reason talking about fear, an affection common to all of us, is also talking about the utilization of this sentiment to control minimized bodies, perpetuating our suffering. We all fear, is part of our reality as human beings, is a fundamental affection for our preservation as a species, being afraid makes us avoid dangerous situations. But what happens when this affection that helps in our self preservation is used against us? Thus, the present essay has the objective of reflecting about how fear crosses subjects LGBTQIA+, about how fear can be an apparatus used to control minority rights bodies, bodies that live at the edge of society or abject bodies. It’s in the tension of fear as an individual affection and of fear a collective/social affection, that I start to ponder about the construction of LGBTQIA+ subjects as frightened and frightening. This is a qualitative research constituted by bibliographical research and theoretical reflection of the theme, structured around the following axes: 1) specifying what is fear and how it appears in History and the social imaginary of western society; 2) attempt at a genealogy of the norm and how the LGBTQIA+ subject is subjectified from normative institutions and what movements they do to trespass or reaffirm the norm; 3) a reflection on new possibilities, what can frightened and frightening subjects generate as power? What is the positive power of fear? Could we be courageous exactly because we are afraid? Could fear also be an affection that generates movements other than those necessary for survival? Thus the aim for a result is to ponder on the management of fear on the constitution of LGBTQIA+ subjectivities in contemporary Brasil.

Entering and remaining in higher education is often accompanied by academic, social, and emotional challenges, making hopelessness a significant phenomenon for understanding psychological distress among university students. In this context, life skills, perceived self-efficacy, and perceived control over life have been identified as psychological resources linked to adaptation and coping with adversity. This study aimed to investigate the influence of these resources on levels of hopelessness among university students in the state of Rio de Janeiro. It was an empirical, quantitative study with a descriptive-correlational and cross-sectional design, conducted with 232 university students. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, group comparison tests, correlational analyses, confirmatory factor analyses, and structural equation modeling (SEM). Negative associations were identified between hopelessness and perceived self-efficacy (r = −0.221; p < 0.001), perceived control over life (r = −0.198; p = 0.002), and life skills (r = −0.320; p < 0.001), with the latter showing the strongest association. No statistically significant differences were observed based on gender, whereas age, employment status, and type of institution showed varying results across some of the variables investigated. In the SEM analysis, life skills exerted a positive influence on perceived self-efficacy (β = 0.85) and perceived control over life (β = 0.41), as well as a negative influence on hopelessness (β = −0.44). Overall, the results highlight the central role of life skills in the model investigated, particularly due to their positive influence on perceived self-efficacy and perceived control over life, and their negative influence on hopelessness. The findings broaden the integrated understanding of psychosocial resources related to hopelessness and provide a basis for future research and mental health promotion strategies in higher education.

This dissertation investigates the historical and symbolic disconnection between humanity, nature, and the feminine, understanding it, in light of Carl Gustav Jung’s Complex Psychology, as an expression of cultural and psychic processes related to one-sidedness, repression, and the fragmentation of human experience. This qualitative, theoretical, and bibliographic research is grounded in archetypal-symbolic processing and employs symbolic amplification to articulate biological, historical, cultural, mythological, ecological, and psychic phenomena while preserving the specificities of each field. The first chapter begins with the female body and revisits aspects of reproduction, maternal inheritance, sexuality, pleasure, pregnancy, microchimerism, and reproductive aging, questioning representations that have historically associated the feminine with passivity and fragility. The second chapter shifts to ancestral imagery, analyzing matriarchy, the Great Mother, feline symbolism, Bastet and Sekhmet, Kianumaka-Manã, and the figure of the Sacred Prostitute, highlighting images related to autonomy, instinct, creation, sexuality, and nature. The third chapter examines the historical and symbolic consolidation of patriarchy through myths, institutions, and events associated with the control of the female body, violence, colonization, slavery, modern rationality, and the erasure of women from knowledge production. The fourth chapter, guided by the alchemical symbolism of the Coniunctio, brings together different cultural images of the relationship between the masculine and the feminine and proposes the integration of opposites as a horizon for individuation. The results of the analysis indicate that the disconnection investigated should not be understood solely as a historical or social phenomenon, but also as a symbolic and psychic dynamic in which separated dimensions tend to return in compensatory forms. It is concluded that reconnection with the feminine and with nature does not imply establishing a new form of supremacy, but rather overcoming the logic of one-sidedness through relationships of reciprocity, interdependence, and integration among differences.

The inclusion of students with disabilities in medical education gives rise to ethical, pedagogical, and institutional debates, due to the formative and professional demands inherent to medical practice. In this context, this thesis aims to understand the social representations held by medical students regarding the inclusion of students with disabilities in the medical course, seeking to apprehend the meanings, significations, and symbolic structures that guide perceptions, positions, and potential practices related to this phenomenon. The study is grounded in Social Representations Theory, as proposed by Moscovici, articulated with the structural approach of Central Core Theory developed by Abric. This is a qualitative, descriptive–interpretive study conducted with 122 medical students, who completed an online questionnaire containing open-ended questions about the inclusion of people with disabilities in medical training. Data collection was carried out through a structured questionnaire administered via the Google Forms platform, comprising Free Word Evocation techniques and open-ended discursive questions, including the substitution technique, in order to access content potentially located in the silent zone of Social Representations (SR). The data obtained through free evocation were analyzed using the IRaMuTeQ software. Prototypical analysis was conducted to identify the central core and peripheral systems of the SR, as well as similarity analysis, which made it possible to visualize relationships among terms and the structural organization of the representational field. In parallel, Content Analysis according to Bardin was carried out, supporting the construction of interpretative categories and subcategories and deepening the understanding of the meanings attributed by participants to the investigated phenomenon. The results reveal the coexistence of social representations that recognize inclusion as a right, an ethical value, and a principle of social justice—anchored in discourses of empathy, diversity, and equity—and representations marked by stigma, explicit or implicit prejudice, and conditional positions regarding the presence of students with disabilities in medical education. The analyses indicate that, although structural elements favorable to inclusion occupy central positions in the representational field, there remain contents expressing insecurity, doubts about professional competence, limitations attributed to disability, and individual responsibility. It is concluded that the social representations held by medical students indicate progress in recognizing the right of people with disabilities to inclusion in medical training, while also exposing the persistence of symbolic, pedagogical, and institutional barriers in higher education. These findings highlight the need to strengthen institutional accessibility policies, develop educational actions aimed at awareness-raising, and promote cultural transformations that foster effective, critical, and socially committed inclusion in the context of medical education.

The general aim of this research is to investigate the main sources of psychological distress among primary school teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis and the incidence of this distress in teaching. The psychological suffering of educators has been the subject of much research in recent years and is a phenomenon that involves various social, relational, organizational, individual and political factors and aspects and affects the mental and physical health of teachers. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, teachers already faced various difficulties and challenges in their work, such as lack of social recognition, school violence, student indiscipline, overwork, factors that contribute to other manifestations of suffering such as depression, burnout syndrome, anxiety and stress. With the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation has become even worse. Teachers have had to adapt quickly to a new form of remote teaching, without the pedagogical and technological support and preparation of schools. In this context, we asked ourselves what the main sources of teachers' psychological distress were during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, and we consider it essential to listen to what teachers say about the psychological distress generated by the pandemic and the impact of this distress on their teaching.  Thus, the topic is justified by the recognition that teachers have experienced a phase of psychological vulnerability during the pandemic due to the demands of virtual teaching practice, the challenges of using technological tools, the active search for students, evasion, and various demands. The methodology used will consist of a bibliographic review of the topic and a Google Forms survey with open and closed questions with elementary school teachers from the municipalities of Niterói (RJ) and Seropédica (RJ).   

This thesis aimed to understand the meanings attributed to psychiatric diagnosis by adolescents, analyzing how these designations are appropriated, negotiated, refused, and reframed in their lived experiences. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in psychiatric diagnoses in adolescence, a phenomenon shaped by medicalization processes and the complexity of contemporary contexts, which frequently reduce the singularity of suffering to clinical categories. This scenario demands analyses that privilege the voices of young people themselves, shifting focus from specialized knowledge to the complexity of lived experiences. Adolescence is understood as a period of intense subjective transformations, in which the subject is called upon to construct references about themselves amid multiple social, cultural, and institutional crossings. In this context, psychiatric diagnosis can operate both as a way to name and organize experience and as an element that can strain or restrict how the young person understands and narrates themselves. Methodologically, a qualitative study of narrative nature was conducted with seven adolescents. Data were analyzed through an interpretive approach, articulating discourse analysis and hermeneutic perspective, which enabled the understanding of meanings produced in life stories. Results show that diagnosis assumes multiple and singular meanings: for some adolescents, it functions as a resource for understanding and legitimizing suffering; for others, it is experienced pragmatically, as a tool for accessing rights and adapting to daily life; and in specific cases, it appears associated with experiences of suffering and inadequacy. Adolescents produce singular ways of positioning themselves before these designations, not always coinciding with meanings instituted by biomedical and social discourses. We conclude on the importance of care practices that are not restricted to the application of diagnostic categories, but that consider the singularity of each experience and promote spaces of qualified listening, capable of sustaining the complexity of psychic suffering in adolescence.

This doctoral thesis analyses Black women's entrepreneurship in Brazil from a central thesis — understood as an interpretive argument, and not as a hypothesis to be tested statistically, given the documentary nature of the research: entrepreneurial autonomy depends simultaneously on a material infrastructure — public policy, credit, networks, markets and social protection — and on a psychological infrastructure — the constitution of identity, self-esteem and belonging —, both crossed by intersectionality. The theoretical axis is organised around Carl Gustav Jung's Analytical Psychology, mobilised to understand how the identity, persona, shadow, individuation process and, above all, the self-esteem and belonging of the Black woman entrepreneur are constituted within Brazilian society. This axis is read in direct dialogue with the psychoanalyst Neusa Santos Souza, whose analysis of “becoming Black” and of the white ego-ideal racialises the constitution of identity; with Frantz Fanon, who historicises it; with the sociologist Lélia Gonzalez, who articulates belonging, Amefricanity and cultural representations; with the work psychologist Cida Bento, who examines institutional recognition and the whiteness pact; and with the North American legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, whose intersectionality runs through the entire path. The materiality of social inequality is grounded in the critical economics of Paul Singer, João Carlos Nogueira and Mauro Oddo Nogueira, and in the social-reproduction analysis of Silvia Federici and Heleieth Saffioti. The research problem, turned into a thesis, arises from the coexistence between the high participation of Black women in entrepreneurial activities and the historical Brazilian persistence of inequalities in income, formalisation, credit, market access, social protection and business continuity. The investigation is applied, exploratory and descriptive, document-based and mixed-method, developed under Design Science Research (DSR). The final corpus brings together 195 intellectually unique documents, organised according to their empirical, theoretical, institutional, normative or ontological nature. From this corpus the UbuntuGraph was built — a knowledge diagram, with or without graphic animation, presented in an ontological layer with epistemological typing, whose analytical version contains a network of 115 nodes and 132 unique structural edges on the social condition of Black women. The analysis employs degree centrality, node and edge betweenness, closeness and community detection, always with the caveat that centrality describes the organisation of knowledge in the corpus and does not constitute psychological diagnosis, causal proof or population prevalence. The Black Woman Entrepreneur node presents the highest normalised degree centrality (0.912), followed by Business (0.105) and Public Policies (0.061). The Jungian-intersectional reading of self-esteem and belonging pertains to the theoretical plane and remains distinct from the computational results. As a translational contribution, five axes of intersectional affirmative policies are formulated, treated as normative propositions to be assessed for feasibility and impact. Structural validation and human curation were carried out during the construction of the artefact; external validation was conducted with five specialists in economics, administration, entrepreneurship and gender and race studies, who issued a global validation opinion of the artefact (100% of the evaluators), with high agreement regarding the conceptual consistency, semantic structure, traceability and translational usefulness of the UbuntuGraph.

This research engages in a dialogue with the memories engraved in institutional records, photographs and administrative documents of the Institute for Research on Black Cultures – IPCN, on the threshold of its fifty years of existence in Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil, based on Jungian psychology, to present a reflection on the strength and importance of women in the institutional management of the IPCN. Through the methodology of case study in qualitative research, the presence of these women was observed in the narratives of the daily life of the Institute, in contrast to the records and documents. The research divides the course into 03 (three) periods of the institutional existence: (a) the first twenty years, at the height of the fecundity of anti-racist thought, born and disseminated there; (b) an emptying of the institution in the subsequent 20 (twenty) years; and, (c) the current moment of its revitalization. As a “common thread in the labyrinth”, the footprints left by ancestry dialogue with one of the itans of Ọṣùn in the creation of the world, from the mythology of the Yoruba people. And, an intertwining according to C. G. Jung's psychology: alchemical vessel, sacred uterus, is an institutional psychic space of transformation. The study presents the stages of institutional overcoming of “an unconscious hereditary conglomerate” on gender roles and the work on rebalancing human relations through connections between the gourd – a symbolic object in various cultures; and the uterus organ as a consecrated and mythical territory of the female body. In the concepts of anima and animus, there is the presence of the symbolic representation of experiences lived by those who came before: ancestry. In the archetypal representation of the Orisha Ọṣùn, feminine energy that symbolizes the strength and persistence of fresh water, which has cultural and biological importance for all humanity. Water as a mythical element of beginning again. The process of individuation, in the institutional collective body and the power to reexist through looking at oneself. The continuity of social strategies and achievements driven by the resilience of the women of the IPCN, from the inside out and from the outside in. These are incursions present in the body and soul of this dissertation...!

The research project aims to identify social representations of African-based religiosities in Baixada Fluminense, state of Rio de Janeiro. The aim is to understand how religious and non-religious people configure these spiritual practices. To achieve this objective, we intend to have the participation of 200 individuals, distributed equally between two groups - those who follow African-based religions and those who do not. Given this research structure, a structural approach to the theory of social representations will be used as the main theoretical framework, and a content analysis will be used to interpret the results, which will favor deep insights into social perceptions. Based on the consideration that, during the process of enslavement of the black African population on Brazilian soil, the notion of race was a key element used to cause the supposed inferiority of black people in relation to white Europeans, it is assumed that this same dynamic has influenced the way in which religiosities of African origin are understood by the population, considering that these practices, when initially reproduced by enslaved black people, and make reference to the black African population, sometimes these religiosities end up being considered inferior as well. Therefore, this study aims to reveal how these representations persist in contemporary times, contributing to a deeper understanding of the place of these religiosities in today's society.

Christian religions have sparked numerous debates in ecclesiastical circles on social issues such as abortion, sexual and domestic violence against women, sexual abuse and divorce. However, none of these issues cause as much commotion and divergence of opinion as addressing issues involving human sexuality, especially when referring to sexual orientations other than heterosexual. The research aimed to identify the social representations of Pentecostal Protestant leaders regarding homosexuals within churches, comparing them with the social representations of homosexual people, without specifying “within the church”, with the hypothesis that the inclusion of the group “within the church” may generate differences in the structure of representations. This was a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study, based on Abric's structural approach with theoretical support from the Theory of Social Representations, founded by Serge Moscovici. 100 Pentecostal Protestant leaders participated in the research. A structured questionnaire containing two Free Word Evocations was used for prototypical and similarity analysis, in addition to open and closed questions. The closed questions underwent descriptive analysis and the open questions were analyzed according to Bardin's content analysis. In the control group's evocation of the term “homosexuals”, it can be interpreted that, only the term “homosexuals”, without specifying that they are for people of the religion of Pentecostal Protestant leaders, and without specifying that they are “within the churches”, homosexuality is seen as a sin and as a sexual option. When we are more specific, asking them to express what they believe people of their religion think about the term “homosexuals within the churches”, the cognate sin is repeated, without the cognate sexual option, but with the cognate possession. Thus, we can assume that, when we move from a macro view (homosexuals) to a micro view (homosexuals within churches), outside of churches homosexuality can be seen as a sin and sexual option, and within churches it can be seen as a sin and possession, indicating representations strongly rooted in moralizing and condemnatory views, anchored in moralizing and spiritualized religious doctrines. The analysis of the open-ended questions reinforced these findings. When asked what they think of homosexuality, the leaders grouped their answers into the categories “sin”, “possession”, “childhood trauma” and “disease”. Regarding Pastor André Valadão’s speech about homosexual couples in the church, we observed discourses of exclusion, conservative agreement, criticism of the approach and attempts to promote conditional inclusion. In reports of experiences with homosexual people in churches, categories such as ambiguous inclusion, institutional exclusion, moral control, pastoral conflicts and full acceptance emerged, evidencing social practices guided by ambivalence and resistance to sexual diversity. It is concluded that the social representations of leaders are mostly negative and exclusionary, based on the association of homosexuality with religious categories of sin and possession. However, the presence of discourses of acceptance and mercy in the periphery indicates fissures and tensions in the representations, signaling possible future transformations

This study aims to conduct a comprehensive literature review on the impacts and effects of
the motherhood device on mothers in contexts of vulnerability. Frequently characterized by
the absence of paternal involvement, this condition imposes significant challenges, including
emotional overload, financial hardship, social stigma, and adverse effects on mental health.
These issues are further exacerbated when examined through a racial lens, particularly in
light of the enduring legacy of slavery that contributes to the systemic dehumanization of
Black motherhood. In this regard, the study underscores the urgent need for strengthened
social support networks and the implementation of effective public policies to mitigate the
multifaceted vulnerabilities. Finally, it is essential to highlight the resistance of Black
mothers who, even in the face of grief and social exclusion, transform their pain into political
mobilization and a persistent struggle for recognition and justice.

This study investigates self-esteem and coping longitudinally across four years of training at the Agulhas Negras Military Academy (AMAN). Efforts were made to better understand how the listed variables evolve in response to the curricular challenges faced by cadets. Self-efficacy was measured using the Perceived General Self-Efficacy Scale (PGSS) and coping using the Toulousian Coping Scale (TSC), both of which have been validated at AMAN. The study investigated the evolution of these variables among approximately 400 cadets from the same class. The overall objective was to compare these variables by year of training. A total of 215 cadets participated in the study, 772 (89.8%) men and 88 (10.2%) women. Data were collected over the four years of training for the class in question. Participants were from the seven training courses offered by AMAN (Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Communications, Engineering, Ordnance, and Quartermaster). The results showed significant changes in self-esteem, control, and social distraction. Discussions focused on changes that occurred during the course. Data were also analyzed each year based on the cadet's tercile and whether there were changes over the years. Intervention programs and additional studies are suggested to address cases where there was a decrease in variables positively associated with cadet well-being.

Communication skills, empathic understanding, and welcoming attitudes are essential factors for comprehensive care and the quality of care provided by professionals to healthcare users. This research aimed to understand medical residents' perceptions of the challenges of communication in daily hospital life, as well as to investigate their repertoire of interpersonal skills when caring for patients and their caregivers. To this end, a multiple case study was conducted with two female physicians enrolled in the residency program at a federal hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Self-administered questionnaires were applied, and two individual meetings were held with each participant, involving semi-structured interviews and discussions of two clinical cases. The aim was to gain insight into their perceptions, knowledge, and practices regarding communication processes in the institutional context. The data were subjected to Bardin Content Analysis and organized into three thematic areas: communication with patients/families, including the importance attributed and perceived challenges; interpersonal skills in hospital practice, including training/qualification and self-assessment of one's own repertoire; and delivering bad news, including its impact on professionals and patient reactions. Categories were identified bases on challenges related to management (abuse of hierarchies, moral harrasment), services (pressure for productivity, work overload, and limited time), patients (resistance, low educational level, religious beliefs), and the professionals themselves (technical unpreparedness, emotional exhaustion, and lack of bonding). The residents had little exposure to doctor-patient communication during their initial training, but they evaluated their social and communication skills positively, noting some difficulties, particularly regarding clarity in providing guidance and emotional regulation. Regarding the delivery of bad news, categories related to the impact of breaking difficult news on doctors (self-identification, self-blame, empathy, and discomfort with the youth of some patients) and the management of patient and family reactions (anger, questioning, and emotional unpredictability) were identified. It is hoped that the data generated by studies like this can inform professional education initiatives capable of contributing to the greater humanization of hospital services, expanding the reach of soft technologies in healthcare.

Based on conceptions that intersect the studies of childhood with the history of the school institution, this project proposes the use of a participatory methodology in sharing circles to collect narratives provided by children regarding their experiences and perceptions of school. Anchored in psychoanalytic references, the aim is to analyze these accounts through the lens of the French school’s discourse analysis. The relevance of this research is mainly justified by the gap identified in the field of studies of the childhood-school axis that utilize information provided by children, as highlighted by critical notions in social sciences. This work aims to yield results that contribute to the discussion on key narratives encompassing the epistemic field of childhood.

This dissertation aimed to analyze the consumption of psychoactive substances (PAS) at university parties in the municipality of Seropédica/RJ, focusing on students from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), and to develop Harm Reduction (HR) strategies through an educational intervention. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used, including testing urine samples collected in party bathrooms, administering an electronic questionnaire (n=45), and holding a roundtable discussion entitled “Coffee with DR.” The data pointed to the recurring presence of PAS such as alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, MDMA, hallucinogens, and stimulants, with alcohol being the most consumed substance. The profile of recreational users revealed young adults, mostly low-income, with patterns of use that were not necessarily problematic. The educational intervention provided a powerful space for listening, care, and collective construction of knowledge about RD, culminating in a proposal to form a university collective focused on the theme. It was concluded that SPA consumption is part of the university context and that strategies based on the logic of RD, as opposed to repression and moralism, are more effective in promoting health, autonomy, and citizenship among students. The research also contributes to the formulation of public policies and interventions that are sensitive to the realities of young people and universities.

Population aging takes different forms and occurs in different contexts, reflecting the diverse cultures experienced in their respective societies with frameworks established by individuals historically. To this end, the aging process and cognitive, physical, psychological, and social changes are observed. Given this, there has been an increase in the number of elderly individuals in Brazil, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). In this sense, there is a need for care for the elderly. Thus, with the proposal to provide comprehensive care for aging, Long-Term Care Facilities for the Elderly (ILPI) are presented. In ILPIs, the elderly are accompanied by a team of health professionals with the purpose of meeting the specific demands of the elderly. Therefore, it is important to reflect on the psychological factors associated with the use of psychotropic drugs in ILPI, given the context of deprivation of social interaction experienced by the elderly. The research used the Geriatric Depression Scale (EDG) and Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) as research tools. In view of this, analysis through active listening during the application of the instruments was also considered. From the instruments applied, it was possible to observe that elderly people who use psychotropic drugs (N = 12) present symptoms associated with depressive disorder (N = 9) and generalized anxiety disorder (N = 7), even with the use of antidepressants and anxiolytics. The results of the instruments applied show tangible responses to the absence of expected effects with the use of psychotropic drugs, indicating that there is no improvement in the symptoms reported by the elderly. During active listening, the elderly reported episodes of sadness, hopelessness, fear about the future, discouragement, low social interaction, and drowsiness that can trigger falls. Additional reports collected during the application of the instruments validate the results obtained. Given this scenario, this study aims to contribute to the clarification of research related to this issue, adding to the development of public policies aimed at the safe, effective, and rational use of psychotropic drugs in institutionalized elderly people.

This study investigated the existence of elements that constitute a "worker health culture" in the Federal Higher Education Universities of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UFE-RJ), considering worker health issues and shared ways of experiencing them. The research adopted a mixed-method, exploratory approach, comprising a bibliographic and field study (CAAE: 68522123.6.0000.5255), structured into two integrated studies, and grounded in conceptual references on health (WHO and Dejours), culture (Geertz), and organizational culture (Schein). The Study 1 involved a bibliographic review and a field survey with 145 participants from 75% of UFE-RJ institutions. It analyzed organizational culture using the IBACO scale (reduced version) and applied inferential statistics (SPSS), identifying cultural proximity among UFE-RJ institutions, with a prevalence of cooperative professionalism (VPC) and external integration practices (PIE). A questionnaire assessing worker health problems, directed care, and levels of cultural observability was analyzed using IRAMUTEQ, identifying worker health issues explored in Study 2 and cultural elements related to worker health. The Study 2 was a qualitative, exploratory case study involving 14 participants from one UFE-RJ institution in five data collection workshops. The methodology combined Dialogical Emancipatory Narrative Analysis (ANDE) and Instructions to the Doppelgänger, considering workers as experts in their own work experiences. The narratives reaffirmed the worker health issues identified in Study 1, organizing them into five categories that highlighted coping strategies, shared experiences, and learning processes suggestive of the existence of a worker health culture. This culture reflects an organizational culture focused on institutional goals (teaching, research, and extension) that prioritizes students over worker well-being. The main cultural threat to worker health in UFE-RJ institutions is precarious labor conditions under a framework of "shortages" within a political environment. This leads to the normalization of these shortages and the failure of formal attempts at solutions, resulting in passive acceptance of using personal resources for workplace infrastructure and well-being. Workers learn that the "magic" of meeting their needs depends on building good relationships. A joint analysis indicates that workers internalize beliefs, values, and unconscious assumptions that trap them in unfavorable ways of managing health, reinforcing a worker health culture that prioritizes achieving work-related goals at the expense of worker well-being. The study confirms the existence of a "worker health culture", contributes to its conceptual development, and suggests the inclusion of a fourth institutional pillar in UFE-RJ universities, focused on "worker health", to balance organizational objectives (goal pillars) with the promotion of workplace well-being as a means-oriented pillar.

This thesis investigated the social representations of sports as a public policy in Baixada Fluminense, based on two complementary studies focused on the proponents (Study A) and beneficiaries (Study B) of these policies. The objective was to understand the meanings attributed to sports by different social groups and to identify symbolic tensions and mismatches between conception and expectations in the implementation of public policies in the region. Study A consisted of semi-structured interviews with 32 participants involved in the management and proposal of sports projects. Content analysis and statistical lexical analysis were used with the support of IRAMUTEQ software. The results indicated three central axes in the managers' representations: sports as a tool for social transformation, inclusion, and ethical and disciplinary formation. Furthermore, symbolic tensions emerged between the discourses of community leaders and public managers, reflecting disputes over meaning and different logics of action. Peripheral dimensions, such as health promotion and sport as a philosophy of life, also emerged, highlighting their adaptive role in the everyday redefinition of sports practice in peripheral contexts. Study B involved 486 beneficiaries of public sports policies, using the free word recall technique, complemented by a sociodemographic questionnaire. It was observed that sport is associated with health, well-being, and belonging. Representations varied according to gender, age group, and length of participation: women and older adults highlighted therapeutic and relational aspects, while young men emphasized competition and performance. Barriers such as insufficient transportation, lack of time, and poor infrastructure limited participation, especially among the most vulnerable. Even so, sport was perceived as a space for care, identity, and citizenship, highlighting the importance of public policies sensitive to the singularities of individuals and territories. A comparison between the studies revealed a dissonance in the meanings attributed to sport. While the proponents adopt a technical-managerial approach with an emphasis on structural and collective goals, the beneficiaries express affective, relational, and everyday meanings. This divergence directly impacts the effectiveness of public policies, highlighting a gap between what is planned and what is actually experienced. The conclusion is that it is urgent to develop more democratic sports policies, with a solid institutional structure, continuous funding, and active community engagement. Sports must be understood not only as an instrument of social control, but as a right, a legitimate space for emancipation, inclusion, and citizenship. By illuminating these tensions, the thesis contributes to the improvement of public sports policies and the strengthening of actions more consistent with the realities of the Baixada Fluminense region

The present research was outlined from the challenge of creating a practical environment for the mandatory course of Medical Humanities 5, taught in the fifth semester of the Medicine program and carried out at the Maria Ortiz Primary Health Unit (UBSMO), in Vitória, Espírito Santo. The course aimed to develop listening, bonding, and welcoming skills. Through the Cartographic Method, we sought to understand the contributions of the practical environment to medical training by analyzing 1,061 Field Journal reports produced individually by 180 students, organized into 45 groups, as well as by the researcher, during the practices conducted in the 2022.2, 2023.1, and 2023.2 semesters. In this period, 178 users of the UBSMO, aged 5 years and older, were assisted. The encounters took place according to the spontaneous interest of the users or in response to urgent care needs and included 10 psychogeographic walk exercises, 78 interviews, 11 home visits, and 148 welcoming sessions inspired by the Psychological Walk-In Service. The analysis is structured into six Journeys. Journey 1 addressed the challenges of planning the course within a short timeframe, articulating concepts of Medical Humanities with the National Curricular Guidelines for the Medicine program, defining competencies, assessments, and activities that would initially take place at the CAPSi. Journey 2 described the creation of a Psychogeographic walk device which, by fostering a space of confidentiality and a common plan built in the classroom, encouraged attention to processuality and enabled the mapping of processes of subjectivity production in the territory surrounding the UBSMO. Journey 3 discussed the experience of developing and applying a semi-structured interview guide, with cartographic management, which required building a clinical setting together with the interviewees, developing methods and using soft health care technologies, thus providing an experience of approach and welcoming for patients. Journey 4 focused on reports of two home visits to patients with severe mental disorders, which functioned as an important device for health promotion and for resuming mental health care at the UBSMO. Journey 5 presented the development of an individual welcoming device, inspired by the Psychological emergency attendance model, which made it possible to embrace the processuality of narratives, coping strategies, and to weave interventions beyond pharmacological therapy. Journey 6 portrayed the effects enabled by supervision and case discussion for medical training through diverse learning settings: personalist, artisanal imitation, reflective, and clinical. This research functioned as an inventive laboratory of new possibilities of being medical students and future physicians, of understanding the challenges of medical education in implementing humanized practices, and—being a research in movement—of composing alternatives, new ways of acting in health care, inventing new pathways, movements, attitudes, skills, and tools that could enhance life and catalyze care processes centered on humanization.

Religious and spiritual beliefs and practices are often heightened in adverse situations as individuals search for meaning in life and finitude through their relationship with the sacred and transcendent. This qualitative study aimed to investigate, from a phenomenological-existential perspective, the perceptions and experiences of intensive care professionals regarding religiosity/spirituality in the face of stressors related to the daily routine of intensive care units and intensive care units. Data collection was conducted through in-person semi-structured interviews based on a previously prepared script. Twenty healthcare professionals, six physicians, six nurses, and eight nursing technicians, worked in ICUs of public or private hospitals in a municipality in southern Rio de Janeiro state, including for at least one year during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants also completed a self-administered questionnaire to collect sociodemographic and professional data. The reports were audio-recorded, fully transcribed, and analyzed using Amedeo Giorgi's Descriptive Phenomenological Method, focusing on understanding the general structure of the experience. The participants' reports were organized and analyzed based on four thematic axes, in which religiosity and spirituality were considered (1) on a personal level, seeking aspects related to the religious and/or spiritual experience of the interviewees; (2) in professional practice, focusing on professionals' perceptions and reactions to the religious and spiritual manifestations of patients/family members; (3) in professional practice, considering the experience of professionals' religiosity/spirituality in the workplace, including during the pandemic; and (4) in academic training. seeking to understand the preparation and contact with the topic during academic training and in-service training. Within each thematic axis, core meanings emerged from the analyses, and the corresponding units of meaning were named, described, and illustrated with participants' verbalizations. The data obtained showed that, in hospital practice, especially in the ICU, attention and acceptance of religious and spiritual expressions by healthcare professionals not only helps minimize the suffering of patients and families but also allows them to reflect on and make sense of the fragilities and vicissitudes that permeate human existence, including those related to life itself.

Currently, the study of well-being has gained increasing prominence, especially in high-demand, high-risk professions such as military police, where working conditions impose intense physical and emotional challenges that directly affect these professionals' quality of life. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the psychological well-being of military police officers from the Ceará Shock Policing Complex by assessing key psychological variables such as self-efficacy, locus of control, work engagement, and coping strategies. Data were collected from 194 officers. The following data collection instruments were used: the Perceived General Self-Efficacy Scale, the Levenson Locus of Control Scale, the Engagement Scale, and the Toulousian Coping Scale, all adapted for the Brazilian population. Advanced statistical analyses, including Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), demonstrated the suitability and validity of these tools in the policing context. The results indicated high levels of self-efficacy, internal locus of control, and engagement, with emphasis on the vigor dimension, which reflects energy and resilience. The predominance of adaptive coping strategies, such as seeking social support and control, suggests that police officers use effective mechanisms to cope with stress. The SEM revealed a significant positive influence of self-efficacy and coping (Control) and a significant negative influence of coping (Conversion) on engagement (Vigor). Regarding engagement (Absorption), a significant positive influence was observed for both self-efficacy and social distraction, the latter result being worthy of further consideration. Regarding stressors, operational risks, family conflicts, and financial difficulties stood out as the most cited by police officers. This study reinforces the need to strengthen personal resources and promote adaptive coping strategies to improve the well-being and mental health of military police officers. It is also recommended that institutions develop policies and practices that prioritize ongoing psychological health care, along with investment in training and preparation to deal with the challenges associated with their work. This work contributes to understanding the psychological specificities of working in special police units, highlighting the importance of public policies and interventions that meet the unique demands of these officers and promote their quality of life and professional performance.

The Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (AMAN) is a Higher Military Education Institution of the Brazilian Army that conducts the training of combat officers in the Military Military Education Line. The need to analyze the influence of self-efficacy and mindfulness on the AMAN cadet's motivation to lead arose due to the recognition that training leaders is one of AMAN's main objectives and the perception of the difficulty of leading in the current situation characterized by demanding missions, climates extremes, sleep deprivation, cultural dissonance, physical fatigue, prolonged separation from family and threat of serious bodily harm or even death. In the study, self-efficacy and mindfulness were considered as predictors of motivation to lead. self-efficacy can be understood as the ability that the individual believes they have to perform a certain task and be successful in challenging situations. Mindfulness can be understood as an intentional state of functioning that is characterized by engagement with the present time, leading the individual to new possibilities for interpreting situations and being open to new information with conscious strategies. Motivation to lead (MTL) requires the leader to have a satisfactory level of well-being and predisposition. 726 cadets from the 2nd and 4th years of AMAN Arms/Cadres/Service participated in the study, 375 (51.7%) from the second year and 351 (48.3%) from the fourth year. Participants were submitted to three questionnaires: the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), the Perceived General Self-Efficacy Scale and the individual differences construct called Motivation to Lead (MTL). The instruments were applied face-to-face, using smartphones, all in the same location. The data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS and AMOS programs, both version 19. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) procedures were carried out for the three instruments and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) of the Motivation to Lead Scale. The structure of the instrument has been changed. Thus, the first factor (motivation to lead with a social-normative basis) had 8 items. The second factor (lack of motivation to lead based on negative affect) had only 04 items and the third factor (motivation to lead based on calculation) had only 03 items. The use of the structural equation modeling technique revealed that, as hypothesized, there was a positive influence of self-efficacy and mindfulness on motivation to lead. Self-efficacy positively and significantly influenced the normative social factor of motivation to lead, and negatively and significantly influenced the calculative factor and the negative affect factor. Mindfulness negatively influenced the calculative and negative affective factors. However, the influence of mindfulness on the social normative factor was not significant. In general, the results obtained are in accordance with the literature, and are therefore expected for the present study.

This study's main objective is to identify the motivational factors and social representations of students from an agricultural technical college practicing physical activity in sports and leisure. The sample was made up of 120 students from a federal Technical College in the city of Seropédica/RJ, in their secondary school years, of both sexes and aged between 15 and 19 years old. To this end, two questionnaires were applied: Scale of Reasons for Practicing Physical Activity (MPAM-R), which is a scale that evaluates five reasons for practicing physical exercise; and a General Information questionnaire prepared by the author, containing questions regarding personal information, such as: education, age, gender and information about physical activity. Furthermore, a free word recall scheme was incorporated in relation to the topic studied: Physical Activity. The analysis of data from the structural approach to representation was carried out through similarity analysis and prototypical analysis, with the help of the IraMuTeQ software and the motivational factors related to this theory were treated through inferential statistics using the SPSS 20.0 program, version for Windows ®. The results highlighted the term health as a central element of the representation and also as the main motivational factor. The meaning of health exposed in this research shows the importance of adhering to physical activity to achieve a healthy life. This research was completed in February 2024.

The burden associated with caring for a person with a chronic-degenerative disease can impact the health and quality of life of the family caregiver, increasing their stress levels and symptoms of depression and anxiety. The present study aimed to delineate, implement, and evaluate the effects of a multicomponent online group intervention based on Mindfulness, with family members who take care of people diagnosed with dementia, having psychological well-being, stress and emotional state as variables of interest. This is an experimental research, with intervention and control groups (who participated in a psychoeducational intervention) and pre- and post-test evaluations. Family caregivers responded to the following instruments before and after the end of eight intervention sessions: Care Contextualization Questionnaire, Psychological Well-being Scale (EBEP), Lipp Stress Symptom Inventory for Adults – revised (ISSL-R), Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (EFM), and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Prior to the group sessions, the participants also answered the Caregiver Characterization Questionnaire and, only after, the Final Evaluation Questionnaire. Based on the data generated, intragroup and intergroup differences were analyzed, using non-parametric tests, as well as additional qualitative analyses were performed. The groups were composed mostly of women (86,7%), wives of family members with dementia (66,7%), with a mean age of 63,8 years, and presenting initial qualifying measures of anxiety (73,3%), depression (53,3%) and moderated or severe levels of stress (53,3%). In the analysis of objective measures of emotional variables, stress, psychological well-being and Mindfulness, a statistically significant improvement was observed in the experimental group, only in measures of depression and distress based in intragroup analysis. Positive reports were obtained after the intervention regarding the benefits of participating in group sessions, with appreciation of gains in emotional self-regulation, in the development of stress self-management skills and in exchange and support with peers, evidencing changes in self-care, emotional state and the way of dealing with their families. This type of intervention may be promising to favor the well-being of family caregivers, with potential benefit also to their family members diagnosed with dementia.

This research aims to investigate the relationship between the concept of individuation process proposed by Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) and the sport of BMX Freestyle Cycling. Through this analysis, the intention is to foster an enriching debate on the need for public policies to encourage sports participation. This work seeks to contribute to social psychology and the promotion of public policies for sports practices as a means of fostering citizenship for those directly or indirectly connected to social phenomena related to this sport.

To achieve these objectives, the research adopts a narrative approach, constructed through a literature review that includes materials available in the field of analytical psychology, as well as content related to the practical sports field. This interdisciplinary approach aims to better understand the complex biopsychosocial relationship that involves individuals engaged in BMX Freestyle Cycling, considering both the development of their personalities and the impact on the dynamics of the social groups to which they belong.

Exploring the connections between Jung's individuation and the practice of BMX Freestyle Cycling, this research aims to shed light on the positive relevance that sports participation can have on individuals and society as a whole. Emphasizing the importance of public policies that encourage these practices as a means of promoting active and healthy citizenship, benefiting not only the individuals involved but also society as a whole.

La présente étude vise à identifier les aspects psychossociaux de l'impact de la pandémie de covid-19 sur la vie des étudiants universitaires brésiliens et vise à identifier les représentations sociales de la vie universitaire pendant la pandémie de COVID-19. La pandémie de SRAS-COV-2 a remis en cause tous les systèmes traditionnels en place et testé différents secteurs de la vie quotidienne. Bien que le domaine de la santé soit un point sensible, il a également imposé des défis à l'éducation, au commerce, à l'économie et aux relations interpersonnelles. Dans l'enseignement de base, les effets délétères étaient visibles avec des taux d'abandon élevés et des performances jugées bien en deçà du souhaitable. À l'université, les défis étaient également grands, allant de la dynamique d'enseignement-apprentissage, à l'impossibilité de ce secteur à faire face aux angoisses et aux peurs générées par l'expérience d'une pandémie. À l'aide de la théorie des représentations sociales créée par Serge Moscovici, nous cherchons à identifier les aspects psychosociaux impliqués dans la relation des étudiants avec l'université et leurs projets professionnels pendant la pandémie. 200 étudiants de premier cycle et des cycles supérieurs ayant suivi au moins deux périodes pendant la période la plus grave de la pandémie (2020/2021) seront interrogés. Nous utiliserons googleforms avec une tâche d'évocation gratuite et des questions ouvertes. L'apport de la Théorie des Représentations Sociales dans notre recherche nous permettra d'analyser les interactions complexes qui se jouent dans les situations éducatives, avec les systèmes de croyances et de valeurs mobilisés par les groupes sociaux en présence, correspondant aux fondamentaux des représentations sociales.

The new high school curriculum comprises a common part (Basic General Education) and a flexible part (Formative Itineraries). It is expected that students will be able to delve into one or more areas of knowledge and/or technical and professional training, according to their interest and the capacity of the network/school to offer. However, so many changes in the curriculum may contribute to increased anxiety among students. This study aims to conduct a literature review on publications regarding the implementation of the New High School in various regions of the country and discuss how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be useful in treating anxiety among adolescents. In the literature review, articles found with systematically chosen pre-defined keywords and inclusion and exclusion criteria will be analyzed. This dissertation is organized in the form of two articles that aim to answer the research objectives. The results point to challenges in the implementation of the New High School, such as misinterpretation of curricular guidelines, low student adherence to formative itineraries, and the precariousness of public education. Concurrently, research on the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating anxiety in adolescence indicates its effectiveness but emphasizes the need for more specific studies to adapt interventions to the particularities of this age group and overcome methodological limitations.

Breast cancer (BC) is the most prevalent type of cancer in women, with a high number of cases and deaths. Aiming to reduce these numbers, coping strategies are used, such as screening and early diagnosis. However, the scenario in Brazil is not favorable and patients still face challenges in undergoing screening tests and starting treatment when diagnosed with the disease. Furthermore, when initiated, the adherence rate to treatment is below ideal, especially Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy (TEA), so that several predictors are involved, such as psychosocial factors. As it is a disease that influences the entire context of a woman's life, interventions that aim to improve treatment adherence rates or the psychosocial factors involved need to be considered so that this problem can be addressed. Psychosocial Interventions (PI) have shown promise in different contexts. Therefore, this work was divided into three chapters. Chapter I aims to define concepts about CM for a better later understanding of the work, in addition to portraying the scenario of screening, early diagnosis and treatment of CM in Brazil. Chapter II is a comprehensive scoping review that aimed to define the psychosocial factors involved in the process of adherence and/or persistence of ASD, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Finally, chapter III is a systematic review of randomized clinical trials, which summarized the PIs available in the literature to improve adherence to ASD as well as the psychosocial factors described in chapter II.

This research evaluated how nursing technicians perceive stress in the medical clinic sector of the Santa Casa de Barra Mansa hospital. In this sector, made up of 59 beds, there are hospitalized patients cared for by the SUS (Unified Health System), divided into male and female wards. This work is based on the assumption that each person has a way of conceiving and reacting to stressful events and that nursing technicians are among the professions considered the most stressful (KOINIS, 1984). The research aimed to analyze, in the nursing technicians' view, the stressful factors in patient care, the stressors present in the medical clinic environment and how stress at work impacts the tasks at the medical clinic, satisfaction at work and in life. To obtain the results, the qualitative method was used, and an open questionnaire containing 19 questions was applied to the 39 participants. The responses were analyzed a posteriori by Laurence Bardin content analysis. The investigation focused on conceptions of stress and its emotional, psychological and physical reactions; and its consequences on work and personal life. As a result, it was noticed that 76.92% of participants feel that their work in the medical clinic is stressful, with relationships with patients being the most prominent among the stressors. What was concluded from the research was that stress for nursing technicians impacts their emotional, physical health and interpersonal relationships, affecting satisfaction at work and in life. Although the results point to this conclusion, this research is not conclusive and opens up space for new discussions on the topic of stress in the hospital environment of the medical clinic for nursing technicians.

The present study aims to analyze the influence of the variables job satisfaction and Burnout syndrome on the work engagement of military police officers in the State of Roraima. The research is classified as cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative, the participants are professionals who are carrying out their work functions in the institution, differentiated according to gender, age group and location where they carry out their activities. The mental health of these professionals needs to be highlighted in the scientific field, due to the vulnerability experienced by this public security agent, given the pressures and dangers inherent to the profession, in addition to the indispensability of the services provided to society. The theoretical basis of the study is positive psychology, theorized by Martin Seligman, which aims to focus on the elements that contribute to the happiness and development of the individual in the personal and professional spheres, promoting well-being and preventing pathologies. 252 military police officers from the state of Roraima participated in the present study, 230 (91.3%) men and 21 (8.3%) women (one participant chose not to identify their gender) with ages ranging from 25 to 50 years (average of 35.21 years and standard deviation of 5.53 years). .Participants completed a questionnaire consisting of 4 parts. The first part was intended to collect sociodemographic data: age, sex and place of work. The second part was composed of the Job Satisfaction Scale. The third part was composed of the Work Engagement Scale. Finally, the fourth part of the questionnaire consisted of the Burnout at Work Inventory. As hypothesized, the results showed a significant positive influence of job satisfaction on work engagement and a significant negative influence of Burnout syndrome on work engagement. The results are discussed in terms of strategies aimed at health and quality of life in the context of the Military Police of Roraima.

This dissertation discusses important points about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people's mental health. COVID-19 pandemic on people's mental health and the issue of medicalization as the predominant response. It is true that social isolation and changes in routin can lead to symptoms such as anxiety, sadness, insomnia and other manifestations such as emotional problems. In addition, it is understandable that people face difficulties during this period of social deprivation. However, it is important to emphasize that the approach to mental health should not be limited to medicalization alone. A balance between forms of treatment is considered fundamental, recognizing that medicalization is not the solution and that each individual can respond differently to different types of intervention. The study was carried out by analyzing of psychotropic drugs dispensed in two pharmacies (A and B) in the municipality of Barra Mansa, in the state of Rio de Janeiro; before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that pharmacy A from 2018 to 2019 there was a trend towards increased consumption of psychotropic drugs, especially antidepressants and antipsychotics, in the pre-crisis period, but total consumption from 2019 to 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic fell by 9.02%. At pharmacy B, in 2020, at the height of the pandemic in Brazil to the year 2021, there was a 26.35% reduction in total consumption of psychotropic drugs. In the period of decline in cases of the disease in 2022 in the post-crisis period, a 3.24% drop in the consumption of these drugs was observed, however consumption of anxiolytics increased by 149%. These results show only a that there was an increase in the consumption of antipsychotics and an increase in the consumption of anxiolytics in the post-crisis period, highlighting the health crisis which has brought about significant changes in people's lifestyles.

Public service exams are the method through which the Brazilian public administration selects its workforce, encompassing both civilian and police/military organizations. Research indicates that cognitive and socio-emotional skills directly influence academic and professional success, such as time management, personality traits, and self-efficacy, which enable individuals to plan tasks effectively, maximize productivity, demonstrate persistence, maintain motivation, and have a positive perception of their abilities. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between time management, the achievement factor of personality, and self-efficacy among individuals preparing for public service exams in military and police fields. The sample consisted of 107 candidates from Rio de Janeiro, aged 18 to 48. To measure the variables, the following instruments were used: a sociodemographic questionnaire, the long version of Barkley's Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale (BDEFS) to evaluate Time Management, the Factorial Personality Battery (BFP) to analyze the Achievement Factor, and the New General Self-Efficacy Scale (NGSE) to assess self-efficacy. Results revealed a predominance of female and single participants, with most showing interest in Armed Forces exams. Additionally, 68 participants reported prior approval in previous exams, and 56% were preparing for exams while holding a paid job. The average score for Time Management was 37.42, while the average for Self-Efficacy was 23.48. A medium-level classification in the Personality Achievement Factor was obtained by 33.6% of the candidates. A weak negative correlation was found between Time Management and Self-Efficacy, a weak positive correlation between Self-Efficacy and the Achievement Factor, and a moderate negative correlation between Time Management and the Achievement Factor. It is hoped that the results of this study contribute to discussions about the characteristics and profiles of candidates in the public security field, as well as the development of intervention strategies to enhance performance and mental health.

The Covid19 Pandemic has shaken society and personal life across the planet. There have been profound and important changes in the world since its emergence, which affected not only the individual, but the entire global society, involving health, education and the local, national and global economy. During and after signaling its end by the WHO. uncertainty was and still is a striking fact, for the individual and the world of work. When it comes to expectations for the future, uncertainty is always a present fact, however, in this pandemic context that we have recently experienced, it has been notably exacerbated. Thus, thinking about the drastic changes caused by Covid19 that affected social regulations, the individual's physical, psychological and financial health, with a strong impact on the world of work, this study aims to investigate the influence of variables indicating weak standards (Red Tape, Organizational Anomie and Social Anomie) and well-being indicator variables (Affective Organizational Commitment, Work Involvement and Job Satisfaction) on future expectations in relation to COVID 19. It is an empirical research, adopting the quantitative method , whose data were subjected to statistical methods, with the aid of IBM SPSS (Statistical-Package for the Social Sciences) and AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures) statistical software. Standardized instruments were used for data collection: Organizational Anomie Scale (Souza & Ribas Jr, 2013), Red Tape in Organizations Scale (Souza et al, 2017), Margins of Society Scale - MOS (Travis, 1993), validated for Brazilian samples by Formiga and Souza, 2011), Well-Being at Work Inventory (IBET-13), Affective Organizational Commitment Scale (Bastos et al., 2008), in addition to the Future Expectation Scale in Relation to Covid19 – EEFRC, which was considered adequate in its initial validity criteria for the purpose of carrying out studies with Brazilian samples. 305 workers from public and private organizations in Rio de Janeiro participated in the research, 56% female and 44% male. The results showed that work influences Future Expectations in relation to Covid19, negatively impacting organizational anomie and red tape and positively impacting Well-being at work and Affective commitment at work. It highlighted the influence of social anomie on the organizational variables studied; as well as the negative correlation between positive variables (job satisfaction, affective organizational commitment, work involvement and future expectations in relation to covid19) and a positive correlation in negative variables for the employee and the organization (organizational anomie and network tape). These results suggest the complexity of interactions between psychosocial variables that go beyond relationships in the world of work, forming a network with the entire social context, in a scenario as challenging as that experienced during the pandemic. This scenario demonstrates the relevance of considering the influence of the social context on work processes, especially regarding the psychology of its employees and always looking for actions that improve the well-being of each of its members.

The performance of Psychology professionals at the hospital setting is marked by the institution’ characteristics and its operational dynamics. In the present work, the organisation of the Hospital Psychology Service through the Assistance Model of the Psychological Consultation-Liaison has constituted the principal aim of this investigation. As a starting point, it was questioned if the Consultation-Liaison can constitute a strategic and viable tool to the effectiveness of the psychological work within multiprofessional teams at the hospital routine. The research, which was configurated as quantitative and qualitative aimed to describe the systematisation process and evaluate the protocol results of the Psychological Consultation-Liaison operating on a public federal hospital located at the city of Rio de Janeiro; analysing the effects of its implantation on assistance action and interprofessional relationships. Considering the proposed goals, the investigation was developed unfolding itself in three distinct and interconnected studies, in which the results have been described and analysed, thus producing three scientific articles. The first one, presented the building process of the Psychological Service at the previously mentioned hospital, which is a reference in Surgical Specialities, reporting its history and structuring based on documents that have composed the process of the service’s implementation. The employed method was the Dialogical Emancipatory Narrative Analysis. On the second article, it was sought to describe and systematise the Consultation-Liaison actions made on the Psychological Service setting, throughout the years of 2017 and 2021, alongside the others hospital sectors, which included its organisation structure, functioning dynamic and outstanding results. To do so, the documental analysis was applied and the generated data were submitted to the simple descriptive statistical analysis. The Standard Operational Protocol of the Psychological Consultation-Liaison was made known and the triggered processes by this practice were analysed. It was presented 833 Psychological Consultation-Liaison solicitations coming from clinical and surgical teams of the hospital. The clinics that solicitated the assessment procedures the most were the Medical Clinic (38,17%), followed by Social Service (13,32%) and General Surgery (10,56%).  The main reasons for its requirements were: Support within hospitalisation (31,57%), Psychological Evaluation for the patient (16,45%) and Palliative Care (13,56%). On the third article, the deployment effects regarding the systematic practice of the Consultation-Liaison about the interprofessional relationships assessed from the perspective of 20 professionals from different specialities, such as staffs, residents, nurses, nutritionists, social workers, nursing technicians, workers, and former workers of the hospital, that answered an electronic, self-administered questionnaire. Furthermore, it was sought to investigate these participants’ perceptions about the knowledges, skills and attitudes required from psychologists for the interrelations with other professionals on this context; as well as getting to know the impressions about the Psychological Consultation-Liaison based on its own experiences, investigation the senses attributed to the experimented phenomena. All the participants considered the Consultation-Liaison necessary and able to help with the development of professional competences and skills. The respondents declared that the Psychological Consultation-Liaison can integrate the multiprofessional teams, facilitate the interpersonal communication, amplify the understanding regarding the patients and mediate conflicts. These three studies corroborated with the thesis that the Psychological Consultation-Liaison as an Assistance Model is, in fact, capable of building a strategic and viable tool for effective psychological work within multiprofessional teams on the hospital routine through its systematisation, assisting on the institutionalisation of the Psychology Service in general and surgical hospital.

In recent years, there has been an increase in scarification practices among adolescents. The DSM-5 considers non-suicidal self-injury to be an independent diagnostic dimension and includes it in the category of disorders that require further research and revision of their diagnostic criteria. The World Health Organization (WHO) includes self-injury in the context of self-inflicted violence, making a series with suicide attempts, suicide, self-harm and self-punishment.  This paper aims to address cutting as an act in the face of the emergence of anguish in the adolescent journey, as this journey involves necessary overcoming of the embarrassments experienced by adolescents in relation to identifications and the mirror. Adolescence and its crossings demand a series of elaborations from the subject (Alberti, 2004) and particularly during this time of life, the identity verdicts of the Other are particularly acute (Soler, 2014). It can be seen that the vast confusion of nosological criteria following the weakening of the psychoanalytic framework and the adherence to organicist currents have fostered reductionist practices in line with the "ideology of suppression of the subject." The risk of such therapies therefore lies in the lack of problematization about the psychic etiology of self-injury and scarification, when they are only described from an observable phenomenological point of view. In the psychoanalytic clinic, on the other hand, cuts on the skin reveal both the possibility of adolescent subjects resorting to identifications and the shattering of their self-image in the mirror by the shape of their body. It is possible to understand, however, that the symbolic work involved in the adolescent journey with its possible tears in the image can be permeated with anguish. In this sense, we are betting on a speech-oriented therapy that favors elaborations as subjective outlets in adolescence in the face of the risks present in acts.

The present study investigates the implementation and impacts of public policies targeted at terreiro communities in Nova Iguaçu, with a specific focus on the active search program for families belonging to these communities for inclusion in the Unique Registry for Social Programs. Recognizing the historical context of exclusion and violence against non-hegemonic groups in Brazil, especially Afro-descendants, this work highlights the importance of terreiro communities as sacred spaces for preserving African traditions and as agents of a more inclusive and diverse society. The research, conducted between 2021 and 2023, observed a significant increase in the number of families enrolled in the program, and evaluated the qualitative effects of the policies, particularly concerning access to basic services such as health and education for neighboring communities to the terreiros. The analysis of social representations of individuals self-declared as belonging to terreiro communities in the Unique Registry provided insights into the perceptions and needs of these communities, with a focus on issues related to education and health. This study contributes to understanding the role of public policies in the inclusion and well-being of terreiro communities, highlighting challenges, opportunities, and the need for inclusive and culturally sensitive approaches in the formulation and implementation of local public policies.

The research aimed to investigate the functional daily life of Occupational Safety Technicians (TSTs) in their perception of indicators of suffering at work. This proposal was relevant given the few scientific research works evidenced in Brazil that sought to explore the work practice of TSTs. As specific objectives, it was proposed: to identify psychosocial risk factors with the potential to promote suffering at work; to discuss subjectivity in the human-work interface and to determine coping strategies used to deal with the obstacles of daily work. Regarding the method, we chose to conduct a quantitative and qualitative research study with a descriptive design, based on two studies. In study 1, for the quantitative analysis, the Workplace Distress Indicator Scale was used, with 28 questions, divided into 3 factors: meaning at work, mental exhaustion and recognition at work. The scale, derived from the Protocol for the Assessment of Psychosocial Risks at Work, was formatted in the Google Forms tool and distributed to different regions of Brazil. In study 2, 1 face-to-face meeting was held to conduct a semi-structured collective interview with a group of 4 participants, aiming to explore subjective variables of categorized narratives, through the content analysis technique. In the results of the first study, 78 participants indicated mental exhaustion as the indicator of greatest potential for suffering at work, where most of the items were classified as medium and borderline risk potential. In the other factors, the significant majority of items presented themselves as indicators of low risk in promoting suffering. In study 2, the TSTs ratified and highlighted mental exhaustion as a factor indicative of suffering, in communion with different categories of content analysis, defined a posteriori, such as: low autonomy; difficulties in interpersonal relationships with leaders; work organization and technical and interpersonal strategies for coping with difficulties at work within the scope of the intersubjective processes of the organizational collective. In the final considerations, the perception of indicators of suffering at work and the presence of psychosocial risk factors in the daily lives of the participants were highlighted, in addition to the importance of using strategies to cope with indicators of suffering at work. Furthermore, this work contributed to bringing to the discussion perceptions and narratives of a professional category still little explored in the Brazilian scientific scenario. However, given the considerable limitations of the research, it is considered relevant to develop more quantitative and qualitative studies, based on the psychodynamics of work, to better determine indicators of suffering and psychosocial risk factors in the work context of TSTs.

The context of institutional care in Brazil has historical roots in social and racial inequality. The profiles of families, children, and adolescents who enter these institutions, and often remain for more than two years, are marked by socioeconomic vulnerability and institutional racism. Given this context, the aim of this research was to investigate the racial intersections within adolescent care institutions, focusing on racial literacy practices and proposing intervention strategies to improve care practices. The study was conducted in care homes in the Baixada Fluminense region, with the goal of capturing the perceptions of professionals and adolescents on the topic. Additionally, a racial literacy workshop was held for institutional care workers, aiming to transform and enhance their practices. Methodologically, data triangulation was employed using multiple methods: Integrative Literature Review (ILR), Focus Groups, Semi-Structured Interviews, and the Workshop. For data analysis and interpretation, Content Analysis and Core Signification methods were applied. The results indicated a lack of racial literacy within the institutions and insufficient training of professionals on racial issues. A significant divergence was also observed among professionals regarding what should or should not be addressed in care homes concerning this topic. Among adolescents, the absence of racial literacy appeared to hinder the processes of self-definition, self-assessment, and racial identity development. However, the results of the workshop were positive, highlighting the urgent need to racialize the care environment, making it truly protective for this group. The findings also underscored the importance of increased investment in research and projects that can contribute to the reformulation of institutional care practices through racial literacy

The Binge Eating Disorder affects a significant portion of the world population, becoming increasingly relevant from the scientific point of view and increasing research on the subject of eating disorders. It is known that the etiology of these disorders is multifactorial and complex, therefore, studies about associations, precipitating, predisposing and maintaining factors are important contributions. The present study aims to investigate the relationship of attentional and executive aspects with binge eating, seeking to analyze their neuropsychological profile. Obtaining knowledge to intervene more effectively in the treatment and monitoring of individuals who fit the disorder. The research will use the following instruments: Anamnesis, Barkley Scale of Deficits in Executive Functioning- BDEFS, Barratt Impulsivity Scale- BIS, Eating Compulsion Scale- BES, On-line Attention Tests- AOL, Five Digit Test-FDT. The sample was divided into severe and non-severe, considering the severity of the binge eating disorder of each participant, based on the results of the BES scale. The influence of each aspect was analyzed using the instruments in each sample, indicating a significant correlation between severity and deficits in self-regulation/self-control, general impulsivity, and attentional impulsivity.

The COVID-19 virus has caused changes in the central nervous system in people who have been exposed, particularly in cognition. One of the affected cognitive functions has been executive functions (EF). These enable goal-directed behavior, evaluating the behaviors adopted for this purpose, discarding ineffective ones, solving problems that may arise on this path, and making decisions congruent with expectations. This study aims to investigate the executive functions of adults treated at the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital who had COVID-19. 50 patients participated (16 men and 34 women), aged between 18 and 60 years, residing in the state of Rio de Janeiro, diagnosed with COVID-19 and referred by SISREG for Post-COVID outpatient care. To investigate executive changes, the Digits subtest, the Five Digit Test, and the Barkley Scale of Executive Functioning Difficulties were used. Changes in cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, self-reported executive functions, as well as the presence of disexecutive symptoms were found. Thus, the findings will be relevant to understanding the executive changes arising from this virus, as well as providing new possibilities to be adopted in neuropsychology and psychotherapies.

The pregnancy-postpartum cycle is marked by several significant changes that require multidisciplinary attention to women's health, in order to offer comprehensive assistance to prevent obstetric complications, as well as avoid mental suffering. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and understand the factors that affect the emotional state of pregnant and postpartum women that may increase the risk of depression and its repercussions. Thus, an intercultural study was carried out, with a multiple case design, with the aim of investigating the influence of psycho-sociocultural factors on the experience of Postpartum Depression (PPD) reported by women from Latin American countries. Six women of different nationalities, who had experienced depression after giving birth. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with each of the mothers in individual meetings, based on a questionnaire designed to address aspects related to the history of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium; the vision of motherhood; the subjective and sociocultural aspects of the DPP; and experiences and perceptions of the DPP. To complement and contextualize the reports, the participants also answered questionnaires to collect sociodemographic data and obtain information on the clinical picture of PPD, as well as a script to complete sentences. Through a qualitative analysis, the information collected was integrated, highlighting the differences and similarities observed in the experiences and conceptions of the interviewees. Among the main results found, the presence of stressors stands out, such as marital difficulties, frustrated expectations and different types of violence, in addition, there were limitations and gaps in the health services of the different contexts analyzed, as well as evidence of oppressive sociocultural aspects. The women highlighted the importance of adequate professional follow-up and the need to strengthen support networks for coping with PPD and mentioned support groups and social networks as useful for sharing experiences and supporting mothers who are going through similar situations. By providing an understanding of the factors related to depression in postpartum Latin American women, the study highlighted the importance of promoting culturally competent care in the perinatal area to prevent or alleviate this type of suffering.

With the high rates of violence against women, the absence of public policies aimed at the safety and collective health of women in the Baixada Fluminense and of studies that investigated these movements in the territory, we identified the need to understand, in the encounter with the community, what these women face daily social structures that seem to impose invisibility on them. The study proposed to analyze the structural arrangements that cross the subjectivities of peripheral women in the territory of the Baixada Fluminense. For this investigation, the renowned decolonial methodology of Escrivência was used, inaugurated by Conceição Evaristo as a subversive academic provocation. Field records were made through the logbook device. The field work was carried out at the Social Assistance Reference Center in Austin, in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, where there were conversation circle experiences, interviews with technical workers and monitoring of technical assistance. We verified through the path taken that, in addition to the classic violence (physical, verbal and sexual), the structural violence of intersectionality is inscribed in the community, family and institutional relations of the daily life of peripheral women. We follow obscure, challenging paths that are alien to minority struggles. Thus, knowledge was deepened in what we understand in society, as women, the periphery and who we call peripheral women. From the subjectivation pervaded by the structural crossroads, we expand the discussion of the intersectionality inscribed in these women. With this, we identified the various types of violence as a result of the oppressive structures of gender, race and class and analyzed the data considering the decolonial proposal. In addition to the potent (r)existences found, we managed, through the methodology used, to approach the existential territory experienced by women and their violent structural intersections in relationships, institutions, daily life, in short, in the capillaries, which are often naturalized and reproduce the structures colonial. So, at the crossroads that this work reveals, as power and (r)existence, we recognize its relevance in the urgencies of threatening silencing in its naturalized capillaries.

The present work sought to investigate Brazilian secularism as a political-social phenomenon. This research is justified by the need to investigate the concept that is competed and practiced differently depending on the social group in which one is. We start from a psychosocial perspective having as main theoretical reference the Theory of Social Representations proposed by Serge Moscovici from the perspective of the structural approach. The psychosocial view of the theory of social representations allows a privileged look at the experiences and needs for understanding the reality shared by the groups in question: Christians and non-Christians. It was a data collection from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allowed the identification of causes, consequences, characteristics and social practices related to the type of understanding that each group has about secularism through free evocation tasks, sociodemographic questionnaire and questions to aid the analysis. The survey was carried out online through Google Forms and covered the entire state of Rio de Janeiro, involving people aged between 18 and 40 years old, 100 of whom were Christians (Catholics and Evangelicals) and 100 non-Christians (other religious beliefs or not). The data revealed the terms “freedom”, “equal” and “religion” as probable central cognems of the social representation of Christians and “freedom”, “respect” and “impartial” as a probable representational core of non-Christians.

This research aimed to identify social representations of antiracist practices in Brazil, investigating how Brazilians understand and practice their antiracist stance and what their information is about the practices. Despite the term "antiracist practices" having gained greater visibility in recent times, antiracism movements are historical and have produced, and still produce, changes and ruptures in structurally racist society. The psychosocial dissatisfaction of minority groups faced with discrimination, state negligence, social shortcomings, and in extreme but common cases of violence or death, led people to unite and protest against the systemic violence that, through racist logic of thought, government, and culture, affected them. Using the Theory of Social Representations and the Theory of Active Minorities, we also sought to measure the probable social influence that racial minorities potentially provoke in the psychosocial changes of racial prejudice through antiracist practices. A field study was conducted using virtual (online) descriptive instruments. We used the Structural Approach of Social Representations and the Theory of Active Minorities. The objective of this study is to identify social representations of antiracist practices in socially separated groups based on the variables: ethnic identity, gender, and education level. 200 participants over 18 years old took part in this research.

This project aims to identify social representations of quilombos and quilombolas in Brazilians divided into two groups, namely: group 1 – participants with complete and incomplete higher education; group 2 – participants with basic education (primary or high school). Faced with such an important and relevant topic for understanding the identity of the Brazilian people and society's relations with the black population, it is necessary to analyze and compare these contexts and their vicissitudes in social groups and in the circulating media. In particular, the narratives that help feed the socially shared discourse of social groups. It is equally relevant to understand the possibility of relationships between social representations and the discourses that involve quilombola communities, as well as their consequences in social practices. And, in this way, trying to understand where the racist narrative so widely spread comes from, as well as what social representations of Quilombo and quilombolas are present today.

The military profession has been identified as naturally stressful, given the series of demands that need to be faced in their daily lives and exposure to extreme situations, such as armed conflicts, involving risk to their own lives and those of their companions. In the military formation, such challenges are still present, since they must be prepared to face situations that are determined by their superiors in the constitutionally foreseen action. It is in this sense that the present study aims to investigate the role of hardiness and self-efficacy in the self-esteem of cadets at the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras. Hardiness has been pointed out in the literature as an essential variable for the adequate performance and health of military personnel. Self-esteem and self-efficacy, together, appear as variables highly related to health and well-being indicators. Then, the objective was to investigate such variables in the context of the formation of the Army combatant officer. Despite the importance of the hardiness variable, there are few studies in the Brazilian contexto. This situation is aggravated when considering military contexts in Brazil, mainly due to the fact that there are no adequate instruments for measuring the construct. Thus, the validation of a Spanish instrument for measuring hardiness also appeared as an objective of the present study, with the authorization for this having already been obtained from the authors of the original study. For the measurement of the variables in the cadets of the four years of the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (AMAN), three questionnaires were applied: Occupational Hardiness Questionnaire (OHQ), Perceived General Self-efficacy Scale (EAGP) and the Rosemberg Self-Esteem Scale (EAR). Data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS programs, both in the version 19. As a result, a strong correlation was obtained between the three studied variables, making it possible to validate the. In conclusion, it can be stated that the QHO is suitable for investigations in the Brazilian military context, at least with regard to AMAN. Investigations in other contexts, even in the military and considering Brazilian participants, will require new procedures for investigating the instrument's psychometric characteristics in the investigated context.

Enslavement is pointed out by several authors as one of the main traumas of Brazilian culture. Its affective charge, associated with memories, ideas, images and behaviors related could constitute na active cultural complex of its own, present in labor relations. In this way, this research proposes to investigate the possible existence of a cultural complex resulting from enslavement, manifest in contemporary employment relationships, despite the current legal protection. Therefore, the method used in this research will be in accordance with the theorical and practical epistemological field of Carl Gustav Jung's psychology, that is, the constructive-synthetic and the symbolic-archetypal, considering bibliographic reviews and statistical data, limited, above all, to the first twenty of the 21st century, focusing on the population of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

This study sets off from the concreteness of the social experience in the underprivileged urban territory to understand the transformations in the lives militants who took part in social struggles. We took as a starting point the current scenario of escalation of the structural crisis of capital and the dismantling of social rights for the lower social groups, in order to understand the effects of these factors on the experience of youth in a context of exclusion. Thus, based on the theoretical conventions of social psychology, we aim to investigate the changes that the social movement made in the life experience of the militants at a personal level, in their perception of the future, in the vision of themselves and of the present reality around them. Such transformations were studied through the memories of three residents of the Cerro Corá favela, in Rio de Janeiro, who got involved in the popular organization of their territory. We seek to rescue the memories of the struggle that began ten years ago with the beginning of the “Moradores em Movimento” group and with the engagement of the youth in the social movement “Levante Popular da Juventude”. Regarding the method, the research has a qualitative approach, through the interview medium, in which the answers were constructed and interpreted from an autobiographical narrative. The results cover the personal and social changes of the militants interviewed in the following aspects: new subjective perceptions of their identities and the social context; personal and community achievements through a praxis of struggle; political awareness of rights and expectations for the future.

The prevalence of people in situations of mental suffering has been growing progressively throughout the world, causing suffering to the individual, family and community, which places a high burden on society. The relevance of investment in the area is due to the fact that mental suffering and its effects are a matter of public health, human rights and socioeconomic development. With the advancement of Mental Health (MH) and Primary Health Care (PHC) Policies in Brazil, this research sought to understand how the two are linked in the country, in particular to analyze the MH practices carried out by PHC professionals. It took as its object of study a small municipality in the interior of Rio de Janeiro state. The methodology consists of a descriptive study, with a quantitative and qualitative approach, integrative review and case study. In the integrative review, articles, dissertations and theses published in the last 20 years in the country were investigated and which discussed MH care practices carried out by PHC professionals, seeking to narrow down their contributions, difficulties and challenges. The case study of the small town was carried out through context analysis and a family health unit (FHU) aiming to investigate how PHC provides care to users in mental distress. Two levels of data production were observed, those made available by the PHC Coordination and related to SM care throughout the municipality, and those produced at the FHU studied. In this unit, medical records were analyzed, made available in E-SUS, of SM users monitored by APS. When examining the medical records, the attributed diagnoses, medication prescriptions, how users were received and care practices were listed. Results: the set of problems presented in the integrative review demonstrates that the experiences underway in the country contradict the guidelines of the Ministry of Health (MH) regarding the articulation between SM and PHC, characterized by medical, individual and medication care. Collective activities are scarce and territorial work is minimal, generally restricted to home visits. There is a significant lack of training on the part of PHC professionals and matrix support has many limits to its implementation. With regard to the case study, it is noted that the municipality's PHC cares for numerous MS cases, but that data production is limited, as is the planning of actions based on them. There are disparities in the performance of PHC network units and, contrary to expectations, community mental health service often has more MH users per territory than the Family Health Strategy (FHS). Regarding the care provided at the investigated FHU, it was identified that just over half of the cases are related to mild to moderate conditions, most of them anxiety and depression, converging with the findings in the literature. The data reveal that 80% of the sample uses psychotropic drugs and that the majority of cases (75%) are treated with at least two classes of medication. We can see the local reproduction of literature findings, with a predominance of individualized care and the absence of collective, group and family care activities, denoting the hegemony of the individual clinic and also the centrality of drug treatment. No case discussions were recorded in 98% of the records and 100% of them are silent on articulation with the intersectoral network to conduct care. Regarding co-responsibility for care, it appears in 41.7% of cases, in the remaining 58.3% there is no mention of the process. Regarding the follow-up of cases by community mental health service, 65% of the records state that they follow up with the case in psychiatric and psychological consultations, however it is not possible to verify whether they carry out other collective or coexistence activities at community mental health service. Even though there may have been underreporting of the actions carried out at the FHU studied, the information obtained expresses the difficulties in putting the MH's normative guidelines into practice. It is believed that the results can contribute to improving care for SM users in the city's PHC, in addition to adding to the national production on the topic in the country.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a historic event of great impact in the fields of Health and Education. With the recommendation of quarantine, distancing and social isolation, schools were closed, as these institutions were considered virus dispersers, as had already occurred with the already known influenza virus (UNESCO, 2020; FIOCRUZ, 2020; WHO, 2020). The present work aims to investigate the effects of school closures and social isolation and the reopening of schools in the post-pandemic period on the crossing of adolescence and its implications for the processes of separation and losses triggered by the pandemic. According to surveys by UNESCO (2020), UNICEF (2020) and Fiocruz (2020), the closing of schools, on a global scale, had consequences for mental health, learning and an increase in situations of social vulnerability. It is necessary to expand research on the critical period of the pandemic and on the current moment. In the case of the field of Education, conducting research in schools to verify the effects of the pandemic and post-pandemic on the lives of children and adolescents is of great relevance. For Alberti and Pollo (2005) adolescence occupies a specific place in our subjectivity, a time that is marked by the separation of parents from childhood, by the construction of new ideals and by new sexual experiences, in short, a journey that implies a work of elaboration and losses. If adolescence already implies a process of elaboration of losses and separations, what did the pandemic as a traumatic time produce of losses and separations for adolescents? What marks were left by the pandemic on adolescent subjects? The research seeks to contribute to the implementation of a integrative literature review, analyzing articles that addressed the themes: adolescence, mental health, school and pandemic. The bibliographic survey points to the social inequalities that marked Brazilian society during and after the pandemic. In this research we will be guided by the contributions of psychoanalysis, articulating the concepts of trauma and anguish that marked the pandemic period and the mental health of adolescents.

The main objective of this study was to analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work dynamics of a CAPSi located in Baixada Fluminense, from the perspective of the multiprofessional team. Assuming that this service is located in a region characterized by unique socioeconomic challenges, it is considered that mental health professionals will also face significant changes in their personal lives because of  the way work was being reconfigured. Brazil, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, was marked by a high incidence of severe cases, resulting in hospitalizations and ICUS with so many cases, overloading the health systems, as observed around the world. The impacts go beyond the epidemiological scope and affect the population in diferente ways, especially those in a situation of social vulneraility. Even though infant mortality was lower compared to adults and the elderly, Brazilian children and adolescentes faced psychosocial challenges, especially those living in socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts. A strategy to mitigate the effects on mental health resulting from the pandemic was a approach provided by the services of the Psychosocial Care Network throught Brazil. Mental health professionals will have to adapt and face the demands that will arise over the two yeays of 2020, 2021 and 2023, incorporating coping strategies into their work practices. In order to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work dyamics of the CAPSi multiprofessional team, na exploratory qualitative research was carried out through semi-structured interviews with the 8 professionals who make up the CAPSi located in Itaguai, in Baixada Fluminense do Rio de Janeiro. The interviews were transcribed, analyzed for their contente and correlated with the information obtained in the bibliographic review. The results shows the emergence of new approaches in the professionals work processes, as well as a reduction in the articulation between the sectors. School calendars have a significant impact in these services, facing differents challenges every year. These results can support the planning of actions in emergency situations in public health and provide information to guide services in the post-crisis period.

This research aimed to describe and compare the social representations that two social groups have about the figure of the “good citizen”, based on their declared political position of right and left. This “good citizen” phenomenon points to a radicalization and political polarization in the country, reflecting a high degree of intolerance for divergent opinions in a democracy. In dynamic terms, political polarization is born out of the country's political history, greatly influenced by recent history, where we have as a starting point a true social upheaval called the Jornadas de Junho 2013. Associated with a serious economic crisis and corruption scandals, the Brazilian political polarization moves from a polarization on political and economic ideas to a moral and spiritual polarization, in the form of a struggle between good and evil. We started with a psychosocial analysis based on Serge Moscovici's Theory of Social Representations and Jean-Claude Abric's Theory of the Central Nucleus, with the help of the Iramuteq software for elucidating the social representations in these studies. This is a quantitative and qualitative research . For that, we used a triangulation of methods, from three main sources for the description and investigation of the phenomenon: the first study consisted of a free evocation task with 208 participants and a questionnaire with 10 questions about conflicting themes of everyday life, which we called practical social ; the second study presented the result of the analysis of two journalistic sources from markedly ideological social media for the analysis of the social construction of the “good citizen” by different political groups; the third research presented a case study on former deputy Jean Wyllys, analyzing the contents of hate speech on social networks where the free manifestation of political thought occurs and its consequences for the polarized climate of Brazilian society. As a result of the research, the social representations of the “good citizen” for the right-wing group consisted of the cognems “honest, hardworking and empathetic” and reveal an idealized citizenship with characteristics of religious traits such as centrality. For the left-wing group, the central cognems were: “honest, hypocrisy and Bolsonaro”, highlighting a more politicized face of citizenship. In media studies, the right-wing media anchors the “good citizen” in the figure of President Jair Bolsonaro, while the left-wing media explores the hypocrisy of the relationship between patriotism and citizenship. Finally, the case study on former deputy Jean Wyllys demonstrated the most violent face of politics, which is driven by social networks and directly violates human rights in the country. It is hoped that this work will contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon of political polarization in the Brazilian psychosocial scenario based on common sense and its social representations , with a view to the full exercise of citizenship in the country with respect to declared political positions.

The exercise of politics is something of everyday life and implies taking a position in the face of situations that arise in a country as diverse and multifaceted as Brazil. The country has experienced several political and social changes in recent decades: with the arrival of PT governments, Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, Michel Temer's presidency, and the election of Jair Bolsonaro. We have witnessed a shift in political positions within the social fabric and a rise in political stances that were considered a serious breach of social norms just a few decades ago. In Brazil, there is a growing idea of a conservative and right-wing political stance - based on the values of tradition and hierarchy - in opposition to the values advocated by a progressive and left-wing position that primarily defends the ideas of emancipation and equality. On the other hand, progressives also incorporate ideological conceptions that end up influencing their followers, often with agendas similar to those of conservatives but with diametrically opposed directions. This intensification of political and ideological positions, combined with the (mis)information spread on social media, has created a scenario where we strive to promote a greater understanding of the psychosocial processes involved. Drawing on the Theory of Social Representations and Serge Moscovici's Theory of Active Minorities, together with Jean-Claude Abric's Theory of Central Core, we sought to analyze and compare social representations of "politics" based on the participants' political positioning. This qualitative and quantitative research interviewed 305 people and used three instruments: an evocation task based on the term "politics," a sociodemographic questionnaire, and a questionnaire with open and closed questions about adherence to Brazilian daily life issues, as well as their adherence to thinking about political leadership. The data was processed using the Iramuteq software, which is developed based on the R software. Additionally, a focus group was conducted with individuals of different political positions, addressing some of the main topics addressed by political groups. The content analysis of the transcribed audio recordings from the focus group was conducted using Laurence Bardin's method. The results obtained from the evocation task point to a possible central core of social representations of politics in both left and right groups, based on the concept of corruption. The possible central core, based on the concept of corruption, indicates the consistency of concern for the integrity of political processes and their vicissitudes. The attribution of the cause of corruption is inversely proportional in each group: the left group attributes corruption to the so-called right-wing group and vice versa. The results of the questionnaire indicate a diversity of justifications for the choice of a political leader, which often dissociates from the individuals' own concept of the characteristics a political leader should have. Furthermore, the results of the focus group corroborate with the other data obtained. This research aims to contribute to a better understanding of the psychosocial factors involved in the political groups' positions on issues relevant to society and to contribute to the understanding of influence processes within social groups.

This study aimed to: (a) investigate the influence of self-esteem, self-efficacy and locus of control on self-assessment of leadership; (b) investigate which socio-emotional skills (behaviors and attributes) are associated with the military leadership of the officer (captains and lieutenants) and organize them into an instrument to measure the self-assessment of military leadership. This is a cross-sectional field research in the composition of the sample, carried out in the 2021/22 biennium, set at the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (AMAN), with the participation of cadets from the 4th and 5th years of the training course for officers of the Brazilian Army (n = 366). The following research instruments were used: a) Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale, b) the General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale, c) Levenson's Locus of Control Scale, d) and Moreno's Sociometric Test. The applied methodology relied on qualitative and quantitative collection and analysis techniques, derived from Grounded Theory and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). Among the research results, there is the development of a military leadership self-assessment scale. Exploratory Factor Analysis of the instrument showed satisfactory rates (KMO= 0.93; p< 0.01), leaving the scale systematized in 4 factors, which explain 41% of the variance. The factors group transversal competencies associated with military leadership. Regarding the main objectives, the data indicate that there is a significant positive correlation between the constructs self-esteem, self-efficacy and the leadership self-assessment scale (level 0.01). The externality locus of control (Chance and Powerful) presents significant negative correlations (level 0.01) with the transversal competences measured by factors 2, 3 and 4 of the scale. There are significant differences (0.05 level) in assessments of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and externality locus of control (Chance) as a function of military specialty (base weapon/support weapon).

Starting in the 1980s, a critical movement arose in relation to the pathologizing clinical approach, which blames the student or the family for school failure. The debate led to the constitution of critical educational school psychology, a perspective that sought alternatives for the justifications and models of attention to school complaints that are now widely used by psychologists. In the midst of this debate and as the challenge of not limiting the school complaint to psychopathological phenomena, we observe a growing resistance to the integration of the clinical approach in the interventions of the school psychologists. Any mention of a clinical model of care and intervention against school complaints is considered to be antithetical to a critical perspective of the psychologist's performance in school quests. The objective of this work is to analyze the foundations of the critique of the clinical model of approach to school questions, built in the 80s of the 20th century. The established hypothesis is that the critique of the clinical model of care for school complaints identified an intervention based on the contributions of the clinical-medical field and of psychometric trends, associated with the ideology of efficiency, to the clinical field, and restrict the scope of the clinic and create a series of resistances to the assimilation of contributions from the clinic for the understanding and intervention of the psychologist who attend school complaints. In addition, it is verified that the critical perspective was not able to eliminate the tendency to medicalize and pathologize school quests, which still influences the paths of the schools to the field of health. Psychoanalysis, its concepts and its connections with the field of education, will guide the challenge of reintegrating the clinical dimension into the approach to school complaints. The research used a literature review and a case study as methodology. Our results indicate the possibility of incorporating clinical dimensions in the school environment, considering the historical and social processes associated with the complaints, to avoid reproducing a pathologizing approach.

High-level stress can compromise a student&#39;s physical and psychological health, interfering with
their quality of life and academic performance. Knowing that excessive stress affects both an
individual&#39;s health and productivity, as well as experiencing a pandemic can cause mental health
problems, the objective of this work was to evaluate the perceived stress and quality of life of
students upon returning to school. face-to-face activities and offer a group treatment protocol, in
an online format, for stress management, verifying its effectiveness through a randomized
clinical trial. The results are presented through three articles included in this thesis. The results
are presented through three articles included in this thesis. The first article, through a cross-
sectional study, found that of the 174 respondents, 64.94% had a high or very high perception of
stress, with an average score of 23.34 (SD=5.27). Quality of life and its association with
perceived stress were also assessed. The results showed rates below 50% for the dimensions
related to Limitation due to physical aspects, General Health Status, Vitality, Social Aspects,
Emotional Aspects and Mental Health, indicating high limitations in all these areas, with a
strong negative correlation with the perception of stress, especially with the Mental Health
dimension (r=-.661; p&lt;0.01). In the second article, using a randomized clinical trial, the
effectiveness of group Stress Control Training (SCT) via telepsychology was observed for
reducing stress and depression levels and improving quality of life. After the end of the TCS, the
samples were compared and showed significant differences among themselves and, after the
intervention, only in the experimental group. At the end of the intervention, 80% of participants
achieved a reduction in stress phases, of which 60% were stress-free. There was a 45.37%
reduction in the average number of depressive symptoms and a significant improvement in five
domains of quality of life: Functional Capacity, Pain, Vitality, Social Aspects and Mental
Health. A strong association was identified between stress and depression, and these are
negatively correlated with several domains of quality of life. It is important to highlight that in
the follow-up assessment, carried out six months after the intervention, the assessment for stress
and depression remained significantly similar, with identification of a reduction in the average
number of depressive symptoms, suggesting maintenance of the results. In the last article, data
was presented on student satisfaction with the service model, analyzing factors such as
reception, training and the structure used. There was also a perception of change in relation to
the beginning of the intervention. Improvement was noticed after the intervention in 86.7% of
participants. There was high satisfaction among university students in all the factors analyzed,
with flexibility and ease highlighted as positive aspects in telepsychology. The results
demonstrated a vulnerability in the mental health of these students, associated with a greater
perception of stress, indicating the need for a greater offer of preventive activities such as
support groups, with special attention to stress management practices, investing in the use of
technologies in order to provide a greater number of students with access to psychosocial
support services.

Introduction: Experiencing a chronic illness commonly affects the quality of life of the individual and their family, in addition to the treatment having an economic impact on the health system. Asthma is one of the main chronic non-communicable diseases that affects people during adolescence, a phase of the life cycle marked by transformations, discoveries and decision-making. The limitations imposed by sudden asthma attacks can trigger depressive and anxious symptoms and contribute to the worsening of attacks, generating a picture of comorbidities. Objective: To analyze the effects of an integrative, individual, cognitive-behavioral psychological intervention focusing on Schemes, on the emotional state through the flexibility of Schemes and changes in behavior in the face of the trigger for asthma attacks in adolescents. Method: Multiple case study, with the participation of three adolescents with partially controlled asthma, carried out in a private Multiprofessional Clinic located in the southern region of Rio de Janeiro. The research was organized into three stages: a) Assessment of the adolescent's clinical and psychological profile, b) psychological intervention and c) post-intervention reassessment. The clinical assessment followed criteria and instruments based on the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), with the Asthma Control Test – ACT used to verify the degree of asthma control. The psychological profile was investigated through psychological interviews with adolescents and their guardians, as well as the application of the Personality Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (EPQ – J), Young Schema Questionnaire for adolescents (QEA, reduced form), Multidimensional Scale Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) and Baptista Depression Scale – Children and Youth Version (EBADEP-IJ). The intervention consisted of nine psychotherapeutic sessions using integrative techniques from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Schema Therapy. Narrative analysis was carried out based on participants' verbal reports and textual production about their experiences, in addition to notes in the researcher's field diary. Results: Moderate levels of anxiety were found in the three participants and symptoms of depression were predominantly classified as mild. There was a predominance of the Personality Trait Neuroticism and the Initial Maladaptive Schema of Vulnerability to Harm and Illness. Fear was highlighted as the predominant emotion and avoidant behavior as the main form of coping. The analysis of the narratives showed an improvement in adherence to medication to control asthma and changes in behavior when faced with situations with the potential for an asthma attack. Psychoeducation acted as an important tool in this process. Conclusion: The need to deepen research on the family profile is highlighted, as well as the importance of developing public policies that support the implementation of psychological interventions as adjuvants in the management of asthma.

Sport Psychology (SP) aims to study and comprehend behaviours and relationships
between subjects and sports and physical activities. Thenceforth, the scientific
knowledge is applied in order to improve professional sports’ efficiency, quality of life
and, also, individual and social development. SP recognizes that sports are often seen
for its ability to entertain, however, it has also tried to value its social, economic and
political aspects, which are as intrinsic as the entertainment one. Thereto, Social
Psychology of Sports, that sees the social aspects of sports, has increased its presence in
the area. Likewise, the concept of Sports for Development can be understood as sports’
capacity to facilitate change and development on several social segments, considering
its extension. The relationship between Sport Psychology and Sport for Development is
not frequently spoken of academically; therefore, the present qualitative research was
set to analyse the integration of these issues and how it is practiced. For this purpose,
interviews with Sport Psychologists, who work on sports institutions with social focus,
or spokesperson of these institutions, were made. These were selected through REMS –
Sport Network for Social Change; initially, 143 institutions were invited to participate,
however, only 9 institutions actually accepted and did the interviews. The data analysis
happened through the Bardin’s Analysis of Content, in which a categorial analysis
gathered in groups the themes discovered through the questions made. It was obtained
and analysed as results the categories referring to the Sport Psychology Practice on
Sport Institutions with social focus; it was identified the Benefits, Challenges and
Difficulties of the area and described the main sociodemographic characteristics of the
participants. It was concluded that the presence of Sport Psychologist in Sport
Institutions with social focus is extremely relevant, for they promote critical and
necessary reflections, in addition to facilitate the connection between sports practice to
the human development aimed.

The present work is a study on the sexuality of adolescent girls in the context of institutional care. During the preparation of the work, historical, social and psychological references about sexuality, violence and institutional youth care and sexual education were sought. In parallel, an Integrative Review of International Literature was carried out, through the databases BVS, SCIELO and PSYCINFO. The purpose of the bibliographical research was subsidiary access to publications made in the last 20 years within the theme of sexual rights of adolescents. The research will be carried out through remote meetings in four welcoming institutions, namely the Flor de Laranjeira Welcoming House and the Casa do Menor in Nova Iguaçu / RJ, the Municipal Shelter Community House - Caxias / RJ and the Municipal Welcoming Entity of Children - Seropédica / RJ. The objective of the work is to understand how sexuality in adolescence is understood by the technical team and educators, as well as to understand how adolescents and professionals from the shelter home deal with the sexual rights of these young people. The methodology used will be guided by the Bioecology of Human Development, which will seek to work with the bioecological model (person, process, context, time). Data collected through semi-structured schoolchildren. Data analysis will be done through the information collected from the recorded meetings and derived in the field diary of the team involved.

This paper aims to research institutional sheltering of children and teenagers of the city of Seropédica in Rio de Janeiro, analysing the causes that lead to sheltering and mainly how was the action of the technical team (psychologists, social workers and pedagogues.) towards family reinsertion. The applied methodology was qualitative, exploratory and documentary. The participants were the technical team of Casa da Criança institutional sheltering situated in Vera Cruz, a neighborhood of Seropedica in Rio de Janeiro which receives children and teenagers from 0 to 17 years old. The procedure was analysing datas from MCA census (Módulo Criança e Adolescente) of the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro that holds information about the juvenile population sheltered in the whole state. A questionnaire was also applied individually using the digital platform Google Forms through a signed Informed Consent form, according to the Committee on Ethical Research with Humans regulation, respecting human dignity and the protection of its participants as well as the data and informations obtained through the research. Due to the low number of participants there wasn't any necessity to categorize the answers "a posteriori" in percentual and simples frequency according to Bardin's content analysis (2011), therefore the answers have been discussed in dialogue with the used Theoretical Reference.

The present study is inserted in the context of military superior formation, but specifically in the formation of the Combatant Officer of the Brazilian Army, that occurs in 5 years, being the first in the Preparatory School of Army Cadets - EsPCEx (Campinas - SP) and the four years at the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras - AMAN (Resende - RJ). Accompanying the efforts that have been made by organizations in general, regardless of their size, or their characteristics, military organizations have sought to constantly update their staff, preparing them for the exercise of activities hitherto uncommon, such as operating in operations order guarantee, peace missions abroad and other attributions related to asymmetric conflicts. Specifically in the case of AMAN, teaching by skills was adopted since 2012. Thus, 19 soft skills are part of the training and can be differentiated in three dimensions: operational, managerial and relational. The development of such competencies is assessed as essential for adapting to military life and the performance of professional activities inherent to the Army officer. Thus, it is possible to affirm that those military personnel who have high levels of such competencies will also present indicators of well-being at work and in life in general, since they also have greater adaptation to the context. Thus, the present study aims to investigate the relationship between transversal skills and satisfaction with life and full awareness, in order to identify how these variables are related and can contribute to the success sought in the training of the combatant officer of the Army .

The present proposal focus on religious intolerance in Brazil, therefore, it aims to develop a tool with its own algorithm to assist a psychology professional to understand and describe quantum waves as a metaphor for religious human thought of a subject who seeks to improve homeostasis. Through the doctrine of Alan Kardec's work, he describes human thought as an analogy of quantum waves that are the characteristics of spiritual vibrations, using concepts from the psychological work of Carl Gustav Jung to correlate the data that will be stored in a database. This software uses three parameters - space, time, divinity. It presents affirmations, based on Kardecist doctrine concepts related to Physics, as well as classical Physics concepts. Based on mathematical calculations, it generates for each parameter, lines that represent vectors of Physics. These three vectors act as forces on a body that generate a resultant, which is called DRI - Degree of Religious Intolerance. The DRI is a parameter that facilitates the professional to intervene so that the subject (client) achieves the desired balance, through the Jungian based psychotherapeutic process.

The present work aimed to discuss the diagnostic approximations between intellectual disability and autism, in view of the consequences for autism treatment proposals. The conceptualization of these terms is linked to the social understanding of the time and therefore their understanding varies over the years. The diagnosis of disorders and disabilities is performed by psychiatrists, neurologists and psychologists, and based on this, goals for attention, analysis and treatment are drawn. The importance of discussing this topic can be seen in the clinic, as the course of treatment results from the formulation of the differential diagnosis. It was possible to notice a relationship between some proposed treatments for autism in an educational perspective. The view of autism as a deficit, or a disorder close to intellectual disability that affects development, contributes to pedagogical/educational therapeutic methods. If the child has a delay, it is possible and necessary to educate him. The association of child psychiatry with educational methods of treating child suffering is historic. In addition, comparisons of the development of an autistic person with a non-autistic person can lead to a relationship of what is considered good or bad, in which the autistic development needs to be as close as possible to the non-autistic person to be considered good for the autistic person. community in which he is inserted. This should also not be an excuse to not watch and not seek the development of autistic people, we understand the importance of sensory and educational stimuli, we do not deny them. But this is an argument to think that the development of skills common to non-autistic people should not be the only, or the main way of dealing with these cases, to the point of running the risk of excluding these people from their condition of subjects. .

The health of the elderly is a theme with a notable interest in contemporary times, given the exponential growth of this segment of the population. Thus, studies related to health promotion during the old age, are shown to be useful and necessary. The present research constituted in an almost experimental study, with a pre and post-test design, which evaluated the effects of a group psychological intervention, executed in an online manner, on the measures of self-esteem, self-rated health, self-care, and depression in the elderly. The intervention focused on body self-perception, and the stimulation of an active aging process. Five elderly people of both sexes, with a range of 63 to 77 years of age, residents in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro participated in this research. The study was divided in three phases. In phase 1, an individual semi structured interview with the participants was conducted, in order to gather sociodemographic and clinical data, and also to get to know their perceptions on their own personal health and body image, in addition to evaluate their initial self-care repertoires. Furthermore, the Brazilian version of the following scales were applied: Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale, Appraisal of Self-care Agency Scale, and the Geriatric Depression Scale. In phase 2, a Psychological Group Intervention was implemented, which happened in ten group meetings with a phenomenological-existential basis. In phase 3, after the end of the group intervention, the group of the participants were submitted to a new evaluation, with the reapplication of the instruments that were used in Phase 1. The perceptions of the participants on the themes of the study were described, and comparisons were made between the data obtained in Phase 1 and 2, through intragroup and intrasubject analyzes. In regards to the fist evaluation, it was found that the general average and, above all, the scored of the specific elderly people showed, in the post-test, higher levels of self-esteem and self-care, as well as a decrease in the indicative levels of depression. These data indicated potential benefits of the intervention, however, inferential analyzes, using the t-student test of the samples in pairs, pointed out that the intra-group differences found, were not statistically significant. Researches regarding the evaluation of group interventions with the elderly are necessary, as a way to encourage the creation of innovative, effective, and efficient health promotion strategies in old age, especially with the approach of psychosocial variables. Further studies with psychological interventions with groups of elderlies are suggested, however, with a larger number of participants and with a control group.

The present study aims to comprehend, broadly, the demands of school complaints during the literacy period. School complaint is understood, in the national literature on School and Educational Psychology, as the demands regarding school difficulties, which are largely formulated by families, teachers and the pedagogical body of the schools. The complaint during the literacy period is the most frequent among those presented as a reason for referring children and adolescents to psychology. We understand literacy in this work as a stage of the schooling process in which the acquisition of the writing code, knowledge and reading and writing skills is achieved. We will approach metalinguistic skills as important skills with a fundamental role in literacy. Thus, our objectives are: to discuss the modes of intervention of Psychology in the face of learning difficulties in reading and writing; describe an intervention model in cases of reading and writing difficulties that promotes a contribution to this process by Psychology; understand how metalinguistic skills can favor the process of reading and writing acquisition. For this, we seek, based on fieldwork, based on semi-structured interviews, to understand the possible forms of evaluation and intervention in this teaching-learning process. We conclude that there are assessment and intervention models that take into account the child's cognitive process, in an investigative way and beyond the simple result. These models also give relevance to relational and emotional aspects that are often revealed in the evaluation and intervention process.

The present work addresses the increasingly accentuated use of medical-pharmacological technology for the treatment of mental disorders. We understand this phenomenon as part of a more comprehensive one called medicalization, which can be described as the growing influence of medical jurisdiction on human life and its sufferings. These, which were once part of the very act of living, have been captured by explanations that consider them because of a disorder located in the body or in specific organs, such as the brain, in the case of mental disorders. In our understanding, the cerebralism to which we refer, disseminated by neuroscientific discourse, can be understood in a view of an analysis of the historical origins of the modern scientific paradigm that gives rise to medicine, as we know it. In this sense, we follow Nietzschean criticisms, regarding modern philosophy and science as heirs to the Socratic-Platonic philosophical tradition and Christianity. Of this inheritance, what matters most to us is the contempt for what is manifested in the body, say affections, desires and multiplicity, valuing the characteristics related to the soul, such as control, reason and unity.

Over the years, various transformations have been taking place in the working world, especially regarding the transition from vertical work to horizontal ways of thinking about production. In the health field, health care policies and programs have turned their practices towards comprehensiveness and care practices as the main changes in their conjuncture. When thinking about practices that go beyond technical knowledge in the health field, there is a difficulty for management to predict the actual work to be done, since it is from the meeting of the intersubjectivities of the individuals who are involved in the process that the production of care and the meaning that professionals will give to the work be elaborated. Thus, this paper aims to investigate the role of the caregiver in face of these reformulations of the health management model, as well as to understand how the act of taking care of the unpredictability in the health work process is put into practice. In this paper we will use the qualitative methodology, carried out through the bibliographic research of related topics, in order to understand and contribute to future studies

Youth is the time when intimate and affective relationships are most intensely triggered. Thus, gender issues and social roles are often activated and associated with behavioral models in affective relationships. In this context, the place of men and women suffers several crossings of values and principles agreed upon in culture. The university, despite being a locus of constant expansion of knowledge and exchange, is also a place of expression, and often of the beginning or continuation of affectionately directed interpersonal relationships. In this sense, the research will focus on abusive relationships, identifying that it is a historical phenomenon, socially constructed and transformed, which involves a repertoire of issues that permeate the social construction of gender, affective relationship and gender violence. It is intended, through the Theory of Social Representations (TRS), proposed by social psychologist Serge Moscovici (1978) and collaborators, which allows to grasp cognitive aspects, beliefs, values, opinions, in the form of knowledge that is elaborated and shared by members. Therefore, it is part of a belonging group to investigate the possible existence of social representations about abusive relationships in heterosexual-oriented young university students that configure the general objective of the study.

From the enactment of the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, in 1988, welfare has assumed the nature of a Social Security Policy, along with Health and Social Welfare, being reframed and drifted away from the paternalist and charitable role assumed so far. Due to this new condition of Social Welfare in the country, legal procedures have been created and taken to organize services, programs, projects and benefits, based in territory and family centrality. Within these procedures, we can find the Special Social Protection, which is family-oriented and focused on the social care of individuals who are endangered due to abandonment, physical or psychological maltreatment, sexual abuse, use of psychoactive substances, among others, aiming to strengthen and recover community and family bonds, or helping to build new references. The institutionalization of children and adolescents in Brazil is currently backed by the Statute of the Child and Adolescent and mediated by the Special Social Protection, where the presence of Psychology professionals is mandatory. In order to comprehend the dynamics and challenges faced by psychologists working in institutions that shelter children and adolescents, this paper consists of a qualitative-exploratory research, that aimed to identify the practices of psychologists in the “Institutional Shelter” category, evaluate the limits for their interventions and analyze the main challenges to be faced in institutional practice. For this, the research method consisted of a semi-structured interview with two psychologists working in institutional shelters from the Baixada Fluminense counties, which were analyzed through the Community Psychology views. It was observed that the practices in these institutions is aimed at the strengthening of identity of the sheltered individuals through the promotion of ludic activities and group and individual talk. The main challenges for the professional acting come from the deadlocks regarding the establishment of intersectionality through the network mechanisms of Social Fare in the counties, and the limits for their acting are related to the difficulty in having the specificity of their profession recognized by members of the judiciary and their own working team. Besides, the lack of specific theoretical references in institutional shelter services makes it impossible to standardize the practice, as it is preconized in the Single System of Social Assistance. The obtained results show that, even with the lack of references, the acting of psychologists in this context aims the social change through awareness of sheltered individuals about the place they occupy in society.  

The insertion of psychologists in multidisciplinary care teams in different sectors of the hospital has expanded over the last decades.  Intervening with surgical patients is one of the possibilities for this professional to act and aims to contribute to a more efficient management of emotional and behavioral reactions observed in the routine of the surgical center.  The objective of the research was to investigate psychosocial aspects presented by surgical patients and their families in the perception of nursing professionals and to verify how these needs have been the focus of intervention by the multidisciplinary team.  The study, which is descriptive and quanti-qualitative in nature, took place with 50 nurses and nursing technicians from the surgical center of a private hospital located in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, who were asked to fill out a questionnaire online. self-administered.  For the closed questions, descriptive statistical analyzes were used, while the open ones were categorized according to Bardin's Content Analysis.  Most of the participating professionals were female (88%), worked as nursing technicians (80%), had more than ten years of training in the area (56%) and worked in operating rooms (80%) in a scale of 12 hours of work for 36 hours of rest (62%).  The most mentioned psychological aspects of adult surgical patients and companions of children undergoing surgery were anxiety (98% and 83.7%), fear (83.7% and 65.3%) and insecurity (81.6% and 44 .9%).  Regarding pediatric patients, references to crying (93.9%), fear (75.5%) and psychomotor agitation (63.3%) predominated.  Most respondents had contact with psychology content during the technical course (66%) or undergraduate (34%).  However, some of them said they lack theoretical knowledge (42.9%) or technical skills (36.7%) to assess or intervene in the psychological aspects of patients and their families.  When identifying situations of this nature, about 80% declared trying to solve the situation based on their knowledge and skills, which were built mainly during training as a person (69.4%), of their personal characteristics (67.3%) or professional experiences (61.2%).  The participation of the psychologist in the care of surgical patients was seen as a lot (59.2%) or a lot (38.8%) collaboration, and this professional should act mainly in the face of emotional and behavioral changes (68%).  The research contributed to a better understanding of the support to be offered by the multidisciplinary team in view of the psychosocial needs and demands of patients (adults and pediatrics) in the operating room, which is important for an increasingly comprehensive and humanized care for people who need to be submit to surgical procedures.

Emerging adulthood is characterized as a transitional stage between adolescence and adulthood, which includes experimenting social roles and building life projects. At this stage of development, university experience can be an opportunity for growth and maturation in the intellectual sphere and in interpersonal relationships. However, when diagnosed with a chronic disease, young university students deal with biopsychosocial changes that make it difficult for them to adapt to academic requirements. Therefore, the objective of this qualitative research is to understand the impact of illness on the university life of emerging adults. For this, eight undergraduate students from a public university in the state of Rio de Janeiro, aged between 18 and 25 years and diagnosed with chronic non-communicable diseases, were invited to participate in a focus group carried out online. Students who accepted to participate in the study signed a consent form and answered individually, questionnaires to collect sociodemographic and medical-clinical data. The meetings, with three and five participants each, had a previously elaborated script, composed of guiding questions and dynamic acts that sought to investigate how the participants reconciled the university demands and care for their own health. The results were calculated using the descriptive phenomenological method. Four main thematic axes were highlighted: (1) self-care strategy: keeping the disease under control, (2) challenges of reconciling academic demands and health needs, (3) importance of social and institutional support: between the perceived and the desired and finally, (4) the potential of spaces for exchange and discussion about living with chronic diseases: support and dissemination. The groups allowed university students to express their emotions, thoughts and opinions about living with a chronic disease at the university, therefore, relevant aspects were learned to understand the unique needs and characteristics of this public. It is concluded that this knowledge is important to help prepare programs and/or guidance aimed at the well-being of university students who experience different types of chronic diseases.

From Greek tragedies to contemporaneity, love and intimate relationships play an important role in human existence. Scientific studies on love set to gain prominence from the twentieth century, particularly in modern psychology. However, at national and international level, even today such studies are not representative of same-sex couples. In this sense, this dissertation aims to investigate the aspects of same-sex love relationships in a sample of 1,380 Brazilian men and women. To this end, two independent studies were carried out. The first study based on the Theory of Colors of Love by Canadian psychologist John Alan Lee and aimed to present psychometric properties of the Love Attitude Scale (LAS). The second was based on the Triangular Theory of Love, by the North American psychologist Robert Sternberg and aimed to present psychometric evidence of the Reduced Triangular Scale of Love (STLS-R). Exploratory (EFA), Confirmatory (CFA) and Multigroup (MCFA) Factorial Analyzes, Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and internal consistency calculations were performed. The results indicate that the instruments have good psychometric properties. From the measures adapted in the target population of this study, it was found that homoaffective relationships are experienced from a variety of possibilities of style of love (study 1) and relationship structures (study 2), corroborating the fact that the intimates relations are structured on similarities bases, independent of sexual orientation. Furthermore, this study contributes to the debate on the sociocultural construction of the determined love style, indicating that a context of stigmatization and repression of sexuality can subject such people to ambivalent and confused feelings about how, how much and why they love.

The present dissertation aimed to identify the social representations of childhood in migratory processes, especially forced ones. Therefore, we use the Moscovici Theory of Social Representations (1989), which has a social perspective, shared by a group, to understand the acquisition of new knowledge. The qualitative research was carried out through the form in Google Forms with 136 university of higher education institutions of the South Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro. To identify the social representations of the refugee child we used free evocation and open questions tasks. The study participants were mostly female and of the humanities field. Most say they know the object studied mainly through the media. The analyses carried out, both the content analysis of the open questions and the evocation, identified the social representations that show a possible central core related to sadness, suffering, fear, pain and a peripheral nucleus related to hunger, hope, war, despair. We verified there is a stereotype that relates negative elements to the image of the refugee child very related to the conditions in which those children are presented by the media.

Violence against women is a social phenomenon that occurs in all classes and age groups. Presenting itself in different ways and manifesting a structuring factor of gender inequalities. For a long time this type of violence was protected by principles of the inviolability of private life, but it was through feminist movements that the issue gained a public and collective dimension. Data on domestic violence in Brazil are alarming and with the advent of social isolation, due to the pandemic caused by the new Corona virus, the rates worsened even further. The present research sought to understand the phenomenon of domestic violence against women based on Jeffrey E. Young's Schema Theory and his concepts on Maladaptive Initial Schemas and Schematic Modes. In this conception, the initial experiences with our caregivers and other representative development figures will influence our future relationships, they will be models for new relationships. The main objective of the study was to identify Maladaptive Initial Schemas and Schematic Modes in a sample of 20 women victims of domestic violence in Baixada Fluminense - RJ. The research was carried out in the field through the methodological perspective of Ecological Insertion. The findings were analyzed in two stages: the first with a survey of quantitative data, Questionnaire of Schemes, Inventory of Modes, Sociodemographic data; the second, through the investigation and study of qualitative data, interviews and field observations, through Bardin's content analysis. The results show that Initial Maladaptive Schemas, mainly in the first domain (Disconnection and Rejection) and in the fourth (Direction to the other), are variables that increase women's vulnerability to domestic violence. Violence in the context of the nuclear family is also a risk factor for the formation of Initial Maladaptive Schemas and for the maintenance of this phenomenon in future generations.

         This is a research crossed by the forces of the Covid 19 Pandemic, with the main objective of narrating the experience and knowledge produced in the construction of the psychological on-call device in an online environment, as an unfolding of the on-site shifts in the undergraduate school environment. of psychology. The psychological duty is a type of contemporary clinic, which prioritizes the immediate reception of anyone who seeks it, with a view to providing an empathetic and authentic listening, where the person assisted can, by themselves, and driven by the relationship of the encounter, remake their action potential. We use the cartographic method, a method that is constructed in the encounter between the object and the researcher. We operate psychological shifts through the WhatApp and Zoom application. Through a link on the website of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, participants signed up to receive psychological care, with the possibility of up to three shifts per person. We scheduled the meeting by text message, and the meeting was carried out by video call, there were calls by voice, due to interference from the internet signal. For this study, 47 applicants were contacted, 34 of which were attended, 10 were adolescents aged between 15 and 18 years; 18 young adults, ranging in age from 19 to 30 years old; and 06 adults, aged between 31 and 53 years. 53 shifts were carried out. Participants resided in Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and São Paulo. After each shift we produced the Logbook, the cartographer's notebook, which was the basis for this study. although the offer of three shifts has produced an increase in waiting time and a loss of the moment of psychological urgency for many. We are committed to the contribution of this study to other future research on the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic and the online psychological shift. although the offer of three shifts has produced an increase in waiting time and a loss of the moment of psychological urgency for many. We are committed to the contribution of this study to other future research on the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic and the online psychological shift.

Information War is a contemporary phenomenon resulting from profound changes in the use of technological resources in post-modernity. It is an exclusively human activity, which seeks the manipulation of the masses through psychology – individual and/or collective – to generate collective possession, which provokes an attitude favourable to the manipulator's strategic interests. In the light of Carl Gustav Jung's theoretical and practical epistemological field of Complex Psychology, in an interdisciplinary dialogue with art, religion, philosophy and science, this thesis seeks to clarify the psychic mechanisms involved in this obscure interaction: manipulation-alienation. The methodology, based on the Jungian paradigm, highlights the contributions made by authors who seek alternatives to overcome limitations of the scientific paradigm of modernity and, thus, ratify the vanguard of the interdisciplinary thought of Carl Gustav Jung. In the passage from modernity to post-modernity, conditions were favourable for the advent of information war. And, only by an individual or collective initiative, including the States, it is possible to adopt an effective attitude in order to psychically protect a nation from the nefarious manipulation that alienates individuals and the mass.

Video games have become very popular in recent decades, bringing with them great social and economic impact. People from all social segments, regardless of gender or age, make use of them. This popularization also brought interest to know what are the influences they bring to their users. Several studies have found evidence that video games can have a positive impact on aspects of cognition, such as attention, working memory, and executive functions. However, the methods used to conduct them are still heterogeneous, which can generate a variation of the results. This study aimed to conduct a systematic literature review using the PRISMA method on the SciELO, LILACS, PsycINFO and PUBMED platforms to investigate the main methods and designs in the studies using cognitive-focused video games in the age group of 6 to 12 years old. . From the inclusion / exclusion criteria, 21 articles were selected and analyzed according to the methods / designs used, being categorized in the variables as: target audience and experimental groups, instruments, pre and post-test design, types of video games ( gender, duration, rewards, etc.), psychophysiological resources, generalization / transfer effects, and follow-up studies, among others. The results of the present study provide a systematic overview of the most commonly used methods, as well as assisting future research in the correct design using video games as a neuropsychological assessment or intervention tool. The result of the present study was intended to provide an overview of the use of this tool in neuropsychology. This compilation may help to guide possible interventions on the most deficient cognitive domains and the best use of potentialities in a more playful and enjoyable way.

Through a historical analysis we can note the growing discussion regarding the rights and duties of the subject as a social being outlined from a gender perspective. Although the Brazilian Constitution establishes that all citizens have the same rights and duties, there is a different social representation for men and women, which occurs through both psychological violence and physical aggression against women, with the apex of feminicide. Femicide is the violent death of women motivated by gender issues, the result of an anti-female sexist terror driven by the ownership, hatred and contempt of the female figure. Femicide has a political dimension to the extent that the state allows these deaths to continue, through its failure to investigate the case, identify and hold criminals accountable. Within this scenario, the theory of social representations, created by Serge Moscovici, in order to investigate how we create and share concepts and ideas in our mind and what their correspondence with reality. Social representations could be described as the reconstruction of the real that concerns groups with the ability to resignify a social object. When shared by a group of people, they become Social Representations, that is, the implicit theories and preconceptions that shape the data coming from the outside world, making a common sense knowledge of a given society. They are passed through communication systems, which are based on the culture of a people. The individuals assimilate the information passed by this system that happens in three instances of the press, they would be: diffusion, propagation and propaganda. The research aimed to identify the social representations of femicide among college students and the media. Method: A questionnaire was applied to 200 university students, 100 female and 100 male, containing open and closed questions associated with a word-free evocation task using the term “femicide”. The open questions were analyzed through content analysis, the closed questions through the SPSS software, and the free evocation task with the help of the EVOC software. The study pointed to a probable central core of feminicide anchored in a patriarchal worldview that justifies gender inequality and associated violence. Social representations about femicide can help public policies aimed at addressing violence against women, promoting gender education so that we can combat cases of murder of women in Brazil and around the world.

The social representations are outlines, systems formed by elements and significance cognitives, composed of a central nucleus, through which the semantic identity of the representation emerges possessing an organizing value; and for the outlying system, through which their elements are negotiable with the context of the reality, allowing the semantic remodel of the representation. In that way, understand the social representations as a structure of faiths formed by the relationships intergroup with value comunicacional, they are consensual, in other words, they extol the share of cognitive elements connoting not only a cognitive dimension, as well as an affectionate dimension, intervening and composing the social identity. It is worth to emphasize that the social representations guide the interpretation of the world crossing behaviors, once they are irrigated of content cultural, partner-historical and political. Once meditated as structure of faiths that guides conducts, the Theory of the social Representations allows the military policeman's understanding as a subject, an active agent in the collective assemblies crossed by partner-historical symbolic elements, the one that makes possible understand that the social representation of the institution military police was and it is built permanently through the social relationships of interpretation of the world and of attribution of values, what forms the identity of the institution. The military police is understood as with a tool, an instrument to which the right of use of force is attributed to maintain the public order, what is configured a great challenge for the whole social body, demanding assiduous scientific studies on the practice contemporary policeman. In that way, to present researches lens to identify the elements constituents and constituent of the military policeman's social representation on him same meantime work activity. The research will be accomplished with the 100 military policemen's of the Military police of the State of Rio de Janeiro sample. It will be used a questionnaire composed of four subjects of free evocations and two open subjects. For it analyzes of data will be used the software Evoc and analyze of content of Bardin.

The Western panorama related to the current consumption of psychotropic drugs serves as a warning for the approach and reflection on the subject of medicalization. The objective of this work is to approach the topic of medicalization, focusing on the forms of medical discourse and its effects in Western society. The bibliographic study will have as theoretical reference the possible approximations between the works of Hannah Arendt and Freud, in order to produce contributions to the understanding of the contemporary malaise and the way in which this concept is interpreted and incorporated by the medical-biological model in order to problematize behaviors, diagnose and promote exclusively drug treatments. The social and cultural transformations of the last years have made the subject change his ways of being, thinking, acting, feeling and desiring. We note that in the contemporary world interpretations of psychic suffering have gained a pathological status, different from the concept of malaise proposed by Sigmund Freud in 1930, sustained at the time as an inalienable characteristic of the human being. In addition, the ways of understanding the events and conflicts of existence, coming from lay knowledge, have lost their notoriety for another type of discourse, which locates the origin and solution of these problems in the organism of the body. And medical discourse increasingly imposes itself and has come to assume, from the technical-biological-scientific apparatus, man's modes of functioning, his physical constitution and his way of functioning properly.

It is intended to think about the the professional practices in three" Sheltering Services"  in Baixada Fluminense  directed to the adolescents from the statements of  nine in the range of of 15 to 25 (years old) years.  Through the triangulation between the Life History method and the Intervention Research,, interviews wiil be used to access the memories related to the period hosted. Based on the assumptions of the institutional analysis, the data generated wiil be considered as analyzers (Barembllit) of the practices in Sheltering Services to be discussed. 

The problems of dropout and repetition in the Brazilian educational system must be analyzed, taking into account the democratization process that has been installed in this system since the 1960s, when enrollments in elementary school increased. change in students' predominant class composition. However, this process was not fully implemented because a significant portion of these students did not complete elementary school at the expected time / age due to successive repetitions of the same year. which eventually led to dropping out. Evasion studies conducted so far suggest that this phenomenon has two distinct faces. This may be the result of a student's decision, which identifies with the strict meaning of the concept, or may be a consequence of a combination of school, socioeconomic and personal factors, in which the predominance of the first two. characterizes the decision more than the exclusion of the concept. It is just like an escape. That is, in this case, it results from the need for the student to enter the job market earlier, or the adverse school situation he / she faces - composition of the school program, teachers, school organization - process that ends with the expulsion of the student ( Gatti, 1983). Consequently, the implementation of educational policies that favor only the liberal principle of merit, based on equal opportunities for access, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for effective democratization.

The focus of social vulnerability in adolescence is strictly linked to the demand for protection of this population, considering its uniqueness and peculiar condition of development. This idea includes that actions against this population, in this case violence, generate damages that spread to adult life and crystallize in the relationship with the other. This harmful experience is considered a risk factor for the development of psychopathologies such as post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, depression, learning and personality disorders. In addition, violence affects the cognitive and emotional processes that adolescents develop to deal with the evolutionary tasks of their development. Taking this information into account, this study aimed to investigate the Initial Maladaptive Schemes developed in institutionally accepted adolescents. Nineteen participants in institutional care in a municipality in the Baixada Fluminense comprised the total sample. The results revealed the significant presence of the Abandonment, Vulnerability to har or illness e Mistrust/Abuse schemas, while emotional / behavioral problems such as depression, anxiety, aggression and social problems were also in evidence, from the YSR Inventory. Additionally, more than half of the sample had a clinical level for externalizing behaviors, demonstrating that the investigated adolescents used dysfunctional strategies to deal with the activation of their schemes. Regarding the analysis of sociodemographic data, it was found that in 41% of cases, abandonment was the main reason for reception, and 69.23% of adolescents are black, referring to the phenomenon of racialization of violence. From the data obtained with this research, it is considered urgent to invest in the context of relationship and development of adolescents, as well as in the context of social policies directed at childhood and adolescence.

Children in social vulnerability are exposed to numerous stressors that occur in a chronic way, contributing to important changes in self-regulation skills. They are more prone to conflict, experiencing less stimulating environments. Work directed towards children has been shown to be an important protective factor in the prevention of psychopathologies throughout life. Thus, this work aimed to develop a psychosocial intervention focused on the development of socioemotional skills for children aged 6 to 11 who are in social vulnerability. A descriptive and correlational study was carried out, with convenience collection and qualitative-quantitative approach. In order to achieve the proposed objective, an integrative literature review was carried out to learn about interpretations used in the country directed to this population. A survey of the social competence and behavioral problems of 21 children who attend the Casa Manjedoura Institution located in the city of Barra Mansa / RJ was also carried out through information provided by their families who responded to the CBCL- Child Behavior Checklist. The perception of 8 professionals who work or have worked with socially vulnerable populations through a semi-structured interview answered online was also collected. The results of the Integrative Review and the interview applied to professionals pointed out that for the elaboration of an intervention in this context, it is essential to work in a network to guarantee the rights of children and indicated that the researcher's relationship with the environment to be studied is shown as essential factor for knowledge about the reality that is intended to intervene. The data through the adapted instrument that 90% of the children evaluated show externalizing behavior, characterized by aggressiveness, affecting psychomotor and delinquent behavior. The relationship with externalizing behavior in childhood and the development of antisocial adults is indicated in the literature. 76% of the evaluated children already have symptoms on the Internalizing Behavior Scale with symptoms of anxiety, isolation, depression and somatic complaints (they were considered as clinical and borderline categories). Racial inequality was also found in this research because 62% of the children evaluated were black and 38% were brown. The results obtained allow us to understand the urgency of interventional proposals that address the needs of this population, contributing to the development of socio-emotional skills of children and their families.

The present work aims to identify and analyze the social representations constructed in two groups: evangelical and non-evangelical, performing the task of the Free Word Association Technique - FWAT, using the inductive term "evangelical". Facing the respective representations of the two groups, it will be possible to observe the possible causes of conflicts and psychosocial discomforts in both groups. The survey will include 120 participants, from Volta Redonda-RJ, both genders, aged between 18 and 69. The groups will be divided into 60 evangelical participants and 60 non-evangelical participants. For the identification of the concepts and the foundation of the arguments, the research accepted the social representations and the psychology of active minorities as theoretical references. The first theory helps to identify the position of evangelical and non-evangelical groups on the “evangelical” theme. The second theory contributes to the observation of the evangelical presence in the university, from the perspective of the premises of the active minorities theory, to identify the psychosocial phenomena generated by the encounter of two sociocultural universes, the university and the evangelicals. The university has become, in our century, the vanguard of independent and libertarian knowledge, mainly within the human sciences, where there are many conservative guidelines, that is, a space for pluralist and democratic ideas. The evangelicals at the university is a reflection of a possible encounter between these two worlds of representations, where both do not have a predisposition to provide a convention or dialog actions. The psychosocial discomforts generated between the two groups, which can cause attitudes of discrimination and prejudice to erupt in the same environment. It is concluded that treating this reality of evangelicals in the university from the active minorities point of view, taking into account the social representations of non-evangelicals on the same theme, is an investigation, in addition to being quite relevant for social psychology, it has a greater need for attention, mainly because it is about conflicts, communication and influence.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death among children and adolescents in Brazil. Although chances of remission of the disease have increased in recent decades, becoming ill with cancer requires long, invasive treatments with side effects, which may lead to social-emotional compromises for people who experience this diagnosis, with damages in their quality of life levels. In order to offer emotional support to children and their families and prevent or mitigate these adverse effects, psychologists who work in pediatric oncology make use of psychosocial interventions. The present research investigated, in a quantitative and qualitative matter, the psychosocial strategies used by psychologists in who work in direct assistance with children and adolescents with cancer, aiming to know how the intervention processes were carried out by such professionals in the care of these patients in a hospital context in terms of their objectives, modalities, resources and results. 30 psychologists (90% female) who worked in the pediatric oncology field for at least one year participated in this study, 13 of them were residents in Brazil while 17 were from abroad. An electronic questionnaire composed of closed questions was applied online. In a complementary matter, individual semi-structured interviews were carried out with five of the Brazilian psychologists who answered the questionnaire. The data from the questionnaire were subjected to a descriptive statistical analysis, while the reports obtained from the interviews were analyzed and categorized according to Bardin's Content Analysis. As a result, it was observed that half of the participants had a specialization in psycho-oncology and adopted the cognitive-behavioral model as a theoretical framework. With regard to their professional practices, the psychologists reported that in their assessments, they mainly addressed family relationships and support (96.70%) and signs and symptoms of anxiety (93.30%), with the assessment being conducted mainly through the observation of behavior (76.70%), playful interviews (53.30%) and through the use of scales, inventories or questionnaires (53.30%). In regards to the interventions, the most common objective was to validate the feelings and thoughts of the child/adolescent (93.30%), in addition to helping them understand their illness and treatment (90%) and reducing the symptoms of anxiety and depression (86.70%). Among the strategies most used by them, psychoeducation stood out (83.30%), followed by psychological support and reception (73.30%) and playful strategies with the use of drawings/paintings (70%). Feedback received from healthcare staff, family and the child, was the most common way to assess the results of their work. Parents were inserted in the psychological sessions mainly to give information about the child (43,33%), while healthcare professionals were overall inserted in order to increase the collaboration of the child (80%). This study made it possible to raise the outline of types of work in pediatric psycho-oncology, carrying out a systematization of the psychosocial interventions used in this field, which collaborated to the expansion of knowledge about the psychologist's work in a context of suffering and vulnerabilities. Studies of this nature can offer subsidies for planning and the development of actions with the potential to reduce damage to the development of children/adolescents who face different types of neoplasms.

The objective of this study was to investigate the most prevalent schematic domains in a clinical and university sample, comparing the schemes of both groups, as well as to evaluate the parental styles present and the risk or vulnerability to depression in the university sample. The sample consisted of 57 adults, of both sexes, between 19 and 68 years of age. For this, the Young Scheme Questionnaire was used to identify the Remote Maladaptive Schemes; the Parenting Styles Inventory to pinpoint parenting styles, and the Beck Depression Inventory to assess depressive symptoms. After evaluation, the most frequent Remedial Disorders were emotional deprivation, mistrust / abuse, self-sacrifice, failure, subjugation and social isolation in the clinical sample, and self-sacrifice and mistrust schemes were significantly more prevalent in both groups. The most frequent parenting styles were: emotional deprivation, dependency / incompetence, negativism / pessimism in the clinical sample, and the paternal parental style of inflexible patterns as significantly more prevalent in the two groups. There were no significant differences in parenting styles in the university sample as well as maternal parenting styles in the two groups. It was possible to observe a vulnerability to depression in the university sample, since 96.5% showed some level of depressive symptoms. In general, there was an association between the three variables investigated, namely, maladaptive Remote Schemes, Parenting Styles and Depressive Symptoms.

Social representations are ubiquitous phenomena in our lives. They familiarize us with the world by mediating our relationships and the conceptual construction of our reality. In the field of education, social representations are important elements in the praxis of teaching and learning, and should be carefully observed by the teacher in the adequacy of the formal content in their teaching planning. The struggles form an important block of content within the school physical education, having prominence as element of the corporal culture of the movement. Despite this, this content is commonly neglected by teachers in the area, depriving students of this relevant content. In this way, the present study aims to identify the social representations that physical education students, from the second elementary school segment, from the public network of the city of Angra dos Reis - RJ, have about the struggles. The sample was composed of 219 students enrolled in the eighth and ninth grade classes in five schools that attend this school band in the urban area of Angra dos Reis. The instrument was formed from a questionnaire with open and closed questions associated with a question of free recall. The results pointed to a probable central nucleus based on the strength and balance cognates, associating the field of the fights with violent models of conflict resolution whereas elements of reference to sports / sports practices appeared only in peripheral form, with special relevance to jiu-jitsu, practice of popular sports fight in the image of Rio.

The present work carries out a pragmatic (theoretical and practical) reflection on the social phenomenon that directs peoples to the inevitable armed conflict. It is a qualitative research from the symbolic-archetypal perspective, as a new possibility to observe and reflect the world, which incorporates the ontological, epistemological and methodological elements of the paradigm of Jungian psychology. The work shows that armed conflict, as an exclusively human phenomenon originates in the psyche, whose "entity" differentiates man from other animals. From the propositions of complex psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, the dissertation examines characteristics that show psychic differences between humans and other animals, identifying differentiated traits that enable men to practice armed conflict. Humans and animals share instincts of aggressiveness and cooperation, but only humans have developed the ability to produce tools and characteristics that have led to the development of armed conflict and the formation of civilizations. The dissertation uses illustrations from the history of the human species, from hominoid ancestors to the present day, to highlight the relationship between psychic traits and historical facts about humanity that point to the causes and purposes of armed conflict. Thus the dissertation verifies that the armed conflict occupies a position of evolutionary pressure, to impel to the artificial selection and the cultural selection providing the cultural construction of the human species. In this way, the human species undergoes evolutionary pressures differently from those of animals, which are only under the exclusive influence of natural selection. Throughout history humankind has developed its spirit in the interaction between the pressures of the natural environment and the Malthusian trap (population increase versus availability of supplies), which worked as a trigger to lead people to armed conflict, according to the aforementioned technological selection (artificial and cultural). Today, despite the scientific-technological advances and the abundance of resources, propitiated by the industrial revolution, the ontological and phylogenetic factor continues to surreptitiously direct the conduct of peoples to fight and provoke wars. Thus, the property of the religious function of the psyche appears that directs individuals and communities to their beliefs, both of which are undermined by the collective possession that can lead to armed conflict.

This work starts from the practice of self-injury as a conceptual operator to problematize medicalization in the contemporary world. Medicalization is based on a simplistic logic that reduces a multifaceted set of practices to a cause-and-effect relationship that involves only the medical-biological and which results in the pathologization of deviant conducts. One of these deviant behaviors can be illustrated by the practice of self-injury, which is characterized by cuts, injuries or burns by the body, performed by the subject without suicide intention. The present dissertation seeks to investigate the possible discontinuities of the body from modernity to contemporaneity, to situate the issue of medicalization based on self-injury and to problematize the medicalizing conception of the practice of self-injury. In order to achieve this goal, it uses the bibliographical revision of the narrative type to reflect on the conception of body in the contemporaneity and the netnographic method, branch of ethnography, to survey reports of self-harm in social networks. It is maintained that, in the present time, self-harm has come to be seen as deviant practice, since the body is considered as supreme good and, as such, must be protected. In contradistinction to the medicalizing logic, this research encouraged the apprehension of self-harm as a complex phenomenon, emphasizing the importance of the discourse of the one who experiences the practice and the uniqueness of the reasons in which the practice occurs.

In recent decades, as a civil engineer and labor safety engineer, I have come across the sad, shocking and worrying index of work-related accidents at all levels, in the manufacturing industry, as well as in the civil construction industry. the one with the highest rates.
The precariousness with which the safety of work is seen by some productive sectors has caused, in the life of workers, transformations with losses of irreversible, in the majority of cases of accidents.
Reports of injured workers indicate that we must evaluate with refined technique the variables involved in production environments, verifying which are the directives provided by the Occupational Health and Safety Manager system that favors safety climate conditions which, provides all the conditions for that the worker's activities can be performed in a work environment with risk of accident under control and that guarantee his QVT (Quality of Life at Work) and well being.
It is understood, therefore, that the materialization of the risk occurs instantaneously and that this, is related to a history of the worker's life that favors its construction through several determinations and over-determinations that in a given moment, through a confluence of forces, is materialized. It follows from this assertion that the analysis of the causes must be based on the specific collection, analysis and study of the variables, be they independent, dependent or foreign to the context of said study, and that the locus of health and safety control is an indicator to consistently reveal the reality of the Health and Safety Climate in the work environment, showing the degree of trust and commitment of the worker to the Organization's Health and Safety Culture.
Keywords: Locus of control, Accidents of work, health of the worker, security management, security climate, variables, trust and commitment.

In adolescence, assessment skills are less evolved and are often expressed in impulsive acts such as substance abuse. These behaviors are related to a wide cortico-subcortical network of the brain that is mature only in early adulthood. In view of this scenario, the objective of this study was to make feasible the elaboration of an evaluation protocol focused on the identification of possible relations between substance use and the impulsivity constructs and the ability to control the behavior (inhibitory control) of adolescents who use drugs. Therefore, in study 1 a systematic review of literature on this subject based on the PRISMA guidelines protocol was carried out. The results of 34 articles selected in the SciELO, PsycINFO, PubMed and Lilacs databases were discussed. Twenty-one studies found detrimental effects of the interaction between substance use and adolescent impulsivity, showing that youngsters with greater substance involvement tended to have higher levels of impulsivity than those with less involvement. Study 2, on the other hand, had as a methodological outline the elaboration of a protocol of neuropsychological evaluation to investigate these relations. Normative instruments were used with support in the scientific literature of the area and tests approved by the Federal Council of Psychology, such as scales, inventories, formal batteries and questionnaires. These assessed socioeconomic, psychosocial aspects, intelligence, psychopathology, impulsivity, inhibitory control, attention and problematic use of alcohol and other drugs. The final result was intended to provide a neuropsychological profile that could allow the orientation of possible interventions on the most impaired domains and the best use of the potentialities of adolescents at risk. 

This descriptive research covered the psychological structure of the traumatic experiences of racism, such as slavery, social abandonment in post-emancipation, and the genocide of black youth. These historical and social landmarks are kinds of mirrors that reflect the Brazilian soul and vice versa. In this sense, the objective was to describe the collective trauma of racism. That is, a trauma that agglutinates in the collective psyche, both individually and as a group, the wounds originated by racism. In order to describe the collective trauma of racism, the following materials were analyzed: (a) historical, social and psychological aspects of slavery, colonization and rates of inequality between black and white population; (b) the work of Lima Barreto, Clara dos Anjos, to articulate the post-abolition period with the paradoxical and contradictory racism in today's Brazilian society, which conceals racial inequality, and (c) the oral history of two families: a black and a white one, which made it possible to recover the ancestry of both, in the city of Rio de Janeiro and to identify the intergenerational transmission of collective trauma. The Complex Psychology developed by the psychiatrist and Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was the guiding thread of the objective of this research. In post-Jungian studies, more specifically the concept of cultural complex, allowed the psychological investigation of collective trauma. Cultural complexes can be generated because of the traumatic experiences of human groups and bring about the sensation of a historical continuum mobilized by racial violence, gender, religion and so on. The results of this dissertation indicate that the uninterrupted cruelties against the black people are sedimented in the cultural unconscious of the country and resonates in the group and individual life of the entire Brazilian population. Thus, the structural racism in Brazil, based on the mechanisms for perpetuating racism and their updating, generates different shades and intensities of traumas. Thus, the collective trauma of racism in the collective psyche, this deposit of brutality, which can potentially affect the mental health of the black population, in addition that contributes to the lack of recognition of the white people oppressive practises against black people, due to the naturalization of the symbolic and material hegemony of the white identity.

The theme of this work is the inclusion of university students with intellectual disabilities, especially those with Down Syndrome in Higher Education Institutions (IES). Inclusion is the fundamental right of anyone at all levels of education. Advances in education and achievement of inclusion rights still create many challenges and require a better understanding of the process, not only in terms of entry but also the permanence and promotion of learning, especially of people with intellectual disabilities. Through a descriptive, qualitative research with the analysis of the narratives of the students with Down Syndrome, about the learning and the pedagogical strategies experienced in their Institutions of Higher Education - IES, the general objective is to examine the academic life characterized by the educational inclusion of the with Down Syndrome from the perception of self and the environment. The specific objectives are: a) to investigate in the literature the state of the art of this theme, b) to categorize the positive and negative factors that interfere in the academic life from the narrative of the university and the observation of the researcher, c) to identify the challenges and how they are faced by the university through its narrative and the observation of the researcher, d) infer about possible educational implications for compliance with the legislation. The triangulation of methods in data collection will be used: semi-directed interview with university students, and with relatives and professionals when appropriate, interviewer's field report, objects of support to the self-portrait, such as photos, mental maps, notebooks university students, etc. The interviews with the university students will be of approximately 1 hour, with prediction of three meetings, being able to be extended. Only an interview with relatives and professionals is foreseen, if necessary. The field report is written throughout the development of the research with the impressions of the researcher in its objective and subjective aspects. The data will be categorized according to the axes: a) the state of the art of the educational inclusion of higher education; b) positive and negative factors in inclusion in Higher Education; c) educational challenges; d) inclusive educational implications.

As políticas públicas, em atendimento a meta 12 do plano decenal de educação aumenta significativamente o número de vagas em cursos superiores ofertados na modalidade a distância. O número de ingressos é alto, mas, posteriormente, o número de concluintes é demasiadamente inferior ao das matrículas. Esses cenário infere que o número de alunos que abandona o ensino superior, podendo ser relacionado à experiências de nâo-êxito é muito alto. Percebe-se que existe uma política de acesso, mas não uma de acessibilidade, de permanência desses alunos no curso. Essa é uma questão que vai além do educacional, estando diretamente relacionada ao campo psicossocial. Os motivos que levam ao insucesso bem como ao sucesso serão investigados na pesquisa proposta por meio do arcabouço teórico permitido pela utilização da Teoria das Representações Sociais (TRS) criada por Moscovici e as contribuições de Abric. O estudo tem como objetivo geral investigar quais as representações sociais que os alunos do curso de Pedagogia constróem do fracasso e do sucesso no ensino a distância que estão inseridos, e por meio delas conhecer quais pontos poderiam ser mudados. E como objetivos específicos, Comparar as representações sociais do sucesso e do fracasso acadêmico em cursos oferecidos por meio da EAD; Analisar as possíveis causas do fracasso e do sucesso acadêmico nessa modalidade de ensino; Conhecer quais os pontos que poderiam ser mudados para tentar transformer experiências de não-êxito em êxito. Serão realizadas entrevistas com 120 sujeitos que comporá a amostra. Como instrumentos de coleta será realizada uma tarefa de evocação livre e um questionário com perguntas abertas e fechadas acrescido de um breve questionário sócio-demográfico. Para a análise dos dados será utilizada a análise do conteúdo proposta por Bardin, com a construção de categorizações e o programa EVOC^@.

During the aging process, all component structures of the locomotor apparatus are affected, which contributes to imbalances and falls in old age. The elderly when falling, tends to undergo orthopedic surgery, requiring prolonged hospitalization that may impact on their socio-emotional state. Chronic osteomyelitis is one of the biggest challenges in the area of orthopedic surgery. It occurs in most cases due to complications of open fractures or surgical contamination. The present study investigated psychosocial aspects present in the prolonged hospitalization experience of elderly with osteomyelitis, in order to understand their consequent needs and demands for psychological follow-up in the hospital context. This is a qualitative approach research with multiple case study. Three elderly people participated, two men and one woman, aged between 66 and 78 years, admitted to an orthopedic hospital located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. For data collection, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was applied and a semi-structured interview was conducted to obtain information about the prolonged hospitalization experience according to the participants' own narrative. Hospitalization was perceived as a period of ruptures and losses, including removal from family, break of routine and lack of personal effects and pets, which reflected in the emotional state of the participants. The most mentioned emotional changes were nervousness, easy crying, persistent sadness and thoughts linked to death. On the other hand, it was observed satisfaction regarding the care received from the health team and the fact of being hospitalized in a reference hospital in the area. Psychological counseling and emotional support provided by psychologists were identified as beneficial and essential for dealing with present stressors and expressing sadness regarding hospitalization. This study attested to the need to develop effective hospital psychological practices based on the characteristics of each target audience, in this case the elderly, especially in the knowledge of their peculiarities.

This study analyzed the conception of psychologists, social workers and counselors working in Child Services in cities of Baixada Fluminense, about the phenomenon of familiar negligence. The study explored the history and conceptions of the notion of family; the conceptual complexities of the negligence phenomenon; the social, economic and political aspects of poverty; and the integral protection policy of children and adolescents. Assuming a high rate of complaints about family neglect, the study objective was that there would be a conception of family neglect associated with criminalization factors of poor families denounced by this phenomenon. To test the hypothesis, individual and face-to-face interviews were conducted, with seven open questions, with professionals located in Child Services of municipalities of Baixada Fluminense. The material extracted from the interviews was tabulated and analyzed using the Content Analysis method. Fifteen professionals from the tutelary councils of three different municipalities of the Baixada Fluminense participated in the research. From the results, it was possible to find a difficulty in defining negligence; direct responsibility to families; passive blaming of the state; disciplinary function of the Child Services and the pointing out that poor families were the main targets of complaints received. These factors collaborated to prove the initial hypothesis of the study. The study ended by making considerations about the limits of the method used; the importance of state co-responsibility and the possibility of Psychology's collaboration in inclusive public policies.

Music has been a highly studied and its applications widely debated in the scientific
community (KARAGHEORGHIS, 2012). Music apparently is capable of influencing
emotional states, and its positive relationship with the listener can be a useful tool in

maintaining optimal stress and anxiety levels (JUSLIN &amp; VASTFALL;
KARAGHEORGHIS, 1997). This study aimed to verify possible effects of music on
psychophysiological variables of stress and anxiety of higher education students of
UFRRJ. 43 people of both sexes, mean age = 22 ± 2, were invited to participate in 3
relaxation sessions, in one of them listening preferably relaxing music (MRP), in
another listening to relaxing music suggested by the literature (MRS), and finally a
silence session (CTRL). All interventions lasted 25 minutes, the first 5 of silence,
followed by music listening, or silence in the case of CTRL, and followed by another 5
minutes of silence. All subjects remained in a supine position (belly up) during the
interventions. In addition, they were invited to answer the BAI Anxiety Questionnaire,
Perceived Stress PSS Questionnaire, State-Trait Anxiety IDATE, and a Visual Stress
and Relaxation Analysis Scale immediately before and after the interventions. In
addition, data such as, heart rate and blood pressure were assessed before and after the
interventions. For data analysis, the statistical program SPSS v. 20. was used and
adopted the statistical significance of P ≤ 0.05. In the values referred to stress,
relaxation and anxiety significant differences were found when comparing the values
before and after the musical interventions. Respectively: Stress (M = 3.38; SD = 2.85
vs. M = 1.74; SD = 2 , 11, P = 0.00), Relaxation (M = 5.67; SD = 2.36 vs. M = 7.87; SD
= 2.19, P = 0.00) and Anxiety (M = 11, 17; SD = 1.41 vs. M = 8.56; SD = 1.32, P =
0.00). Differences were found in pre and after systolic Blood Pressure, respectively:
SBP (M = 112.8; SD = 13.0 vs. M = 111.3; SD = 12.8, P = 0.00) and heart rate,
respectively HR (M = 69.5; SD = 10.1 vs. M = 67.8; SD = 12.7). Based on the results
found, this study points out that listening to preferred or suggested relaxing music may
alter psychological states and some physiological variables related to stress and anxiety.

Resilience is a socioemotional competence that allows flexibility to adverse situations, being strongly associated with a greater repertoire of adaptive psychomotor responses before the stressors. It is the capacity to face, overcome and transform itself in the face of experiences evaluated as negative. Self-efficacy is in belief in personal capacities. The feeling of personal competence is in line with self-esteem; positive emotions and resilience. There is a proportional correlation between belief in abilities and behavior that is influenced by the marks of good results. Self-efficacy and resilience contribute to the best evaluation of adverse circumstances, helping the subject to deal with the situation and reducing its negative effects. Already the perceived stress is conditioned to the evaluation of the environmental stimuli and their demands with the personal resources to face them. The fact may be faced by one individual as a challenge, and by another as a threat. Perceived stress combines emotion, cognition, and behavior. Subjects with low self-belief possibly perceived stress will have higher levels of self-efficacy, resilience, and good coping strategies. The military profession is an activity that incurs rapid decision making, physical and mental exhaustion and risk of death, conditions conducive to stress. However being 'stressed' is a state desirable to the military. Physiological stress allows rapid action, hyperprosexia, aggressiveness, energy for the cells, anesthesia and analgesia of the body. However, coupled with the condition of constant excitability in the practice of the profession, it is essential to develop protective factors that will limit the body tension, ensuring their health. Maladaptive, transient, or permanent stress responses include misconduct or various disorders such as depression, panic syndrome, and anxiety-related disorders. The present research sought to understand the association of resilience and self-efficacy with the stress perceived in the military in formation at the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras-AMAN. In order to fulfill the intent, evaluation instruments adapted to the military context were necessary. For the evaluation of Resilience, the CD RISC BR scale was applied to 1,384 military personnel from the four years of AMAN, after the application, the data were analyzed by AMOS 19 (Analysis of Moment Structures) and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) to judge the most appropriate model in the context of AMAN. The statistical indices (X2 / gl, GFI, AGFI, RMR, IFC, TLI and RMSEA) obtained were within acceptable values for human evaluation instruments. The scale adapted to Brazil has 25 items and 4 factors (Adaptability, Tenacity, Social Amparo and Intuition), the version adapted to AMAN was 18 items and two factors (Adaptability and Tenacity). The Perceived General Self-Efficacy scale was applied to 245 cadets of the first and second year of training, the instrument chosen was an English, 10-item scale, adapted to Brazil with a sample of university students. The application data in AMAN were correlated with the other instruments without change in their items. In order to measure perceived stress, the perceived stress scale was constructed from focal groups with cadets representing the four years of training, which discussed the most stressful aspects of the officer training course. The responses of the participants of the group comprised the 36 assertions of the scale. Exploratory Factorial Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling, carried out with the help of the software program AMOS 19, resulted in three possible scale models: a reduced one-factor scale with 10 items; extended single-factor scale with 22 items and multifactorial scale with three dimensions (family distance, coping with challenges and lack of free time) with 17 items. For validation purposes, the scale was applied to 1,306 cadets of the four years of training. Statistical testing reached acceptable values for validation in the AMAN context, and the results showed a strong correlation between the stress scale and the other instruments applied in this investigation. It was concluded that the aforementioned evaluative instruments were validated and adapted for future diagnoses in the context of the Brazilian Army's military training, and the data showed that the applicants with high means in the instruments of resilience and self-efficacy obtained low means in the perceived stress scale . The research noted the importance of resilience and self-efficacy as competence and feeling, respectively, promoters of adaptive stress responses to military activities.

The elderly population arouses great interest in the present, for its growth, being increasingly necessary to elucidate what are the clinical conditions that can indicate the appearance of cognitive decline in this population. This dissertation was elaborated from two articles. The first presents an investigation in the literature, based on the systematic review model, aiming to investigate the cognitive decline in aging and the use of executive tools and functionality. With this review, we observed that the executive functions are related to the competences in the daily actions, and when associated with functional instruments contribute to a better understanding of the underlying alterations in the cognitive decline, evidencing the clinical diagnosis. For the accomplishment of this study was cataloged 2070 documents and after careful analysis, 30 was selected for qualitative analysis. In the description of the documents analyzed, a thematic relevance categorization was considered, and the following areas were established: functional limitations and syndromic diagnosis, functional limitations and subjective complaint, executive functions and brain areas, and functionality in the elderly. The second study presents an experimental study carried out in the geriatric outpatient clinic of the University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho in which a descriptive inferential analysis was performed on 63 patients attended in this outpatient clinic, using the following measures used in the Geriatric Comprehensive Assessment: Mini Mental State Examination MEEM), Clock Drawing Test (TDR), Semantic Verbal Fluency (VF), Clinical Dementia Scale (CDR), Katz Scale, Lawton Scale. Neuropsychological measures aimed at evaluating executive functioning were aligned with these instruments, they are: Digit Testing, Number and Letter Sequence Testing, Cube Testing, Part A Track Testing (TMTA) and Part B (TMTB). The results showed that the sample studied was composed of 76.2% of women, the mean age was 77.8 years, and the schooling represented in years of studies showed that 30.2% had between 05 and 08 years of age. studies. The results obtained in the MMSE in this sample indicated that 52.4% of the participants did not present cognitive alteration at the examination, 28.6% did not present alterations in the VF test and in the TDR 28.6% did not present any flaws in the task, the CDR result showed that 90.5% of subjects had questionable dementia. The results obtained in the executive tests show that TMT B is affected by schooling and aging, and the Lawton Scale showed a higher average for the group with the highest schooling.

Faced with the challenges that pass through public health services in the context of primary care, there is evidence of the redirection of a care logic towards new strategic actions within the framework of the Public Unified Health System. Thus, the Family Health Strategy (ESF) teams were set up as regulators of these services, structured to offer a multiprofessional and resolutive care in recognition of the integrality of the subject. In the middle of the complexity of this scenario, policies are based whose purposes are focused on processes of training and permanent education of health professionals, aiming at the development of technical and interpersonal skills, including those necessary for the degistration function. Therefore, looking at the performance of nurse managers, this work aimed to investigate the repertoire of social skills of eight nurses responsible for the management of Family Health teams in the city of Rio Claro, in the State of Rio de Janeiro. In the research, of a descriptive nature, we used, in the process of data collection, self-report instruments capable of exploring both quantitative and qualitative aspects. Thus, the Social Skills Inventory of Del Prette and Del Prette was applied in order to evaluate, in a general way, the efficacious resources of these skills in the repertoire of the participants. Subsequently, semi-structured interviews were carried out, through a script that included questions aimed at the autoperception of nurses regarding social management skills. In the determination of IHS data, we analyzed the results of the group of managers in relation to the total score and the five factors that compose the instrument. In the interviews, the content analysis was carried out in the light of Bardin using the categorization of the reports obtained. The results pointed to characteristic features of social skills classes such as empathy, assertiveness, expression of positive feelings and knowledge sharing skills. Another class was the problem-solving, constant in the list of skills considered, according to the National Basic Attention Policy, as essential in the actions of managers. On the other hand, limitations were observed in certain skills such as difficulties for clear and effective communication, especially low activity, and difficulties in mediating interpersonal conflicts. Training was cited by participants as an effective means of acquiring and perfecting deshashabilities. In relation to the difficulties found for the good development of their abilities, most of the nurses evidenced the lack of time and the overload of functions, concerning the execution of assistance activities, in parallel with the managerial ones. Nevertheless, the results obtained showed a good repertory of managerial and social skills in the group studied, but with evidence of the usefulness of systematic experiences for the improvement of their competences, especially with regard to essential skills in the work of managers in the field of public health. In addition, the need for more studies in the area is emphasized, in order to potentialize the dynamism and practical implications of the scientific productions on the social skills in the management scope in health.

The Federal Council of Psychology does not understand transsexuality as a psychopathological condition, in agreement with a worldwide movement for depathologizing trans identities. However, there are notable practices of psychologists who contribute to limiting, impeding and marginalizing the transsexual identity experience. In this context, we sought to know the social representations of the transsexual person among students of psychology, since these can influence their positions and professional practices. 118 students from a public university in the state of Rio de Janeiro participated in the study. "Gender Change," "Gender," and "Identity" seemed to be the elements most strongly related to transsexuality. The work of the psychologist was understood as clinical and individual and the training regarding gender and sexuality, considered insufficient or unsatisfactory by the students

The purpose of this study is to reflect on the barriers that the student with Specific Educational Needs can bring with himself, result of a trajectory of exclusion related to the identification or not identification with the academic context, with the process of socialization and with positioning. Thus, this research deals with the relationship between the self-concepts and the positioning of students with Specific Educational Needs at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. The main authors used for this dialogue were Jerome Bruner, with the concept of the Self and Rom Harré with the Theory of Positioning. The research had the participation of four university students, two visually impaired students, one student with a hearing impairment and one student with multiple disabilities. The main tool used for data collection was Fritz Schütze's Narrative Interview (individual and free), as well as a workshop with the four participants, with the theme "Do not speak for us, we have a voice". The data analysis was performed according to the following specific objectives: To identify in the narratives of students with Specifics Educational Needs at UFRRJ, their academic experiences as university students with the process of inclusion / exclusion in the context of Higher Education Institutions; To investigate the relation between the construction of the meanings of being an university student with Specific Educational Needs and the concept of Self and; To investigate the relation between the construction of the meanings of being an university student with Specific Educational Needs and the concept of Positioning; We point out as a result of research that there is a close relationship between the Self concept and the positioning concept. The subject's positioning influences its self-perception, as well as its self-perception fosters different positions, operating as a two-way street. A dynamic process between positioning and a discursive production of Self-concept. Finally, to hear these students enables reflections of new ways and possibilities to provide the students with a process of education in its most genuine sense, a liberating, emancipatory education. As well as encouraging students with Specific Educational Needs to reflect on the strength of their words and actions, that is, to get them to realize the importance of their positions to legitimize their rights.

The question raised is how college students with special needs describe their academic trajectory, what are their greatest difficulties and how they deal with them. How do they manage to occupy and legitimize their places as university students? What positions do they occupy in the academic context and in what form? For this purpose, a qualitative research will be conducted through a narrative interview with university students with SEN of UFRRJ to meet the following objectives: a) general: intends to investigate the relationship between the concepts of Self and Positioning of students with Specific Educational Needs at the Federal University Rural of Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica campus. Specific: i) To identify in the narratives of students with SEN in UFRRJ their academic experiences in the context of inclusion / exclusion in the context of HEI; ii) To categorize the meanings constructed by these students on what it is to be a university student in the face of these experiences; iii) To investigate the relationship between the construction of these meanings and the student's concept of himself; and iv) To investigate how the concept ofSelf affects the positioning of these students in the same context.

This master's thesis has set out to investigate practices and delve into the theory of mindfulness. Mindfulness means being aware of the present moment intentionally and directly and is a skill that can be enhanced by meditation practices. Thus, this work is presented through two articles. The first one deals with a qualitative field study in which the reports of university students of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro about their perception related to an adaptation of mindfulness protocol were evaluated. The results presented positive experiences regarding the adapted protocol and the need for practices in this format for university students. The second article presents a bibliographical research presenting the history of meditation, its insertion in psychology and how the practice of mindfulness appeared in this context. The studies made it possible to conclude that besides knowing the effects of the practice it is important to know its origins and its applicability. Contextualizing and understanding the timeline of meditation practices in psychology and mindfulness, enriches the knowledge and reflection of how these practices can be effective in the everyday life of the university student, for example, since it is already recognized that experience in university can be broadly anxiogenic and stress-generating.

Nature with its complexity and magnitude enchanted and enchanted by the exuberance of shapes, colors and applications. It could not be different with human nature, because it also reveals often underestimated potentialities, for evil or for good, as it walks in the construction of its individual and collective history. For many centuries man has been reflecting and creating hypotheses to account for a meaning in life that always escapes him. Some choose to squeeze from the outside, while others turn to themselves. The present work aims to analyze, from the theoretical reference of the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, the unfolding of the personality in the human species. The point of interest is how one develops a human being who is endowed with decision, choice and therefore responsible for his actions. The hypothesis is that this level of commitment to life, and to itself, becomes possible only when man ceases to be a mere automaton to integrate and enable his personality to unfold. Jungian psychotherapy shows a path to such a purpose and appeases the inevitability of the paradoxical dance of which we are constituted. Evil and Well - in every cell of the body - awaiting from us greater awareness, integration, harmony and wholeness. The more the subject manages to look within himself and to recognize the unknown shade and the light that constitutes him, the greater the chances of an attitude coherent with himself and more responsible in the world.