The hospitalization, in the context of intensive care, is a stressful factor for both the patient and their family members. The experience of a family member's hospitalization in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) can trigger psychological symptoms that are harmful to the family's mental health. This work evaluated anxiety, depression and burden in family members of patients admitted to the ICU. The study was carried out in the Intensive Care Unit of a university hospital in Rio Grande do Norte. The
sample consisted of 85 family members of patients admitted to the ICU, who were selected considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria determined in the research. The research used aquantitative methodological approach and data were collected from a sociodemographic questionnaire, of the collection of clinical information from the patient and the anxiety and depression assessment scale: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the assessment scale of caregiver burden: Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI). The survey obtained data on the prevalence of depression, anxiety and burden 27.06%, 42.36% and 32.94%, respectively. There was no significant influence of basic sociodemographic data, such as gender, age, marital status, on the prevalence of anxiety, depression and burden on family members. The correlations found are associated with family dynamics, presence of a previous diagnosis of mental illness and work occupation. The research results will serve as a basis for future interventions that prioritize the quality of care and humanization.

Statistical data reveal the increase in the phenomenon of violence against women, especially Violent Deaths due to Undetermined Causes. Suicide is a phenomenon that is also growing among women, and it is known in the literature that, while men are the ones who commit suicide the most, women are the ones who have the most ideations and attempts at suicide. International studies indicate a strong relationship between a history of violence in women's lives and the propensity for suicidal behavior. Based on this reality, it is possible to raise the following questions: how does suicide appear as a concrete possibility for women in situations of violence? What is the horizon of meaning that links abused women to their plot, giving rise to the choice to end their own existence? The objective of this research, therefore, is to understand the meanings of giving up life for women in situations of violence. This study is configured as a phenomenological-hermeneutic research, based on Heideggerian ontology. Two women who experienced domestic violence and thought about and/or attempted suicide were interviewed. The narrative interview was used as an instrument, asking them to share their experiences. The analysis was based on a method inspired by the Heideggerian hermeneutic circle, considering the understanding-interpretation movement of doing research and the researcher's affectations. As a result, we noticed how finitude is always at stake in the participants' lives: whether through the power-to-die of violence, or the choice-to-die of suicide. The uprooting caused by violence radically restricts the possibilities of projecting oneself in time, making the anticipation of one's own death an alternative to the emptying of meaning in living. It is hoped that this research will enable an approximation of the experience of these women, in order to expand understandings that favor discussions and practices aimed at care and support for coping with the problem, considering the overlap between violence and mental health.

This work in born in the encounter with Warao families across the streets of Natal/RN, confronted with the state of vulnerability made starkly visible by the 477.493 people displaced from Venezuela arriving in Brazil until 2023. Even though migration is part of how national groups are formed and represents the universal right to free movement and territorial protection, migratory movements are currently seen as humanitarian crisis factors, unveiling death-producing capitalist policies. By focusing on global South issues, the displacement of indigenous groups stands out, as they are victimized by a historical project of extermination, seeing their territories assassinated by the extractivist logic in the “coloniality of power”. This is the european-imposed control of subjectivities, goods, cultures, and knowledge from indigenous peoples, by instituting the notion of “race”, favoring the european “White” colonizer as a universal subject model. From this perspective, in this research, we experienced and analysed processes of ethical-political listening to migrant and refugee Warao venezuelans in Natal/RN, performed by visiting their temporary shelter as well as their designated access points to health, education, and welfare policies. To achieve such, ethical-methodological pathways were composed between ethnography (del sur), psychoanalysis and militant research, taking on the political stance of desiring to contribute with Warao strengthening and resistance strategies when facing coloniality. From then on, we pose the question: which narratives inscribe and reinscribe themselves, building on the violent, non-organic displacement of indigenous peoples, more specifically the Warao people sheltered in Natal/RN CARE facilities? Therefore, this dissertation has as a general objective: to analyse the specifities in indigenous Warao migration and refuge in the municipality of Natal/RN, by ethical-political territorial listening. Furthermore, we propose as specific goals: 1) to discuss the possibilities of ethical-political territorial listening in the forced displacement context of the Warao; 2) to raise a discussion around the matches-mismatches of the Warao with migrant and refugee policies in Natal/RN; 3) to identify possible contributions from psychoanalysis in reinventing ethical-political listening devices for indigenous migration and refuge contexts in Brazil. Along with ethnographical incursions and ethical-political listening sessions derived from coexistence, three interviews were performed with Warao representatives residing in the shelter. Ethical procedures for free, prior and informed consultation following parameters set for indigenous peoples were adopted (Letter of Consent presented and signed by a community leader; participation consent for interviews; and dialogical feedbacks on the work). From these materials and the writing of a field journal, here named a corpus journal, the stories of Warao migrants were narrated and witnessed, versing over (their lives in their original territories, socioeconomic and political transformations in Venezuela, beginning to move towards cities, their crossings and challenges arriving in Brazil, difficulties faced in being welcomed in cities, and their needs and desires for a joyous future in Brazil). The unfoldings of this research experience showed how listening ethically and politically to the Warao and their migration and refugee narratives cannot be achieved without listening for the colonial unconscious inscribed in the researcher’s position, by making herself aware of the racial democracy myth, the denegation of racism and the repression of African and indigenous ancestry. At this study’s finish line, which is in reality a “start-finish-start”, we find that ethical-political listening is done with body and testimony, supporting the struggles of a population apart from their original territory, but who might, in territorrializing memory, re-territorrialize life.

The world of work is marked by constant transformations that strain the involvement of human beings when being active, modifying their material and subjective reality. The Uberization of work marks an important moment of transition where life at work becomes more closely linked to the means of information and communication technology (ICTs), while assimilating characteristics of previous transformative milestones. Conceived as a new model of management, production, organization and control of work that – currently – is mediated by digital platforms, uberization implies on-demand workers who act as self-managers of themselves in their work. However, this worker is subordinate to the digital platforms that are truly managing the activity. Therefore, the objective of this dissertation is to analyze the experiences of workers who best experience this model, Uber-enabled motorcycle delivery drivers. The research is theoretically anchored by Vygotsky's Historical-Cultural Psychology, and has the participation of 15 app delivery people who work in the city of Natal/RN. The methodology adopted was semi-structured interviews carried out in person at motorcycle couriers' concentration points throughout the city. The collected data was transcribed and categorized with the help of the QDA miner and Excel platform, and subsequently analyzed using Bakhtinian Dialogical Discourse Analysis. Where the search for greater autonomy in life became evident, strongly linked to the opportunity to earn more money by working with unpredictability. The worker firmly believes that they have more freedom, giving them the ability to not only control their present at work, but also to actively influence their future and quality of life. In addition to configuring itself as an obelisk against the oppressions and stratifications that exist in the precariousness of salaried employment. It is also an act of resistance to the current work model in the Latin American-Brazilian peripheral capitalist world.

This research aims to analyze the experiences of young delivery workers subjected to app-based platforms. Through the observation of work situations and interviews conducted in Natal, Brazil, and Córdoba, Argentina, with motorcycle and bicycle delivery, this is a qualitative study anchored in Historical-Cultural Psychology and informed by historical-dialectical materialism. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 22 young individuals, eleven from Natal, Brazil, and eleven from Córdoba, Argentina, aged between 18 and 24 years old. The discussion will be developed around four core themes: 1) Uberized trajectories of peripheral youth, 2) Bad meetings in alienated activity, 3) Good meetings in emancipatory activity, and 4) Between formal and informal worlds: Labor projects of uberized youth. The exploitation of child and youth labor is a reality in the informal sector, used as cheap labor, paid low wages, and devoid of rights. App-based companies capitalize on this informality common to peripheral countries, acting as "mediators." The trajectories of young people in the lower echelons are characterized by the overexploitation of labor, experiencing a production model reminiscent of the 1.0 industry, marked by long hours and intense physical effort to earn income that often falls below the minimum wage. The guiding activity of young adults within capitalist society integrates a contradiction: work as both emancipatory and alienating. The absence of reference to dignified employment as a minimum instrument of social protection distances and distorts the perception of decent working conditions. App-based companies use entrepreneurial ideology to reinforce the individualism inherent in neoliberal rationality. In the Uberized activity, risks and costs are shifted onto the worker. Faced with the absence of minimum rights and the adversities of the work context, solidarity emerges as a vital support network. This cooperation drives the development of class consciousness, sharing new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. 

The aim of this research is to develop a methodological proposal oriented by ActionParticipatory-Research (APR) for the work with children, focusing on the identity-territory relation. This proposal was based on an interest in encouraging children to listen to and value their contributions during the research process, so that the joint work between the researcher and her/his partners does not become unilateral, but horizontal, collaborative and ethically and politically committed to the autonomy of this social group. To this purpose, eight weekly group meetings were held, lasting approximately two hours, to discuss themes related to the three axis of identity for Antonio da Costa Ciampa: me-with-me, me-with-the-other, and me-with-the-world. The world here takes on the connotation of inhabited territory for Milton Santos: it encompasses the set of objects and actions that make up human space and can only be understood by taking into account the totality of social dynamics and their historical context. The understanding of territory that guides us, therefore, takes into account the occupation and territorial distribution mediated by the tentacles of the capitalist economy, the strength of its hegemonic spaces and the influence of racial and class dynamics, harboring contradictions and being the stage for disputes. In this study, I had the participation of four children, aged between 6 and 9, from the Moita Verde Quilombola Community (RN), where this methodology was developed. Photography, drawing, storytelling based on children's books and board games were used as methodological tools. The conclusion is that the methodology had the expected effects, and that the success of its application will always lie in the researcher's sensitivity and ethical commitment to identifying the demands of each territory and transforming them into thematic meetings to be worked on, as well as in their creative capacity to (re)elaborate and adapt the materials used according to the characteristics of the people taking part in and the context in which they are inserted

In this research, I start from my experience as a black woman and clinical psychologist and the concerns that emerged from this place. In this study, I propose to investigate the challenges present in the construction of clinical practices by black psychologists in the municipality of Natal/RN and the possible paths for a decolonized and anti-racist psychology. I take into account that the historical process of Brazilian society is determined by the colonization and effects of coloniality that structure the order established in the classification and social hierarchy. Thus, racism is a phenomenon of this colonization, becoming structuring of the modes of subjectivation, permeating and crossing concrete relations in the areas of economics, law, politics and, ideologically, building the racist, oppressive and exclusionary social imagination (Silvio Almeida, 2019). Knowledge production is also crossed by the effects of coloniality for the purpose of building “universal” thinking, but based on a eurocentric reason. Psychology, as scientific knowledge, is also constituted in the foundations of eurocentrism, racism and epistemic sexism. This research aims to understand the repercussions of racism in the process of formation and professional performance of black psychologists in the field of the clinic. I analyze the life trajectories and formative processes of professionals and their effects on clinical practice to know the challenges in our experiences in a historically colonized clinic and the construction of collective resistance in facing racism. To do so, this qualitative research conducted interviews to grasp the narratives of black psychologists working at the clinic. 5 professionals that work in the municipality of Natal were interviewed. As results, research proposes the exercise of new clinical practices in understanding the impact of racism on the mental health of the black population. Finally, I discuss how clinical psychology can be built from a perspective of joining into quilombos groups and processes of caring and the importance of this for an ethical-political project decolonizing and anti-racist.

Purpose: The family literacy environment is an important factor for the development of reading and writing. Children with a family history of dyslexia may have reduced access to reading resources and engage less in literacy activities, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this article was to compare the family literacy environment, with and without a family literacy history, before and during the pandemic. Method: 676 families responded to the COVID-19 Home Environment Literacy Practices - COVID19-HELP Questionnaire, providing information about family literacy practices and resources in the periods before and during the pandemic. The sample was divided into 190 children who were at familial risk for dyslexia (FH+, experimental group) and 486 children without a family risk (FH-, control group). Finally, the data were analyzed using the Generalized Linear Mixed Model. Results: In most statistically significant variables, children at family risk of dyslexia presented lower average home literacy resources and activities. Concerning the time period, there were significant increases in the number of digital books for children, digital educational games related to letters, reading, or math for children, actively played educational video or computer games. The interaction between the group and period was not significant. Conclusions: the findings demonstrate that children at familial risk for dyslexia presented lower frequencies of family literacy activities and resources. However, no differences in interaction between the group and time period were observed, suggesting that the increase and decrease in home literacy resources and practices primarily stem from group disparities, rather than modifications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This thesis aims to learn about the experience of being-and-doing-in-common in the daily life of Natal's first and only Maracatu-Nação, the Zambêracatu Nation: a) narrate how the cultural and religious traditions of Zambêracatu help to compose the experience of being-and-doing-in-common; b) follow the networks of sociability, the politics of familiarity and friendship and the power relations of the experience of being-and-doing-in-common of the Nation; and c) discuss the reverberations of the contemporary, informational, mediatized and pandemic scenario in the experience of being-and-doing-in-common of Zambêracatu, as well as in its cultural and religious traditions. To do this, we used ethnographic experience through participant observation, open interviews, informal conversations, as well as the becoming-chronicler and the technique of drifting, using both a post-structuralist perspective and decolonial debates. Between 2020 and 2021, during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we entered the field digitally and, in 2022, in person. The traditions of the Nation, due to the link with the Orixás, the relationship with time, ancestry, the importance of food, the body and matriarchy, made it possible to perceive the being-and-doing-in-common in scenes of hospitality, in the idea of family and in the transmission of knowledge through orality. Their sociability, politics of familiarity/friendship and power relations are presented with conflicts, disputes, divergences, polarizations, antagonisms, coalitions, alliances and affections. When it drums in the streets, between the terror of the colonial, racist and eugenicist projects that cross the city, whether through the state, civil society or other channels, and the joy and strength of ancestral traditions, the Nation transforms the city into a shrine, making it the home of Exu. In the pandemic scenario, the body and subjectivity have been subjected to biomolecular, microprosthetic and digital technologies. In this mediatized scene, in this city of bits and pixels, devices of visibility, surveillance and control prevail, which encourage spectacularization and self-exposure. We are therefore betting on a Psychology that is built by dialoguing with cultural and religious practices on the margins of social circuits, as well as revisiting its references and moving towards the construction of other productions of knowledge. 

The public manager operates in the technical, strategic and political spheres; in addition to dealing with bureaucracy and various rules that guide what you do; making this work challenging and complex. This study was dedicated to analyzing the work activity of general directors of campuses at a Federal Institute in northeastern Brazil, based on the notions of work well done, prevented activities, processes of precarious work activity, and management processes institutional. The theoretical lenses used for this research were Organizational and Work Psychology and, specifically, the Activity Clinic. Thus, based on the main objective, through the application of an electronic questionnaire, the socio-professional profile of the directors was described. Subsequently, through a semi-structured interview, the meaning of a job well done for the participants was verified. To analyze the work, a group was formed and, through Clinical devices (Photo Workshop, Activity Survey and Instruction for the Lookalike), the quality of the work, the impediments and the articulation of the collective of managers were identified. After consensual validation on the main management challenges, participants developed strategies to strengthen the profession. It was found that the perspective of a job well done is related to planning and achieving goals, but when analyzing the actual work, numerous obstacles were identified that impede the feeling of it. Some impediments to this work are related to budgetary and team composition issues and the difficulty of appointing employees to take on management roles. The existence of a feeling of loneliness in the act of managing and conflicts between central management (systemic managers) and the management of teaching units (general director) was detected; these are related to the multicampi organizational model. The analysis of the activity was listed as one of the strategies for strengthening the various trades that make up the researched institution.

The field of drugs is made up of an extensive set of practices, discourses, laws and norms that, aligned with moralistic pressure, serve as a substrate for drawing up legal guidelines made up of ethnic and ideological prejudices. Against this backdrop, the thesis deals with research that sought to highlight, from the perspective of individual lives, forms of resistance that oppose prohibitionist policies on a daily basis in the context of north-eastern Brazil. Using the ethnographic method, three time periods were constructed as a resource for immersion in the field, which we call ethnographic wanderings, wall-to-wall conversations and slipper-to-wall conversations. Based on the narratives heard throughout the research, we constructed the analyses based on three elements that emerged in these meetings: I) relationships between harmful drug use and the traumatic situations experienced and narrated by the participants; II) problematisation of how to witness and credit such narratives in the face of these bodies and desires taken as "deviant" in a prohibitionist society; and III) possible ways out as resistance in the face of everyday practices in relations with the territories accessed. In the early days of the research, in the surroundings of a CAPS AD III in a city in Paraíba, it was possible to compose a set of images and unique readings of the situations experienced in the territory, highlighting intersubjective, socio-institutional and spatial relationships. The analyses highlighted the importance of approaching everyday life to promote care and dialogue around trauma, from a social and political perspective, together with the reflection on denial proposed by Ferenczi, to see that these subjective expressions that were narrated become invisible, inaudible and untouched in the context of prohibition. However, as an alternative to this discrediting, Deleuze and Guattari proposed a discussion of the concept of war machines, making it possible to build places of resistance to the universalisations imposed by prohibition, through the creation of inventive lines of escape. Finally, we analysed territories in terms of their constituent elements (Deleuze and Guattari), using Michel de Certeau to highlight the importance of everyday life in building tactics to deal with situations of oppression. In this way, the analyses here propose a field of micro-revolutions, which have highlighted these partners as particular makers of their possibilities in the absence of a state apparatus

Several theories of child development, notably those of Piaget, Wallon, and Vygotsky, emphasizethe importance of a sensorimotor period as a key transition in the child's psychetowardssymbolic thought. In Historical-Cultural Psychology (HCP), it is argued that in the earlystagesofdevelopment, the most rudimentary milestones serve as support for the genesis of higherpsychological functions (HPF). The beginnings of verbal language, as approachedinVygotsky'swork, are consolidated when the child points with their index finger, acquiring meaningbasedonthe adult's response. Studying the antecedents of these HPF, it becomes necessary totracethehistory of premises or clues related to the development of pre-verbal communication, namelycertain socio-cognitive or linguistic precursors, as discussed in current literature. Milestonesofachild's pre-verbal communication include gestures (with emphasis on deictic types), sharedattention, gaze direction, object use, social interaction, vocalizations, perceptual-motorcoordinations, parental response, and cooperative activities (adult-child), amongothers.Examining the developmental trajectory of these indicators through appropriate instrumentshaspredictive value for the emergence of verbal language, both in children with typical andatypicaldevelopmental trajectories (e.g., as an early indicator of language acquisition delayandAutismSpectrum Disorder). In this context, the thesis focuses on constructing the Protocol forDynamicAssessment of Pre-Verbal Communication Development (PROCP-V) based ontheontoepistemological matrix of HCP. To this end, the thesis encompasses two studies. The firststudywas conducted based on two systematic review articles aimed at mapping infant assessmentinstruments, such as developmental screening scales and instruments focused onnon-verbalcommunication, for children aged 6 to 18 months. The second study involves the elaborationofthe theoretical-methodological foundation and content of the protocol, as well as conductingacontent validation study through judge evaluation. The purpose is to provide a simplelanguageprotocol, with flexible procedures, considering the perspective of families onchildren'sdevelopment, and accessible to various professionals. This tool aims to provide clinical andeducational support for the formulation of timely intervention strategies andapproaches,enabling systematic monitoring of child development from the early stages.

The reservation of seats for black and indigenous students at universities has led to changes in the profile of students at these institutions. However, the greater number of students from these two racial groups does not imply that universities are spaces that guarantee equal opportunities or racial equity. Institutional practices that hinder the full access of black and indigenous people to fundamental rights, public policies and spaces of influence have been recognized as expressions of institutional racism. The overall aim of the research presented in this thesis was to analyze the contradictions between the implementation of affirmative action to promote racial equality and expressions of institutional racism at UFRN. The research applied dialectical and historical materialism as a theoretical methodological approach, inspired by the Marxist understandings about racism, State and the Brazilian universities in the context of dependent capitalism. The research procedures involved a survey of institutional documents and semi-structured interviews with central administration managers. Although UFRN guarantees reserved seats for black and indigenous students in its courses and some actions to promote racial equality, these actions are mainly developed by black public employees. In addition, the institution does not have structured policies to reduce racial inequalities and combat racism. The expressions of institutional racism that were identified are related to Brazilian universities' position of dependence on cultural, scientific and ideological production and reproduction, which are directly linked to the reproduction of the capitalist and racist social relations that make up the Brazilian social formation.

With the significant increase in the elderly population in Brazil, there is a growing concern about the quality of life (QoL) of this group, which is vulnerable to the development of biological and psychological diseases. Therefore, it is essential to conduct research that identifies aspects that promote better QoL and prevent illnesses. The objective of this study was to analyze the correlation between levels of engagement in rewarding activities, depressive symptoms, and QoL in elderly people attending Basic Health Units and Family (UBSF) and those who participate in the Open University for Maturity (UAMA). The study was conducted with a sample of 100 elderly people, 50 from the UAMA group and 50 from the UBSF group, ranging in age from 60 to 85 years. The study is characterized as quantitative, descriptive, and correlational. The instruments used were: sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), WHOQOL-Old, The California Older Person's Pleasant Events Schedule – OPPES-BR, and Social Media Engagement Questionnaire (QEMS). The analyses were performed using R software, using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results indicate a significant correlation (p<0.001) between depression, enjoyable activities, and QoL in elderly people, showing the interrelationship between these variables, as well as the influence of the socioeconomic context. It is concluded that elderly people who are in a continuous education process present a better QoL, participate more in enjoyable activities, and have fewer depressive symptoms, while the elderly population inserted in a context of social vulnerability manifested alarming depressive symptoms, negative perception of QoL, and less frequency of enjoyable activities.

Historically, women have been forbidden from occupying public and political spaces. As a result, it was necessary for them to build collective organisations in order to face and resist violations. In the context of the institutional politics in Brazil, the state of Rio Grande do Norte was home to women who were pioneers in acquiring the right to vote and in being elected for political office. Although there have been advances in guaranteeing women’s rights, their presence in political spaces remains considerably small, whilst the violences imposed to them remain frequent. The domination and exploration of women is based, within this understanding, in the imbrication amongst patriarchyracism-capitalism. Therefore, the main goal of this research was to investigate the measure in which the presence of women elected for the legislative in the state of Rio Grande do Norte might impact the overcoming of structures that submit women. Electing feminism and Marxism as main perspectives, it was determined as methodological procedures the mapping of women elected for legislative positions in the aforementioned state from 1990 until 2018, the applying of interviews based in a semi-structured guide, and the documental analysis of the bills and approved laws redacted by the elected politicians. The analysis of the interviews resulted in three meaning cores: a) the experience of existing-for, b) the experience of the political-woman, and c) the experience of being within legislative. It was identified that the material and subjective experience lived by women in politics carries the violences of being a woman in a patriarchal-racist-capitalist society. It was concluded that, for the presence of women in legislative to confront the unequal relations between genders, it is necessary that they recognise the violences to which they are constantly exposed and make a commitment to a political proceeding that is anti-patriarchy, anti-racism and anticapitalism.

This Dissertation aims to analyze the process of space appropriation in the city of Natal, RN, by the Black youth, with the following specific objectives: 1) to examine the intersections of racism in the process of city appropriation by Black youth; and 2) to observe the intersections between race and other social mediators in the process of city space appropriation. The concept of Space Appropriation was chosen because it can encompass the various processes that occur between the constitution of human beings and the spaces they inhabit, encompassing the identification and transformation of individuals and spaces, and their dynamic interaction over time. The study participants selected for this research are the Black youth of Natal, RN, meaning 100 self-declared Brown, Black, or African descent individuals between the ages of 18 and 24, residing in the city of Natal. This research has an exploratory nature with a cross-sectional design. Data was collected through a questionnaire developed in line with the research objectives, using an online form, and analyzed using SPSS and Iramuteq software. The results revealed aspects related to space appropriation by Black youth, especially concerning public and semi-public spaces in the city. It was observed that the Black youth in Natal appropriates urban space; however, racism permeates this process, causing these individuals to feel hindered or to avoid certain places.

Racism is a social phenomenon of great impact, characterized by the Federal Council of Psychology - CFP (2017) as a broad, complex, systemic and violent ideology, which permeates cultural, political, economic, ethical and subjective aspects of people's lives. This research focuses on structural racism, exploring the role of psychologists in institutions of the socio-educational system. Although we can identify a growing contribution from Psychology to the theme of racial relations, they are still little disseminated in the areas of activity, making this research an important update in this field of know-how. The general objective of this research is to analyze the role of psychologists in confronting racism in the open socio-educational system in Natal/RN. The specific objectives include (1) the identification of theoretical and technical references, (2) the analysis of perspectives on structural racism, (3) the understanding of the contribution to the reproduction/confrontation of racism. The study adopts a qualitative approach and is based on action research methodology, with historical and dialectical materialism as a theoretical basis. The study was carried out at the Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance - CREAS Oeste, in Natal/RN. Data were collected through participant observation, field diaries, analysis of informative and multidisciplinary reports, as well as Freirean culture circles with the four psychologists who are part of the Socio-Educational Measures (MSE) teams. Data analysis led to the identification of two main cores of meaning: 1. Racism, socioeconomic vulnerability and absence of the State and 2. Racism, organized crime and context of violence. These nuclei were formed based on the indicators and pre-indicators collected during the culture circles. The results reveal the complexity of the challenges faced by psychologists in the Brazilian socio-educational system. The research participants recognize the presence of structural racism in their daily work, emphasizing the need for socially engaged interventions to combat it and the promotion of more effective actions in the context of socio-educational measures. These findings highlight the importance of continuous and comprehensive training to improve knowledge and action in this field.

Working activity greatly affects the mental health of people around the world. Paradoxically, there are important gaps and inconsistencies in theories and practices in the field of mental health and work, especially criticisms of psychological and individualistic approaches in interventions in the individual frame. Starting from a psychology of clinical and historical-developmental work, we aimed to define a theoretical-methodological possibility of clinical analysis of the activity, which contributes as a theoretical-technical support in the production of individual psychological care devices to the worker, articulating health development and development of the work itself. Considering the clinical methodology in activity analysis, we performed: a) analysis of a clinical experience, based on Activity Clinic, of individual psychological care with work demands; b) production and analysis of dialogues between psychologists about their practices in health and work; c) integration of results; d) preparation of the methodological proposal. The results indicated several contexts, determinants and configurations that circumscribe individual practices in psychology with work demands; pointed out as the main challenge of practices, overcoming isolation, blaming and victimizing workers with problems or sick endos by work; confirmed the theoretical-technical gaps in psychology; pointed out the approaches closer to theorizations about work as an activity and the practice of its analysis, such as those that most contributed to the health of the people attended. We conclude with the presentation of principles, processes, conceptual schemes and operational guiding, involved in the psychological (and social) function of work, configuring them in a clinical-developmental proposal that relates the development of the activity itself to the development of health, as well as ways of acting by, with and for the social (collective) via activity.

In the last ten years, the use of game-based learning has increased significantly and the main arguments for the implementation of games as an educational tool are based on their potential to foster learning outcomes via their capability to increase engagement and motivation, as well as to enhance learner experience. However, additional (game) elements embedded in learning materials might distract learners and/or divert attention away from the essential content to be learned and thus impair learning and/or performance – such distractors are often referred to as seductive details. As such, a careful balance of game elements and instructional features is necessary not to hinder learning when using games. In this vein, this study aims at investigating the influence of game elements present in a digital game-based environment on the users’ performance and learning, as well as on engagement, motivation, and emotions. Overall, the study has three stages, and initially, a pre-post training study comparing a game-based to a non-game-based training condition on fraction magnitude revealed that participants improved their fraction magnitude understanding from pretest to posttest and their improvement did not differ significantly between groups. However, during the training, participants in the game-based condition responded more accurately but were slower than those in the non-game-based condition suggesting that game elements might increase participants’ cognitive engagement and result in a speed-accuracy trade-off. In the second stage, a comparison between a game-based and a non-game-based group intervention was implemented with a pre and post-self-reported survey measuring motivation, emotions, and engagement. The learning content was changed for a pairing association of symbols and numbers to exclude prior knowledge biases. The results showed that game elements affect both participant attrition and engagement during the interaction with the task. Participants with low self-efficacy were particularly prone to study dropout in the absence of game elements. Game elements further affect both learning efficacy and efficiency and mediation analysis revealed that task attractivity partially mediated the effect of game elements on learning performance. To deeply understand the dynamics of the use of game elements in learning, a multimodal data collection study was conducted and revealed that game elements are not harmful for learning. The same study evidenced that a game-based learning task can engage learners more than an equivalent task with no game elements involved as well as increase self-efficacy and self-interest. Hence, the use of game-based learning approaches is recommended considering their capacity to change learners’ perspectives towards learning environments.

This thesis approaches with the discursive production around the quilombola nomination. The

recognition of quilombola subjects and communities has been marked by disputes that involve

especially the issue of land demarcation and land tenure regularization in Brazil and the large

developmental projects. We argue that the discursivities built around the quilombola category

from the different positions taken on contribute to (re)produce different versions of this

category. For this, from the Critical Discourse Analysis, we analyzed public domain documents

as critical incidents that allowed us to visualize the controversy produced around the recognition

of Quilombola subjects and communities, identifying voices, positions and mobilized

repertoires. It was possible to identify two discursive matrices: 1) historical/archaeological; and

2) plural/heterogeneous. The first, which reinforces the official historiography and contributes

to the erasure of the trajectories of black communities in the post-abolition period, is mainly

defended by groups opposed to land demarcation, generally linked to agribusiness and large

estates. This matrix feeds back racism and strengthens the social structure of exclusion and

inequalities experienced by quilombola communities. As for the emergence of the second

matrix, the political action of rural black communities, in dialogue with anthropologists, and

the construction of a quilombola social movement, which favored the production of a new

lexicon based on notions such as group ethnicity, common land use and territory. This matrix

recognizes the diversity of experiences around the idea of a quilombo, facing the historical

silencing experienced by communities and allowing the creation of public policies aimed at

guaranteeing rights and social emancipation.

In the current context of increased intolerance and conservatism regarding gender identities and sexualities, the incursion of transsexual men into religious congregations creates ruptures in the relations of power, knowledge and subjectivation. Thus, this thesis proposes as a research question: is it possible for religious transsexual men to have another subjective experience outside the framework of regulation imposed by religions? In the field of gender and religion studies, the thesis is situated in studies on religious experience and its general objective is to analyze this experience from the religious experience of transgender boys. The study seeks to approach an interdisciplinary perspective through a composition of ethnographic and cartographic methods, using the resources of search and mapping of religious practices on the websites of some inclusive churches, participation in events promoted by churches, and interviews with transgender boys; and also by the dialogue between different fields of knowledge: philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, anthropology and etc. The thesis proposes the concept of mystical-minority for the analysis of the religious experience of transgender men. For this, we use the concepts of "consumer production" and "mysticism" by Michel de Certeau, "care of the self" by Michel Foucault and "becoming-minority" Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Through this study we have reached some conclusions: religions are constituted from cis-hetero-normative theologies and doctrines, whether of Judeo-Christian, Kardecist Spiritist or Afro-American origin; there is on the part of the LGBT population the reinvention of new religious practices, elements that point to the production of life; despite prejudice, exclusion, discrimination and murders that express a desire to eliminate this population; in the daily lives of transgender boys, there is a creative and inventive production of religiosities that are constituted through an ethic of freedom, self-care, confrontation and resistance.

Human actions on the environment affect ecosystems and put future generations at risk, having motivated researchers and politicians to debate environmental sustainability. In this context, the thesis is based on knowledge from Environmental Psychology (EP) and Environmental Education (EE), having as its theme the contribution of the school environment to the formation of pro-ecological concepts by high school students. It was developed based on two starting questions: How to promote and expand students' socio-environmental responsibility and foster pro-ecological behaviors? How to combine EP and EE in institutional programs aimed at the formation of the ecological subject? In view of these questions, the hypotheses are that: (i) students bring with them previous knowledge that needs to be understood and re-signified by the school; (ii) teaching strategies that combine scientific knowledge with students' everyday knowledge can provide the replacement and/or acquisition of pro-ecological concepts; (iii) the combination of formal EE educational practice with knowledge of person-environment interaction arising from EP can feed recommendations for school performance in this field. Therefore, the main objective of the research was to understand the role of the school environment in the formation/appropriation of pro-ecological concepts and in the socio-environmental awareness of students. The empirical work took place at the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN) unit of São Gonçalo do Amarante. Methodologically, a qualitative-quantitative investigation was carried out using a multimethod approach, through questionnaires, interviews and conversation circles. As results, the study traces a diagnosis that reveals students' perceptions and behaviors in relation to the environmental theme and the position of teachers in the face of obstacles faced in the formation of students as ecological subjects. The thesis concludes by outlining possible contributions of EP and EE to address the main problem detected in study.

The imperatives of patriarchy, crossed by the logic of capitalism, are constituted by attributing a series of powers and privileges to cisgender men to the detriment of women and LGBTI+ people. This system gains new configurations according to the historical, social and economic context that is established. It is necessary to consider that, when dealing with LGBTI+ people, and specifically transvestites and transsexuals, who subvert the norms of cisgenderism, these relationships are even more intense, suffering the most inhuman expression of the “social issue”. Thus, in resistance to this context of exploitation and oppression, various forms of confrontation are articulated; among them, organized social movements, which manifest themselves as a refraction of the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production in response to social inequalities. These collectives move to represent the interests of these populations, with emphasis on the LGBTI+ Movement, which was born in Brazil in the late 1970s, still in confrontation with the autocratic bourgeois regime. Currently, activism manifests itself in different ways, expanding to the country's corners, decentralizing from large urban centers and state capitals and marking its trajectory of struggles, building agendas with diverse demands related to citizenship, social rights, public policies and the combating homotransphobia, heterosexism and other forms of oppression and exploitation. Therefore, this work intends to analyze the emergence and performance of the LGBTI+ movement in the Sertão Potiguar from the perspective of the resistance and struggle of its/its founders. This research scenario is marked by a region with legacy of coronelismo/clientelismo, by the stigmas of drought, poverty and social vulnerabilities. Thus, the work aims to analyze, from an ethnographic perspective, the context of the emergence, performance, and relations produced by the collectives in this social fabric. The research outline was developed in the following steps, namely: the first step was the immersion in the everyday productions of the organized movement to understand the context of emergence, its operating dynamics, main guidelines, construction of agendas and actions; in the second stage, interviews were conducted using the thematic oral history tool with the founders of the movement to better detail how these life trajectories meet militancy in this geographic territory. It was noticed that the collectives emerged in the context of a conservative wave and the health crisis caused by the pandemic and were organized, at first, in an attempt to repair the historical violence to which transvestites and transsexuals were subjected, but were able to advance significantly in dialogue with the government and other social institutions in this territory of the Sertão Potiguar.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that emerges in early years, characterized by social and behavioral deficits, including stereotypies and specific interests. There are also cognitive weaknesses, such as intellectual and adaptive deficits, along with executive, attentional, and communication dysfunctions. Its pathophysiology remains inconclusive, and diagnosis is based on clinical history and careful observation. The incidence of ASD is high, increasing after revisions of diagnostic criteria and recognition of early intervention. Systematic 3 clinical assessments are crucial for diagnosis, and neuropsychological evaluations help grade impairment and map cognitive profiles, notably in executive functions, attention, language, theory of mind, and intellectual profile. This thesis aimed to assess the association of resources as a supplementary tool for ASD detection. The study included 34 children (17 with ASD and 17 without), aged 4 to 12, matched for age and gender (15 boys and 2 girls in each group). The ASD group was divided into three levels of support: I (7 children), II (6 children), and III (4 children), along with three levels of intellect: below average (8 children), average (6 children), and above average (3 children). Both groups were exposed to facial stimuli with happy, neutral, and angry expressions, with simultaneous recording of electroencephalogram (EEG) and eye-tracking. Data on distribution of brain waves by frequency bands obtained through quantitative EEG (qEEG) and the eye-tracking gaze profile were compared between groups, considering statistically significant differences (p < 0.05). Results revealed discrepancies in more than one parameter of visual tracking of human faces in children with ASD, varying depending on the presented face type. Notable differences were observed in the facial exploration sequence, the number of points traversed, total time, and initial fixation on the eye region, as well as eye movement speed. Among other differences, the ASD group exhibited lower attention, higher speed, and differences in eye movement sequencing when exploring the eye region. qEEG findings also highlighted a distinct pattern in the brain's electrical activity of children with ASD, depending on the presented face type. Slower rhythms were observed in anterior regions during happy faces, while faster rhythms occurred in anterior areas for neutral faces and posterior areas for faces expressing anger. The conclusion was that there are variations in eyetracking patterns and frequency bands of brain electrical activity in children with ASD when exposed to emotional stimuli. By integrating these findings with the neurocognitive clinical profile, eyetracking, and qEEG, it is possible to suggest a protocol for tracking and analyzing children with ASD. The use of combined tools to detect warning signs and confirm ASD diagnoses in less time tends to expedite early diagnosis and subsequent intervention implementation.

Long before Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis, many philosophers and writers had been discussed the topic of love. Their stories, legends, myths, sonnets, odes on this theme had choked the thoughts of these men who blossomed the desire of the lover to possess his object of desire: the beloved. When we observe the expression of love and in cultures, it appears that this feeling transcends time, immersed in historical, social and cultural contexts, disguises itself with elegance in each era and assumes different guises, but maintains the overwhelming force of providing experiences , which not even death holds them back. Therefore, the aim of this Thesis is to investigate how love was refracted in novels that has marked historical times, from the theoretical operators of emotions, feelings and experiences. Methodologically, the approach adopted in this research is of a qualitative nature, based on the Historical Materialist and Dialectic conceptions, under Historical-Cultural Psychology. Therefore, the study of this Thesis was developed from the plot between the philosophy of Spinoza (2017), Schopenhauer (2011) and Bauman (2004) referring to the issues of affections, the metaphysical relationship of love and the liquidity of the fragility of human bonds referring to the feeling of love; from Vygotsky's psychology (1998, 1999a, 1999b, 2004, 2007 and 2009), notably from the constructs of emotion and experience (perezhivanie); from the neurobiology of emotions and feelings according to the contributions by Damásio (2003, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2018), Fisher (1995, 2010 and 2015) and Pinto (2017). The analysis shows us that when we develop studies that analyze and interpret the relationship between Psychology and Literature in line with the stories of eternal love, we understand the universe of the psyche that appears refracted by the imagination of an artist through the experiences of the characters, thus creating a profile of the own identity, delving into the pain, anxieties, phobias, traumas, interpersonal and historical-cultural relationships of each era. Therefore, we seek to understand ourselves and the things that we restrict in order to question the constraints of the human being, tracing, therefore, the new paradigm to face the ills of life, going against post-modern standards and the constraints of everyday life and their weaknesses in affective bonds in the way of loving.

This study investigates cultural policies in Natal from the perspective of cultural citizenship and its spatial distribution, considering its impact on people-environment relations in the city&#39;s territories. A discussion is undertaken based on the historical panorama of socio-spatial inequalities in Brazil, in line with the conceptualization of space, territory and citizenship of the geographer Milton Santos, cultural citizenship of the philosopher Marilena Chauí and appropriation of space of Environmental Psychology. Thus cultural policies are a concrete example of how the State can act to expand (or discourage) citizenship materialized in territories, helping (or not) to encourage community appropriation through cultural and artistic equipment and expressions. Specifically, Natal is characterized by notable differences between its administrative zones in terms of socioeconomic conditions and provision of public spaces for leisure and culture. However the local studies on cultural policies do not discuss the issue of equal territorial distribution of cultural projects. A documentary research investigated and mapped 6 public selections between 2016-2019 and the maps indicated cultural projects’ concentration in the historic center (notably Cidade Alta) and south neighborhoods. So the spatialization of cultural policies reasserts historical socio-spatial inequalities of Natal. In the second methodological stage a expert panel integrated semi-structured interviews with 11 cultural agents. The thematic analysis points to the urgency of mapping the cultural practices and networks that already exist in Natal. This will assist the requalification and updating of cultural policies and the training of cultural agents in order to develop cultural citizenship through actions of appropriation of cultural environments.

With this research, I question the production of psychic suffering of women from the northeastern, backlands and how their bodies relate to the medicalization of life, from the creation of an autonomous medication management group - GAM, which was called GAM-Mulheres. I identify the universal subject of some feminisms, centered on Eurocentric, white, intellectualized and heterosexual women, as insufficient and limiting to understand the social and political condition of northeastern sertaneja women. Thus, I develop the idea of what I call sertaneja femininities, to situate the ways of living of these women in the sertanejo context of Serido. I perceive the medicalization of women as an effect of coloniality in Brazilian society, showing that medical-psychiatric knowledge has a great legacy of appropriation of their bodies in the face of the signs of madness, reflected on the inheritance of colonial traumas/wounds in their lives (Kilomba, 2019, Fanon, 2020). Based on questions such as these, I aim to discuss the modes of subjectivation of country women in psychological distress and medicalized, in the city of Currais Novos - RN. As specific objectives, I intend to: (a) identify the effects, meanings and perceptions of medicalization in the lives of women in a city in the northeastern hinterland; (b) discuss how issues of race, class, gender and territory make up the psychological suffering of women in the countryside; (c) discuss the experience of country women with affective and sexual work, such as maternal and domestic work, and (d) identify how these experiences relate to their psychological suffering. This study is constituted as a cartography woven through women's narratives. I defend the embodied and incarnated writing of women as a way of overcoming the academicism sustained by the writing of white, elitist and Eurocentric men, in an attempt to affirm a scientific knowledge that is based on ethics and the experience of historically situated knowledge. (Haraway, 2009; Collins, 2019). The participants in this cartography were women of different races, classes, generations, sexualities and different territories of the city in which the experience took place. Some women are black, but most are fair-skinned. They work as maids, caregivers for the elderly, cooks, general service assistants, researchers, local businesswomen. They are mothers, widows, divorced, living in monogamous heterosexual relationships or are single, identifying as heterosexual and as bisexual. The analysis of the women's self-narratives was concluded, based on the methodological proposal of Butler (2015) and Rago (2013), built through cartographic diaries and audio recordings, which remained as archives of the meetings of the GAM-Mulheres group. The analyzed results discuss: 1) who are the medicalized women in the backlands; 2) the biopolitical effects of psychotropic drug use on women's bodies and lives; 3) how experiences with domestic work, the maternal role and marriage, based on colonial, patriarchal and sexist values, contribute to the process of psychological suffering of these women.

Suicide rates around the world differ based on cultural, regional and sociodemographic aspects, as well as the way these deaths are recorded and the extreme underreporting. Despite its high rates, suicide is still seen as taboo, and for some groups it is also an invisible phenomenon. The World Health Organization identifies some groups most vulnerable to the risk of suicide. The LGBTI+ population (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites, Transsexuals, Intersex) has been identified as being more prone to suicidal ideation and attempts than their heterosexual peers. This fact is associated with different factors such as prejudice, discrimination, violence and social stigma. This research aims to reflect and understand the experience of LGBTI+ people who have attempted suicide, from a phenomenological-hermeneutic perspective guided by the Heideggerian ontology. Two people who attempted suicide were interviewed, a lesbian woman and a gay man. The analysis of the narrative interviews was based on the understanding and interpretation of the participants' experiences and the researcher's affectations, having as inspiration the Heideggerian hermeneutic circle. The results of this study show the meanings of wanting to die for LGBTI+ people. In this direction, the interpretations of the narratives demonstrate experiences of suffering, fear, misunderstanding, violence, escape from oneself, oppression, a life without place, an existence without belonging and killing oneself as a possibility of no longer living in this world. We reflect on our historical horizon and what it is like to inhabit for this population, as well as the daily resistance to remain in existence. It is hoped that the research results can contribute to broaden the discussion on mental health and suicide of the LGBTI+ population and shed light on the problems experienced by this population in Brazilian society, also collaborating to think, tension and build affirmative public policies.

This work deals with the life projects of young people from rural communities who study at the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN) and the possible determinants that influence the construction of these projects. For this purpose, we used the concepts of youth and rural youth, from five different points like age group; generation; current period of life, culture and social representation, and the concept of life projects, considered a set of idealizations of what they want to accomplish in the future. They were asked to take photographs according to some guidelines such as “self-portrait”, “where I live”, “life projects” and “IFRN” so further be debated in virtual discussion groups. The data were analyzed from the perspective of discursive practices and indicated that the young participants position themselves as multifaceted, with stimulating and limiting characteristics that cross all areas of their lives, such as the construction of their life projects. The rural environment presents itself as a place that does not meet the academic requirements for carrying out personal plans, but which, by developing a relationship of belonging, it’s now considered as part of their life projects. The IFRN is understood as a life changing opportunity, because of the range of factors that it presents as possible activities and reflections, stimulating the subjectivities of each student.

The theme of inattentive children has emerged since the 20th century, and, although a biological cause has not been discovered, they are still diagnosed as a deficit because they do not correspond to a certain model of school performance, and the care provided aims to cure or improve ADHD. However, supporting this understanding, phenomenology emerges as another possibility to understand what attention would be. This concept would be, in the Heideggerian perspective, a way for Dasein to be in the truth, an existential temporality of being-there, as possibilities of inhabiting its historical horizon. Thus, he would linger in a proper or improper way, attentive or dispersed from himself. How is the experience of living as a child from a place that was determined by the diagnosis? If attention is a global aspect of ADHD, how do they perceive themselves as being charged for something that “lacks” them? To approach the lived experience, we structured our research in four meetings: two meetings with the participants and two with their parents. We used the phenomenological method, inspired by the Heideggerian hermeneutics, and we approached the participants through the playful game hour with the expressive resource of the sandbox. Playing is a prerogative of Dasein as a child, and as an invitation to play time, we use the sandbox from a phenomenological perspective. This path fostered dialogues about her diagnosis, with the creation of scenarios and expression of her being a child with ADHD. As for the interpretation, it was made by the transcript in the affectation diary, and to interpret it we were inspired by the Heideggerian circle, which reveals the way we are understanding, and which, for the research, was adapted by Azevedo (2013), Maux ( 2014). Thus, two children aged 7 and 9 years diagnosed and undergoing treatment for ADHD participated in this study, whose worlds appear through interdiction and games with excessive rules by their caregivers. Their life projects are crossed by the understanding of their caregivers in a substitutive and impersonal way. It was understood that their existences were revealed from a being-child-with-ADHD-in-treatment. We think that, as long as the sense of being is merely given, the madness of psychic suffering in these children will be biologizing representations, forgetting the original phenomenon of the sense of Dasein's being-there in these children.

The objective of this study was to investigate the process of return migration, in the Brazilian context, in order to know what are the implications of this psychosocial-environmental process in the experience of the migrant person. Migration is a social, emotional, political and historical event. The population tends to migrate to territories where the economy has great attractive power. An example of this is the flow from small towns, with a context close to ruralities, towards large cities, where there is a high concentration of goods and services. For this purpose, the study used a qualitative approach. The collection of environmental data in person, through semi-structured interviews, based on the autobiography of people's lives, focusing on people's life stories. The group of participants was chosen based on the following people: people who live in a small city, over 30 years old, who lived in other regions of the country, other than the Northeast, for at least 1 year. In all, 9 interviews were carried out, and the group of participants is composed of 5 and 4 women, aged between 35 and 68 years. Data were analyzed inductively, based on Grounded Theory. Thus, the initial statements were initially carried out, according to the purpose of the study, and later, the initial classification and specialized data were carried out. The results show that the main search for motivation to study the city of origin is what makes this a job category. The other relatives of the return vary between violence, basic services, conflicts, among others. They also show the relationship of the relationship between and the greetings. The flow of people interviewed was migratory in different decades each, which adds specificities to an experience.

Youth and Adult Education (EJA) is a peculiar type of basic schooling, aimed at those students who didn’t have access or conditions to continue their studies at the expected age, especially workers. The late return to school and the condition of student-worker demand new readings on the teaching-learning processes, because it occurs in a period of development where the work activities figure as more significant in the student's life, thus requiring special attention to the organization of the pedagogical activity. In this perspective, this research tried to reveal the contributions of the Cultural-Historical Psychology for the EJA field as well as to analyse the organisation of the pedagogical practices in this modality. The methodological strategies adopted were: integrative review of Brazilian dissertations and thesis that investigate the EJA in the light of the Cultural-Historical Psychology and the accomplishment of semi-structured interviews with three teachers acting in the modality of EJA. The analyses undertaken are based on the Cultural-Historical Psychology, in its Historical-Dialectical Materialist base, especially regarding the periodization of the human development and its implications to the teaching organization. We observed, with the review, the recentness of this discussion and disperse production. The themes approached were: senses and meanings attributed to schooling; teaching practices and pedagogical resources used; educational policies; and, development of the higher psychological functions. With the interviews, we evidenced the insufficient appropriation of the theories of development and adult learning, resulting from a teaching training that neglects the study about EJA, resulting in incoherent pedagogical practices. Thus, we conclude that the teaching-learning process in EJA mediated by study and work activities remains little explored and lacking propositions. We defend that the knowledge about the cultural-historical periodization logic of development, especially the understanding of work as the main activity in adulthood, may contribute to the planning and organization of the pedagogical activity in EJA.

The territory is an active element that reflects the developed and structuring dynamics of society. Thus, the use, occupation and appropriation of the territory takes place in a differentiated way by the bodies that inhabit it. Hence, this work aims to investigate the relationship that black women living in urban areas establish with the territories they inhabit through their written productions. A discussion was carried out on how different is space appropriation by female and black bodies. This debate was substantiated by the Lélia Gonzalez concepts of racial division of place, Milton Santos’ discussion on social class spatial segregation, and the importance of the race marker in this relationship between body, identity and territory brought by Beatriz Nascimento. As well, the importance of virtual territories was explained, given the pandemic context in which this work has been developed. In addition, a discussion was built on the role of writing in the lives of black women and how their writing is always permeated by a place. In the methodological stage, semi-structured virtual interviews were carried out with the 9 selected participants. They are all black women writers living in urban areas. From the analyses, it was possible to verify the positive connection between participants and spaces. Such process was strongly influenced by race. However, they pointed to the need to contest the material conditions that are offered to effect this appropriation of space, which come from different spheres such as conditions of urban mobility and disinvestment in cultural policies. Both points were of fundamental importance for the participants. Thus, this work helps in the production of questions about what conditions are offered to black women so that they occupy cities in such a way that their bodies and life productions are seen, which directly affects the production of citizenship and their right to the city.

Motherhood hovers over historically constructed discourses, by different knowledge that permeate the social bond, in which, despite significant advances in the achievement of women's and mothers' rights, normative ideals, sometimes violent, are still imposed, not respecting the uniqueness of each one. to build your own maternal path. Awakened by what surrounds the issues, in the face of listening in the analytical setting which I exercise, I followed for nine months a collective prenatal group which sought to deconstruct the imposed ideals, sharing unique experiences and what they could come to do with meeting for the production of each maternity ward.In addition, guided by listening within the office, as well as cultural productions on reports, films, documentaries, music, I sought, guided by psychoanalysis, to listen to women-mothers about their experiences, and thus, to displace a suffering that seems constant between them, for possibilities of inscription as a mother, which will be particular to each one. In the chapters, I made considerations about this body between the feminine and the masculine, the control, the feminine in psychoanalysis; I also write about childbirth, the past that resonates in the marks of obstetric violence today, childbirth as an event. Then, I report on becoming a mother, the pandemic period that was concomitant to this research, and the inscription of a place as a mother.The women-mothers I had contact with reported suffering in control, whether in bodies, in childbirth, in naming while wanting or not wanting motherhood, that is, in their desire. However, spaces such as the group, the clinic, denouncement-writings such as this work, are making holes in the imposed ideals, in the lives of women and their subjective inscriptions.

We, from the LGBTQIAPN+ community, go through many types of violence and death during our life experience, and very often, even before we get to recognize our sexuality. Whether it is at home, school, place of work or on the streets, we are frequent victim of LBTQIAPN+fobia and we need  to create strategies that promotes quality of life, freedom and mainly, make our cause visible and guarantee rights for our community. Considering the street as one of the most hostile places towards our lives, there is, therefore, a search and dispute for spaces in the city where there can be recognition with other people from the LGBTQIAPN+ community, socialization and also the creation of a sense of belonging, and that can become spaces of fight and political resistance. In this way, we ask: in what ways does the LGBTQIAPN+ community, historically made invisible, make possible the multiple expressions and gender performativities and sexuality within a given urban context? The main objective of this work is to analyze the experiences of LGBTQIAPN+ people in regard to the ways in which they (re)transform spaces in the city, making them possible for their multiple expressions of gender and sexuality. The specific objectives consist of: A) Exploring the socio-spatiality that involves the experience of LGBTQIAPN+ people in the creation, occupation, invention and maintenance of spaces in the city; and B) To analyze the performativity of LGBTQIAPN+ people in the spaces of the city in search of visibility, recognition and appreciation of their bodies. The data collection was realized by  a self-applied virtual questionnaire, widely disseminated on social midia, in which people from the LGBTQIAPN+ community, over 18 years of age and residents of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, were invited to participate. The results show that, even with the diversity that exists inside the LGBTQIAPN+ community, our bodies share several feelings in regard to performing our gender identity and sexuality in the city, such as the search for spaces of sociability that are safe and that promote some welcoming to LGBTQIAPN+ bodies that inhabit the city, identification of elements that stand out in the occupied space so that people recognize it and be recognized within the community and specificities for rejection of certain spaces in the city, for example. The data also point out that the LGBTQIAPN+ socialization spaces were co-opted by the market logic and, therefore, where, before, they were supposed to be spaces of inclusion, given the marker of shared gender identity and sexuality, the spaces also become excluding because of factors such as race, social class, place of residence, among others that, when intersectionalized, operate on the possibility, or not, of access to city spaces. Finally, the results show that the LGBTQIAPN+ performativities carried out in the city can cause ruptures in the standard of the cisheteronormative norm and, in this way, make the city an effective place for all people, making the LGBTQIAPN+ perform transformative and, therefore, political. of and in urban space.

The youth of the MST began to build an organizational instance in 2005 with the creation of the National Youth Collective through marches, meetings and seminars where the participation of youth was massive. The collective was constituted through the Brazilian and international rural social and union movements organized in Via Campesina. The rural contexts, constitute subjectivities expressed in the movement's struggle banners, explicit in the slogans "Youth who dare to fight, build popular power". We aim to analyse the subjective meanings of the political participation of young people active in the National Youth Collective of the MST, specifically: a) to identify the effects of political participation on the daily life of the youth of the collective; b) to understand the subjective meanings that young people from the National Youth Collective attribute to their political participation; and c) to describe the coping strategies employed in each space of action by the youth to face the challenges present in their sociocultural contexts. We sought to trace a methodological path anchored in the cultural-historical approach in interface with the Theory of Subjectivity of constructive-interpretative inspiration and Militant Research. Three young men and women aged 21, 23 and 27 participated in the research, two men and one woman, all black and indicated by national leaders of the collective. As instruments we used a sociodemographic form and the Photovoice technique, used as an autophotographic resource in which the participant observed her/his reality, interpreted it and articulated it in the form of a photograph as an answer to three questions: What led me to fight? What challenges do I face in my daily life? What is it like to be a young fighter in the MST? After the photos were sent, individual meetings were scheduled for conversations to explain the personal interpretations of each photograph, resulting in an open dialogic procedure that provided a hybrid conversation, based on new questions that emerged in the dialogue and also on a semi-structured guide of auxiliary questions. A categorical analysis was carried out to identify the relevance of the events reported for the subjective processes of the participants and the objectives of the study. Young people feel that political participation is not dissociated from the notion they have of themselves, they constitute themselves subjectively as militant youths, aggregating the principles and values constructed by the movement which make up their subjective meanings. The move to the encampments with the families, participation in meetings of the Little Landless, marches, meetings and contact with other people in the same situation were crucial for the development of their subjectivities. The daily life of youth is tied up with the dynamics of militancy, rural work, university and training promoted by the movement. They present challenges and internal contradictions, such as the difficulty in mobilizing the category and the rural exodus. At the same time, they consider that friendship and affective bonds may be powerful for the work of mobilizing the youth. The construction of subjective meanings about being young Sem Terra is focused on the practice of the tasks of the collective and of the movement as a whole, demonstrating that to be is to do. There is a perceptible feeling of "debt" to previous generations with regard to continuing their struggles. At the same time, young people build new paths for the movement from an active political participation in the diverse organizational instances. They believe that political participation in the National Youth Collective may favour personal development and be understood as a formative cycle that influences the life trajectories of its militants by providing experiences in the various spaces of political action of the MST.

Intellectual Disability (ID) is a Neurodevelopmental Disorder characterized by functional deficits in adaptive behavior and intelligence. Health Education (ES) and Permanent Health Education (EPS) are fundamental paradigms for understanding actions in the field of Public Health Policies in the country. The objective of the present research is to analyze ES and EPS as health care strategies for people with ID. The specific objectives are 1) to analyze the scientific production on Health Education for people with ID in the national scenario, 2) to analyze the insertion of the ID axis in the State Plans for Permanent Education in Health (PEEPS), 3) To map contributions from Neuropsychology, in terms of intervention, with the description of a service aimed at children and adolescents with ID and 4) Elaborate an intervention proposal for adolescents with ID. Methodology: The research is divided into three studies. The first is an integrative literature review with documental research, in which descriptive, old studies were identified, with low conceptual operationalization and few intervention proposals in the ES axis and low frequency of specific guidelines for ID with little budget forecast in the EPS axis. The second is a theoretical-descriptive study that identified as main therapeutic targets in Sensory-Motor Functioning, Language, Attention, Executive Functions and Socioemotional Functioning with emphasis on concrete activities and mediated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and as main actions of intervention to psychoeducation and interventions in support of Individualized Teaching Plans and Singular Therapeutic Projects. The third is an intervention proposal, developed from the multidimensional, biopsychosocial and hierarchical model of the ICF, built on the basis of intervention protocols and technical materials on ID and which was designed to contemplate as a therapeutic target the three axes of Adaptive Behavior, social, conceptual and practical skills, as well as the ICF Activity/Participation subcomponents.

This is a study about the effects of listening to psychotic delusion for the construction of deinstitutionalization processes. Delusional speech provokes antagonistic reactions, both of strangeness in the face of the enigmatic dimension of language in psychoses, and of fascination in wanting to know how delusion is constituted for each subject and what can operate the one who listens to it. In the activity of listening to psychotic subjects, who are historically silenced as a treatment technique, I ask about what can happen when delusion is heard and what are the effects that are produced in the ways of caring. The question that underlies this research is: how can listening to psychotic subjects, in their so-called delusional speeches, dare to build processes of deinstitutionalization? In this perspective, we analyze the effects of listening to delusion as a singular truth of a subject. The research was based on the orientation of the psychoanalytic method. The field of research was the General Hospital Dr. João Machado, component of the Psychosocial Care Network of RN, which is historically known as a psychiatric institution, with attention to the mental health crisis and the possibility of hospitalization. I used the clinical-methodological device called listeningflânerie articulated with diaries of experiences in the problematic field and the clinical case construction tool. The focus of work with delusion was not to confront it, seeking a certain adaptation of the subject to the shared discourse, but to take into account its reconstructive force in psychotic stabilization, as well as the ability to form social bonds and weave paths that point out of the cloister. . In the work of deinstitutionalization, in its itinerancies through the territories, it was about delirious, daring to walk along the paths indicated by what was outside the furrows, outside the straight paths of the asylum reason. Therefore, the delirium was listened to delirious about a place in the world together with the subjects.

The purpose of this study was analyze the boundaries and potentialities of program to prevent violence against women developed on estadual educational instance of RN. Denominated “Programa Maria da Penha vai à Escola” (Maria da Penha goes to school program) (PROMAPE), which is from the law 10.330/2018, that aligned with Law Maria da Penha, has about the debate about gender equality and basic notion of LMP on education, in order to prevent violence against women. In RN, between 2011 and 2020, 1.050 women were killed in the State because of femicide, in other words, for lethal intentional violent conduct, which 83% of victims were between 15 and 49 years old and 76,2% were black women. These datas result from a society structurally patriarchal-racist-capitalist, that prints determinations of inequality, oppression and violences on women’s and younger’s life. Therefore, were selected specific purposes: a) character the program, b) investigate the implications of implementation and development at schools and c) problematize it contribution, next to scholars representatives envolved, that experienced the program interventions and next to coordinators whose developed. About method, were advanced 2 phases: documental and interviewing. Thus, were produced 9 interviews semi-structured and individuals, with PROMAPE coordinators and scholars representatives of target school of the program. The analysis of data is  supported on materialism historic-dialect, incorporated to a feminist Marxist perspective, that possibilities the critical analysis about social relations and denaturalization of several oppressions that women are submitted. The results are organized in categories grouped on three axes discussion: perceptions of violence against woman, expression of violence and the school, and the experience of the program of violence against woman prevention on the estadual network of education. The results demonstrate that violence against young girls and women is a phenomenon though education and the school, and reproduces on this context in many ways. Despite this expression, there is still a unfamiliarity about the role of education in front of the violence cases, as well as the protection network itself and treatment, and external procedures. It was verified that, despite the conservative context, discussions that envolves violence against woman as strategies of confrontation and prevention have already been carried out by schools before the PROMAPE intervention. On the other hand, the results indicate also, that still necessary improvements on the program, to enable effective prevention to violence, since still have limited reach and interventions. This way, it is understood that the program, although fundamental for the prevention of violence and for the consciousness process, can not effectively confront the violence, since do not achieve the bases of social structure patriarchal-racist-capitalist. It is concluded that PROMAPE, can be one possibility to prevent violence against woman, specially for it intervention being realized in the education field, however, presupposes structural modifications, reach and methodological proposal, to promote effective changes, without disregard it limitation intrinsic of answer to the complexity violence against woman.

Rural contexts constitute a new field of research in Latin American psychology. Thus, some challenges have permeated this approach, highlighting the theoretical gaps regarding the rural category. Therefore, the objective was to investigate how the scientific production of Psychology has been approaching rural contexts in Latin America, through an integrative literature review. Scientific articles were analyzed in the form of empirical studies on the subject written by Latin American psychologists. The searches were carried using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyzes (PRISMA), using the term “Psychology” and the Boolean descriptor and for the terms, “rural area” and “rural population”, in Portuguese, English and Spanish, and in the following databases: PubMed, PsycINFO, Redalyc, Scielo, PEPSI and LILACS, which resulted in 89 articles. The main results demonstrate that the scientific production of Psychology in Latin America on rural contexts is recent and is still concentrated within some countries. In addition, there was a predominance of terms and expressions that define rural by the physical-geographical sense. It is noteworthy that there are few reflections on the rural category, with Social being the area that produce the most on the theme and reflect on this category. Despite some gaps, there was still an effort by Psychology to present the specificities of rural contexts, which can open an important space for analysis, discussion and proposition of contextualized practices. It is concluded that, so that Psychology can contribute effectively in the field of rural contexts, it isurgent to problematize the theoretical aspects about rural, understanding that it is a category of theoretical reflection and not just a place where research is carried out. It is necessary for Psychology to position itself clearly and show where and how it can contribute to the understanding and transformation of rural Latin American contexts.

The present study evaluated the work and the risks of illness of the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. It is configured as a literature review and quantitative theoretical-empirical study, based on the ergonomics of the activity. Thus, this thesis was structured in three articles - two literature reviews and a quantitative study. The first study aimed to characterize the scientific production on the ergonomics of Brazilian activity, focusing and systematizing the places where the studies were carried out, the constructs explored, the methods adopted and the main results found. The database consulted was Periódicos Capes, via the Comunidade Acadêmica Federada (CAFe) and after the inclusion and exclusion process, 42 articles were selected for the literature review. Generally, the studies are interventions of a qualitative nature, which took place in the Southeast and Midwest regions, the most studied professional category being teachers. The main means of dissemination are the journal Laboreal and the Revista Brasileira de Saúde Ocupacional. In the thematic synthesis of similarity, categories emerged that explore aspects related to work and health, quality of life, ergodisciplines and methodological devices in activity ergonomics, thus evidencing the diversity and, in parallel, the peculiarities of the ergonomics of the Brazilian activity. . In turn, the second literature review of this thesis (PROSPERO: CRD42019125250), aimed to analyze the scientific production on the work of SAMU. The databases consulted at first were SciELO, PePSIC and the CAPES Periodical. Then, the VHL that brings together the bases of BDENF was consulted; IBECS; Index-Psi; LILACS and MEDLINE. The descriptors used were SAMU and atenção pré-hospitalar (Emergency Medical Services) and Trabalho (Work). The sample of this review was 49 articles. The scientific production analyzed is characterized by investigating the relationship between health and work at SAMU, but still anchored in the hegemonic biomedical perspective. A good part of the studies was carried out in the northeast and southeast, and a good part was concentrated in the state of Minas Gerais. Most of the researches were published in the year 2017 and in nursing journals. These are descriptive and/or exploratory studies, which took nursing professionals as a sample, in which they investigated occupational stress through the application of questionnaires. In the thematic synthesis of similarity, four categories emerged: Nursing team work; Perception of the work process and power relations; Working conditions and risk of illness; and, Methods and intervention. In order to implement the components of the pre-hospital service of the SUS, it is necessary to enhance the integration and articulation that is so fragile between the SAMU and other health establishments. Mobile pre-hospital workers are constantly faced with the lack of materials and the insufficient number of ambulances, which compromises the quality of the service. Being, of fundamental importance, the elaboration of strategies and new protocols that come to match the reality of work. Finally, the third article evaluated the work context and the risks of illness at SAMU in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample consisted of 169 workers, distributed among 16 Brazilian states. In which the Escala de Avaliação do Contexto de Trabalho, Escala de Custo Humano no Trabalho e Escala de Avaliação de Danos Relacionados ao Trabalho. The results found elude to critical to severe levels. Socio-professional relationships, working conditions and cognitive cost are the factors that most influence work. Thus, the results suggest immediate measures in the short and medium term, aimed at eliminating or reducing the risks of illness present in this work.

In this work we approach the daily life, ways of life and the meanings produced by family farmers in relation to life in rural contexts, family farming and Public Policies for Family Agriculture (Políticas Públicas para Agricultura Familiar – PPAF) implemented in the Cariri region of Ceará. We established as a focus of the study the discursive production of family farmers in rural contexts and as a general objective: to understand the meanings produced by family farmers in relation to public policies for family farming implemented in the Cariri Region. We outline specific objectives: I. To analyze the discursive positions of the legislation related to family agriculture in Brazil; II. Investigate the conceptions of rural present in the investigated group; III. Characterize the main productive practices in family units; IV. Identify continuities and ruptures in the ways of life of family farmers. The research was developed in two axes. The first, from 2018 to 2020, is dedicated to the analysis of official documents related to family farming and public policies for the sector in Brazil using the analysis of documents in the public domain. The second, carried out throughout the doctoral period, and especially between 2020 and 2021, with the production of data in the field through observations and conversations in everyday life, and interviewing subjects who have dedicated their lives to family farming activities, to the leadership of their communities and that throughout this process they participated in PPAF aimed at the sector. The interviews took place in three rural communities that make up the Arajara District, in the municipality of Barbalha, in the Cariri Region of Ceará. As the main results of our analysis, we highlight the following lines of argument: 1. The name 'family agriculture' aims to aggregate actresses/actors from rural and urban contexts around a single term, bringing together different producers beyond agriculture; 2. The PPAFs implemented in Brazil act as catalysts for social change in rural contexts. 3. The discourses that circulate - and also feed back, among the residents, technicians and academics, the political observations and decisions, of which we highlight public policies - affect and update the daily lives and ways of life in rural contexts. The interlocutors registered in our discursive exchanges the centrality they attribute to work, the relevance of close relationships with the family and their communities and the symbolic value of agriculture. Regarding public policies, families regretfully highlighted the reduction in resources from programs such as the Food Acquisition Program (Programa de Aquisição de Alimento – PAA) and the National School Feeding Program (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar – Pnae), which contribute to the food and nutritional security of beneficiaries of social assistance entities, education, and also provide opportunities for them to improve their income and working conditions. They position themselves positively in relation to the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar – Pronaf). Finally, we point out that the continuity of the credit granting program disconnected from other PPAF is insufficient for the valorization and maintenance of this social category.

The Brazilian prison system has shown alarming numbers in recent decades regarding the incarceration of women, evidenced by the growth of 442% between the years 2000 and 2021. The criminalization process has been predominantly directed at black, young, poor and low-educated women, in addition to being expressive in drug-related crimes. These data are related not only to a greater insertion of these women in the illegal drug market in recent years, but especially to female participation in activities of greater vulnerability and exposure, making them more susceptible to the action of criminal policy, as is the case of women who transport drugs, often referred to as “mules”. Given this, the objective of this research was to analyze the criminalization processes that affect women arrested and convicted for transporting illegal drugs to prisons. To this end, a documentary research was carried out, based on the analysis of 23 decisions of the STF and STJ, selected until the year 2021, about women who were arrested transporting drugs to prisons in Brazil. Data analysis was performed from the theoretical framework of Critical Criminology. The results found indicate that the aforementioned women arrested were, mostly, primary defendants, who carried drugs in their private parts to male units, mothers or partners, arrested during the intimate search procedure, carried a small quantity of drugs, and who were in pre-trial detention. With regard to the narratives of the justice system, divergences were evidenced between the arguments used by the lower courts, in which there were speeches aimed at supposed female dangerousness and the justification of the arrest of these women under the argument of defense of public order, and those pronounced by the higher courts, that presented more progressive and guarantor speeches in the sense of defending the removal of preventive detention and by the understanding that women who transport drugs to prisons were not linked to criminal organizations. It was also possible to verify that the number of decisions that reach the superior courts is minimal compared to the rate of women incarcerated for drug trafficking in the country. It can be concluded that the body of women who transport drugs to prisons is constituted as a territory of disputes, a real battleground, between legal and illegal control instances. Furthermore, the speeches given by the justice system are configured as part of these control mechanisms, and even though the higher courts present themselves as progressive in the face of the current reality of female incarceration, there is much to be covered with regard to the imprisonment of women for the crime of drug trafficking. Given the above, the study is expected to provide critical reflections in order to break with punitive discourses and practices, promoting a critical feminist perspective that thinks of another place for women.

The aesthetics of the Oppressed is an elaboration by Augusto Boal, a Brazilian playwright who systematized this artistic-political proposal from the formulations with the Theater of the Oppressed. This methodology consists of the scenic dialogue that problematizes oppressive social relations. The peculiarity of this method consists of three transgressions: 1- the division between stage and audience; 2 - between show and real life; 3 - between artists and non-artists. In the 2000s, with the implementation of the Brazilian National Mental Health Politic (PNSM), the Ministry of Health established a partnership with the CTO-RJ to train health workers in the use of this methodology. The research proposed here has the general objective of analyzing the use of Aesthetics of the Oppressed in Mental Health Care in Brazil. Specific objectives: a) to identify the social actors who use or have used the Theater of the Oppressed as an instrument of mental health care; b) describe activities developed in Mental Health Policies with this aesthetic perspective; c) discuss subjective productions of health work from the theoretical-practical thinking of Augusto Boal; d) promote critical reflection on the use of Aesthetics/Theatre of the Oppressed for health care; e) to build a theoretical-practical framework about Aesthetics in the Oppressed in the field of Mental Health. This study has as an epistemological reference the thought of Boal, which seeks to strengthen the culturally oppressed, manipulated or excluded groups and peoples, building a proposition for human development focused on the analysis of social conflicts from the crossings and flows of intensities produced in art. The methodological procedures adopted consist of interventions with self-administered online questionnaires, available on social networks, and individual interviews with professionals from the health network who use or have used the Theater of the Oppressed as a work tool, in addition to project managers and linked to the CTO-RJ, when in partnership with MS. The self-administered questionnaires were descriptively analyzed and the individual interviews proposed a dialogic conversation/relationship between researcher-researched. From these instruments, it was possible to outline four themes that generated analysis: 1) Project Theater of the Oppressed in Mental Health; 2) CAPS and the Psychiatric Reform; 3) Art and Mental Health; 4) Professional paths and the Theater of the Oppressed. Performances with this theatrical methodology were observed in the promotion and attention to mental health and that the training process in Theater of the Oppressed in Mental Health favored processes of creation of care in freedom advocated in the Psychiatric Reform.The support to the worker, through supervision, material subsidies, theoretical and practical support proved to be fundamental for the creation of mental health practices based on the principles and foundations of the anti-asylum fight and the PNSM. From this investigation it was possible to understand the Aesthetics of the Oppressed as a precursor of the Anti-asylum Struggle, thinking an analogy with its transgressions to the traditional theater and with that, verifying its anti-asylum principles, libertarian and focused on human rights, for another society where asylums do not fit , does not fit the asylum mode.

Palliative Care (PC) is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients (adults and children) and their families, in their physical, psychosocial and spiritual aspects, in the experience of a process of severe illness and suffering. The psychologist, a member of this care team, is the professional that is needed for the emotional support that this experience awakens, either during the illness or in the proximity of death. It is known that the theme of death, present in the context of PC, still triggers many challenges. We ask ourselves: How does one build an itinerary in the training for the know-how of the Psychology in PC, especially in dealing with the dying process? To reach such inquiry, we had as general objective of our study: To understand the process of construction of the know-how of the psychologist who acts in Palliative Care in special facing the terminality. As specific objectives: (a) To investigate what is the preparation of psychologists for the practice of care in the process of terminality in Palliative Care (PC); (b) To know the meaning of death for psychologists who act in PC; (c) To identify the feelings experienced by psychologists in caring for people in the process of death in PC and after death occurs; (d) To know which resources/strategies are used by psychologists to deal with their own emotions during the process of death and possible bereavement; (e) To investigate how psychologists approach the spirituality/religiousness of the people they care for during the process of death in PC; (f) To identify difficulties/challenges/potentialities for the performance of care during the process of death in PC; (g) To identify the role attributed by psychologists in caring for the process of death in PC. A survey was carried out with 12 psychologists from the following regions of Brazil: North, Northeast, South, Southeast and Center-West who work in PC. The methodological strategies used were narrative interviews and projective scenes. The analysis and interpretation of the narratives were supported by Gadamerian hermeneutic principles. Before the chapters that dialogue with the collaborators' narratives, we have a theoretical chapter: "Palliative Care: the history and a willingness to care" We follow with: "The preparation to deal with death in Palliative Care" portrays the gaps in the formation about the knowledge, evidences that the patients show themselves as great masters in the art of teaching about caring at the end of life, verifies the constant preparation in this being with the other in the death process;  "When the patient dies: meanings and emotional experiences of psychologists in this care" approaches the personal death transformations, resignifications, mourning and death in professional life with its fears, impotence, anguish, and gratitude; "Caring for caring: resources and strategies that support the practice of psychologists at the end of life&quot; reveals self-care through therapy, meditation, music, exercise, rest, and staying with their loved ones, the sharing of vulnerabilities among the team and spirituality and loving care as resources; "Caring in the process of death in PC: difficulties, support, and the ways to know how to do in psychology" presents difficulties when there is no exclusive team in PC, in dealing with death with pain and suffering, and the challenge of communication with the family. The understanding of caring at the end as a sacred space of action supports their practice in face of the desired roles to care in the proximity of death: to know how to listen, to have respect for the finite condition and choices of the patient, to facilitate the expressions of goodbyes, re-significations, autonomy, dignity and to reduce spiritual and emotional suffering of the patient and their families. To do so, they need to search for spirituality and face their mortality. The presented thesis announces possible ways for the construction of a Psychology knowledge to do in front of death in Palliative Care.

Changes associated with the commodification of death allowed the emergence of several professions that deals directly with human corpses. Among these professionals are the funeral workers. As they develop their job activities, in contact with cadavers that could be in various states, these professionals have to deal with prejudices and stigmas associated with their work activity. Therefore, this thesis had as main objective investigate the work activity of professionals who deal directly with death, considering these workers as active subjects in the process of analyzing their own activity. Applying theoretical and methodological contributions of the Activity Clinic, clinical-qualitative research was conducted with funeral agents (Study 1), embalmers (Study 2) and gravediggers (Study 3), all workers of a large private funerary group from northeast Brazil. Data were constructed through the work activities observations, an individual semi-structured interview and a group interview mediated by the use of the Instructions to a double technique. Study 1 allowed us to understand that work activities of the funeral agents are much more than dealing with cadavers. These workers also need to have a high degree of socio-emotional skills, especially when dealing with grieving families and providing support. Considering that the work routines are unpredictability and there are impediments in performing their activities, each funerary agent develops its own strategies to cope. They stylize their manners to execute the work activities, but there are strategies shared between coworkers, which allows the construction of professional collectives’ approaches. The study 2 exposed that the work of embalmers goes beyond the preservation of cadavers, including supplementary care of the corpses. Which can contribute to reduce the pain of friends and family. Embalmers mobilize a lot of themselves to perform a job well done, especially with bodies that are very deteriorated. A factor that contributes to revitalize a work that is linked to a high degree of social invisibility, as well as risks and, therefore, precariousness. In the study 3, we found that in addition to burials, the exhumations are activities that require a lot of physical and psychic investment from gravediggers. These workers highlight the need to have courage to perform this work that is highly rejected by society. However, they manage to signify the prejudices suffered daily and execute their professional attributions by working together, developing interpersonal relationships marked by the use of humor. As well as, building cooperation agreements and accessing to collective and transpersonal memory of these attributions. We hope that the results obtained in these three studies can contribute to the construction of new meanings for the professional practices of these workers, reverberating in terms of transformation and development of the power to act, as well as in the visibility of these professional categories so essential in our society.

The COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the biggest humanitarian and emergency public health crises in the world, bringing psychic, social and economic repercussions. For health professionals, in addition to the anguish shared with the population, they still faced complex challenges regarding front-line work, being reputed as a vulnerable group to psychic changes. Considering this, we sought, through a cross-sectional and correlational study, to characterize: Stress, Burnout and PTSD in health professionals who are working on the front lines of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A total of 120 professionals from the multidisciplinary team from two public hospitals in Rio Grande do Norte participated, 53% of the participants worked at the Municipal Hospital of Natal and 47% at the Giselda Trigueiro Hospital. For investigation, the following instruments were used: sociodemographic questionnaire, Perception of Stress Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist. Data analysis was based on descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed moderate levels of Perceived Stress with an average of 20.71. Considering the dimensions of stress (negative and positive) there were statistical differences, highlighting a higher score for positive stress, which favors a better performance in the face of pressure situations. Regarding PTSD, 39.17% of the participants fit into the probable cases for the disorder, considering the DSM-5 criteria. For this construct, the most prevalent symptoms were those of reliving the traumatic event. In the evaluation of Burnout, meeting the criterion of high levels in the three dimensions, the prevalence of the syndrome was found in 48.33% of the participants. Considering the dimensions specifically, the scores were high for Emotional Exhaustion 49.17% and low Personal Fulfillment 84.17%. In Depersonalization, 51.17% of professionals scored medium and 48.33% high. As for the correlations between the investigated constructs, positive correlations were identified between Perceived Stress with Burnout and PTSD. And negative correlations, between the dimension Professional Achievement with Depersonalization, PTSD and Stress Perception. Working on the front line was associated with considerable levels of Perception of Stress, PTSD and Burnout in professionals, indicating the need for interventions aimed at psycho-emotional care.

This thesis investigates what are and how socio-historical, economic and political determinations have been producing impediments to the implementation of the Social Assistance Policy (AS) in the sphere of law in the municipality of Santa Maria (SM), located in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul (RS). Together with this, specific objectives were established: a) to build the historiography of the Municipal Social Assistance Policy of Santa Maria/RS (PMAS-SM) in the period from 2006 to 2021; and b) Identify how the researchers, technical workers and other individuals involved with the AS conceive the implementation of the Policy in the Municipality; c) Verify the conservative and militarization crossings existing in the city of Santa Maria. To achieve the objectives, we carried out: bibliographic and documentary research, through access to documents published on websites and facebook pages, which included articles, dissertations, thesis, books, reports in electronic media, pronouncements, municipal laws and works produced in recent decades related to the city of Santa Maria and the PMAS-SM and semi-structured interviews conducted with individuals involved with the AS. The analysis of the collected data was guided by historical-dialectical materialism: totality, contradiction and mediation. The research shows the imposition of a conservatism in the social tessitura of Santa Maria metabolized by a bourgeois moral who insists on eclipsing "the social question" and guiding the PMAS-SM in the charitable logic of benepoence and philanthropic. Important milestones are structured for the composition of the PMAS-SM as a public policy based on the sphere of law through the political organization of the workers defenders of the Policy. However, we highlight the presence of disaggregating elements, demobilization and illness of individuals in the face of struggles in favor of politics. Finally, we seek to problematize the consequences and permanence of political action and state intervention, to unattend conservative social forces present in the municipality and in the PMAS.

The number of violent and premature deaths among adolescents and young people in Brazil and in the world has been increasing, with suicide being the second leading cause of death for them worldwide. In view of this, death and mourning invariably invade the school space. When a student commits suicide, the impact is even greater, because in addition to being an unexpected, violent and stigmatized death, it involves a young person, generating even more commotion in the school community. Suicide impacts not only those closest to the deceased, but a large network of people who in the continuum of survival are among those exposed, affected and bereaved. Bereaved by suicide are more likely to develop emotional illness and to have suicidal behaviors, especially among adolescents and young people, which may favor suicide by contagion. Educators are also affected, but they do not find welcoming spaces and still feel unprepared to deal with their students in the face of this crisis situation. This study aims, therefore, to understand the experience of loss and grief among students and educators, in the face of student (s) suicide, in the educational context. The methodology used was qualitative with theoretical support of Gadamerian hermeneutics, through the instruments: narrative interview and projective scenes with students and educators who went through the experience of losing a student by suicide between 2011 and 2021. Six interviews were carried out with students ( enrolled and graduates), survivors of different suicides, between 17 and 22 years old, and with 3 teachers, from the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN) from 3 different campuses: Natal Central, Natal Cidade Alta and Parnamirim. The thesis was built in the form of articles. The first refers to an integrative review, entitled “Grief for suicide and postvention at school: an integrative review”, which sought in the literature the knowledge already produced about suicide and mourning by suicide at school, from the perspective of students and professionals. of education, from national and international articles. The results pointed to the need to consider the culture as well as the individual needs of survivors when designing postvention programs at school, as well as educational policies that ensure the prior implementation of crisis management plans. There was also a small production of studies that contemplated educators and, in Brazil and Latin America, a significant gap in relation to this theme. The second article “When mourning for suicide invades the school: the helplessness of students” identified the meaning of death by students as an inevitable end, a fresh start in spiritual life and a possibility of re-signifying living. The meaning of suicide, on the other hand, emerged as a choice in the face of despair and loneliness and not wanting to actually die; selfishness and lack of blame; as well as a result of the suicidal context in which we live. Its manifestations in relation to the impact of this loss occurred at the intrapersonal level (shock, some fears, anxiety, sadness, impotence, guilt and physical, cognitive and behavioral manifestations), interpersonal and transpersonal. Within the continuum of survival, students were among those exposed, affected and bereaved by suicide, demonstrating the need to be supported by the educational institution. The third, “Fighting suicide and postvention at school: the students’ coping strategies and the care they would like to receive”, identified that the adolescents/young people’s coping took place through conversations with friends, support from religiosity, in a solitary way. , with little and discontinuous institutional support. They highlighted the suicidal context that can drive suicide and also the sickening context after the impact of this death, in which they are torn between their own pain and the need to be support for other friends, who seem to be suffering even more. The fourth article entitled "When a student's suicide invades the educational institution: the invisible mourning of educators" we address the impacts of suicides at the inter, intra and transpersonal levels on teachers, showing that, depending on each of the suicide, they lie on the survival continuum between the exposed, affected, and bereaved (short term). However, they received little support related to suicide postvention by the institution, making them invisible in their pain and unprepared to deal with surviving students. Finally, the fifth article, “When student suicide invades the educational institution: confrontations of educators and postvention”, which discusses the confrontation of teachers: participation in a farewell ritual, help from peers and, in the absence of social support, the confrontation occurred in a solitary way. We also identified the institutional unpreparedness, the return to work without the necessary support, the disarticulation of the multiprofessional team and the absence of rituals about the student's legacy, making their mourning invisible. We conclude that it is essential to formulate previous suicide prevention programs in educational environments, which include students and educators, considering their specificities and needs, whether close to the deceased or not, cultural aspects, in addition to their location within the categories of the survival continuum, which will support the actions of care and prevention of suicidal behavior in those impacted by suicide in the context of educational institutions.

The present work sought to contribute to the understanding of the discourses of the context of work activity analogous to slavery (TEA) of workers rescued from the carnauba production chain in Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil). Such an interpretative effort sought support in the theoretical contributions of historical-cultural psychology, work clinics and dialogues with the French-speaking tradition of discourse analysis, and unfolded in three studies: 1) Genesis, characterization and ASD; 2) binomial freedom-servitude and resistance to ASD; 3) (auto)biographical narratives of those rescued from TEA. In terms of method, this research adheres to] a qualitative-interpretative approach, based on the case study procedure, using the following techniques for collecting, processing and analyzing the discursive material obtained: in study 1, a dialogic discursive analysis was performed from the documentary corpus obtained in operation nº 62/2018 by the GEFM (Special Group for Mobile Inspection), in study 2 a narrative analysis of the theoretical-bibliographic corpus was carried out and in study 3 a discursive analysis of the (auto)biographical narratives (AADNA) of the corpus from the transcribed interviews. inspection discourse, marked by argumentative-expository-descriptive narration, in which the real is exposed in its impediments elements, verifying also the ethical-dialogical commitment with the denaturalization and defense of decent, free and sustainable work (study 1). Discourses supported, still, by a subject of the historical-cultural discourse affected in his becoming-power-action in the face of the illusions of passions, fear, sad affections responsible for servitude (study 2) and, finally, pervaded (auto)biographical narratives by stories and memories wrapped in the generational and children's TAE, marked by sad and dual meaning affections; reinforced by individualizing discourses of pseudo-freedom, of “partnership” with the instances of enslavement, of the complete absence of contradiction, of an objectified, disposable, objectified, massified subject, of absence of alterity, of erased, emptied civilizational agendas. Thus, it is necessary to invest in the power to act, in the authorship of the subject, in becoming-power, in social transformation.

The recognition of the concept of perezhivanie in Vygotsky's theory of development as a dynamic unit of consciousness and a unit of the relation between personality and environment highlights the relevance of its articulations to the author's theoretical system. However, there is a challenging scenario for the understanding and integration of this concept in Vygotsky's theory due to its difficulties of translation, its multiple meanings in the context of the Russian language and culture, likewise in the author's work, in addition to the various articulations of the concept in the theory and its underdeveloped character given Vygotsky's premature death. This scenario contributes to the development of different conceptions and interpretations of the concept of perezhivanie, tending to partial and fragmented understandings. Different researchers recognize the growing interest in the concept and the emerging diversified and fragmented scenario, emphasizing the need for its articulation and integration. Given this situation, the thesis seeks to articulate and discuss the multiple understandings attributed to the concept of perezhivanie in the context of Vygotsky's theory of development in works that focus on the subject. A survey of the productions that referred to the concept of perezhivanie in Vygotsky's theory, published until 2018, was carried out through CAPES Journal Gate and Google Scholar in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French, using as descriptors the different nomenclatures and translations of the term perezhivanie. A total of 211 works were reached, of which 45 were analyzed in view of their focus of discussion centered on the concept of perezhivanie. The analysis process resulted in the identification of eight axes (non-excluding) of articulation of understandings about the concept: Perezhivanie as a psychological function; Perezhivanie as an activity; Perezhivanie as an affective-cognitive unity; Perezhivanie as a refracting prism; Perezhivanie as a unit of human development; Perezhivanie as a unit of consciousness; Perezhivanie as dramatic perezhivanie; Perezhivanie as a concept versus perezhivanie as a phenomenon. The results made it possible to synthesize the dimensions related to the understandings involved in the concept of perezhivanie, advancing towards a more integrated comprehension and giving way to the development of the discussions carried out.

This research aimed to understand the experience of the decision of the federal judge of first instance from the narrative of those who exercise the magistracy. The proposal of listening to the judges was presented as another possibility of approximation between Psychology, Law and the Judiciary, unlike the traditional relationship based on expert opinions that was established between these fields of knowledge. The three collaborators, two judges and a judge, were selected from among the magistrates of the Judiciary Section of the Federal Justice in Rio Grande do Norte and who served in the judiciary in the City of Natal. This study was configured as a qualitative research with a phenomenological hermeneutical inspiration, based on the ontology of the philosopher Martin Heidegger. The instrument of access to what the research collaborator experienced was the narrative interview. The comprehension and interpretation of the researched phenomenon took place from Heidegger's understanding circle. The moments of understanding the narratives were: affected by the testimony heard; transcription of the testimony heard; identification of themes; dialogue between the reflections made from the previous steps and the literature. When asking federal judges: "What is the decision process like for you in your work activity?" The question elicited answers due to the human condition of existence, they announced how each judge felt at stake as one existing in the exercise of the judiciary. And that in a sentence there is also anguish, existential vulnerability, life and death, the look of peers, in addition to the social repercussion of their sentences. The speeches were related to the meanings rooted in the world, they speak of the horizon of belonging of the judges, they referred to the ways of relations and articulation of the judge with what arrived in the world. In the encounter with the other, the judge met with the drama that also belongs to him, which is to be his own question.

Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been widely researched due to the recognized increase in the number of cases, probably associated with its early identification, and also, due to the use of broader diagnostic strategies. Because of its multiple etiology, no model, clinical, methodological or therapeutic approach is yet recognized as the only factor for improving child development. It can be found between numerous clinical approaches. The aim of the study is to analyze the interventional approaches in the area of Psychology used in children with ASD in institutions in the city of Natal. This is an exploratory, cross-sectional study, with the sample consisting of convenience. Eight psychology professionals were selected from three ASD reference institutions in the city of Natal / RN. The instrument used was a questionnaire prepared by the researcher and for the analysis, the content analysis by Bardin was used. The results showed the practical outline from the chosen theoretical framework that shapes the intervention proposals and the look at the child with ASD. From them, three categories were found: theoretical basis, intervention and benefits of each intervention proposal. The study aimed to highlight the need to promote spaces for scientific discussion, enabling dialogues and building a diversity of ways of conceiving the disorder, as well as the recognition of the plurality that appears in each subject with the diagnosis of ASD. For this, the importance of a diversity in the ways of conceiving interventions allowing contexts, also multiple, of welcoming individuals.

The phenomenon of supercarceration in Brazil, which has been potentiated in recent decades, exposes cruel aspects of the Criminal Justice System, which are anchored in cishétero-patriarchal-racist-classist ideologies. Such ideologies legitimize and forge a social ideal in favor of the punitive order with a view to guaranteeing the common good, emphasizing the fight against criminality materialized in the stereotype of the “enemy” (usually incarnated in black, poor and peripheral people). Thus, it is evident the importance of discussing oppressions of class, race and gender, in a nested way, relating them to criminal selectivity. Women deprived of their liberty have added to the stereotypes typical of “If woman” the blame that is imposed on them as a result of the crime committed, since the fact that being imprisoned or being egressed from the Brazilian prison system cannot be ignored presupposes the denial of a series of rights and the deepening of vulnerable conditions. In this way, it is important to bring the discussion of Marxist Feminism about patriarchal gender relations intertwined with social relations of class and race. In addition to these problematizations, the debate raises the growing scrapping of prison units from north to south of the country, furthermore to the degrading conditions in which deprivation of liberty occurs - under allegations of torture, ill-treatment, forced labor, precarious sanitary conditions. and absence of apparatus (technical-strategic, human and material) for minimum compliance with legal requirements. Considering such problems, this work aims to discuss the actions of care in education, health and religious assistance for women deprived of their liberty in female prison units in the metropolitan region of Natal-RN. Ten people participated in this research, nine women and one man, who are linked to some area of assistance to women incarcerated in prison units, which are: internal unit staff (2), external staff (3 ) and managers (5). The collection procedures and instruments used were: documentary research online and in the field, when semi-structured interviews were conducted. The results showed that female prison units have a precarious physical structure that imposes unhealthy conditions and, therefore, limits the guarantee of several rights to women. In addition, there was an insufficiency and discontinuity of care in the three areas analyzed, with no frequency, standardization, training for the teams and without guaranteeing the universality of the access of incarcerated women to the actions, even with selectivity in the definition of who will be or unattended and dependence on external assistance actions to maintain activities. The situation of women imprisoned in the metropolitan region of Natal-RN exposes the chasm that is placed between the formal, what is to be done, and the material, what really happens, sharpening absences and becoming a state reinforcement machine and ratification of a genocidal public security policy, with racist rancidity that dates back to the slavery era, of extermination of those who are marked by the judgment of class and race. It is essential, therefore, to unveil the survival conditions to which incarcerated women are subjected, showing how much more oppressive laws and institutions can be, thought by men for men, when they disregard the idiosyncrasies and needs of women.

In Brazil, only in 2017, 65.602 lives were brutally exterminated, of which 35.783 were young. The Northeast region has concentrated the highest infant-juvenile rates, a phenomenon considered as “northeasternization of homicides”. Ceará showed the largest increase in murders in the federation with 5.134 victims, more than 76% of the juvenile segment. The legacy of a colonial society and heir of diasporas and genocides, black people still haunt and trigger deadly mechanisms racializing homicides in the state with a rate of 87,3 black people per 100 thousand inhabitants (12,7 non-blacks). In the capital of Ceará, 2.141 people had their lives mown, 71% of them were black or brown men, poor and inhabitants of peripheral urban areas, as in the case of the five neighbourhoods that constitute the region called Grande Bom Jardim (GBJ). This territory is historically bloodstained by the “necropolitical” and neoliberal logic, supported by mechanisms that subjugate lives to the power of death, exacerbate crime, violence and lethality against racialized young bodies considered superfluous to capital and the dynamics of consumption. Based on this debate, we intend to thematize and problematize this phenomenon, as well as reflect on the ways in which the political power appropriates these lives as an object of management and operate from the production and maintenance of mechanisms that “worse” and “erase” some groups considered “killable” and “unworthy of mourning”. Such a reading scenario is embodied from the meanings woven and vocalized by the GBJ peripheral youths, having as a counterpoint the social movements as resistance practices that make up the Youth Forum of the largest socio-political articulation in the territory, the GBJ’s Local, Integrated and Sustainable Development Network (DLIS Network). This Network, composed by 25 entities, constitutes itself as a space of resistance, political incidence and grassroot struggle in the territory, contributing in a coordinated manner, to strengthen the actions of diagnosis, planning and monitoring of public policies for guaranteeing and enforcing human rights such and facing violence against youth. Thus, we start from the following question of research: considering this scenario, what are the main practices of popular resistance and struggles, implicated and strategically committed to confronting youth lethality in Grande Bom Jardim? Based on that, we intend, as a general objective: to map resistance practices of young people who make up the Youth Forum of the Local, Integrated and Sustainable Development Network (DLIS Network), created in the territory of GBJ, in Fortaleza, aimed at confronting youth lethality. Having as specific objectives: knowing the life trajectories of young people who compound the DLIS Network Youth Forum; understanding discourses/narratives of young people who compose the DLIS Network Youth Forum about the daily dynamics of intensifying homicides in the territory and their effects on the production of subjectivities; analysing from which strategies the Youth Forum articulates itself with other local groups, collectives and entities that make up the DLIS Network in tackling youth lethality. We opted for a qualitative research from the perspective of cartography as a methodological research-inter(in)vention stratagey, following the activities developed by the Youth Forum and using the field jointly to the use of tools: field journal and the semi-structured interviews.We use the dialogs between Social Psychology and authors such as Butler, Mbembe, Fanon, Foucault, Agamben, Gohn, Ammann, among others that problematize themes that intersect social markers of difference that produce violence, providing a reading of the social construction that is also cultural, historical, political and psychosocial.

Brazil has accumulated unsatisfactory results in national and international research regarding the learning of mathematics. Facing this reality, fields of knowledge such as neuroscience and psychology propose to study different learning strategies that, in turn, may contribute to change the national scenario. One of the greatest contributions is the proposition of the theoretical operator &quot;number sense&quot; that constitutes the anchorage for the counting principle, a capacity that provides the later development of more complex mathematical abilities. For the theoretical and methodological domain of embodied cognition, the body mediates learning, and the transposition of this perspective to the domain of school mathematics can be a tool for the understanding of contents that require a higher level of abstraction. It is noteworthy that the study presented here is part of a larger research project, the result of a partnership between the Laboratory for Research and Extension in Neuropsychology (LAPEN), linked to the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), located in Tübingen - Germany. The study consisted of translating and adapting the German "Wie Finger Zahlen Helfen Protocol into Brazilian Portuguese", using the method of Borsa, Damásio & Bandeira. The protocol contributes to the investigation of the impact of strategies based on the use of fingers on the emergence and quality of basic numerical skills in children aged 4 to 6 years. In further studies, we intend to use the protocol to investigate the relationship between finger use strategy and improvement in the execution of numerical tasks.

The 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) represent a challenge to the mental health of health professionals working in direct patient care. Research data is important to assist with the implementation of interventions and protective measures. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and factors related to anxiety, depression, stress and psychological distress associated with PTSD in the healthcare team of a reference hospital in the care of patients with COVID-19 four months after the first confirmed case in Brazil. This was a cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational study. The study included 112 COVID-19 frontline professionals, specifically nurses, nursing technicians, physiotherapist and physicians, based at Hospital GiseldaTrigueiro. To asses variables, the following instruments was used: sociodemographic questionnaire, a questionnaire for professional aspect related to COVID-19, the DASS-21 scale and the IES-R scale. Data analysis was based at descriptive and inferential statistics. Results pointed that 52,68% of COVID-19 frontline professionals had depression symptoms, 57,14% of anxiety and 78,57% of stress. In addition, 41,07% of professionals had psychological distress associated to PTSD. Being a nurse and not participating in training were related to a higher risk of depression. Male gender and absence of fear of infection were related to lower chance of professionals presenting anxiety. Being married and having between the ages of 30 to 39 increased the risk for stress. It was concluded during the initial phase of COVID-19 outbreak there was a high prevalence of mental disorders among professionals directly assisting patients and symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress were manifested in most participants in a moderated or severe manner.

In 2020 the new coronavirus brought about a completely new dynamic for professionals in all areas, such as the private school teacher. This occupation has a mostly female workforce, occupying up to 82% of the positions in elementary education. Thus, the objective of this dissertation is to analyze how female private school teachers experience their work during the covid-19 pandemic. The research is theoretically based on Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical perspective and counts on the participation of 12 female teachers who teach elementary school in private schools in the city of Natal/RN. The methodology chosen was the application of an in-depth interview conducted online through the Google Meet platform. This was divided into four axes, namely: socioeconomic data, work life history, work context, and dramas at work. The data collected were categorized with the help of the QDA Miner platform and to analyze them, the three stages of the Nuclei of Meaning were performed. In the first stage, from the floating reading of the interviews 58 pre-indicators were listed, which were later agglutinated into 19 indicators and, finally, these indicators formed five nuclei of meaning. The cores are: the meanings produced by women about the work as a teacher; the difficulties of the daily life of a teacher; the consequences of the pandemic arrival; the aggravations generated by the pandemic; and the challenges faced. In view of these findings, we understand that the pandemic acted as a catalyst for the difficulties of work that already existed in the daily lives of private school teachers. And that the different ways they experience these difficulties, as well as face them, is a consequence of a social and historical system implied by neoliberal capitalism, by the processes of precarization, outsourcing, as well as by the formation of the school and the sexual division of labor.

At the end of 2019, the world population was surprised by a new virus with high potential of contagion. Given its rapid spread around the world, in 2020 this event was classified as a pandemic. Taking into account the WHO recommendations, several countries have adopted social isolation and quarantine as a strategy to fight the pandemic, keeping only essential services running. Faced with this new social reality, health professionals, especially psychologists, started to carry out services in online mode. It is noteworthy that all social groups are subject to suffer in the face of this new reality, but, in particular, children diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). As ASD is a neurodevelopmental disorder continuous monitoring by a multidisciplinary team is required. The suspension of the treatment for this group of children can generate serious risks and harm to the child and their relatives. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyze how psychology professionals clinic and neuropsychology performed telecare to children with ASD in the period of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. A survey of data collection, cross-sectional quantitative-qualitative analysis in which the data were collected through a self-administered online questionnaire. The target audience of this study were Psychology professionals who provided care in the online in children with ASD. The results showed that most respondents are from Rio Grande do Norte (52.2%) and provided online and in-person care (69.9%). The main activities listed by professionals carried out with children as guidance to parents are related to the organization of routine, activities of daily living and cognitive and behavioral stimulation. The present study sought to understand the dynamics of telephone calls made by psychology professionals to children with ASD during the period of social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although there is some studies related to teleservice, in Brazil studies are still incipient regarding this issue, especially regarding children with ASD. The impacts of this study focused mainly on guiding professionals on the possibilities of remote services for this audience.

This research aimed to analyze the work of psychology professionals in the policies intended for female victims of gender violence in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The phenomenon of violence against women is understood as a consequence of a more complex social problem: the inequalities that are built between women and men. Thereby, the logic that guides this study expresses a disruption with biological explanations about the differences between female and male social practices and assumes that those differences are constructed, socially transformed and exist due to an hierarchy that has a material basis which must be apprehended historically. The methodological strategies used to produce the research were semi-structured interviews with psychologists who work in institutions specialized in assisting women victims of domestic violence in the state of Rio Grande do Norte and analysis of the documents that guide the practices of this public policy. The analysis and discussion of the results were made from the theory of historical and dialectical materialism. The discussions that took place identified that there are many challenges for psychology as a science and as a profession. We identified many gaps with regard to theoretical and practical knowledge that can guide the performance of the work, in addition to difficulties in delimiting the role of psychology in relation to other professionals, which becomes an obstacle to the definition of the praxis and possibilities of intervention. These aspects referred to insufficiencies in psychology training that have reflected in the daily work of professionals who end up feeling insecure in case management and acquire training, mainly from contact with their own professional experience. Thus, it is necessary that training in psychology reflects on the production of knowledge and practices in the various fields in which the category is called to work, overcoming traditional and clinical conceptions that have still stood out in teaching spaces.

The collective actions of popular social movements are planned and executed by the leaders through dialogue with the bases, the conjunctural understanding of the socio-political scenario and the possibility of building public policies for vulnerable populations. Among these populations, there are people in streets situation: a heterogeneous group, which has in common the lack of housing, extreme poverty and fragile and/or interrupted family ties. Literature points out that people living on the streets have difficulties in organizing because they lack the element of class consciousness and the feeling of belonging to the social group to which they belong. In spite of that, in 2005, the National Movement of the Homeless Population emerged. Since then, the MNPR has expanded throughout the national territory and is present in 18 states of the federation. In the Northeast Region, it is present in 4 states on a consolidated basis and has been strengthened to be implemented in the other 5 states in the region. Therefore, the general objective of this research was to understand the process of formation of leaders and their role in the National Movement of the Homeless Population. As specific objectives, the work aimed to investigate the personal history of leadership militancy; characterize the history of formation of the movement in states in the Northeast region and the role of leaders in this process; investigate the process of articulation and strengthening of the movement in the Northeast region and record the actions taken to protect the homeless population during the pandemic. Methodologically, semi -structured interviews were carried out, 6 of them via videoconference and two in person with the leaders of the MNPR in the Northeast, in addition to participating in online meetings to strengthen the movement in the region and other activities of militancy that made it possible to monitor the performance of the leaders. Thus, we identified that the action of leaders to strengthen the region is guided by the rescue and preservation of the historical memory of the Movement's social struggle, especially when permeated by the signs defended by Maria Lúcia Santos Pereira. Furthermore, it was possible to understand the disputes and dissensions intertwined in the relationships of the leaders among themselves, between the social base and with the State. And, finally, we identified how the networks of partnerships set up by the MNPR leaders support their collective actions in each state.

Brazil has the third largest prison population in the world, accounting for 748,000 prisoners – in a structure that only supports 442,349 (Anuário de Segurança Pública, 2020). Data such as the ones presented corroborate the perspective that the current justice system has not been efficient. In practice, institutions filled with demands, slow and selective, have been created over the years, restricting crime to the violation of the law, in which the main purpose is to penalize the offender, neglecting the relationships that were broken, the victims, the community and repairing the damage and, above all, the social issues involved. However, arising from an international agenda that the federal government has been following on the recommendation of the United Nations (UN), some initiatives have been discussed and developed against the reality of punishment as the only alternative, including in the justice system in Rio Grande North (Prosecutor's Office and Court of Justice). One of them is the central theme of this work, Restorative Justice (JR). JR can be understood as a set of practices, procedures, techniques and actions based on structured principles, in which the intention is to deal with conflicts in a consensual manner, with the participation of the offender, victim and community, in order to meet the needs of the involved, in order to repair the damage through accountability and recomposition of the social fabric broken by the infraction in a way that implies the future. Therefore, in an attempt to understand a practice considered an alternative in the justice system, this research aims to analyze the implementation of Restorative Justice as an alternative to traditional practices developed in the justice system in RN (Public Ministry and Court of Justice of Rio Grande do North), considering aspects such as the history of development in the RN justice system; the structure and epistemological theoretical basis used by the nuclei working with JR; as well as the JR in RN from the perspective of the actors (potentials and difficulties according to the professionals who perform the restorative practices in both institutions) and, finally, the flow of the JR in articulation with the public assistance service. This work is a qualitative research, inspired by historical-dialectical materialism. In addition to the documentary research in public repositories about the implementation of the program, data collection was carried out via virtual means with the Self-Composition nuclei of the Public Ministry and the Court of Justice of RN, using semi-structured interviews (with the members of the nuclei who work directly with the JR practice - facilitators, judges and prosecutors). The information was submitted to thematic content analysis. Furthermore, the project was approved by the Ethics Committee and for its execution, all legal requirements were respected, including the use of the Informed Consent Form for the interviewees.

This dissertation has as its theme the Criminal Policy and Custody Hearing and proposes to investigate how custody hearings in the metropolitan region of Natal-RN refer to their objectives in the face of criminal policy and hyperincarceration. The custody hearings, object of this research, were instituted by the CNJ from the pressure of social movements and human rights institutions that denounced the high rate of incarceration and the practices of torture, ill-treatment and police violence, a reflection of the current criminal policy in Brazil, operated in the context of the worsening of the Penal State, which contributes to hyperincarceration and repressive penal and police policies that criminalize poverty. Thus, the objective of this research is to analyze the custody hearings in face of the challenges that are posed to the fulfillment of their objectives of reducing incarceration and denouncing and curbing practices of political violence, torture and ill-treatment. It is a research with a dialectical historical materialist basis, qualitative, exploratory-methodological, which had as its path the participation in 20 custody hearings and the collection of data from its implementation to the present day. The results show that custody hearings continue to reproduce  violations of procedural guarantees of the accused person, in a way that most of the times do not guarantee the adequate right to defense and the right to information; the perpetuation of practices that violate Human Rights and the underreporting of cases of police violence, torture or ill-treatment; And the maintenance of prison as the rule and the end of freedom in custody hearings. That said, the theoretical path of this work problematizes the punitive and control methods considering the entire social totality and the historical transformations so that we can understand their repercussions in the current criminal policy of hyperincarceration.

From the beginning, this research was driven by the search for the apprehension of tendencies in terms of treatment of the social issue in PT governments, taken as a way of investigating the structural possibilities of social protection in a capitalism dependent on the Southern Cone. of ephemeral growth and having the country plunged into consecutive crises after June 2013. The parliamentary coup of 2016 put an end to a 12-year trajectory of PT governments, which started in a completely different way. In this context, our general effort turned to the apprehension of how the treatment of the social issue given by PT governments was analyzed by Marxist productions that dedicated themselves to studying PT governments and the 2016 coup. In this trajectory, we carried out a somewhat hybrid review, inspired by elements of systematic review, but not fiercely attached to it. In total, eight works were selected after consecutive stages of filtering the results obtained. Finally, the results of the review indicate a consensus around the persistence of a residual form, properly neoliberal, of (un)financing and ordering the logic of public services. Privatization remains firm and strong as a gradual process, sometimes more intense, sometimes slower against anything that remains public. Time seems to be a fundamental piece in the management of permanent counter-reform. The capture of the Public Fund for servicing the public debt, the maintenance of the neoliberal macroeconomic tripod and the untouchable nature of the Fiscal Responsibility Law, the latter used to overthrow Dilma, denounce the undemocratic character of our dependent democracy. Finally, we explore some scenarios and trends against social protection in Brazilian dependent capitalism.

Due to the work characteristics, the hospital sanitation professional is subjected to a condition of vulnerability as a result of occupational overloads such as physical – musculoskeletal damage, chemical – risk of infectious and psychological – anxiety, stress, sleep disorders and emotional distress. This vulnerability was even more evident for the hospital sanitation team in this period of  Covid-19 pandemic as a consequence of the high levels of contamination and risk of death that the new coronavirus imposes. The objective of this study is to investigate the levels of anxiety, depression and stress among hospital sanitation professionals and their relation with perceived social support, as a function of sociodemographic and health aspects. This is an exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach that used online data collection with 95 professionals from the sanitation sector of a hospital. They answered a sociodemographic questionnaire, the DASS-21 depression, anxiety and stress scale and the MOS-SSS social support scale. For comparisons of social support, Fisher's exact test was used, the multiple linear regression model was used to define scores, and normality was tested by the Shapiro-Wilk test. The level of significance adopted was 5%. As a result, 15.7% had symptoms of depression, 13.68% of anxiety and 5.2% of stress. The prevalence of emotional states was higher for women and people who had already received support  by a mental health professional before or during the pandemic. Our findings also found that people who received greater social support had a lower prevalence of developing symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress, both for men and women. In general, men perceive greater social support than women, especially in social interaction. The affective component of social support proved to have been the element with the greatest positive impact on emotional states, especially for women, especially on symptoms of depression. For men, the greatest negative impact of the absence of social support was evidenced by the presence of stress symptoms.

This master's dissertation was aimed to study social workers and psychologists of the Specialized Reference Center for Homeless Population (Pop Center), workers  that make up the Unified System of Social Assistance (SUAS, in Portuguese). The aim of this study was to analyze the work activity of psychologists and social workers of the Pop Center, seeking to address the gender reference and the power to act of these workers, as well as to conduct a study of the working conditions and health of these workers in this service. The theoretical framework came from the Activity Clinic and Activity Ergonomics. As a method, the research was divided into two parts: in the clinical stage, the Technique of Instruction to the Double (IaS, in Portuguese) was used in the search for access to workers' activity; in the quantitative stage, the psychological instrument ITRA - Inventory on Work and Risks of Illness was used in order to raise the working conditions and health of workers. The results of the clinical stage indicate a varied number of impediments to the workers' power of action, specially in terms of the absence of organizational intersectoral support. Two IaS were performed; the first one proposed as a focus problem of management of the daily space, due to conflicts; the second one turned to disputes/disagreements in the service; as aspects that favor the power to act, the bond with the service user was verified. In the quantitative stage, with data from 38 participants, explanatory importance was found, in a clustering procedure, for the following variables: Cognitive Cost, Affective Cost, Working Conditions and Work Organization. Elements of precariousness and risk of illness were also evidenced in the work of the Pop Center. These two parts of this study dialogue one to the other, suggesting aspects of limiting the professional's power to act, referencing the professional gender in an incipient way, and working conditions that offer risk to the health of professionals. The present study points to the need for a policy of valuing SUAS workers, greater articulation between intersectoral policies and improvements in working conditions for psychologists and social workers. 

The lawsuits of family courts have increased in recent years. This is explained by the growth of separations and parents need to seek the judiciary as a means of guaranteeing their rights, including to participate fully in their children's lives. Conflicting families tend not to make their own decisions: they turn to Justice for help, finding in the lawsuit the only communication channel to solve problems such as: divorce, alimony, children custody and paternity recognition. They expect compensation from the State for the inability to resolve their conflicts, which are mostly unsolvable by judicial decisions. Due to the current crisis in the judicial system, State Power has developed a public policy to implement Judicial Centers of Consensual Conflict Resolution (CEJUSC), using Conciliation and Mediation as an  interdisciplinary and institutionalized field of know-how. This research aims to analyze, from the perspective of Institutional Analysis, the practices of family mediators. Its specific objectives are: a) know the “orders” and “demands” made to mediators in their practices in Family Law; b) analyze forces (institutions) that go through the production of this demand, as well as the interventions proposed by the mediators and, c) identify which knowledge and technologies are operated by mediators. Methodologically, it adopts a qualitative perspective, using observation of the institutional reality and semi-structured interviews with family mediators in Paraíba’s capital. Analyzers have been elucidated and then the power lines that operated on this device were observed. The main analyzers found were: volunteering, female volunteering, precarious work and power hierarchies. Among the orders we have highlighted: relieve judiciary, give attention and comfort mediators. These report too much power of thejudiciary, as an institution that propagates positivity in its resolving policy, promising a faster and more humanized justice, when in practice, it makes the mediator's work precarious and it does not meet the true purpose of Mediation.

From the beginning of the 1970s to the year 2016, in the municipality of Crato, located in the south of Ceará, the Santa Teresa Health House operated. It was opened in the scenario of intense financial investment in psychiatric establishments in the country, in line with hygienic parameters and with the segregation logic present in the modes of organization of cities and circumscription of the place of subjects in psychic suffering. In 2016 the hospital closed its doors and the effects began to be perceived, especially in the municipalities of Crato, Juazeiro do Norte and Barbalha, for which the House of Health served as a reference, with the proliferation of Therapeutic Communities and stagnation of RAPS in the region. Thus, the closing of the Santa Teresa Health Home is taken as an event - in the Deleuziana perspective - that helps us analyze the developments of the closing of an asylum in the city and in RAPS, in particular, in the scenario of advancing fascist policies, of war neoliberalism and economic and health crisis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With this objective, a cartographic survey was carried out that proposed to monitor the flows and developments of this event in the region, in conjunction with the analysis of the scenarios around the Barbacena asylum and the Cologne hospital in Rio de Janeiro, large asylums that also closed their activities. Many clashes were produced in the political-assistance field, in the madness-city relationship, with an update of the manicomial logic running through the ruins of the hospital apparatus. It was concluded that the updating of manicomial logic operates incessantly, requesting the reinvention of the ways of resisting. The deconstruction of the large asylums and their gradual replacement in the social fabric by devices that maintain the logic of exclusion, in times of political and health crisis calls for the recovery of memory to guide insurgencies and the creation of escape lines.

Although we have the psychologist as a mandatory professional in a work team that performs a significant part of the provision of care to transgender people, these experiences occupy little space for reflection in the field of psychological action, and the production in the area is carried out by few researchers. We wonder if this psychology professional is prepared to deal with the trans public and its characteristic demands. Therefore, the objective of this work is to understand the know-how that is being experienced in the practices of psychological care for trans people, in order to contribute to the construction of knowledge specific to psychology, more sensitive in the health care of the trans population. And as specific objectives we have: (a) know the practices of psychological care for trans people, from the perspective of trans people; (b) know the practices of psychological care for trans people, from the perspective of the psychologists who attended them; (c) investigate through which means (training, courses, readings, theoretical perspectives) knowledge about different gender identities was built by the interviewed psychologists; (d) investigate what is the conception of transsexuality by psychologists; e) identify good practices of psychologists in successful experiences of care in the conception of trans people. Qualitative research was used. As methodological strategies, we used an in-depth interview with a script and a field diary. The collaborators consisted of 5 people who declared themselves as transgender people and who underwent psychological care in Natal, and 5 psychologists from the city of Natal who attended trans people. The analysis and interpretation of the narratives was based on hermeneutic-dialectical principles that sought to interpret the context, reasons and logic of speeches, actions and interrelationships between groups and institutions. From the dialogue with the narratives, we reach three thematic axes: The construction of knowledge about gender identities in psychology; Revisiting psychotherapy with transgender people; and, Psychotherapy and transgenderism: what do we have to learn? In the first axis, we identify transsexuality understood as a fluid path, in transit, not in accordance with the cisnorm. But, we could also notice associations to suffering, some mistakes still in relation to language, to fundamental concepts of existence, mainly with regard to the sex-gender system, and sexuality/gender identity. Regarding education, there was a total absence of specific subjects in the undergraduate curriculum of our interviewees about gender and sexuality. In the second axis, we found that all respondents had negative experiences with the first professionals they sought, whereas in relation to the psychotherapists they were attending at the time of the interview, they only attribute positive meanings to these relationships. Regarding the professionals, fears and insecurities emerged in the face of a “new” demand, learning about gender takes place from practical experience and the transformation of personal and professional training into a psychotherapy that cures two. We also discuss the role of the psychotherapeutic report, diverging between guardianship and release. In the third axis we find an urgent need for more knowledge about the demands of gender in psychology training. The phenomenological suspension as an essential feature to get in touch with the demand, as well as the psychotherapist's attitudes of empathy, respect, acceptance, acceptance and openness and an emancipatory look. And, finally, the recognition that the discussion of gender identities concerns everyone, bringing as essential the personal process of therapy and/or self-knowledge and deconstruction of their own prejudices. Anchored in the principles of human rights, and understanding health as an inalienable right of everyone, this study hopes to provide reflections capable of helping psychologists who deal with transgender people in their daily work, bringing clues to the promotion of a more sensitive psychotherapy to the demands of non-cisgender people.

Brazilian history of child removals from families dates to colonial times. This approach was
refined over time through the institutionalization of children from indigenous, black, and poor
families. Therefore, this study intends to analyze the suspension or dismissal of custody of
children of homeless women in Natal/RN. The method consisted of semi-structured
interviews with representatives of 11 institutions, including eleven semi-structured interviews
with four distinct groups that included representatives of social assistance services, health care
services, the justice system, and two homeless couples. The data obtained were analyzed and
organized into three themes based on thematic content analysis: (a) homeless pregnancies; (b)
forcible separation and/or termination of parental rights; (c) motherhood and meritocracy. The
results point to the absence of the State in providing concrete housing and income alternatives
for mothers to remain with their children; the importance of solidarity networks and family
support as forms of resistance to the separation of their children; the criminalization of
women based on moralism and the use of drugs that. It is noted that homeless mothers and
pregnant women are at constant risk of abduction and theft of their children by the State. It is
necessary to denaturalize the conception that poor women are unfit to care for their daughters
and sons through intersectoral actions aligned with the specific needs of this population.

Youth unemployment is a constant in Brazil and in the world. In general, youth is the category most sensitive to economic crises, as well as the most exposed to the reality of unemployment and informality. In this context, despondency, that is, giving up for looking for an occupation reached in 2018, 2.4 million young people aged between 18 and 29 years, a number that tends to increase with the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, although discouragement has always been present among the youth segment, the academic debate on the subject is still restricted to a statistical definition and propositions that point to investment in qualification as an alternative to breaking with the condition. However, contrary to this perspective, the presence of discouragement among young people with higher education is a reality that points to the need to understand this phenomenon beyond its description. Therefore, from the scope of the culturalhistorical theory (THC) in conjunction with some assumptions of cultural psychology, the general objective of this work is to investigate the perezhivanie of despondency in the face of permanence in the place of non-work occupied by young people with University education. To achieve it, it is specifically intended, (a) to reconstruct the individual trajectory of the young person with regard to the sphere of work; (b) characterize the block of meaning in the face of discouragement and (c) apprehend the quadratic unit of meanings attributed by the young person in view of that permanence and the actions he develops to deal with that block of meaning. To this end, two case studies were carried out with young people in a state of dismay, by conducting five in-depth interviews with each of them using the methodological strategy Trajectory Equifinality Model (TEM). The interviews were transcribed and, based on them, the trajectory of each participant was reconstructed, an element that allowed the analysis of the experience of the despondency of each one in the absence of work. Finally, the findings are discussed in the light of (THC) and allow accessing discouragement in its complexity so that more effective alternatives can be devised by the young person to deal with their situation on a microgenetic level, as well as on a social and political level, broader, enable a more accurate and contextualized understanding of the phenomenon.

Central Nervous System tumors are the most common pediatric solid neoplasms. The posterior fossa, notably the cerebellum, is the region with the highest incidence, where medulloblastomas and pilocytic astrocytomas are more frequent. Medulloblastomas are treated with neurosurgery (NC), systemic chemotherapy (QT) and cranio-spinal radiotherapy (RTX), while most astrocytomas require NC only. The survival range is achieved through sequelae on the development of survivors, especially associated with the neurotoxicity of anti-neoplastic treatment, to which damage to the integrity of the white matter (SB) is attributed. Different factors are added to this complex mosaic, with emphasis on sociocultural aspects, which, independently or superimposed, dialectically structure the development processes. The present work aimed to investigate the influence of sociocultural and clinical aspects on the cognitive profile of children and adolescent survivors of Posterior Fossa Tumors (PFT). The research was subdivided into three studies: 1) Influence of the maternal schooling on intellectual capacity in pediatric PFT survivors; 2) Memory investigation in pediatric PFT survivors; 3) Brain lesions in childhood: a case study of a malignant posterior fossa tumor. 37 subjects aged six to 16 years composed the clinical group and 25 subjects, the control group, paired 1:1 according to sex, age, type of school, and socioeconomic status of the participants in study 2. The Neuropsychological evaluation performed with the participants and the data analyzed used descriptive and inferential statistical tools. In study 1, we found that the type of treatment significantly influenced nonverbal cognitive functions of intellectual ability, while the maternal schooling variable was responsible for impacts on verbal dimensions. In study 2, we found that the clinical group submitted only to NC showed impairments, especially in the verbal working memory, while the broader mnemic impacts were related to the group submitted to antineoplastic therapies. Lower working memory performances were identified in children whose mothers had a lower level of education. In study 3, the neuropsychological profile of the child medulloblastoma survivor revealed relatively mild impairments considering the expected cognitive deficits for subjects treated by antineoplastic therapies. The findings suggest that the sociocultural conditions that permeated the child&#39;s development acted as protective factors against the emergence of more serious cognitive sequelae. Thus, the expressive complexity underlying the manifestation of the cognitive profiles presented by this population is highlighted and the central role of the variable maternal education is revealed.

Despite the high number of cases of childhood cancer, especially in the last 30 years, the improvement and effectiveness of therapeutic strategies have resulted in an improvement in the prognosis and a significant increase in the survival rates of this population. However, in the case of posterior fossa tumors (PFT), the expression of cognitive, behavioral and socioemotional sequelae that impact these children's academic performance and quality of life is evident. Thus, the general objective of this study is to investigate the executive functions and the behavioral and social-emotional profile of children and adolescents surviving posterior fossa tumors. The research includes 2 relatively independent studies: (1) Working memory of children and adolescents surviving posterior fossa tumors; and (2) Inhibition, behavior and social skills of pediatric patients surviving posterior fossa tumors. 24 subjects aged 6-16 integrated clinical group and 24 subjects formed a healthy control group, matched 1:1 according to sex, age, type of school and socioeconomic level. Participants were submitted to a neuropsychological assessment protocol, with results analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistical tools and clinical-qualitative analysis. In the first study, the results showed lower scores in working memory tasks in children with PFT. Children and adolescents treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy had more severe damage. Additionally, the data showed that children whose diagnosis and treatment of PFT occurred before the age of 5 years showed more accentuated impairments in the verbal working memory. In the second study, the results indicated that pediatric TFP survivors present alterations in the inhibitory component, in social skills, in addition to the presence of behavior problems. More accentuated losses were verified in the group submitted to neurosurgery plus adjuvant therapy, when compared to the control group. Children and adolescents undergoing radiotherapy treatment showed a higher incidence of social withdrawal/depression, problems with social contact and attention fragility. It is expected to provide a better understanding of the nature and extent of the impact of the diagnosis and treatment of posterior fossa tumors on the cognitive, behavioral and socio-emotional development of the participants, who can serve health, education and family professionals who assist them. Therefore, it is intended to provide data that underlie the (a) proposition of effective and less harmful treatments to the Central Nervous System and the (b) development of intervention programs that minimize its adverse impacts, ensuring the children the full expression of their developmental potential.

This research focuses on the relationship between science and gender, focusing on the impacts of scientific excellence requirements on the daily lives of PQ scholarship holders in Brazilian Psychology. A multi-method approach chosen in three stages was adopted: analysis of public domain data; Application of an electronic form and realization of semi-structured feature. These steps resulted in five studies, whose findings show that: a) in Psychology, women occupy proportionally fewer positions at the top of the career; b) the profile of the PQ scholarship holder in the area is white, cis, middle class, married, heterosexual and from the Southeast of the country and the main problems they face are related to the scenario of dispute and internal competition that has been intensifying in the context of S&T in the country and the current configuration of academic work marked by the overload of activities and functions, generating feelings of satisfaction and discouragement; c) these conditions determine impacts on the daily lives of the researchers, who, added to the domestic, family and conjugal demands, research the invention of multiples of conciliation; d) e, are associated with the expansion of vulnerability to psychological distress and other health problems; e) despite this, the adherence of PQ grantees from Psychology to the hegemonic individualizing rationality hinders the understanding that, in the current neoliberal and pandemic scenario, their social positions, once privileged by white privilege, have shifted towards the becoming black of the world, whose sharpness is observed in the marks of epistemicide, previously experienced only by black women. With this, it is concluded that as these professionals seek to meet the expectations of neoliberal rationalization, they fail to realize that nowadays, they can also be part of the set of (o) new (o) renegades (o).

When neonates are hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, puerperal women need specific care, especially when the baby is submitted to Neonatal Palliative Care. In this scenario, the needs and perceived social support of the accompanying mothers are important aspects for the assistance offered. The objective of this research is to compare the indicators of needs and social support perceived in mothers of neonates in Palliative Care and of mothers of newborns hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It is a quantitative, transversal and comparative study. A sample was adopted for convenience, consisting of thirty mothers from each group. The instruments used were: the sociodemographic and health questionnaire, the Inventory of Needs and Stressors of Family Members of Intensive Care and the Scale to assess the social support perceived by mothers of premature babies hospitalized. The results obtained demonstrated that there was no significant difference between the groups in relation to the needs, however with regard to social support there was a difference, mothers of newborns in Palliative Care perceived less social support. Thus, it is observed the importance of having a different look and specific strategies for the mothers with children in Palliative Care, such results can also contribute to the construction of interventions by the health team.

Teaching and learning relationships are inserted directly or indirectly in international contexts of a new globalized economy, so that these relationships are permeated by international political-economic decisions; investments from countries with a strong economy and abdications from countries with a weaker economy. When we refer to courses in the technological area, an area that is very much viewed by the international market, we cannot ignore the context in which they were created, for what purpose and the issues involving the teaching of mathematics. technologies as a potential for economic growth in the countries, strategies for training qualified labor are thought of, and the educational processes involved, necessary for the full development of their students, are left in second place, which is expressed in the phenomenon of school failure in these courses. This research aimed to analyze determinants of school failure in mathematics in technological higher education, in the discipline of Pre-Calculation of Bachelor of Science and Technology in Natal / RN, from the perspective of Historical-Cultural Psychology. In the section on theoretical chapters, we first discussed the constitution of educational policies in Higher Education and the context for the creation of Interdisciplinary Bachelor's degrees, so that it is possible to visualize the international political context in which these courses are inserted. Then, we articulate the discussion about the history of mathematics as an area of knowledge historically permeated with divergences and how this history contributes to the phenomenon of school failure in mathematics in the context of Higher Education; and, finally, we discuss the social function of the school (in this research, of the university), its importance in the appropriation of scientific concepts by students for Higher Psychological Processes and the damages caused when this non-appropriation. The second part will consist of data from the research carried out in the Pre-Calculation discipline of the Bachelor of Science and Technology course, which is composed of basic mathematical content; it is introductory to the course and has the highest failure rates among students. This research takes a look at the phenomenon of school failure in mathematics in Higher Education, from the theoretical point of view of Historical-Cultural Psychology, thinking about the training model of these students and their development. The results point mainly to poorly qualified pedagogical mediation processes; distancing relations between teachers, students and other collaborators and an urgent need for investment in collaborative actions involving the various actors of the institution.

This research has as object of study the implementation of law no 13.431 / 2017, which establishes two methodologies of listening in the child and adolescent protection network, for children and adolescents victims or witnesses of violence: the Special Testimony (ST), which consists of the hearing before court or police authority, and the Specialized Listening (SL) carried out in the other organs of the protection network. Such methodologies seek to avoid secondary victimization of the victim, and have raised concerns among the actors responsible for their execution. Given this scenery, the research aims to analyze the implementation of SL and ST in the city of Natal-RN. In order to subsidize it, the three specific objectives were built: 1. to analyze the actors' conception of ST and SL; 2. investigate how the implementation of the law reverberates in the work of professionals; 3. identify the possibilities and challenges in articulating the network with regard to ST and SL. For this, the study, inspired by historical-dialectical materialism, and using the qualitative methodology was divided into two stages: 1. participant observation during meetings to prepare the service flowchart; 2. conducting eight semi-structured interviews with professionals involved. The data were organized and categorized using the Qualitative Data Analysis Software and subsequently analyzed using the Constant Comparative Method. In this way, it was possible to identify a tension between the professionals of that network, who differ in their conceptions about the proposed law. The lack of training of the actors in the network to deal with the new methodologies, signals another fact that reinforces the challenges faced in the implementation of the legislation, as well as the disciplinary confrontation that is recurrent between the legal sciences and the others. It is expected, therefore, with this investigation to contribute to the work of professionals and, consequently, to be supporting in the protection of children and adolescents.

Motherhood is a period of existential transition of great significance to women. In this sense, when there is a premature delivery, the mother needs to adapt to the new reality and connect with a child different from the one idealized during pregnancy and that needs support with hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In this critical period of life, social support becomes paramount, as well as the satisfaction of the postpartum woman's needs in motherhood. The aim of this research is to investigate the experience of premature motherhood and its link with social support and needs of mothers of preterm hospitalized neonates. This is an analytical, quantitative and cross-sectional study conducted with 90 mothers. The instruments used were: sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire of the mother and newborn, a structured interview, the inventory of needs and stressors of intensive care family members and the scale of evaluation of perceived social support. The results showed that mothers experience premature motherhood with many fears, insecurities and sadness due to the possibility of death or worsening of the newborn's health. Family, partner and health team support proved to be relevant during hospitalization. Regarding the social support instrument, a high score of all dimensions was evidenced, affective and material support were the highest scores. Regarding the needs, all resulted in a high degree of importance, with the dimensions of security and information better scored. It is verified that an empathic, humanized and welcoming care should be extended beyond the care of the newborn, when it is constructed care strategies that consider the experience of having a premature maternity, that strengthens the social support network, the bond of the mother with the baby and the team and identify their needs, favoring a more satisfactory experience during the hospitalization period.

This research seeks to analyze the experience of women through unemployment. The materialist

feminism was used as a theoretical-methodological approach, considering the sexual division of labor

and social relations of sex; and Historical-Cultural Psychology, from the perspective of Vygotski, in

what involves the concepts of senses, meaning and experience. In-depth interviews were carried out

with 14 unemployed women in involuntary situations of non-paid work, due to lack of job

opportunities or who work irregularly/occasionally, with a desire to get a formal job. Contact with

these women took place at a public employment agency in Natal/RN. The participants reports were

categorized and processed with the aid of the QDA Miner statistical qualitative analysis software, and

analyzed from the meaning cores. In this study, it was concluded that the feelings of women facing

unemployment are: frustration, guilt, sadness, anguish, uselessness, impotence, unproductivity,

incapacity and anger. The main barriers faced when looking for a job are: the financial difficulty to

participate in selection processes; preference for candidates with experience in the intended role; lack

of job opportunities; the disparities between the desired position and professional qualification; in the

obstacle of having a child; and giving priority to the most qualified professionals. In addition, being a

woman in the world of work includes: experiencing the challenge of a double working day; suffering

prejudice to the detriment of maternity leave; and living with different requirements in the work

environment and in selective processes. In addition, women made it clear that they are working in

precarious jobs, have a low level of education and have low social prestige, with many of these work

links being associated with care activities, in addition to recurring commitments and interruptions in

their professional careers due to responsibilities in the domestic sphere.

From the slavery period to the present day, Brazilian elites have maintained their privileges at the expense of controlling, disciplining, oppressing and exploiting subalternized groups, being the black and peripheral women the most affected. Such functioning is engendered in the structuring social relations - characterized by the conflicts and contradictions between the different sexes, races and social classes - that support the production and reproduction of the cisheteropatriarcal-racist-capitalist system. In it, the State has managed the consequences of the “social issue” through the criminalization of people considered not only undesirable, but, above all, disposable, being the majority target of this phenomenon, the poor and black youth. However, within this group, there is still a differentiated intensification of the process of oppression / exploitation: girls who are under a socio-educational institutionalization. Based on the concreteness of social inequalities, the lack of access to fundamental rights and structural violence, the perverse exclusion / inclusion binomial is forged, marked by affections that conjure up suffering that is expressed collectively and through feelings such as humiliation and guilt. This dynamic attests to the lack of commitment of society and the State to subordinate groups, thus making this suffering characterized as ethical-political, which will exist as long as the cisheteropatriarcal-racist-capitalist system is in force. Thus, based on the Marxist Feminism perspective to understand reality, the question was: how do the ethical-political suffering and the sex-race-class overlap are articulate in the lives of adolescents and young people who are deprived of their freedom? As a general objective, we have: to analyze how the ethical-political suffering, in interface with the sex-race-class overlap, permeates the experience of deprivation of freedom for adolescents and young women; and as specific: a) observe the institutional dynamics that permeates the experience of deprivation of liberty for adolescents and young people; and b) analyze, from the narratives of adolescents and young people, the presence of sex-race-class overlap in interface with ethical-political suffering as constituents of their subjectivation processes. The study was carried out in a socio-educational unit for female institutionalization, with adolescents and young people aged 14 to 20 years. As methodological tools for surveying content in the field, participant observation and photovoice were used. In the analysis, articulating with the aforementioned theoretical lenses, the following nuclei of meaning were built: a) of the affectation for being inside the unit; and b) the affectation of being and feeling of being. It was observed that the ethical-political suffering, in articulation with the sex-race-class overlap, is built, in the experience of the girls in the unit: by the punitive logic in detriment of the socio-educational, by the distance of their families, by the existence of sexual taboos on women, for the absence of freedom and for the occurrence of discrimination, expressed intensely by police violence. It is concluded that the cisheteropatriarcal-racist-capitalist ideology works by effecting violations of rights and victimizing a public that should be protected as a priority, being urgent the establishment of collective struggles of feminist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist nature.

The ecological crisis, which is related to the determinations of the capitalist system, stands out as one of the most worrying themes in the study of person-environment relationship. We are immersed in an unsustainable way of life that sees nature and people as resources. For decades, groups of people have been looking for lifestyle alternatives that reduce their impact on the environment. Lifestyle, in this perspective, refers to the set of effective, deliberated, and anticipated actions that result in the preservation of nature. Thus, the question is: how are the experiences of people who have changed their thinking and practices, living a sustainability-oriented lifestyle? To answer this question, this paper investigates the experiences of people who have been building in their trajectories visions and behaviors that constitute sustainable lifestyles. Participated in this research people who develop permaculture practices - a science that aims at creating cycles of energy use and mutual social and environmental benefit in the construction of sustainable human habitations. The investigation took place at a national permaculture meeting in Cariri - CE. The grounded theory was used as a theoretical-methodological approach of interpretative and qualitative basis. It focuses on the creation of conceptual schemes through the construction of abductive data analysis. Semi-structured interviews and field diaries were used. The 10 participants were selected via indication / peer evaluation. The results showed that the motivating issues of lifestyle changes are related to a concern with environmental degradation, socioeconomic issues, and the gender debate. All this led to the construction of a life purpose aligned with a search for socioenvironmental justice, conscious eating, and personal development related to self-knowledge and spirituality. The participants talked about an internal and later external sensitization and transformation, emphasizing that they were looking for coherence. The proposed discussions contribute socially and ethically-politically to advances in understanding behaviors in the face of the human-environmental crisis.

The constitution of the so-called criminal factions in Brazil should be analyzed under the optics of the
mass incarceration resulting from the neoliberal economic policy of the beginning of 1990 decade. In
this conjuncture, the penal system selectivity, the criminalization of black and poor youth, as well as
the war against drugs policy, are issues to take into account, which cross the problem of factions
formation as a product of the Brazilian penitentiary system. In the specific case of Rio Grande do
Norte (RN), these faction, which first were organize in the penitentiary system, also entered the socio
educative system, directly influencing the management of the units and recruitment of the internteenagers. About this reality, concerning the teenagers, the references to the groups are all over the
unit, since the preliminary self-identification with the factions, culminating in the separation of the
accommodations, the symbolic marks expressed as drawings on the dormitory walls and clothes, until
the music heard and sung that refer to the group and its leaders. Some teenagers mark their own body
with the factions’ symbols, something similar to self-mutilation with precarious artifacts as a tattoo,
which leave the skin raw. The rules of some factions prevent the early admission of teenagers,
however, it can be observed in the units of deprivation of freedom of the socio educative system a
strong felling of belonging and desire to join these groups. Thus, we question how the felling of
belonging is built and how the life trajectory of these teenagers coincide with joining the factions. In
this direction, once belonging the group, we question which factors contribute to the permanence of the
teenagers in the factions. From this, we intend with this research deepen the knowledge about the life
trajectory of the teenagers who wish to belong to a faction or who are already members, so know the
multiple factors contributing to the entering and permanence of them in these groups. Thus, the general
objective of this work is to analyze the life trajectories of the teenagers from the socio educative
system of RN, in order to understand the factors contributing to the entering and permanence of them
in the factions. As specific objectives, this work aims: (a) to analyze if/how the criminalization process
in the life trajectories of the teenagers contribute to their recruitment by the factions; (b) understand the
specificities of the teenagers recruitment by the factions before and after they enter the socio educative
system; (c) understand how the teenagers feeling of belonging to the factions is built and manifests; (d)
describe how are the institutional relations in the face of the recruitment of the young by the factions.
Male teenagers in probation regime from the Centro Educacional Pitimbu – CEDUC Pitimbu –
Parnamirim/RN will take part in this research. The data collection will be divided in two moments: 1.
First, it will be performed Focal Groups, with six to ten participants per group, aiming to identify
general questions about the factions, type of involvement with these groups and link building of the
researcher with the teenagers; 2. After this, it will be performed In-Depth Interviews passing through
various themes crossing the general objective of the research, which help reach a better understanding
of their life trajectories and the criminalization processes and are pertaining to the young. The
teenagers’ narratives will be fully recorded and transcribed, analyzed in a critical perspective, in the
light of the historical materialism, which understands the phenomena in its historicity and social
context of production. Lastly, it is expected as results of the work: a better understanding of the issue
about the life trajectory of the teenagers and their joining and permanence in the factions; provide data
to the socio educative units professionals that help them to deal with this phenomenon in the units and,
foster activities and dialogic spaces in the socio educative units which allow the teenagers autonomy
and free expression.

The phenomenon of suicide runs through the history of humanity and many authors have dedicated themselves to studying it. Thinking about this phenomenon in the territory of Rio Grande do Norte, we observed high rates in the municipality of Caicó, Seridó Region of the State. This region makes up the northeastern semiarid, a region that has been eroded by the exploitation of natural resources and drought. Despite these characteristics, one of the best Human Development Indexes (HDI) of the State emerges, showing the historical struggles of the population for better living conditions. Seridó also has in its history and culture remarkable characteristics of religiosity and political struggles. This work aims to understand the experience of the suicide attempt in the region of Seridó in Rio Grande do Norte. Such a study is configured as phenomenological-hermeneutic research, inspired by Heidegger's ontology. Five survivors of the suicide attempt, living in the municipality of Caicó-RN, were interviewed. The analysis of the material included the collaborators' narratives and the researcher's affectation, through the phenomenological-hermeneutic interpretation. The results of the study showed the meanings of the experience of giving up living in the Northeastern semiarid region. We realize the presence of historicity building meanings for the people residing in the Seridó. The interpretations of the narratives presented reports of feelings of meaninglessness, fear of social judgments, love conflicts, guilt and sadness feelings, among others. We reflected on aspects of the region's culture that are interspersed in the collaborator's speeches, as well as the constant struggle to stay alive in the face of an intense desire to not live. We hope that the existential approach to the ontological condition experienced by these people, during their suicide attempts, will contribute to a new look at the phenomenon of suicide.

There are moments considered critical during the woman's life cycle: adolescence, pregnancy and climacteric. Authors report that the emotional basis of the adolescent mother is influenced by the social support received, which consequently ends up reflecting on the child's care and development. Regarding late pregnancy, there is a worldwide increase in the occurrence of this phenomenon. Subjective Well-Being, on the other hand, can have direct impacts on pregnancy and on the formation of the affective bond in the dyad. Thus, the objective was to analyze the relationships between scores of the constructs of social support and subjective well-being in pregnant adolescents, young adults and late adults. Sequential multimethod research, carried out in three studies. 1) Integrative review of the Social Support and Subjective Well-being constructs. 2) Investigate the relationship between scores of social support and subjective well-being and of these between sociodemographic, gestational and obstetric variables. 3) Understand the importance of social support and subjective well-being in the experience of the gestational period among the investigated public. The number was 366 subjects for Study II and 6 subjects in Study III. Adolescent puerperal women, young adults and late hospitalized, hospitalized due to childbirth and / or puerperium, were included after 12 hours postpartum. Postpartum women who had children with fetal malformation, fetal death, prematurity and the fact of having become pregnant using some method of artificial fertilization were excluded. Instruments were: Structured questionnaire, Social Support Scale (EAS) and Subjective Wellbeing Scale (EBES). SPSS for descriptive and inferential statistics, with a significant level of 5% for the alpha error, the null hypothesis being rejected when p <0.05. The data showed high EAS scores with values above 80 points, with a caveat for the group of late pregnant women material (76.05), emotional (78.80) and information (77.85), ratified by the Kruskal- Wallis. About EBES there are approximate averages in dimensions among adolescents, young and late adults, with no statistically significant difference. There was a positive correlation between the EBES positive affect dimension and the EAS. As a possible explanation for the fact, it is justified that for the group of adolescents and late pregnant women in this study, social support is revealed as an important basis for promoting subjective well-being and its dimensions. And deepening in this theoretical perspective, there are studies that relate moderate / high BES scores to better emotional regulation. In this sense, the individual's ability to regulate his emotions, provides a better adaptive behavior and is connected to the development of social skills, as well as, in the maintenance of healthy relationships. Thus contributing to a better quality of life for people.

This research aim analyze the production of meaning about gender and violence against woman, by professionals and by men involved in a reflexive group for perpetrators of violence against woman, in the city of Natal/RN. For this purpose, was realized a participant observation during 10 sessions, with field diaries notes. In a second moment were made semi-structured interviews with 2 men and 2 members of the facilitating group. The data was analyzed based in social constructionism perspective. The discursive repertoires about gender relations and violence against woman reveal that is common the men reinforce stereotyped, naturalized and essencialist models of masculinity-feminility. Different meanings were produced by facilitators: mean gender relations similar to feminist theories, emphasizing the quality of gender constructions being socially and proceduraly produced. Although this difference, some institutions in common permeate the production of this meanings, as religion, family and, more recently, justice institution. About this latest, reveals different meanings to their members: sometimes as punishment or injustice – to the men –, sometimes as a space for reflection and desconstruction of social norms – to facilitators. The field and interviews date revealed difficulties coming from different orders, as much as operational/methodological, institutional/bureaucratic, but, above all, of relational/affectional order, in other words, the rapport obtained with these men was sustained by fragile "judicial accord". In general, the group demonstrate be permeable environment of production, circulation and updating discursive repertoires, although, these discursive displacements won’t happen in a homogenous way, neither without difficults and tensions. Therefore, new studies approaching interaction and relation aspects are required to qualify these interventions.

Based on the biomedical-mediatic discursive articulation due to the unknown etiological factors of HIV and its pathophysiology being strictly identified as the responsibility of homosexuals, trans people, foreigners, immigrants and tourists, especially Africans and Haitians, and injecting drug users in the beginning of the big AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, there have been some initial developments that have stigmatized certain populations. Are the times other? Decades of silence, myths of overcoming the epidemic and a reaction of the reactionary sectors to the increase of social policies prompts the continuation of prejudice and extermination policies that concern the whole conservative social structure. Therefore, the present research aims to understand the production of meanings about HIV / AIDS in the lives histories of HIV-positive gay, transvestites and transsexuals in Natal / RN. It is a qualitative research articulated to the biographical method because it works more concretely with the narratives of life stories, besides being guided by the perspective of social constructionism in which it focuses especially on illustrating the processes by which people deal with the world around them, including themselves, being particularly interested in discursive practices, languages and social interactions. In this way, it was possible not only to distinguish, in the act of counting the participants, what would be of the order of the collective and what would be of the order of the individual, but to give themselves the means of apprehending and understanding the singular spaces-times each one of them forms the conjugation of their seropositive experience (and the historicity of their experience), of the life-worlds, of the common worlds of thinking and acting that participate through a social, historical and politically localized gaze. Throughout the work, some clashes with (re)produced HIV truth regimes have been outlined not in an attempt to establish other regimes but in order to add forces to other intelligibilities and realities since the construction of better responses to disease is an endless, urgent and necessary task. Surely there is still a long way to go!

Pregnancy during adolescence happens when the girls are going through a lot of changes, some transformations come from their age, others from pregnancy. Both can generate the need for reorganization of perception and relation with your own body, with aspects of their identity, as well as the need to rethink their life projects. In this way, it is a critical moment for the adolescents development since intrapsychic and interpersonal adaptations are necessary to enable psychic growth or its deterioration. The resilience - the ability of the individual to face and overcome an adverse situation, coming out strengthened or transformed from that experience - can make it easier for young women to access resources to face the changes brought by pregnancy. The way the pregnant woman faces this moment is able to influence the connection with the baby and possibly the investment she will make to suply the physical and emotional needs of the child, influencing child development. Due to these questions, the objective is to investigate the correlation between resilience and maternal-fetal attachment in a pregnant teenager. 77 pregnant teenagers who performed prenatal care at the Basic Health Units of the Southern District, in the city of Natal participated in this research. They answered a questionnaire with sociodemographic and gestational data; the Resilience Scale, and the Maternal-Fetal Attachment Scale. For the data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were performed using data processing software (SPSS). The results indicate a predominance of moderate levels of resilience (51.9%) and average maternal-fetal attachment (88.3%) among the pregnant women interviewed. Regarding the correlation between these two constructs (R = 0.397, p = 0.000), we identified that it was positive, statistically significant and weak, in addition to being indicative of a bidirectional influence.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the executive functions (FE) of adolescents before and after the practice of Educational Robotics (RE). It is a study of the longitudinal type, of intervention, of predominantly quantitative nature. Participants were 16 adolescents, 15 and 16 years old, students from schools in the city of Natal, divided into Control Group (CG) and Study Group (GE), matched according to socioeconomic status, schooling, gender and age. For the pre and post intervention evaluation, the FE were measured by different instruments in order to measure their different components, such as: Five-digit Test / Five Digits Test - FDT; working memory - Corsi blocks; planning capacity - Tower of London task; cognitive flexibility-Wisconsin. According to the inclusion criteria, the Wechsler Abbreviated Intelligence Scale (WASI) was used for the previous evaluation of intellectual performance. The RE intervention occurred with GE through workshops with the LEGO Mindstorms tool in the school itself, in 36 60-minute meetings. All participants were submitted to the same form of use of the tool with a trained teacher. The results of this study showed a statistically significant improvement in the executive functions of cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control and planning. Operational memory measures were not statistically significant, but in a comparative analysis of difference size, it was possible to observe a positive increase. Future longitudinal surveys may include generalization analysis and follow-up measures for the intervention.

This research investigated how the system of guaranteeing rights of children and adolescents (SGDCA) has faced sexual violence within the family against this public in Natal/RN. It is an exploratory, qualitative research, based on historical and dialectical materialism, that investigated institutions of the strategic axes of the SGD (defense, promotion and control). It was divided into two stages: 1) network mapping, via institutional visit, followed by a semi-structured interview with a professional of the institution, in order to know the operation of the service, flows and dynamics of attendance and referral, technical routines, team practices, challenges and potentialities; 2) a focus group with these professionals, discussing sexual violence against children and adolescents, their coping, network articulation, difficulties and overcoming strategies. The information was submitted to the analysis of thematic content and discussed in four axes: network and flows, practices, potentialities and challenges. It was identified that the DGS has not protected the victims of sexual violence, nor has the aggressor been held responsible; the network is fragile and needs more articulation and communication; the flows are not well defined, with erroneous referrals. There is a revival of this public and institutional violence, in addition to lack of services, high demand, disarticulation of the network, lack of knowledge of the institutions' attributions, lack of human and material resources, difficulty in obtaining evidence, and lack of capacity building and investments. Its potential is the commitment of the professionals and the implementation of the Social Assistance policy. It is concluded that there are many challenges, demanding more effective actions of the State. The management and execution of the policies are supersetorialized, bureaucratized and time consuming; despite advances, are far from collective, holistic and protective action.

How can we improve the engagement of the (different kind of) public with the climate change (CC) issue? The present study joins several others that seek to answer this question by adopting different perspectives. As part of this scenario, the work sought to investigate the way CC is communicated through the work of Brazilian nongovernmental organizations’ (NGOs) practice. This starting point is based on two triggers: (1) the increasing participation of organized civil society (represented here in the form of NGOs) in the discussions, elaboration and execution of public policies directed to CC; and (2) understanding communication as one of the starting points for engagement, which carries a great potential for public mobilization. Thus, the present study study adopted a qualitative and exploratory approach, involving semi-structured interviews with 11 participants who work on the theme, representing the NGOs of which they are part. As part of the interviews, I requested indications of materials of an "ideal" climate communication, a step that was added to the content of the interviews, a set that was later submitted to content analysis. As a result, it is perceived that defining and communicating MCs is not a simple task, even for a high-level audience, and that this difficulty tells of a series of challenges that encompass the nature of the phenomenon, the ways which it has traditionally been communicated and the various social factors involved. The solutions presented by the participants, adding to the indicated materials, point out possible ways that can circumvent and overcome these different natures of the challenges encountered, providing subsidies to enhance the climate communication.

The institutional sheltering is an exceptional temporary measure used when a child is inserted in a risk context. The institutionalization of children and teenagers has been a reality in Brazil since colonial times; having it undergone through several transformations until children were recognized as subjects of rights, in a peculiar condition of development, according to the integral protection doctrine. This research’s theoretical reference combines the Childhood’s Sociology, which demarcates children as the starting point for scientific investigations, and the (Auto)Biographical Approach that, in researches on humans, allows the reconnection between: reason, conceived as an epistemic subject (of knowledge); and emotion, conceived as an empirical subject (of experience). This research aimed to understand how children gives meaning to the institutional sheltering experience, in their life histories, in moments before the institutional sheltering experience, during the experience of being sheltered and their future perspectives and projections. This qualitative research is a comprehensive study that was carried out with the participation of six children institutionalized in Host Unit II in Natal - RN, two boys and four girls, age between 7 and 13 years old. Research steps: 1) Participant observation. 2) Conversations with the children: step in which the three main axes related to specific objectives were addressed and mediated by playful resources, that were constructed after the entry on the research field: a) "Box of memories", referring to memories before being institutionalized; b) HQ - Comic books, referring to living in Unit II; c) "Letters for the future", concerning the future. In addition to these, letters were also written to the judge of the Childhood Court, as a process closure. The analytic-interpretative trajectory of this research is based on autobiographical hermeneutics. Some thematic categories were produced from narrative meaning units. From this understanding, it is possible to perceive that it is an institutional environment marked by changes and ruptures, in addition to many demands. As for the results, we observed: I) Children can narrate their stories with the meanings possible to them, although there are marks. II) They realize the transitoriness of their relationships and the place they live in. III) They understand the need to be taken care of and sometimes they face unprotected protection. IV) Playing stands out as a resource, children imagine and create their own world, despite the discontinuities that are part of it. V) They present a need for greater participation and claims regarding the house and the environment in which they live, as well as the legal decisions about their futures. VI) Despite family conflicts, the children bet on their families and seek to project themselves into a future with dreams linked to a profession or even being with their families. Finally, this research advocates the relevance of studies highlighting the life histories of the participating children, as a fundamental scope for the construction of knowledge in the childhood area and to subsidize the construction of public policies aimed at children.

Executive functions (FE) are examples of crucial skills for achieving healthy cognitive development in individuals. Related to reasoning, problem solving, and planning contribute to academic, family, and social success. The developmental characteristic of EF favors childhood as the ideal phase for the effective development of these skills by having the cognitive potential of children available. Therefore, schools represent opportune spaces for researching and development of these skills. Thus, the objective was to analyze the performance of EF in the domains working memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, planning and verbal fluency. Seventy children from the 1st to the 3rd grade of elementary school enrolled in the municipal school of Natal/RN participated in the study , so that each school year constituted three distinct assessment groups. The study is quantitative, cross-sectional and quasiexperimental, submitted to the Ethics Committee under protocol CAAE No. 85607718.0.0000.5537. The Diamond Model (2013) was elected for the theoretical understanding of the construct. Data were submitted to descriptive and inferential analysis, with normal distribution of the sample, using one-way ANOVA statistical tests, with Bonferroni post-hoc and Pearson r tests. Overall, the results indicated that the descriptive measures of EF increased with school progression, however, only verbal fluency demonstrated significance for all school years. The others indicated significance between the 1st and 2nd and/or between the 1st and 3rd years. Therefore, the study contributed to the discussion about the development of EF in the early years of literacy.

The creativity has been the focus of studies in different contexts, utilized as a facilitator skill of necessary competencies in the routine of individuals. In the process of learning, it can be ascertained how it relates to other skills, like intelligence and the ability to read, skills that are very important to the academic success. The general objective of the study consisted in explore the creativity, the intelligence, the phonological awareness and the reader decoding abilities of kids from the elementary School. The study characterized itself as exploratory, quantitively and cross-sectional, counting with 75 children divided in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades of the municipal schools from Natal/RN. It evaluated intelligence, creativity, phonological awareness and the reader decoding using the following instruments: Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI), Brazilian figural Creativity Test (TCFI), Sequential Evaluation Instrument (CONFIAS) and the Isolated Words and Pseudowords Evaluation (LPI). The results in the intelligence and creativity showed no significant difference in the statistics between classes. The same can not be said for the other categories (phonological awareness and the reader decoding) that presented a significant statistic difference, showing the best performance from the children of the 3rd grade. There was a strong correlation between the TCFI and the WASI, specially from the 1st and 3rd grades. TCFI, CONFIAS e LPI showed the same correlation coming from the 3rd grade only. With that study, we can verify the importance of the aspects of creativity, intelligence and phonological awareness in the kids that are in literacy and the relation between them, specially from children with low income. It is about of a underexplored field that deserves further investigations to better understand these population constructs.

This master's degree research aimed to analyze central aspects of Quality of Working Life (QWL) of outsourced employees who work in a public institution of higher education. The globalization scenario results in the intensification of outsourcing and the flexibilization of labor contracts, which result in the deepening of labor precariousness and the weakening of labor relations. The study was based on the investigation of prescribed work, real work and workers' perceptions about the elements that generate well-being and discomfort related to the performance of outsourced activities. In this research, we worked synergistically with the Ergonomics of Applied Activity to Quality of Working Life (EAA_QWL) and the Clinic of Activity, perspectives of counter-hegemonic nature in the Brazilian psychology of labor activity. A diagnosis of QWL based on Ergonomic Workplace Analysis (EWA) was made in three investigation stages: a) document analysis, b) observations and c) focus group. Outsourced workers have been found to earn less, have greater job instability, and have less flexible working hours compared to employees; In addition, they receive no incentive for professional development and are strongly overseen by both the service provider and the contracting institution. Therefore, precariousness affects everyone, but outsourced workers are worse off than others, with impacts on the political field, collective action, union organization, and workers' health. This work contributed to the understanding of particularities about the reality of outsourced workers from a critical analysis of work, especially in terms of precariousness and QWL.

This study sought to contribute to the deepening of the perception of justice officials regarding their working conditions, possible psychosocial risks and impediments to work activity, and their relations with processes of suffering and illness.The justice official is that public servant in charge of ensuring compliance with the determinations of the magistrates, in activities that are eminently external and in a context of presumed risk and precariousness.This research was carried out with justice officials who worked within the scope of the Judiciary Branch of Rio Grande do Norte, having contemplated the initial phase of survey, through the Brazilian adaptation of the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) instrument. This questionnaire sought to measure the magnitude of psychological job demands and the decision latitude by the worker, considered psychosocial factors of risk at work. Documentary research was also carried out on the reasons that led these employees to absence from work to treat their own health in 2016 and 2017. The study also included the analysis of data from a conversation circle, aiming to deepen knowledge about the profession. The results confirmed the initial assumption of precariousness of the professional activity of justice official in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, considering that such activity has been performed in circumstances of fragility, vulnerability and danger, which place these servants in a situation of impediment of the power of professional action, besides contributing to the weakening of the workers’ collectives and the forms of their organization. It was found that, due to the variables mentioned, justice officials have become ill more frequently for emotional reasons than the other categories of the TJRN.The results confirm the importance of reorganizing the work from the perspectives of the justice officials themselves and endorse the need to plan concrete strategies aimed at mitigating the psychosocial risks to which they have been subjected.

The clinic is constituted as a traditional practice in psychology, in which, at the present, it is diversifying such as in private practice, as in operationalized in public policies or institutions of the third sector. Child psychotherapy is a significant portion of this practice, challenging psychologists to always reinvent themselves into the child's world. The act of play and a look at the child began to be inserted in the clinic and the child psychotherapy is structured by reference to a human and particular worldview of each theory. In the present research, the look at the human being was discussed from three theorists of Transpersonal Psychology, two at international ambit Ken Wilber and Stanislav Grof; and Vera Saldanha nationwide and how their theories contribute to child care in this approach.

To know how child care is performed in the transpersonal approach, six psychologists who were performing child care at the time of research within the transpersonal approach using the narrative interview were interviewed. The present study was intended to be a qualitative research, in which I used the Intuitive Research, research method / approach developed by Anderson & Braud, characterized by being a transpersonal research method. To understand what emerged in the interviews, I used the thematic analysis of the data, developed by Jovchelovitch and Bauer. Seven categories of analysis emerged from the interviews, relating to the objectives of the study, which are: 1) What is Transpersonal Psychology; 2) Theorists and bibliography used; 3) Applied concepts; 4) Resources used; 5) Look at the child in therapy; 6) Child development; 7) Differential of Transpersonal Psychology.

With the creation of these categories, it made it possible to better understand how the field of child psychotherapy in the transpersonal is organized. Most of the works of the authors cited are more focused on the theory as a whole, addressing the psychic processes, therefore being no discussion about childhood in the clinic or tools specifically created to attend this audience. In this context, the professionals perform a clinical practice with children based on transpersonal psychology, however not systematically, because there is no such theoretical systematization, being a particular construction of each professional. It is expected to contribute to the field of transpersonal clinic, clarifying the clinical practice around the child and advancing in studies that help refer students and professionals in this regard, highlighting the need for further studies on children, childhood and child care in the transpersonal.

The illness and death experience’s reveal the human fragility in the face of life and impose on those who experience illness and those who care and attend them considerable challenges, especially in illnesses where there is no curative therapy. In the 1960s, Palliative Care emerged as a field of care, which belongs to patients and families living an illness process that threaten life itself. Thereby, since the beginning of this process, there was a concern about people’s integral and multidimensional care, which was not only about their physical dimensions, but also about emotional, social, and spiritual aspects, considering spirituality as an important resource in care near death. In the last few decades, studies about spirituality has grown exponentially, and had shown its relevance on both physical and mental health, quality of life, well-being, diseases prevention, and coping, showing itself as relevant human dimension, which is fundamental to develop care strategies, regarding to the processes of health, disease and death, and thus also important to psychology. The aim of this study was to understand the place of spirituality / religiosity in the work of psychologists in Natal-RN who work in palliative care near death. There were seven psychologists participants in this study, with different experience time in palliative care, different spiritual and religious experiences, and different approaches to acting in psychology – who were selected by indication and convenience. It is a qualitative research grounded on Gadamer’s Hermeneutics as a theoretical basis for its construction, analysis and narratives comprehension. It was accomplished a narrative interview using projective scenes. The interviews were recorded and transcribed. The research field diary was used to record the researcher's personal impressions during the study. The dialogue with the participants narratives originated the following chapters: (1) “Palliative Care and death: building a history of caring for life until the end”, which brings different human attitudes towards death and dying and a brief history of palliative care, which since the beginning it has been marked by the inclusion spirituality in care, an aspect also illustrated by participants’ words; (2) “Spirituality / Religiosity: from the concepts of health-illness to the conceptions of psychologists near death” that exposes spirituality, religiosity and religion in health, illness and death process and the reveal the psychologists’ concepts of religiosity and spirituality; (3) “Spirituality and religiosity in the psychology spiritual care near death” which was focused on the relationship between spirituality and psychology, mainly in a palliative care context near death, highlighting the difficulties and challenges to include spirituality in care, although detach the power that spirituality has above psychology care near death. Thus, from the understanding of these professionals practice and the place that spirituality occupies in it, it is defended the importance of considering and including spirituality / religiosity in health care practices, especially when dealing with care near death, in rescue to humanization and integrality of care.

At present, the discussion on trans issues has received wide visibility in view of the social vulnerability to which this group is subjected. The term “trans person” would be the popular form in which transvestite and transgender people are known and are collectively treated as part of the transgender group. Trans people have, throughout history, been excluded from various spaces, including education, with transphobia, which is hatred and aversion to trans people, the main vector that causes these exclusions. However, even in the face of an alarming context of social vulnerability, transgender people have reached higher education, and this has been facilitated by a series of resolutions guaranteeing the right to the social name and, consequently, respect for gender self-identification in higher education. several levels. This qualitative research, anchored in the theoretical framework of Transfeminism, together with the discussion of several trans authors, of which the concepts of cisgenerity and transphobia are central, sought to understand how the policies of access and permanence of trans people occurred in Rio Grande do Norte (RN) Public Higher Education Institutions (IPES), and consequently, what were the demands of this segment in the IPES. To accomplish this goal the research was done in three steps: 1) A documentary analysis, to verify and identify if there are policies in IPES of our state that are focused on the demand of the trans population; 2) Semi-structured interviews to identify, through the speeches of the research collaborators, what their demands are when they arrive at the IPES and 3) A triangulation of the data where the result of the analysis plus the interviews were triangulated with the research author's story. Participated in this study 8 trans people from 4 IPES of the state of RN, The analyzes and interpretations were inspired by Bardin's Content Analysis where three thematic axes were systematized from the transcripts of the interviews. From these three thematic axes, we can see how the presence of trans people in the university space is marked by cracks, demands and (trans) formations. Regarding the results, supported by the axes, we observe: a) That although all and all are trans, there are differences and similarities between trans experiences in the academic space and these are permeated by various intersections; b) That transgender people present differentiated demands, in addition to those placed by IPES, ranging from corporeal demands to material subsidies, also suggesting the need for quotas; and c) Trans bodies are inventive because they are self-governing people and (trans) shape the academic space in which they are turning their struggles into concrete policies. Finally, this research opens the way to think and defend the demands and trans bodies in IPES, serving as a subsidy to think which policies could be more effective to guarantee not only the access, but also the permanence of trans people in this space.

The affirmation of the memory of groups disqualified by the great narratives is a key element in the process of confront with human rights violations that occur daily in Brazil, especially in the mental health's field. To revisit the history of groups through other lenses, enhances new debates to understand the processes of resistance to the manicomial capture's of life, especially in the current scenario of a psychiatric "counter-reform" and a "remanicomialization" in this field. In face this scenario emerges the present research work with the Potiguar Plural Association (PLURAL), a mental health collective in Natal/RN. In this cartographic research with the collective, we seek to map resistance processes to the manicomial life forms, through the production of narratives of PLURAL participants' memories, in an attempt to tell their story, mapping points of tension, knowledge production and resistance in the potiguar mental health's. As a result, a narrative about PLURAL was produced collectively, from its foundation until the present moment, as well as the mapping of three lines of analysis about the production of resistances within the collective: from the testimony of the asylum memories; the production of care networks among the members of the collective; and the formation of future professionals, who are internshiping or experiencing the groupality of the PLURAL during their academic formation. These lines pointed out how the memory of violations can, through collective agency, become raw material for actions in the field of mental health, both in the production of care networks, and in the formation of future professionals, sensitive and involved in care in freedom. We conclude that memory, testimony and collectivity are pillars in the development of resistance practices in the field of mental health, demonstrating the transformative potential of reality, starting from the protagonism and solidarity relations, in the affirmation and production of life.

The present research aimed to build understanding about the phenomena of human existence,

developing an approximation between ethics and psychological clinic. Inspired in the Martin
Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology, as well as in his studies in the area of Ontology. In the
research, the developed comprehensive exercise privileged Heideggerian hermeneutics as a horizon of
encounter to understand ethics from the existential expressive way of opening of the circularity of
meaning, involving human beings and existential ones. The problem investigated proposed
understandings about ethics, fomenting reflections on the ontological condition of being-in-the-world,
according to Heidegger in Being and time. This research aimed to understand ethics, distinguishing it
from moral and deconstructing the usual way as ethics is summarized, in Psychology, to the code of
professional ethics. Ethics is thesis topic and is understood in approach to a permanent updating of the
ontological way. Ethics is conceived as being constituted by existential care, freedom and
responsibility. The research is academic, original, exploratory and descriptive, whose research method
is based on the Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, where are demonstrable
possibilities for comprehensive reading, aiming at the articulation between ethics and clinical
psychology / psychotherapeutics, based on the Existential Phenomenology of the philosopher. The
results suggest the deconstruction of ethics in the way it is considered in the psychological clinic,
justified in the Code of Ethics, in order to defend an ethics focused on the ways in which we inhabit
the world, and from the contributions of Heidegger to clinical and psychotherapeutic work, for the
defense of the construction of ethical pillars such as care, freedom and responsibility. This research
points to other ways of ethical thinking and contribute to the understanding of the everyday life, in a
reflexive manner. With this, the study can promote questions and mobilizations as to ways of relating
to ethics, so that we can inhabit it and approach ontological thinking.

The hegemonic model of agrarian culture exported to the world through the assumptions of the Green Revolution solidified values and practices, which conducted a biological and sociocultural devastation of millenarian traditions of food cultivation. One of the possibilities of opposition to this paradigm arises in sustainable alternative systems, such as organic food production, which establishes sociocultural, economic and environmental sustainability. This study of quali-quantitative and exploratory inclination aims to explore the perception of organic food by its producers and consumers in specialized fairs. As epistemological and theoretical- methodological presuppositions, I used the Systemic Perspective and Barker’s Ecological Approach, respectively. I conducted a naturalistic observation in three specialized fairs in organic sales in 101 days of data collection. The investigation comprised two stages, with verbal and nonverbal aspects related to the sale and consumption of organic products. Were interviewed 04 producers and 04 consumers, and 657 people were observed. The research tools included place-centered behavioral mapping and context-based analysis with inspiration in behavior setting theory. Methodological convergence was established within an organization of thematic analysis with an interpretative basis, integrating the findings of observed behaviors, from the internal logics to the utterances and the relations constructed throughout the investigative process. The analytical process demonstrated that the choice of organic involved cognitive and affective understandings permeated by motivational aspects related to biological health, philosophical-religious and ethical-environmental aspects of the people involved. Understandings about this phenomenon in food may contribute to the generation of knowledge in the area of human-environment relations, adding an interdisciplinary comprehension on the issue.

Attained 30 years since the first contest for psychologist at the Court of Justice in Sao Paulo (1985), it was identified the need to carry out a systematized national historical research on psychologist path at the Family Court. During that period, some changes in families and Brazilian legislation have affected the psychologist performance. Several studies and events have passed, the offer of training in Legal Psychology was expanded and practically all Courts of Justice have held public service exams for psychologist. The aim was to analyse historically the development context of the psychological practices at the Family Courts. The periodization, which consisted into three terms, took place through legislative frameworks. The survey and analysis of the documents between the contest at the TJSP - Court of Justice in Sao Paulo (1985) and Mediation Law (2015) were delimited. The analysis was made from categories, which were defined a priori. Documents were analysed based on bibliographies about family life after divorce and the results were presented in a historical course. In the first phase, the struggles to consolidate positions were directed "to the best interests of the child," and the demand for technical expertise divided the category into two perspectives. In the second, the demand complexity for expertise increased due to emerging issues; the regulation of practices began as a result of ethical complaints; the expertise function was consolidated and mediation was in evidence. In the third, the psychologist's assignments expanded, provoking tensions and debates; the intervention activities were transferred to other agencies; services were scrapped and some rights and spaces consolidated by the category were withdrawn, alerting to a possible extinction of the position in the Family Courts. The psychologist’s practices in Family Courts were forged in a hybrid terrain, between the judicialisation of family conflicts and the uncritical assimilation of culture of peace. The current configurations of the field revitalize the inquiry of Brito (1993), "Family Court, a matter for psychologists?".

The process of medicalization consists in the transformation of complex and multifactorial social, political and cultural issues into diseases under a biological determinism that, in education, affects children and adolescents who do not fit the normality standards applied to learning. Studies point out that teachers do not know this phenomenon, so the learning of scientific concepts about it can promote this information, the understanding of its role in its coping and the elaboration of pedagogical practices in this direction. In this perspective, in view of the initial formation of presential pedagogues of a public university in Natal / RN and the theoretical framework of Historical-Cultural Psychology, this research aimed to develop and analyze pedagogical mediations in the learning process of the concept of medicalization in Education with Pedagogy students. For this, a formative experiment was conducted based on Davydov's proposal, between august and december 2016, with a group of 25 students from the sixth night. The experiment was developed in 16 weekly classes, distributed in three stages, preceded by the survey about the knowledge held about medicalization and, later, four more written works. The planning of the pedagogical mediations was based on the following conceptual hierarchy elaborated to approach the scientific concept medicalization in Education: relationship between school and society, social function of the school and the pedagogue, health, disease, normatization of society, biological determinism, play, medicalization of life, in view of the historical rescue of social changes and the forms of production that influenced political, economic, science, health and Education. In the first stage, activities were developed to work on the social function concepts of the school, the pedagogue and the relationship between society and school. In the second stage, the concept of play was worked in two moments: the first aimed to rescue memories of childhood and the playful experience; In the second, the students made intervention proposals in schools based on play. In the third stage there was the presentation to the concepts health, disease, society standardization, biological determinism and medicalization of life, as well as data on drug consumption. Seven students were selected to analyze the written records, among them, five did not present any concept related to medicalization in the initial diagnosis and the other two elaborated pseudoconcepts. Not all were able to structure the conceptual hierarchy approached, but there was progress in conceptual learning and apprehension of determinants of medicalization. Students understood that the current society, based on capitalism, by defining that only children play, by rationalizing and disciplining behavior, mechanizes, normalizes and dehumanizes the subjects, reaching the pedagogue that seeks to elaborate disciplinary pedagogical practices and not develop learning and the creativity. As a result, students who fail at school are assigned illnesses to be treated by medication with influence from the pharmaceutical industry. It is concluded that the formative experiment enabled mediations that promoted psychic changes, qualified thought processes for conceptual learning about medicalization in Education and contributed to the identification of possibilities of coping with the phenomenon, and play was pointed as an option.

Historically, the Brazilian higher education has been built as elitist, but in the last years the formulation of educational policies has granted access for students traditionally excluded from this level of education. In the midst of this process comes the Student Assistance National Program (PNAES), created to guarantee the permanence of students of Universities and Federal Institutes in socially vulnerable situations. Considering this new scenario of the Brazilian higher education, the goal of this paper is to analyze the student assistance as a strategy to combat school dropout and retention in federal universities, clipping the potiguar semiarid scenario. Specifically, I intended to understand how the PNAES was implemented; know the actions, the programs and the assisted students’ profiles; identify the students’ participation in the planning and evaluation of PNAES and discuss the student assistance as a retention strategy. To do so, I made a clipping with data from the Semi-arid Rural Federal University (UFERSA) to exemplify the boarder phenomenon. I analyzed resolutions, ordinances, activity reports and worksheets of assisted students. In addition, I conducted semi-structured interviews with deans, coordinators, psychologists and social workers who act in student care and students who are part of the student representation bodies. The data were categorized and analyzed based on the theoretical assumptions of dialectical historical materialism. The totality, the contradiction, the mediation and the dialectic were the dimensions and categories that guided the research. Some limitations of PNAES were noticed: focused actions; insufficient resources, staff and infrastructure and little student participation in the management, planning and evaluation of actions. However, even in the face of limits I found that student assistance had many advances after 2007 and it has contributed to ensuring the permanence and graduation completion of many students. Thus, PNAES has proved to be com important tool in the construction of possibilities that try to overcome the inequalities of permanence in higher education, but even with the inflections that this program has produced in the daily life of federal institutions, it will not solve all permanence problems, because they are associated with educational policies in general and their function within capitalism.

The present study investigate how two violent actors, the local police and an “organized crime”
faction, interfere in the day life of self-declarated poor and black youth of an urban fringe of
Natal, located in the Brazilian Northeast. To obtain the needed information to the development
of this investigation, the researcher adopted the posture of a participant viewer inserting himself
in the investigated community over nine months and performing thirteen observations registered
in the field diary. The information arising from the diaries were schematized into discussion
topics and interpreted with inspiration on the dialectical and historical materialism perspective
of reality comprehension. For that matter, highlighting as results of the research, on one hand
the presence of the faction as a controller agent of social life, through the enforced code of
conduct and violent sanctions to the residents of the neighborhood or the cooptation of young
adults called in economic deregulation times in the capitalist periphery to do activities related
to the illegal drug market; on the other hand, the local police that when called to fight crime acts
with exhibitionistic actions ineffective on the decrease of urban violence and constitutive in the criminalization process of poverty, especially by identifying the peripheral communities as dangerous places, stigmatizing the native population and, in specific, the black youth. Surrounded by an excluding economic system, the State violence, the community faction and the possibility of a violent action of a rival faction that can lead to social death as well as biological, it’s understandable in this context the young, poor, black and resident of periphery as someone situated in the crossfire between the crime and the police

The renal transplantation is a surgical procedure that consists in the replacement of a healthy kidney from a donor in the recipient, this therapy aims into a better quality of life (QoL), but does not represents the cure of the end-stage renal disease. After the surgery, the recipient needs to adjust to the use of immunosuppressants drugs and the regular evaluation of your health status. In addition, the person who receives the kidney transplantation starts to live with the possibility of clinical complications and the fear of rejection of the renal graft. These experiences are potential triggers of anxiety and distress, obliging the patient to adapt in front of the demands of the treatment itself. The inadequate management of stressors after kidney transplantation may become a barrier to the effectiveness of this therapy. In this sense, it is necessary to identify in the post-transplant patients the coping strategies that they use in the face of the adversities of the treatment and their relationship with the QoL. The purpose of this study was to evaluate quality of life and coping strategies in renal transplant patients. The study included 150 transplant recipients whos follow up in the clinic at the University Hospital Onofre Lopes. For the evaluation of the patients, the following instruments were used: sociodemographic questionnaire, the Whoqol-Bref instrument and the Ways of Coping Scale. Data analysis was based on descriptive and inferential statistics. The results indicated adequate levels of satisfaction with health and global QOL. In reference to the use of coping strategies, it was identified that the coping method focused on religiosity / fanciful thoughts, followed by the problem-focused coping strategy, were the most used by transplant patients. The correlations between the constructs investigated, identified positive correlations between the use of the strategy focused on the problem and the domains of QoL and negative correlations between the strategy focused on the emotion and the domains evaluated by the Whoqol-Bref.

The number of unemployed youth has grown considerably over the past few years, rising to more than the number of unemployed adults. This study arose from the need to broaden the reflection about the unemployment in young graduates, emphasizing the speech of the participants of the research. Starting from this assumption, the problem of this research was to question the meaning of being devoid of a place that represents "stability", the work, moment that usually generates anguish, fear and insecurity. For this, the objective was to understand the experience of young graduates who were in the experience of unemployment, from the Heideggerian phenomenological-hermeneutic perspective. This approach allows prioritizing the understanding of human existence through the senses that the being attributes to its experience and reveals them through language. Four interviews were conducted with youngsters between the ages of 23 and 29 years. The analysis of the narratives was carried out from the hermeneutical method, in the light of the ideas of the philosopher Martin Heidegger and scholars of his philosophy. The results revealed that the desire of young people to carry out their activities permeates their worldviews, making their lives a consequence of the ways that training provided them. The senses associated with the exercise of a formal occupation exclude the possibility of not exercising the activity. Reflections on the labor market, the capitalist mode of production, and sociological aspects of the context of higher education were also unveiled, reflecting the characteristics of the "Age of Technique". The insertion of the phenomenological perspective in the discussions on unemployment and work has broadened the understanding of being young in the contemporary world, since this reality presents demands and, as a consequence, opens space for new investigations and interventions.