Banca de DEFESA: RENATA MONTEIRO GARCIA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : RENATA MONTEIRO GARCIA
DATA : 09/04/2018
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
TÍTULO:

Medicalization of children and social policies: Submission Processes and Resistance in Production of

Difference Economy

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Pathologization; Diagnosis; Disability; Social Inequality; Continued Cash Benefit Program.

PÁGINAS: 224
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
RESUMO:

Medicalization is a social issue impacting different aspects of daily life. One of its most noticeable
dimensions is the prevalence among children, especially regarding behavior control and its
pathologization. Preliminary data collection conducted by the author, which motivated the present
study, identified an increase of 100% in the number of children enrolled at public schools in a

municipality in the interior of Paraíba who were diagnosed as mentally ill between 2010 and 2014.
Moreover, an increase of 400% in the access to the Continued Cash Benefit Program for people
between the ages of 4 and 17 was verified. This thesis aimed at analyzing the relationship between the
phenomenon of rapid increase in the number of children diagnosed as mentally ill, the pathologization
of children and the access to social policies in this context. The study is based on dialectical
materialism so as to analyze the historical and political processes which fostered the emergence and
development of these issues. The methodology included document and field research. In the first stage,
current legislation and official reports on the local reality and the structure of social policies in the
fields of health, education and social welfare were analyzed. In the second stage, five semi-structured
interviews were conducted with the parents or guardians of the children diagnosed with mental
disability living in the municipality focused on in this study. A total of nine visits to institutions which
assist the population regarding the policies considered in this study were carried out and the
observations recorded in a field diary. The collected material was categorized and analyzed
considering the theoretical framework in order tounder pin the discussions and conclusions of this
doctoral thesis. Conclusions indicate that the complex relationships between the diagnoses of mental
disability, the pathologization of children and social policies are shaped within a network of financial
and political values which we named as Difference Economy. The importance of the Continued Cash
Benefit Program to the survival of many families was also verified, as well as the need for critical
reflections on the policies and their implications in keeping a socially unequal model and the current
social order.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo à Instituição - ANA VLADIA BANDEIRA MOREIRA - UFV
Externo à Instituição - CARLA BIANCHA ANGELUCCI - USP
Interno - 2177480 - HERCULANO RICARDO CAMPOS
Presidente - 1720819 - ILANA LEMOS DE PAIVA
Interno - 1744558 - JADER FERREIRA LEITE