Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ANNA VALESKA PROCOPIO DE MOURA MENDONCA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ANNA VALESKA PROCOPIO DE MOURA MENDONCA
DATE: 07/06/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

KNOWLEDGE AND ACTIONS OF A PSYCHOLOGY THAT CARES FOR THE DYING IN PALLIATIVE CARE

KEY WORDS:

Keywords: Psychology; Death; Dying; Palliative Care;

PAGES: 220
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

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" 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.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1149551 - GEORGIA SIBELE NOGUEIRA DA SILVA
Externo ao Programa - 2704485 - MARLOS ALVES BEZERRA
Externa à Instituição - ANNATALIA MENESES DE AMORIM GOMES - UECE