Banca de DEFESA: JOÃO BATISTA DE BRITO BRAGA ALVES

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STUDENT : JOÃO BATISTA DE BRITO BRAGA ALVES
DATE: 22/04/2024
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: web-conferência
TITLE:

Care and racialization in a child-adolescent psychosocial care center: an analysis of social constructionist psychology

KEY WORDS:

child and adolescent mental health, health of the black population, psychosocial care, social constructionist psychology, racism and ethical-political suffering

PAGES: 119
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUBÁREA: Psicologia Social
SPECIALTY: Relações Interpessoais
SUMMARY:

This dissertation is the result of a political stance that argues that the issue of race is an issue that needs to be tackled in our society. Its starting point is my involvement with discussions on racism, whiteness and anti-racism, as well as my experience of dealing with these issues in the context of mental health, from the time I was a Mental Health Resident. Social constructionist psychology served as a theoretical-methodological framework, outlining a type of social research based on the principle of dialogicity. We interviewed 17 professionals from a Child-Adolescent Psychosocial Care Center, asking them to explain what they thought about this issue, to describe emblematic cases and to give their opinion on how their team dealt with this issue in their daily work. In addition to the transcripts of the interviews, we have included as a record of information in this dissertation, a field diary produced at the time I was at the unit to do the interviews and a reflective learning portfolio I had prepared years before as a resident, which helped us to contextualize elements of the history of this service and the team's involvement with discussions on racial issues. We organized the information produced by the interviews into tables containing dialogical fragments selected from different analysis focuses: 1) articulations between racism, suffering and interventions in care and 2) team positioning around racial issues. In addition to them, we created two more focuses, based on needs we felt during fieldwork: 3) ways of racial classification and 4) filling out the race/color question. As products of this dissertation we present two articles. Article 1 discusses how to incorporate reflection on the racial belonging of researchers and interlocutors as elements of analysis in the production of knowledge. To this end, we describe our fieldwork experience and problematize the way in which the racial self-declaration of our interlocutors gave rise to the need to think about this process. In Article 2 we present part of the results of the analysis of the table related to focus "1". We show the relevance of racial issues in thinking about the mental health of children and adolescents, as well as thinking about the care processes offered in specialized services for this public. We can see how many of the cases monitored at CAPSia have configurations of suffering that point to racism as one of their main causes. Many black children from Salvador come to the unit with complaints related to the construction of self-image, identification with whiteness, experiences of racial violence at school, complaints of self- and hetero-aggressive behavior contextualized by racism. We show the challenges of approaching these cases through the interpersonal dimension of racism, confining them to an individual problem, but also the importance of educational activities for the development of critical thinking in the follow-up of these cases.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2313663 - MONICA LIMA DE JESUS
Interna - 1560720 - SUELY AIRES PONTES
Interna - 1854436 - VANIA NORA BUSTAMANTE DEJO
Externa à Instituição - ELIANE SILVIA COSTA - UFBA
Externa à Instituição - SANDRA ASSIS BRASIL - UNEB