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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-70).

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Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-98).

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-98).

Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) are bodily symptoms for which no organic cause has been identified, and which result in significant levels of psychological distress and functional impairment. MUS are thought to be highly prevalent in primary care settings, and have considerable costs to society. Despite evidence of overlapping psychological and physical presentations, MUS are not well understood or treated in culture that predominantly views the body through the lenses of dualism and mechanistic reductionism. An alternative 'interactive' view of the body as playing a more dynamic role is elaborated through George Kelly's (1955) Personal Construct Psychology. The author draws upon Lin & Payne's (2014) 'frozen construing' theory, and empirical literature on relationships between identity and MUS, to suggest that for people with MUS, the symptomatic body is distressing because the person is struggling to integrate its meaning with their identity. It is hypothesized that embodied processes, that may actually protect the self (and others who share a construct system with that person) from events which threaten to dramatically alter how the self is construed, are difficult to understand because of their preverbal nature. Hence symptoms, and the body itself, are dissociated from the person's more elaborated verbal self-constructions. Several hypotheses relating to this suggestion were tested using a modified form of the repertory grid technique that was designed to explore construct systems of both mind and body, for self and others. Twenty participants with MUS, recruited from the community, completed the repertory grid interviews and measures of depression, anxiety and symptom severity, which were correlated with relevant repertory grid indices to test hypotheses. Findings indicated that symptom constructs, contrary to expectations, were well integrated into participants' construct systems. The alleviation of psychological distress was significantly associated with increased perceived distance between the self in general and the self when symptoms are worst (a relationship which appeared to be independent of severity of symptoms), providing evidence of a process of dissociation that protected the current self from assimilating the undesirable characteristics that were associated with the symptom. The way in which the self when symptoms are worst is construed appeared to influence levels of distress, with more predictive power than several other indices. The study also found evidence for some participants of hypothesized relationships between desired aspects of the current self and symptoms, that would imply that symptom disappearance would actually threaten a desirable aspect of how the self is construed. Content analysis of these constructs revealed (as predicted) that such desirable aspects of self tended to relate to being responsible and sensitive to the needs of others, and were elaborated through bodily constructs in a way that suggested that they were not well integrated with the primary ways that these participants made sense of their identity. For these particular participants, discrepancies between the ideals that they had for themselves, and how they would like to be seen by others, were associated with increased depression. Several participants were identified whose constructions of self and others were dominated by constructs relating to both mental and physical strength and weakness. These participants appeared to be struggling to find coherent meaning for themselves as the result of symptoms, which were regarded as invalidating a pre-symptom construal of themselves as being 'strong'. There seemed to be a continuum of being a 'body for others' on the one hand, a previously 'strong person' on the other, and a person who is 'strong for others' in the middle. Implications for clinical practice are discussed. Although the findings of the current study are limited by a small sample size, it appears that exploring the meaning of the body in the construction of self helps to elaborate the meaning of the body and symptoms in a verbal, expressible form. This process is likely to be helpful to those who struggle to find meanings for their symptoms both in their own construct systems and in a society that objectifies the body.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-10-31T10:57:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 LUANA FERREIRA BORGES.pdf: 1842406 bytes, checksum: a6baeece94c2d181a4cc4d8c70730994 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-31T10:57:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LUANA FERREIRA BORGES.pdf: 1842406 bytes, checksum: a6baeece94c2d181a4cc4d8c70730994 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-23 / This dissertation has as object of study the corporal identity of the child in the routine of Child Education. Therefore, the following central question was proposed: Considering the routine of bathing and sleeping as moments of educational action in Child Education, how are the processes of autonomy or regulation of children's body identity in institutions of Goiânia? The aim is to understand the routine of Child Education, particularly the routine of bathing and sleep, as activities that can allow the construction of children's body identity, marked by the autonomy or regulation of this identity. In this sense, the following references were used for the field studies: Child and childhood: Sarmento (2004), Kuhlmann Jr. (2010), Siqueira (2011); Body and Corporality: Arroyo (2012), Baptista (2013), Daolio (1995), Foucault (2014); Child Education: Barbosa (2006), Batista (1998), Oliveira (2005), among others. As a research methodology, the observation of sleep and bath moments was chosen, in a total of 20 occurrences reported in logbooks. Interviews with the teachers responsible for groupings were also accomplished to understand the relationship between theory and practice conceptions. From the point of view of the method of analysis, some of the foundations of dialectical and historical materialism were still used as references for discussions about human production and meaning in history, movement, contradictions classes, and action/activity among human beings. The data were organized in three chapters, being that the first of which addresses issues of the historical and social dimensions of the child and the body. The second takes as reference the voices of the teachers to understand the conceptions that implicate the research themes. In the third chapter, issues that involve the construction of the children's bodily identity in their relationship with times, spaces, materials and relationships within the educational action of bathing and sleeping are apprehended. The results of this work indicated that latent practices centered on the adult figure that guide, normalize, regulate and control children's body actions during the bath and sleep routine. Thus, the process of the construction of the corporal identity is established under the bases of the regulation, and not of the autonomy. However, these results were only apprehended in view of the precarious conditions under which the moments of sleep and bathing in the studied institutions took place. This indicates that the material and concrete conditions also determine the way the conceptions are constituted by the teachers. Finally, it is understood that this work enabled to return to the meaning and meaning of sleep and bath routine in Child Education, considering the need to redirect its role in educational practice, focusing on the processes of child autonomy. / A presente dissertação, inscrita na Linha Educação, Sociedade e Cultura e no Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Cultura e Educação na Infância (GEPCEI), tem como objeto de estudo a identidade corporal da criança na rotina da Educação Infantil. Para tanto, propôs-se a seguinte questão central: Considerando-se a rotina do banho e do sono como momentos da ação educativa na Educação Infantil, como se constituem os processos de autonomia ou regulação da identidade corporal das crianças em instituições de Goiânia? O objetivo é compreender a rotina da Educação Infantil, particularmente a rotina do banho e do sono, como atividades que podem permitir a construção da identidade corporal das crianças, marcadas pela autonomia ou regulação dessa identidade. Neste sentido, utilizaram-se, para os estudos de campo, as seguintes referências: Criança e infâncias: Sarmento (2004), Kuhlmann Jr. (2010), Siqueira (2011); Corpo e Corporalidade: Arroyo e Silva (2012), Baptista (2013), Daolio (1995), Foucault (2014); Educação Infantil: Barbosa (2006), Batista (1998), Oliveira (2005), dentre outros. Como metodologia de pesquisa, optou-se pela observação dos momentos do sono e do banho em um total de 20 ocorrências relatadas em diário de bordo. Realizaram-se, também, entrevistas com as professoras responsáveis pelos agrupamentos para apreender a relação entre as concepções teoria e prática. Do ponto de vista do método de análise, empregaramse ainda alguns dos fundamentos do materialismo histórico dialético, como referenciais para discussões sobre a produção humana e o sentido na história, no movimento, nas contradições de classe e na ação/atividade entre seres humanos. A exposição dos dados foi organizada em três capítulos, sendo que o primeiro aborda questões das dimensões histórico-sociais da criança e do corpo. O segundo toma como referência as vozes das professoras para compreensão das concepções que envolvem as temáticas da pesquisa. No terceiro capítulo, apreendem-se as questões que envolvem a construção da identidade corporal das crianças em sua relação com os tempos, espaços, materiais e as relações no âmbito da ação educativa do banho e do sono. Os resultados desse trabalho indicaram que, durante a rotina do banho e do sono, ficam latentes práticas centradas na figura adulta que orientam, normatizam, regulam e controlam as ações corporais das crianças. Desta forma, o processo de construção da identidade corporal se instaura sob as bases da regulação, e não da autonomia. Todavia, esses resultados só foram apreendidos tendo em vista ainda as precárias condições sob as quais se concretizaram os momentos do sono e do banho nas instituições pesquisadas. Isso indica que as condições materiais e concretas também determinam a forma como as concepções são constituídas pelas professoras. Por fim, compreende-se que este trabalho possibilitou retomar o sentido e o significado da rotina do sono e do banho na Educação Infantil, tendo em vista a necessidade de redirecionar sua função na prática educativa, com foco nos processos de autonomia da criança.