Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2008. / "Publication number: AAT 3323064."

Title from title page of PDF (University of Missouri--St. Louis, viewed March 8, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-64).

The transition to secondary school can represent a significant life event for many adolescents and can adversely affect their psychological adjustment and wellbeing. Little is known about how adjustment to this transition can be facilitated for young people. The review paper critically evaluated the evidence-base for school transition programmes that target pupil's mental wellbeing. A keyword search of abstract databases was conducted and 20 studies were evaluated. The majority of studies could not conclude that their intervention improved mental wellbeing to a statistically significant level, and numerous methodological limitations weaken the existing evidence-base. However, the most promising areas of research pertain to intervening with the parents and teachers of adolescents experiencing school transition. Further research should investigate this further. The empirical paper employed a qualitative methodology to examine how adolescents make sense of and create meaning from their experience of going to boarding school, and to explore what can be done to facilitate this adjustment. Ten female and male adolescents were interviewed in their second year of attending boarding school. The interviews, analysed using lnterpretative Phenomenological Analysis, yielded three superordinate themes: 1) 'Home is where the heart is', which captures adolescents experiences of homesickness, the stronger relationships formed with their family, and the development of new attachment figures with their house matron and peers, 2) 'Living in a bubble', which reflects a feeling of being constrained at boarding school and an awareness of it being a hierarchical environment, and 3) 'Gaining familiarity with the place and just being me' as adolescents appeared to positively adjust over time. Results are discussed in terms of attachment, coping and adjustment theories and models of psychosocial development. Clinical and organisational implications for professionals working in boarding schools, as well as suggestions for future research arc discussed.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-07-11T12:28:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Manzo Ceretta.pdf: 64197918 bytes, checksum: 89e46d8729046a5162627527f8dcd7bc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-11T12:28:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Manzo Ceretta.pdf: 64197918 bytes, checksum: 89e46d8729046a5162627527f8dcd7bc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present dissertation has as object of study the process of psychic rebirth lived under analysis. It is intended to present and discuss the analysis, as a possibility of psychic rebirth. More specifically, the proposition was to analyse the process that involves this phenomenon, in the dialectical movement to idealize and "de-idealize", considering the experience through the Oedipal situation and depressive position, with the report and discussion of two clinical cases. This dissertation was guided by the psychoanalytical method. The psychoanalytic theoretical framework underpinned this study and its analysis, with Melanie Klein, Winnicott and Balint as main authors. In both cases under analysis, it was possible to follow the experience of psychic rebirth. In this program, patients were able to retrieve their experience with the good object and then proceeded and progressed towards the elaboration of the depressive position and Oedipal situation. In the journey of analysis, the patient's need was considered, in the sense of regressing to both dual and idealized relationships with the analyst object; lasting in that more dependent performance, for the time necessary, to meet his/her needs; and thereby ensure a secure and safe environment in which the good object could be retrieved and then trust it. Thus, the relations with the analyst object and, consequently, with the other objects, went from ideal to more integrated and, therefore, the patients at issue could acquire more resources before the task of living and existing / A presente tese tem como objeto de estudo o processo de renascimento psíquico vivido em análise. Pretende-se apresentar e discutir a análise, como possibilidade de renascimento psíquico. Mais especificamente, a proposta foi analisar o processo que envolve esse fenômeno, no movimento dialético de idealizar e desidealizar, considerando a passagem pela situação edípica e posição depressiva, com o relato e discussão de dois casos clínicos. Esta tese se orientou pelo método psicanalítico. O referencial teórico que fundamentou este estudo e sua análise foi psicanalítico, tendo Melanie Klein, Winnicott e Balint como autores basilares. Em ambos os casos objeto de análise, foi possível acompanhar a experiência do renascimento psíquico. Nesse movimento, os pacientes puderam recuperar a experiência com o bom objeto e, então, prosseguiram e progrediram, no sentido da elaboração da posição depressiva e situação edípica. Nesse percurso vivido em análise, considerou-se a necessidade do paciente, no sentido de regredir para relações duais e idealizadas com o objeto analista; permanecer nesse funcionamento mais dependente, pelo tempo necessário, para atender às suas necessidades; e, desse modo, garantir um ambiente seguro em que pudesse resgatar o bom objeto e, então, confiar nele. Assim, as relações com o objeto analista e, consequentemente, com os demais objetos, passaram de ideais para mais integradas e, desse modo, os pacientes em questão puderam adquirir mais recursos diante da tarefa de viver e existir