This research aims to attain insight into the role a person's processing style (process) have on decision-making from a career developmental and gestalt perspective because it appears as if the adolescent's proses with regard to career choice is not being acknowledged. Semi-structured interviews were used to generate data from which coded themes were identified. These coded themes served as the core research of this study. The subjective experience of respondents' career development are presented, supported by a literature control. From this research it is clear that the adolescent's process is dynamic with regard to field and phenomenology and that structures such as family and school plays an important career developmental role as environmental influences. Intra psychic constructs such as introjects, assimilation and process play an important role in decision-making. / Sociology / M. Diac. (Play Therapy)

O presente estudo teve por objetivo geral investigar junto a psicoterapeutas que trabalham com crianças, de diferentes abordagens teóricas (Psicodrama, Gestalt terapia e Centrada no Cliente), como está sendo experienciada essa prática clínica. Para tanto, foram entrevistadas 6 (seis) psicoterapeutas, com experiência profissional que variou de 10 (dez) a 30 (trinta) anos, sendo 2 (duas) de cada abordagem. A entrevista foi semidirigida e compreendeu as seguintes dimensões: sentimentos experimentados como terapeuta infantil, obstáculos enfrentados, recursos utilizados, necessidades sentidas, avaliação da especialidade e um encerramento livre. As entrevistas foram realizadas de forma individual e foram gravadas e transcritas. Após leitura das repostas nas dimensões citadas, observou-se que não houve diferenças nas repostas dadas pelas participantes relacionadas à especialidade na qual atuam. De maneira geral pode-se dizer que: 1) os sentimentos experimentados foram de valorização ao trabalho com a criança pelo seu caráter preventivo, além de gratificante e bonito por propiciar o crescimento de cada indivíduo, porém, ao mesmo tempo experimentam frustração, solidão e impotência, principalmente quando os pais não colaboram; 2) os obstáculos enfrentados referem-se à dificuldade de conseguir a aliança com os pais, o pequeno número de profissionais que atuam nessa especialidade e a escassez de pesquisas e literatura; 3) os recursos utilizados perpassam pela rede social da criança (pais, parentes, amigos) e, quanto aos recursos técnicos, utilizam brinquedos estruturados e não estruturados, testes e técnicas; 4) as necessidades sentidas incluem a busca constante de atualização, revisão através de supervisões e trocas entre os profissionais, bem como de congressos e cursos, 5) a avaliação que fazem da área é que ela é mais difícil porque requer o esforço físico do profissional, o entendimento da linguagem da criança, tanto verbal como não verbal, e a questão cultural de que tudo que se refere a criança é menos valorizado. No caminhar através dos diversos autores que embasaram o estudo encontrou-se na abordagem construcionista social/narrativa uma postura ética diferenciada na prática terapêutica com a criança e seus familiares. Acredita-se que as dificuldades são minimizadas e os resultados mais efetivos quando a criança é também trabalhada junto com a família, seja mediante a terapia familiar, seja por encontros familiares breves. / The present study has as the general objective to investigate with child psychotherapists of different theoretical approaches (Psychodrama, Gestalt and Client Centered therapy), how the clinical practice is being experienced. To do so, 6 (six) child psychotherapists, having a professional experience ranging from 10 (ten)to 30 (thirty) years, being 2 from each approach were interviewed. The interview was semi-directed and comprised the following dimensions: feelings experienced as a child psychotherapist, obstacles faced, used resources, necessities felt, evaluation of the speciality and a last question for additional information. The interviews were conducted individually and were taped and transcribed. After reading the answers of the above quoted dimensions, we can conclude that there were no differences in the responses given by the participants related to the speciality in which they work. In a general way we can say that: 1) The feelings experienced were of valuing the work with children due to its preventive character, in addition to that, it is gratifying and nice because it favors the person growth, though, at the same time the therapists feel the frustration, solitude and impotence, especially when the parents do not cooperate; 2) The obstacles faced reter to the difficulty of getting an alliance with the parents, the small number of professionals working in this area and the lack of research and related literature; 3) The used resources passed by the social network of the child (parents, relatives, friends), and regarding the technical resources, structured and non structured toys, tests and several techniques were used; 4) The necessities felt include the constant search for updating, revision through supervisions and exchange of experience with other professionals, as well as, congresses and courses; 5) The evaluation they have on the area is that, it is more difficult because it requires physical effort of the professional, the understanding of the child's language, not only verbal but also non verbal, and the cultural issue that everything that refers to children is does not receive the same value. Browsing through the several authors in whom the studies were based on, we found in the social/narrative constructionist approach a distinguished ethical position in the therapeutic practice with the children and their families. We also hold the position that the difficulties are minimized and the results more effective when the child and the family work together, either with family therapy, or brief family meetings

Procuramos mostrar como a primeira das teses doutorais de Merleau-Ponty, A Estrutura do Comportamento, torna possível o retorno ao problema clássico da união do corpo e da alma, uma vez que, ao mesmo tempo em que faz a crítica do empirismo mecanicista que embasa as tentativas científicas (da neurofisiologia e da psicologia) de dar conta da vida orgânica e do comportamento, descobre nas descrições destes fenômenos um meio original em relação ao para-si suposto pelo criticismo como explicação e fundamentação última do conhecimento e limite para o que se pode dizer sobre o ser. Procuramos ademais sugerir as limitações do quadro conceitual em que o corpo e suas realizações, dentre as quais especialmente a percepção, podem voltar a desempenhar um papel decisivo na interrogação filosófica, em especial pela ênfase, a nosso ver excessiva, que o autor faz recair sobre a articulação entre símbolo e verdade e pela falta de descrição positiva da articulação entre as formas chamadas inferiores do comportamento ligadas ao instinto, à vida orgânica e a uma temporalidade circular - e o nível simbólico remetido à verdade, à liberdade e à História / We try to show how Merleau-Ponty\'s first doctoral thesis, The Structure of Behavior, allows for a comeback of the classical problem of the union of body and soul, once it criticizes the mechanicist empirism founding the scientific attempts (from neurophysiology and psychology) to explain the organic life and behavior, while unearthing in those fenomena a milieu that differs from the transcendental self embedded in criticism as a final explanation and foundation of knowledge, and as the limit to what one can say about being. We also try to point out to the limits of such conceptual framework, in which body and its performances, specially perception, may again play a crucial role in philosophical investigation, in particular because of excessive emphasis placed upon the connection between symbol and truth, and for a lack of positive description of the articulation between the so-called inferior forms of behavior connected to instincts, organic life and circular time and the symbolic level related to truth, freedom and History

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:08:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Ivone.pdf: 5389989 bytes, checksum: 6a3556c38a66f8b0c588161628cb7181 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-02-06 / The present study has as the general objective to investigate with child psychotherapists of different theoretical approaches (Psychodrama, Gestalt and Client Centered therapy), how the clinical practice is being experienced. To do so, 6 (six) child psychotherapists, having a professional experience ranging from 10 (ten)to 30 (thirty) years, being 2 from each approach were interviewed. The interview was semi-directed and comprised the following dimensions: feelings experienced as a child psychotherapist, obstacles faced, used resources, necessities felt, evaluation of the speciality and a last question for additional information. The interviews were conducted individually and were taped and transcribed. After reading the answers of the above quoted dimensions, we can conclude that there were no differences in the responses given by the participants related to the speciality in which they work. In a general way we can say that: 1) The feelings experienced were of valuing the work with children due to its preventive character, in addition to that, it is gratifying and nice because it favors the person growth, though, at the same time the therapists feel the frustration, solitude and impotence, especially when the parents do not cooperate; 2) The obstacles faced reter to the difficulty of getting an alliance with the parents, the small number of professionals working in this area and the lack of research and related literature; 3) The used resources passed by the social network of the child (parents, relatives, friends), and regarding the technical resources, structured and non structured toys, tests and several techniques were used; 4) The necessities felt include the constant search for updating, revision through supervisions and exchange of experience with other professionals, as well as, congresses and courses; 5) The evaluation they have on the area is that, it is more difficult because it requires physical effort of the professional, the understanding of the child's language, not only verbal but also non verbal, and the cultural issue that everything that refers to children is does not receive the same value. Browsing through the several authors in whom the studies were based on, we found in the social/narrative constructionist approach a distinguished ethical position in the therapeutic practice with the children and their families. We also hold the position that the difficulties are minimized and the results more effective when the child and the family work together, either with family therapy, or brief family meetings / O presente estudo teve por objetivo geral investigar junto a psicoterapeutas que trabalham com crianças, de diferentes abordagens teóricas (Psicodrama, Gestalt terapia e Centrada no Cliente), como está sendo experienciada essa prática clínica. Para tanto, foram entrevistadas 6 (seis) psicoterapeutas, com experiência profissional que variou de 10 (dez) a 30 (trinta) anos, sendo 2 (duas) de cada abordagem. A entrevista foi semidirigida e compreendeu as seguintes dimensões: sentimentos experimentados como terapeuta infantil, obstáculos enfrentados, recursos utilizados, necessidades sentidas, avaliação da especialidade e um encerramento livre. As entrevistas foram realizadas de forma individual e foram gravadas e transcritas. Após leitura das repostas nas dimensões citadas, observou-se que não houve diferenças nas repostas dadas pelas participantes relacionadas à especialidade na qual atuam. De maneira geral pode-se dizer que: 1) os sentimentos experimentados foram de valorização ao trabalho com a criança pelo seu caráter preventivo, além de gratificante e bonito por propiciar o crescimento de cada indivíduo, porém, ao mesmo tempo experimentam frustração, solidão e impotência, principalmente quando os pais não colaboram; 2) os obstáculos enfrentados referem-se à dificuldade de conseguir a aliança com os pais, o pequeno número de profissionais que atuam nessa especialidade e a escassez de pesquisas e literatura; 3) os recursos utilizados perpassam pela rede social da criança (pais, parentes, amigos) e, quanto aos recursos técnicos, utilizam brinquedos estruturados e não estruturados, testes e técnicas; 4) as necessidades sentidas incluem a busca constante de atualização, revisão através de supervisões e trocas entre os profissionais, bem como de congressos e cursos, 5) a avaliação que fazem da área é que ela é mais difícil porque requer o esforço físico do profissional, o entendimento da linguagem da criança, tanto verbal como não verbal, e a questão cultural de que tudo que se refere a criança é menos valorizado. No caminhar através dos diversos autores que embasaram o estudo encontrou-se na abordagem construcionista social/narrativa uma postura ética diferenciada na prática terapêutica com a criança e seus familiares. Acredita-se que as dificuldades são minimizadas e os resultados mais efetivos quando a criança é também trabalhada junto com a família, seja mediante a terapia familiar, seja por encontros familiares breves.

Vid kommunikation av information ar det viktigt att kommunicera tydlighet i sitt meddelande. För att inte förvirra informationen för mottagaren. Informationsdesign har ett antal principer för att undvika detta problem. Om en informationsdesigner använder principerna pa rätt sätt, kan informationsdesignern kommunicera tydlighet i sitt meddelande. En utbildnings progression kan vara en viktig del i att uppnå sina examensmål som student och därfor ar det viktigt om informationen kring progressionen är tydlig. Denna studie kommer att presentera principer inom informationsdesign, principer som hjälper funktions, estetiska och kognitiva egenskaper i informationsdesign. Kartläggningen i denna studie kommer att ta hjalp av funktionsprinciperna då de visar hur man främjar en god informationsdesign i hänsyn till struktur, klarhet, enkelhet, enighet och betoning. Gestaltlagar och gestaltpsykologi kommer också att vara inkluderade. För att både informationsdesign och gestaltpsykologi behandlar människans förmaga att uppfatta information, design och objekt i människans omgivning. Metoden for studien är att utföra en kvalitativ innehållsanalys över hogskolor och universitet och i vilken utsträckning dem presenterar progression och programmens kursers förkunskaper i enlighet med funktionsprinciperna från informationsdesign. Resultatet visar att majoriteten av skolorna följer informationsdesigns funktionsprinciper och det framkommer också fall av kompletteringar till informationen i form av figur/grund från gestaltlagarna. Även fast majoriteten av skolorna använder sig av funktionsprinciperna för informationsdesign upplevdes det som en utmaning att hitta källor som tar upp vikten av progression i utbildningar. / When communicating information then it is important to communicate clarity in the message. In order not to confuse the information for the recipient. Information design has several principles to avoid this problem. If an information designer uses the principles correctly, the information designer can communicate clarity in his message. The progression of an education can be an important part o fachieving one's degree goals as a student and therefore it is important if the information about the progression is clear. This study will present principles in information design, principles that help functional, aesthetic,and cognitive properties in information design. The mapping in this study will take the help of the functional principles as they show how to promote a good information design in terms of structure, clarity, simplicity, unity, and emphasis. Gestalt laws and gestalt psychology will also be included because both information design and gestalt psychology deal with the human ability to perceive information, design, and objects in the human environment. The method for the study is to perform a qualitative content analysis of colleges and universities and the programs in accordance with the functional principles of information design. The results show that most of the schools follow the functional principles of information design and there are also cases of additions to the information in the form of figures / basics from the figures. Even though most schools use the functional principles of information design, it was perceived as a challenge to find sources that address the importance of progression in education.

Ce travail est consacré à la conception de l’être humain qui se dessine discrètement dans les deux premiers ouvrages du philosophe français Maurice Merleau-Ponty, à savoir La Structure du comportement (1942) et Phénoménologie de la perception (1945). Le premier ouvrage, qui adopte la perspective des sciences empiriques de l’homme (psychologie, biologie, psychopathologie) et le second ouvrage, qui revendique un point de vue phénoménologique, visent conjointement à mettre en échec les paramètres métaphysiques et épistémologiques hérités de la tradition cartésienne et à révéler l’irréductibilité de notre être-au-monde. L’anthropologie philosophique qui en découle en est une de l’« ambiguïté », laquelle se perçoit le mieux dans une perspective temporelle. / This work is dedicated to the conception of the human being that is discreetly outlined in the first two works of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, namely "The Structure of Behavior" (1942) and "Phenomenology of Perception" (1945). The first work, which adopts the perspective of empirical sciences of man (psychology, biology, psychopathology), and the second work, which claims a phenomenological point of view, both aim to challenge the metaphysical and epistemological parameters inherited from the Cartesian tradition, and to reveal the irreducibility of our being-in-the-world. The resulting philosophical anthropology is one of "ambiguity," which is best perceived from a temporal perspective.

Text in Afrikaans with t.p. and summaries in Afrikaans and English / Limited research concerning a child's association between emotion and color is available, both in terms of the amount of research studies done as well as the generalization of the results for the purposes of the five year-old. This study's aim was to explore the individual, unique, symbolic meaning between the experiencing of emotion and color of the five year-old. Color was used as an expedient to facilitate the identification of emotion. The test sample consisted out of five, five year-old Afrikaans speaking children. The researcher developed a technique and used it to explore the above. The results of this study showed that the associations that five year-olds draw between emotions and color can't be generalized. The study further showed that color can be very helpful in the identification process of emotions when working with the five year-old child. The results of this study were compared to relevant previous research results and at the end the researcher made certain recommendations for further research concerning the subject. / Bestaande navorsing oor die assosiasie wat die kind vorm tussen emosie en kleur is beperk, beide in terme van die aantal navorsingstudies en in die veralgemeenbaarheid van die resultate ten opsigte van die vyfjarige kind. Hierdie studie het gepoog om die individuele, unieke, simboliese betekenis te ondersoek tussen die belewing van emosie en kleur by die vyfjarige kind. Dit het behels dat kleur as 'n hulpmiddel aangewend is, ten einde die identifisering van emosie te vergemaklik. Die steekproef het bestaan uit vyf, vyfjarige Afrikaans-sprekende kinders. 'n Tegniek, deur die navorser ontwikkel, is gebruik om die bogenoemde te ondersoek. Die resultate van hierdie studie het getoon dat kinders van vyfjarige ouderdom se assosiasies tussen emosies en kleur nie veralgemeen kan word nie. Die studie het verder getoon dat kleur 'n bruikbare hulpmiddel is in die identifisering van emosies by die vyfjarige kind. Die resultate van die studie is met vorige relevante navorsingsbevindinge vergelyk en bepaalde aanbevelings is gemaak vir toekomstige navorsing rakende hierdie onderwerp. / Psychology / M.Diac. (Play Therapy)

The purpose was to give a theoretical perspective on domestic violence in middle-childhood. The aim was therefor to explore and describe domestic violence in middle-childhood from a Gestalt perspective with guidelines for play therapists to utilise with middle-childhood children experiencing domestic violence. Due to the nature of qualitative research triangulation was used where firstly an in-depth literature study on middle-childhood, the Gestalt approach and domestic violence. Secondly semi-structured interviews in the empirical research in example a self-developed questionnaire. Together with this mediums and techniques of Gestalt play therapy for the main purpose of obtaining more information from the respondents. The literature was utilised from a explorative and descriptive nature of the research to refine concepts through semi-structured interviews with six children as respondents. This information is given graphically and applied for guidelines from Gestalt perspective to play therapists to assist these children. The objectives of the study have thus being achieved. / Practical Theology / M. Diac.

This study was aimed at the description of how to support the emotional awareness of the primary school child through Gestalt Play Therapy. The research strategy enclosed case studies. A supportive literature study was done with regard to awareness, emotional awareness, emotional intelligence, emotional skills, social skills, self-esteem, the primary school child and Gestalt Play Therapy. In the implementation of the research study two case studies were described. The sampling method was based on a non-probability sampling technique. The criteria of the respondents were emotional and social inadequate functioning. Case study one functioned emotional and social inadequately as a result of the family moving. Case study two was involved in bullying activities at the school. Respectively ten and eleven therapeutic sessions of one hour each over a period of ten and eleven weeks were conducted. Both children did benefit from the Gestalt Play Therapeutic intervension. Their awareness with regard to themselves and their own experience brought them in contact with themselves, which is necessary for healthy child development. / Social Work / M.Diac.(Play Therapy) / Text in Afrikaans

Text in Afrikaans with t.p. and summaries in Afrikaans and English / Limited research concerning a child's association between emotion and color is available, both in terms of the amount of research studies done as well as the generalization of the results for the purposes of the five year-old. This study's aim was to explore the individual, unique, symbolic meaning between the experiencing of emotion and color of the five year-old. Color was used as an expedient to facilitate the identification of emotion. The test sample consisted out of five, five year-old Afrikaans speaking children. The researcher developed a technique and used it to explore the above. The results of this study showed that the associations that five year-olds draw between emotions and color can't be generalized. The study further showed that color can be very helpful in the identification process of emotions when working with the five year-old child. The results of this study were compared to relevant previous research results and at the end the researcher made certain recommendations for further research concerning the subject. / Bestaande navorsing oor die assosiasie wat die kind vorm tussen emosie en kleur is beperk, beide in terme van die aantal navorsingstudies en in die veralgemeenbaarheid van die resultate ten opsigte van die vyfjarige kind. Hierdie studie het gepoog om die individuele, unieke, simboliese betekenis te ondersoek tussen die belewing van emosie en kleur by die vyfjarige kind. Dit het behels dat kleur as 'n hulpmiddel aangewend is, ten einde die identifisering van emosie te vergemaklik. Die steekproef het bestaan uit vyf, vyfjarige Afrikaans-sprekende kinders. 'n Tegniek, deur die navorser ontwikkel, is gebruik om die bogenoemde te ondersoek. Die resultate van hierdie studie het getoon dat kinders van vyfjarige ouderdom se assosiasies tussen emosies en kleur nie veralgemeen kan word nie. Die studie het verder getoon dat kleur 'n bruikbare hulpmiddel is in die identifisering van emosies by die vyfjarige kind. Die resultate van die studie is met vorige relevante navorsingsbevindinge vergelyk en bepaalde aanbevelings is gemaak vir toekomstige navorsing rakende hierdie onderwerp. / Psychology / M.Diac. (Play Therapy)