Tendo em vista a passagem do paradigma asilar para um paradima antimanicomial no âmbito da Atenção à Saúde Mental e a necessidade de avaliar aquilo que está a se produzir a partir da implementação de um modelo substitutivo ao Hospital Psiquiátrico, investigou-se, através das práticas discursivas de usuários e trabalhadores de um serviço substitutivo em Saúde Mental, os sentidos que se produzem no que diz respeito à compreensão sobre o projeto antimanicomial, ao trabalho desenvolvido pela instituição, às relações entre profissionais e usuários e à noção de doença mental. Foram realizadas entrevistas em um Núcleo de Atenção Psicossocial (NAPS) do município de Santos. A análise do material foi sustentada a partir da perspectiva do Construcionismo Social. Os sentidos produzidos pelos sujeitos entrevistados revelaram a efetivação de transformações coerentes com o projeto antimanicomial, no que diz respeito às ações desenvolvidas, à relação entre usuários e trabalhadores e à concepção de doença mental. Por outro lado, foram encontrados conflitos e ambigüidades na construção discursiva sobre o tratamento realizado. Tais aspectos são associados às dificuldades enfrentadas pelo desinvestimento nas políticas públicas por parte do poder municipal e ao confronto entre um discurso político (posição de militante) e um discurso clínico (posição de técnico). Se o aprisionamento e medicalização da loucura foram gerados a partir de transformações sobre o significado dado à loucura e àquilo que é da ordem do humano, sua reinserção no campo da cultura implica revisitar tais questões. As transformações no âmbito da Atenção à Saúde Mental, com a efetivação do projeto antimanicomial, deve pressupor a revisão do campo de saberes e fazeres tradicionalmente ligados à assistência (Psiquiatria, Psicanálise, Psicologia), assim como a construção de políticas subordinadas a uma perspectiva ética. / Having in mind the change from an asylum paradigm to anti-asylum paradigm in Mental Health Care arena and the necessity to evaluate the future outcomes of a substitutive model implementation for a Psychiatric Hospital, it was investigated, through users and workers discursive practices of an alternative service in Mental Health Care, the senses generated regarding the understanding of the anti-asylum project, the work performed by the institute, the relationship between professionals and users and the mental disease notion. The interviews were performed in a Psychosocial Care Center at Santos city. The material analysis is sustained by the Social Constructionist perspective. The senses generated by interviewees reveal the implementation of transformations coherent with the anti-asylum project regarding the actions developed, the relationship between users and workers and the conception of mental disease. Nevertheless, conflicts and contradictions were found on the discursive construction about the treatment performed. Such aspects are associated with difficulties due to desinvestment of public policies from the municipal power and confrontation between a political discursion (militant positioning) and a clinical discursion (technical positioning). If the captivity and medication of madness were generated based on transformations of the meaning given to madness and whatever is part human nature, its re-insertion in the culture field implies on revisiting such matters. The transformations in the Mental Health Care arena, with the anti-asylum project implementation, must estimate the revision of areas traditionally related to care (Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychology), as well as the development of policies subordinated to an ethical perspective.

O processo de transformação das ações no campo da saúde mental no Brasil tem se configurado como um grande desafio a todos os atores sociais envol vidos. As múltiplas significações da loucura, os conceitos de saúde-doença, os modelos de organização da rede assistencial, a (des)alocação de recur sos, a preparação dos profissionais para o novo projeto tecno-político, deter minam condutas e norteiam decisões com relação à promoção do cuidado em saúde mental. Novas tendências apon tam para a importância de ações cons truídas a partir de seu contexto, volta das a comunidades. Dessa forma, a construção de novos dispositivos para o cuidado ao doente mental, como a implan tação dos CAPS, propôs a reorganiza ção do cuidado, a implantação da Es tratégia Saúde da Família o fez em rela ção ao cuidado à saúde de forma abran gente. Estes dois dispositivos devem integrar-se numa rede articulada sob a lógica do cuidado coordenado, humani zado, territorializado, paciente-centrado, não sendo suficiente a mera mudança física dos locais das práticas assisten ciais. Assume-se que é preciso sair dos fundamentos rígidos para as flexibilida des, da especialidade profissional isola da para o conhecimento interdisciplinar colaborativo. Nessa reconstrução as falas dos trabalhadores ganham valor fundamental e o construcionismo social oferece condições para se conhecer o modo como as pessoas constroem sentidos no contexto onde realizam suas práticas. Objetivo: compreender os sentidos sobre o cuidado ao portador de transtorno mental grave, construídos por uma equipe de saúde da família. Método: Foi áudio-gravada uma sessão de Grupo Focal com a equipe de saúde da família na cidade de Araraquara (SP), de onde procede o maior número de encaminhamentos de pacientes para o CAPS. Para análise dos dados foi utilizado o Construcionismo Social como referencial teórico-metodológico. A sessão de grupo foi transcrita e junto ao diário de campo, constituíram a base de dados. Construiu-se um Mapa de Associação de Idéias baseado na transcrição do grupo focal, utilizando-se categorias de análise e eixos temáticos. Resultados: A análise descreveu senti dos acerca das noções que vem sustentando as práticas de cuidado ao portador de transtorno mental em uma equipe de saúde da família. Verificou-se que, a multiplicidade de sentidos favore ce a desnaturalização de discursos fixos sobre o doente mental grave se seu cuidado na Atenção Básica. Considerações finais: A construção conjunta aponta possibilidades de transformação do cuidado àqueles que, historicamente, tiveram a si mesmos e seus cuidados excluídos dos serviços de saúde e do mundo social. / The process of transformation of the actions in the field of the mental health in Brazil has been configuring as a great challenge. The multiple meanings of the madness, the concepts of health-disea se, the models of organization of the net of health, the distribution of resources, the professionals\' preparation for the new technical and political project, they determine attitudes, and they drive deci sions in the therapeutic process in men tal health. The Psychiatric Reform made possible the construction of new devi ces for the care of the patient, as the implantation of the Psychosocial atten tion center (CAPS), as well as implan tation of the of the Family Health strate gy, proposed the reorganization of the care to the health. These two devices should become complete in an articulate net under the coordinated care, huma nized, patient-centered, not being enough the mere physical change of the places of the practices. It is assumed that is necessary to leave of the rigid foundations for the flexibilities, of the isolated professional specialty for the knowledge exchanged. In that recons truction of relationships, the workers\' speeches are of fundamental value and the social constructionism offers con ditions to know the way as the people develop and how they build and felt the accomplish their practices. Objective: This study aim to understand how the members of a Health Family program team think of the inclusion of the care in mental health, in primary health care. Method: A session of focal group with a team of the family health program in the city of Araraquara (SP) was audio-recorded. For analysis of the data, social construcionism was used as theoretical-methodological referencial. The group session was transcribed and close to the field diary, they constituted the base of data. A map of association of ideas was built based on the transcription of the focal group, being used analysis categories and thematic axes. Results: The analysis described senses concerning the notions that it is sustaining the care practices to the bearer of mental upset in a team of health of the family. It was verified that the multiplicity of senses facilitate the denaturalization of fixed speeches on the mental patient care. Final considerations: The team new senses can transform the possibilities of care of those who were excluded of the services of health and the social world.

O tema da Orientação Profissional como política pública na escola secundária está sendo intensamente discutindo nos Estados Unidos, na Europa e em outros países. No Brasil, porém, não há propostas bem sucedidas neste campo, mas a ênfase do ensino médio na formação para o trabalho pode apontar a importância de programas de orientação que auxiliem o jovem a construir projetos profissionais que diminuam sua vulnerabilidade psicossocial. O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi investigar como a escola pública de ensino médio auxilia o aluno na construção dos projetos profissionais e como as categorias de cor da pele e gênero interferem na construção destes projetos, além de oferecer indicativos para políticas públicas na área. A pesquisa foi realizada em duas escolas públicas de ensino médio. Uma das escolas localizada em um bairro de classe média na cidade de São Paulo, em que se realizou: uma entrevista em profundidade com o coordenador pedagógico do ensino médio; um grupo focal com 6 professores; aplicação de questionário a 260 questionários alunos do terceiro ano do ensino médio do período da manhã. A outra escola fica na periferia de Osasco, município da Grande São Paulo, nessa escola a pesquisa consistiu de: uma entrevista utilizando a estratégia de cena com a coordenadora pedagógica do ensino médio, duas entrevistas em grupo utilizando a cena, uma delas com 14 alunos do 3º ano do ensino médio noturno e outra com 2 professores do ensino médio; aplicação de 36 questionários em alunos do ensino médio noturno. A análise dos dados da pesquisa indica que os alunos da escola da periferia de Osasco estão mais sujeitos à vulnerabilidade psicossocial, não se colocando como sujeito de direitos e expostos à violência do bairro onde moram, a maioria trabalha e o projeto profissional se organiza a partir do trabalho. Quanto à escola de São Paulo os alunos pretendem ingressar no ensino superior, a maioria não trabalha e o projeto profissional se organiza a partir da educação. Os programas de orientação profissional podem auxiliar o jovem a constituir-se como sujeito de sua escolha, assumindo um papel ativo na construção de seus projetos de futuro e diminuindo a vulnerabilidade psicossocial ao desemprego, subemprego ou atividades como o tráfico de drogas ou roubo. Foram discutidos três temas para um programa de política pública em orientação profissional: criação de programas de orientação profissional na escola pública; estratégias para levar informação profissional, principalmente aos alunos de periferia; centros de orientação profissional a quem os alunos e as escolas possam recorrer. Além disso é importante que a orientação profissional seja articulada a outras ações de políticas públicas na área de educação e trabalho. / The subject of a vocational counseling public policy for the secondary education is currently been intensely debated at the United States, the European Community and other countries. In Brazil, contrariwise, successful proposals on the theme are absent. Nevertheless, the Brazilian High School emphasizes the need to prepare the students for their working life, a fact that corroborates the importance of Vocational Counseling activities that help the young students to elaborate career projects that lessen its psychosocial vulnerability. The objective of the present research is to investigate how the public High School assists the student in the elaboration of his career project and how the factors color of skin and gender interfere in the development of this project. Also, it is our intention to formulate proposals for vocational counseling public policies. The research was realized in two different public High Schools. One of them was located in a middle class neighborhood at São Paulo city. The pedagogic coordinator was interviewed in depth, a focal group was formed and 260 students of the High School third year answered a questionnaire. The other school was located in a low-class neighborhood at Osasco. The pedagogic coordinator was interviewed (the scene strategy was used in the interview), two groups (one composed by 14 students of the High School third year, the other by two High School teachers) were interviewed, also using the scene strategy, and 36 High School students answered a questionnaire. The analysis of the results indicates that the students from the Osasco High School are more exposed to the psychosocial vulnerability. They do not see themselves as subjects of Rights and are unprotected from the violence of their neighborhood. The majority of those students elaborate their career project based on their professional experience. On the other hand, most of the students of the São Paulo High School itend to enter university. The majority of them does not have professional experience and elaborate their career project based on their educational experience. The programs of Vocational Counseling can help the young students to take autonomous decisions and to have an active role in the elaboration of their career projects, diminishing the psychosocial vulnerability to unemployment, underemployment or illegal activities like robbery and drug trafficking. Three relevant themes to the elaboration of a project of Vocational Counseling public policy are discussed: (1) the creation of Vocational Counseling programs for the public High School, (2) the creation of strategies that assure the students receive all the information about the working life they need, and (3) the creation of Vocational Counseling that is capable of giving support to the students as well as to the professionals of the High School. Besides, it is very important that the Vocational Counseling activities are articulated with the activities of other public policies in the area of Education and Health.

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Nos Estudos Organizacionais, existe uma ampla literatura que investiga a mulher, tratando das desigualdades, discriminações e desafios enfrentados por ela no contexto da empresa; existe também a bibliografia que trata da gerência intermediária e das particularidades desta posição na organização. No entanto, são poucos os estudos que tratam da mulher na gerência intermediária. Utilizamos a perspectiva teórica do construcionismo social, que nos permite dar voz ativa a essa mulher, para que ela descreva, explique e atribua sentido ao mundo em que ela vive e também a ela própria. O construcionismo pressupõe que a realidade é um processo de construção social que está contextualizado historicamente e culturalmente e, desta forma, o tempo histórico é fundamental para a compreensão do fenômeno estudado. Nesta pesquisa, consideramos três contextos relevantes: as questões que se apresentam à sociedade contemporânea, referentes à saturação social e à fragilidade da identidade; a história da mulher no contexto social e de trabalho, desde o início da industrialização e principalmente após meados do século XX; e os aportes do movimento feminista, que provocaram profundas transformações na vida da mulher e nos arranjos sociais, após a década de 1970. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas em profundidade com 42 profissionais que atuavam como gerentes intermediárias em organizações nacionais e multinacionais localizadas na cidade de São Paulo. A pesquisa revelou que as mulheres nesta posição hierárquica estão diante de um contexto de desaparecimento simbólico: desaparecem da esfera da casa, ao negarem este espaço que um dia lhes colocou em situação de desigualdade e lhes conferiu identidade e desaparecem da organização na gerência intermediária ao estarem imersas em um contexto do masculino, paradoxalmente, reforçando-o. Soma-se a isso um cotidiano de saturação, tanto no trabalho como na vida pessoal, ditado pelo ritmo intenso do trabalho. Neste cenário, essas profissionais parecem atuar em todos os lugares, mas, simultaneamente, parecem não estar em lugar algum. Mais que dizer que a mulher divide-se entre as tarefas da profissional que trabalha, da mãe, da esposa, da responsável pela casa, nossa pesquisa revelou que a mulher não está em nenhum desses lugares: na organização, ela desaparece como mulher; na casa, há o seu desaparecimento pela negação deste espaço que lhe conferiu identidade no passado; como esposa, ela não está com o seu marido; como mãe, ela fica pouco com os filhos e ainda não tem tempo para ela própria. Assim, diante desta multiplicidade de selves, a fragilidade da identidade parece ser o aspecto marcante da vida desta mulher na posição da gerência intermediária. Como forma de lidar com estas questões, essa mulher estabelece limites à sua trajetória profissional, buscando movimentações laterais e, mesmo, carreiras alternativas ao invés de crescer na hierarquia, evitando, assim, ainda mais comprometimento de seu escasso tempo. Nossa pesquisa, desta forma, traz outra perspectiva para se compreender o fenômeno do teto de vidro nas organizações. / This research aimed at exploring the meanings that women middle managers placed on themselves and on their work in this particular hierarchical position. In the Organizational Studies field, there is a vast literature that investigates sex segregation in organizations, looking for explanations why it continues to exist. There is also another set of bibliography that documents middle management particularities and how work is experienced by those in this position. However, there are few studies which focus on women as middle managers. The research was based on the social constructionist approach that is concerned with explaining the processes by which people come to describe and explain the world in which they live, including themselves. According to these ideas, reality is a process of social construction that is historically and culturally located; therefore, this research has considered relevant three historical contexts: contemporary society and its matters of social saturation as well as multiple and fragile identities; a brief history of women in society and work since the beginning of industrialization and mainly after the second half of the twenty century; and finally, the feminist movement issues which accounted for deep transformations in social arrangements after the 1970´s. The data was collected by interviewing 42 women middle managers who worked at national and multinational organizations based in São Paulo. The results revealed that women middle managers face a symbolic disappearance. They disappear from the private sphere of home when they wish to stay away from this place that means inequality although gave them a sense of identity in the past. They also disappear from the organization as a public sphere since it is a place where masculinities predominate and, paradoxically, are reinforced by women themselves. Adding to that, their daily lives are characterized by saturation, both at work and in personal life, dictated by the fast pace of work. In this context, this woman is everywhere, but at the same time seems to be nowhere. Although she is a manager, a mother, a wife, and she is responsible for the house, this research showed that she is not fully present in any of these places: in addition to her disappearance from home and from the public sphere of the organization, as a wife, she is not with her husband, as a mother, she is not with her kids and as a being has no time for herself. Thus, in view of this multiplicity of selves, the fragility of identity seems to be the outstanding feature of this woman´s life. As a way of dealing with these issues, this woman middle manager sets boundaries to her professional career, avoiding promotions to higher hierarchies and even setting plans for alternative careers as ways of managing her time constrains. These findings offer another view to understand the glass ceiling phenomenon in organizations.

ABSTRACT   Essay in political science, C-level by Chris Baldebo spring semester 2010. Tutor: Arne Larsson. “Women’s conditions in municipal politics in the municipality of Karlstad - Six politicians tell”.   The purpose of this paper is to explore women’s conditions in the municipal political work in the municipality of Karlstad. Based on the objective, one research question is formulated: How is women’s political acting space limited on the basis of gender power relations in local politics in the municipality of Karlstad? To be able to say something about the women’s conditions my approach has been to interview six active local politicians to collect empirical data to analyze from Maria Höjer Wendts & Cecilia Åses theorizing about women and politics, and Yvonne Hirdmans theory of a gender system. My conclusions are that women’s political room for maneuver is limited in several ways in municipal politics in Karlstad. Foremost it is a restriction by various prevailing beliefs about the characteristics men and women are supposed to have and should have, and which behaviors that are legitimate in the local political process. These become the norm for their genders and contribute to various social practices are created and maintained. There is also a clear male dominance in terms of speaking in various political forums, where men to a higher extent compared with women are talking. Therefore women do not have the same opportunity to exercise half the real power when they are subjected to oppressive treatment, while local politicians are characterized by the male norm from which women are not valued as highly. The municipal politicians in the municipality of Karlstad (at various levels) is thus far from equal, although the lack of gender varies in different degrees depending on the forum politicians find themselves in.

Studien utgick från vårdnadshavares konstruktioner av digital teknik och digital teknik­användning. Syftet med studien var att synliggöra hur vårdnadshavare konstruerar den digitala tekniken som omger dem och deras barn i vardagen samtidigt som de själva konstrueras av samhället. Syftet var även att diskutera dessa konstruktioner i relation till förskolans uppdrag. Genom att ett social­-konstruktionistiskt perspektiv antogs var det vårdnadshavarnas tal som analyserades i studien. För att synliggöra detta användes en kvalitativ semistrukturerad intervju där sex vårdnadshavare deltog. Resultatet visade att det finns många olika konstruktioner bland deltagarna. Övervägande del av vårdnadshavarna var positiva till digital teknik och digital teknikanvändning. I resultatet framgick dock att det bland annat fanns en gemensam oro bland informanterna över att barnen kan stöta på olämpligt innehåll genom digital teknik.   En av de slutsatser som kunde dras var att vårdnadshavarnas konstruktion av digital teknik på-verkar barnens erfarenheter om, och tillgänglighet till den. Som förskollärare är det en viktig aspekt att vara medveten om. Förskolans uppgift blir således att komplettera hemmet för att ge alla barn en likvärdig ram för utveckling och lärande.

The purpose of this study is to examine social workers’ discourses about the Swedish sex purchase law and how they perceive that the sex purchase law and the social workers’ professional ethical principles affect the social workers’ ability to support people who are selling sex. This study is a discourse analytical interview study based on a social constructionist perspective. The study focuses on analyzing the interviews based upon an inductive method. The interviews are qualitative and semi-structured. The interviews were conducted by interviews with three social workers with experiences of working with people who sell sex. The central focus of the study is to analyze the social workers’ statements that are regarded as their perceptions. The statements serve as arguments that answers the purpose questions. The results show that the interviewed social workers perceive that the sex purchase laws do affect the social workers’ ability to support people who sell sex. On the other hand, they show disagreement on whether the social workers’ professional ethical principles affected the social workers’ ability to support people who sell sex.

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Masters of Art / A child friendly city (CFC) is the embodiment of the rights of the child manifested in the policies, programs, and laws of a city. A critical aspect in the creation of a CFC is the consideration of the natural environment (NE). Premised upon a child participatory perspective, this study explored the manner in which adolescents perceive and attach meaning to the NE, as there is limited research concerning this. The primary aim of the study was to investigate children’s perceptions of the NE, and within this process to elucidate the meanings that children attach to environmental issues, and how these meanings contribute toward the creation of CFC’s. This study employed the broad epistemological position of social constructionism, and the theoretical framework of the Person-environment (P-E) fit theory. Methodologically, a qualitative research design was adopted, employing focus group interviews as the method of data collection. The study was conducted in an impoverished community on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Four focus group interviews were conducted with two groups of 8 children between the ages of 13 and 14 in grade 9. Thematic Analysis was utilised to analyse and interpret the findings. The findings indicate that the participants perceive the NE through the lens of safety as natural areas in the community are characterised by crime, violence, pollution, and a haven for gangsters. The participants’ worldviews appear to be permeated with this milieu of danger which is pervasive in their community. Although the participants express the need to engage in the NE, their mobility is greatly restricted due to their own, parental, or guardians fears of threat. There is evidently incongruence between the participants’ expectations for the NE, and the reality of the unsafe nature of the NE. The participants thus fall outside the prevailing categories of the social and cultural construction of childhood, as they undergo an immense burden of adversity and suffering which breaches what childhood is supposed to signify.Along with many children in South Africa, the participants are exposed to an escalating level of crime and community violence which has a negative impact upon their sense of wellbeing,their ability to negotiate their mobility and to freely explore NE’s, and engage in childled initiatives to counteract impending safety and security concerns within their communities.It was also found that the participants consider the natural world as crucial in the creation of a CFC. Ultimately, the participants revealed that their community is not child friendly, and thereby suggest the requirement for a child and environmentally friendly city. The participants therefore proposed that environmental education (EE) be incorporated into the school curriculum to instil a greater awareness of environmental issues among their peers.

Magister Artium (Psychology) - MA(Psych) / The central aim of this study was to explore the identity formation of black African middle class young adults in the context of their educational and language experiences in ex-model C schools. The study was motivated by a need to understand how socio-historical events which play out in language in education policies and practices, affected the identity constructions of young black adults who had been through a schooling system where English was used as the language of instruction. The study adopts social constructionism as the epistemological position, given that it considers individuals’ identities to be socially, historically and culturally constructed. Postcolonial approaches to identity construction were utilised, influenced by the works of Frantz Fanon and Hussein Bulhan. The study utilised a qualitative design, using semi-structured interviews as the method of data collection. Three participants who formerly attended ex-model C schools were interviewed. One interview was conducted for each participant. Thematic analysis was then used as a method of data analysis to identify the ways these young adults make sense of their experiences relating to identity constructions. With regard to the findings of the study, three main themes were identified, namely making sense of the new school environment, identity construction, and the role of language in the participants’ lives. Overall, findings of the study revealed that identity constructions were not static, but instead reflected the historical and social processes in which the participants lived. The participants adapted to the language of the school, and considered themselves to be multilingual as they were able to communicate in the language that was required for economic success. The present hegemonic status of English was accepted by the participants, because the ability to communicate in this language meant job security and an ability to communicate beyond boundaries. The mother tongue was still used by these participants, but it was used in contexts which were deemed appropriate by the participants. Race and class as markers of difference emerged as important constructs for identity formation. In conclusion, it was found that these young adult speakers of indigenous African languages were negating their mother tongue in the school and in social and economic contexts. In some cases, this led to alienation or feelings of inferiority. Indigenous African languages need to be promoted in the educational setting, and further acknowledged in other sectors of society and the economy. If African languages are presented as having some sort of utility in the economic sector, this will hopefully result in a change of attitude amongst indigenous African language speakers towards their own languages, contributing to the construction of multilingual identities which will reflect a truly democratic society.