People who live in mobile homes have heightened vulnerability to disasters, due in part to mobile homes increasingly occupying high-hazard risk lands and the precarious ownership status known as divided-tenure. Divided-tenure is when an individual owns a mobile home and rents the land underneath. To identify the challenges associated with divided-tenure and disaster recovery from a policy perspective, this study analyzed the content of key HUD policies and performed a comparative policy analysis of purchase opportunity laws (requirements of landowners to give mobile homeowners an opportunity to purchase the property their home resides on) in three states: California, Florida, and New York. Content analysis indicated few direct references to mobile homes. Inconsistencies and confusing messaging were found in the existing federal guidance. The lack of consistent terminology and guidance on addressing divided-tenure, limits mobile homeowner's options for disaster recovery, including eligibility for federal disaster aid and potentially participation in relocation or buyout programs. The three selected states' purchase opportunity laws reviewed in this study were rated as weak. Policies lacked alignment with federal documents and opportunities for mobile homeowners were difficult to navigate. A pathway to land ownership could give mobile homeowners more control over their disaster recovery options, but current laws still limit that ability. This study and future work have the potential to help mobile homeowners, an understudied yet growing population, experience a more equitable disaster recovery, which currently is lacking, based on the reviewed federal and state policies.

Climate disasters are on the rise, with devastating effects on communities around the globe. Scientists have provided evidence that severe weather events due to climate change will continue to increase in frequency and severity. Extreme weather events are often referred to as the great equalizers, disregarding the socioeconomic status and race of those affected during widespread destruction. However, the literature suggests that people of color are disproportionately exposed to and affected by climate change and extreme weather events. In this study, I examine how exposure to extreme weather events will influence climate change policy support amongst different races. I argue that people of color will support climate change policy more than white people. I run regression models using data from Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey and National Centers for Environmental Information. I do not find support for my hypothesis, but I do find that among the Black population, climate change policy support increases as respondents get older.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-06T17:06:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carla Regiane Vargas.pdf: 824805 bytes, checksum: 78fabd1d8bd4d0f6b8c10b5e7e533b38 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aimed to investigate the level of physical activity and nutritional status in relation to sociodemographic characteristics, sedentary behaviors and perceptions of their adolescents 11 to 17 years in social vulnerability of the state of Santa Catarina. This study was classified as a quantitative survey type study, a descriptivecorrelational, cross-sectional. Data were obtained through the Physical Activity Questionnaire Child, which provides information about the level of physical activity and Anthropometric Assessment of body weight and body height to calculate the nutritional status. The variables of this study are qualitative and quantitative. The results of this study indicate that adolescents in the state of Santa Catarina are present in most cases from urban area, especially in the South and West of the state, in early adolescence, boys, sons of household head with little education, with adequate nutritional status for age and sex within the limits recommended for health. As regards to body weight, more than one quarter of the investigated adolescents are overweight, with a higher proportion between the male subjects. Regarding physical activity, adolescents are more active in physical education and on weekends. Most evaluates that has practiced physical activity three to four times a week and watches one to two hours of television per day. In relation to associations of physical inactivity with different opportunities for physical activity, boys are more likely to be less active in after school activities, in Physical Education, during lunch, on evenings and on weekends. Thus, it can be concluded that adolescents in situations of social vulnerability of the state of Santa Catarina present themselves with moderate levels of physical activity and adequate nutritional status to health, living in urban areas, male, watching some television, feeling less active than their peers, but realizing themselves in their physical form, practicing soccer, dance (girls), running or jogging (boys), walk (girls) and pike. It can also be concluded that physical education is a chance that teens have to become more active. However, physical inactivity affects girls, urban, in the early ages of adolescence and is associated with different opportunities for physical activity, and overweight affects boys, urban, in the early ages of adolescence and is associated with time of watching TV (boys and girls) and age (girls). Thus, it is recommended to maintain and, where possible, the increase in physical education classes, contributing to high levels of physical activity and eutrophic nutritional status of adolescents of the state of Santa Catarina. / Este estudo teve como objetivo investigar o nível de atividade física e o estado nutricional relativamente às características sociodemográficas, aos comportamentos sedentários e às percepções individuais de adolescentes de 11 a 17 anos em situação de vulnerabilidade social do estado de Santa Catarina. Este estudo foi classificado como um estudo quantitativo do tipo levantamento, caracterizado como descritivo-correlacional, com corte transversal. Os dados foram obtidos por meio do Physical Activity Questionnaire Child, que fornece informações sobre o nível de atividade física, e da Avaliação Antropométrica de peso corporal e estatura corporal que permite calcular o estado nutricional. As variáveis deste estudo são de natureza qualitativa e quantitativa. Os resultados encontrados nesta pesquisa apontam que os adolescentes do estado de Santa Catarina apresentam-se na maioria dos casos procedentes de área urbana, principalmente da região Sul e Oeste do estado, em fase inicial da adolescência, do sexo masculino, filhos de chefe de família com pouca escolaridade, com estado nutricional adequado para a idade e o sexo dentro dos limites recomendados para a saúde. Quanto ao peso corporal, mais de um quarto da população de adolescentes investigados possuem excesso de peso, com maior proporção entre os sujeitos do sexo masculino. No que se refere a atividade física os adolescentes são mais ativos na Educação Física e no fim de semana. A maioria avalia que praticou atividade física de três a quatro vezes por semana e que assiste de uma a duas horas à televisão por dia. No que tange às associações da inatividade física com diferentes oportunidades de atividade física, os rapazes possuem maiores probabilidades de serem menos ativos nas atividades depois da escola, na Educação Física, durante o almoço, à noite e no fim de semana. Deste modo, pode-se concluir que os adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade social do estado de Santa Catarina apresentam-se com níveis moderados de atividade física e com estado nutricional adequado para saúde, morando em áreas urbanas, do sexo masculino, assistindo pouco à televisão, sentindo-se menos ativo que seus colegas, mas se percebendo em forma física, praticando futebol, dança (moças), corrida ou trote (rapazes), caminhada (moças) e pique. Pode-se concluir ainda que a Educação Física é a oportunidade em que os adolescentes apresentam-se mais ativos. Contudo, a inatividade física afeta parte das moças, urbanas, nas idades iniciais da adolescência e associa-se com as diferentes oportunidades de atividade física, e o excesso de peso atinge parte dos rapazes, urbanos, nas idades iniciais da adolescência e associa-se com tempo de assistência à televisão (rapazes e moças) e faixa etária (moças). Desse modo, recomenda-se a manutenção e, se possível, o incremento das aulas de Educação Física, contribuindo para níveis elevados de atividade física e para estado nutricional eutrófico de adolescentes catarinenses.

The extent of a community experiencing social vulnerability depends on the community’s ability to access resources that may contribute to coping mechanisms (either within the household or provided externally by a responsible authority) that decrease the impacts and effects of a disaster. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to identify the existence of social and institutional mechanisms that aim to reduce experiences of water inaccessibility and the causes of social vulnerability, and increase coping mechanisms within Kayamandi. Kayamandi is a low income residential community on the north-westerly periphery of the greater Stellenbosch town in the Western Cape. The research attained responses through questionnaires and surveys from residents, community organisations and responsible personnel. These surveys allowed the researcher to produce raw attribute data for each household that assisted in spatially representing vulnerable households and informing the five priority areas of the Hyogo Framework for Action. Contributing to this method of attaining information, secondary geographic data collection was obtained through the Stellenbosch Local Municipality, the National Geospatial Information Directorate and the National Demarcation Board. The findings of this thesis established that household and public water infrastructure contribute to the risk of experiencing social vulnerability that affects economic standings and quality of health within the community. Contributing to this and due to Kayamandi’s politically sensitive and historically fractioned community, social cohesion has also been noted as an area of vulnerability. Although these vulnerabilities are experienced, residents are able to implement technical, social and municipal reliant coping mechanisms. However, although efforts from Stellenbosch Local Municipality do respond to most of the key indicators within the Hyogo Framework for Action, the study found no concrete efforts within the Stellenbosch Local Municipality that illustrate integrated mechanisms to reduce the impacts of disasters and compound effects. / Magister Artium - MA

This thesis evaluates whether or not information data sharing is effectively used between federal, state, and local government agencies and non-governmental agencies in a metropolitan area during and immediately after a major natural disaster. Also, whether vulnerable populations were identified and considered during emergency management. The chosen study area is the City of Richmond, VA, and the disaster response is based on flooding episodes that occurred in the city over the last decade following hurricanes and tropical depressions. Questionnaires were administered to representatives of federal, state, and local agencies and NGOs. The questionnaires consisted of a Likert-style series of 10 questions and a group of more broadly based and open ended questions that were administered in person or by phone and included four questions designed to identify progress made since the last disaster. The self-administered Likert-style of questions consisted of identifying agency planning and operational activity, interaction with other agencies, means for data collection, use of FEMA’s Partnership Guides, and communication with the public. These questions were also designed to identify the agency activity in each of the four major areas of emergency management, namely mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. In general there appears to be good lines of communication, co-operation, and interaction between agencies based on the concept that disaster management is a local issue and only involves the state and federal governments in cases of very severe disasters. Consistent with this was the fact that there was essentially no use of the FEMA Partnership Guide by state and local agencies. GIS capacity is generally good, as is data sharing via a number of methods, including regular meetings. A variety of methods are used to inform the general public, including reverse 911, radio, television and social networks although vulnerable populations may have difficult accessing some of these.

On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, LA, causing catastrophic damage to the metropolitan area. The hurricane also exposed many of the racial, ethnic, and class-based vulnerabilities experienced by many New Orleanians. However, as is typically the case, gender was ignored in most media accounts in the aftermath of the disaster. This project examines the gendered dimensions of the disaster experience using New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina as a case study. Evidence from University of New Orleans Survey Research data indicates various gender differences from the initial response to the recovery efforts months later. Few gender differences were found regarding physical loss and displacement after the storm; however, psychological effects did often differ along gender lines, with women more likely than men to experience psychological symptoms directly after the storm, while men were likely than women to be affected approximately one year later. Interestingly, gender differences in evacuation plans and behavior varied according to whether or not a disaster had recently occurred. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, women were more likely than men to report having evacuated for Hurricane Georges, though no other variable was statistically significant. After Katrina, men were more likely than women to have an evacuation plan in place, while women were more likely than men to report a willingness to evacuate when recommended by local level officials, which they did when Hurricane Rita threatened the area. Public policy implications are discussed.

O coletivo de crianças em situação de vulnerabilidade é o grupo social mais exposto a constrangimentos que dificultam a tarefa de conhecer e pertencer à cidade onde moram. Nesse atual contexto e com orientação da perspectiva sociológica da infância, o objetivo dessa pesquisa foi conhecer e compreender as percepções de crianças vivendo condições complexas de vulnerabilidade, residentes na periferia, acerca de seu território na cidade de São Paulo, assim como conhecer as relações por elas estabelecidas com esses espaços. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa participativa de caráter colaborativo que utilizou o recurso metodológico do fotovoz. Foram realizados sete encontros com um grupo de cinco crianças entre 08 e 10 anos de idade em acompanhamento em um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Infanto-Juvenil (CAPSij) devido às situações complexas de vida e vulnerabilidade, mas sem transtornos mentais severos. Foi proposta a circulação coletiva pelos espaços de sentido no território para que as crianças registrassem em fotografia suas percepções cotidianas do espaço no qual vivem. Ademais, foi realizada uma exposição fotográfica aberta à comunidade a partir das seleções individuais de fotografias e discussões coletivas sobre a experiência, assim como encontros individuais de devolutiva com as crianças. O material verbal e imagético passou por análise temática em diálogo com diário de campo da pesquisadora. Os resultados contemplaram os retratos de cada criança participante, o processo de construção coletiva da pesquisa, o material fotográfico produzido pelas crianças a partir dos seus olhares e a exposição fotográfica intitulada \"Nosso Mundo\". Os registros fotográficos abordaram as seguintes categorias temáticas: (1) Corpo: experimentando a si mesmo e constituindo um grupo, (2) CAPSij: revisitando pela fotografia um espaço conhecido, (3) O território como lugar de desejo e consumo, (4) Percursos cotidianos e histórias de vida no território físico e existencial e (5) As sutilezas em meio ao concreto da cidade: território e natureza. Em diálogo com a literatura, foram apresentadas as reflexões teóricas sobre a circulação das crianças colaboradoras nos seus espaços de pertencimento, organizada em três argumentos principais: (1) Territórios existenciais: o corpo, lugares de vida e a circulação na cidade, (2) Produção de culturas da infância: as lógicas de consumo e a descoberta da natureza e (3) O fotovoz como recurso metodológico: protagonismo e processos de identificação social. Cada participante do estudo pode contribuir de maneira importante para o debate e análise do objeto de pesquisa e, consequentemente, para o processo de reconstrução da compreensão da infância na sociedade. O fotovoz permitiu os registros das experiências significativas da vida das crianças, a partir de suas perspectivas. A pesquisa revelou que as crianças têm um olhar crítico e complexo sobre seus espaços de circulação e pelas relações com esses estabelecidas. Um olhar permeado por suas singularidades de vida, atendo ao belo e à delicadeza da natureza em meio ao concreto cinza da cidade, dialogando constantemente com as culturas de massa e os valores sociais hegemônicos / The group of children in vulnerable condition is the social group most exposed to constraints that make it difficult to know and belong to the city where they live. In this current context and guided by the sociological perspective of childhood, the objective of this research was to know and understand the perceptions of children living in complex conditions of vulnerability, living in the periphery, about their territory in the city of São Paulo, as well as to know the relations they establish with these spaces. It was a participatory research of collaborative character that used the methodological resource of the photovoice. Seven meetings were held with a group of five children between 08 and 10 years of age, without severe mental disorders, being followed up at a Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Care Center (CAPSij) due to the complex life situations and vulnerability to which they are subjected. It was proposed the collective circulation through spaces of meaning in the territory so that the children recorded in photography their daily perceptions of the space in which they live. In addition, a photographic exhibition was held open to the community from the individual selections of photographs and collective discussions about the experience, as well as individual feedback meetings with the children. The verbal and imaginary material underwent a thematic analysis in dialogue with the researcher\'s field diary. The results included the portraits of each participating child, the collective construction process of the research, the photographic material produced by the children from their views and the photographic exhibition titled \"Our World\". The photographic records addressed the following thematic categories: (1) Body: experimenting with oneself and forming a group, (2) CAPSij: revisiting a known space through photography, (3) Territory as place of desire and consumption, everyday paths and life histories at a physical and existential territory and (5) The subtleties amidst the concrete of the city: territory and nature. In a dialogue with the literature, theoretical reflections on the circulation of the collaborating children in their spaces of belonging were presented, organized in three ideas: (1) Existential territories: the body, places of life and circulation in the city, (2) Production of childhood cultures: the logics of consumption and the discovery of nature and (3) The photovoice as a methodological resource: protagonism and processes of social identification. Each participant in the study was able to contribute in an important way to the debate and analysis of the object of research and, consequently, to the process of reconstructing the understanding of childhood in society. The photovoice allowed the records of the significant experiences of children\'s lives, from their perspectives. The research revealed that children have a critical and complex view at their spaces of circulation and their relationships with the established ones. A view permeated by their singularities of life, attending to the beautiful and the subtlety of nature amid the gray concrete of the city, constantly dialoguing with mass cultures and hegemonic social values

A depressão materna é reconhecida como uma adversidade ao comportamento infantil. O estudo se insere em lacunas apontadas pela literatura quanto à necessidade de abordar, de forma combinada, múltiplas condições contextuais de risco e proteção associadas à depressão materna. Objetivou-se identificar condições de risco e de proteção para problemas comportamentais de crianças que convivem com a depressão materna, em comparação a crianças que convivem com mães sem transtornos psiquiátricos, focalizando estressores, práticas parentais positivas e suporte social, e as possíveis associações entre essas variáveis. Avaliou-se 100 díades mães-crianças, distribuídas em dois grupos: G1 50 díades mães-crianças, cujas mães apresentaram história de depressão recorrente; e G2 50 díades mães-crianças, cujas mães não apresentaram transtornos psiquiátricos. A identificação das mães participantes foi feita junto a serviços de saúde de Ribeirão Preto - SP, e as crianças, de ambos os sexos, com idade entre sete e 12 anos, foram identificadas por meio de suas mães. Procedeu-se à coleta de dados com mães e crianças em situação individual face a face. As mães responderam aos seguintes instrumentos: (a) Entrevista Clínica Estruturada para o DSM-IV; (b) Questionário Geral; (c) Questionário de Capacidades e Dificuldades; (d) Inventário de Recursos do Ambiente Familiar; (e) Escala de Eventos Adversos; (f) Escala de Adversidade Crônica e (g) Entrevista com Roteiro Semi-Estruturado para a avaliação de estressores, práticas parentais positivas e suporte social. As crianças responderam ao teste das Matrizes Progressivas Coloridas de Raven e ao Teste do Desempenho Escolar. Os instrumentos foram codificados conforme as normas técnicas e as entrevistas foram transcritas e codificadas, tendo por referência categorias pré-definidas. Para a análise dos dados, utilizou-se: Teste Exato de Fisher, Teste t-Student, Análise de Regressão Logística Bivariada e Correlação de Pearson, adotando-se o nível de significância de p 0,05. Verificou-se nas comparações entre os grupos, que G1 apresentou significativamente mais indicadores de problemas comportamentais das crianças (x G1 = 15,12 e x G2 = 9,08), mais eventos adversos (x G1 = 14,08 e x G2 = 8,38), mais adversidades crônicas (x G1 = 3,92 e x G2 = 2,22), mais estressores no total (x G1 = 29,63 e x G2 = 17,91), menos recursos do ambiente familiar (x G1 = 57,76 e x G2 = 62,12), menos práticas parentais positivas envolvendo sensibilidade ao outro (x G1 = 70,00 e x G2 = 90,00) e menos suporte social no total (x G1 = 33,19 e x G2 = 37,14). Identificaram-se correlações moderadas e significativas dos problemas comportamentais das crianças de G1 com: estressores relacionados às crianças, suporte social total e proveniente da rede de apoio; e de G2 com: estressores total e referentes ao contexto geral, ao contexto familiar e relacionados às crianças, práticas parentais positivas total e envolvendo sensibilidade ao outro. Verificou-se a presença de múltiplas adversidades no ambiente familiar de convivência com a depressão materna, caracterizando um contexto com risco cumulativo, tendo o suporte social se caracterizado como uma condição de proteção para tais famílias. Considera-se que tais dados podem contribuir para o planejamento de estratégias de prevenção e intervenção em saúde mental materna e infantil. / Maternal depression is well-documented as a risk factor in the development of child behaviour. There is, however, a gap in the literature concerning multiple simultaneous influences of behavioural problems in children of depressed mothers. This study helps fill this gap by identifying multiple risk and protective factors with regards to behavioural problems in children of depressed mothers, relative to children of mentally healthy mothers. The study focused on stressors, positive parental practices, social support and possible correlations between these variables. One-hundred mother-child dyads took part in the study, divided in two groups: G1 50 child-mother dyads in which the mothers had a history of recurrent depression; and G2 50 child-mother dyads in which the mothers did not suffer from psychiatric disorders. Mothers, and by extension their children, were recruited from healthcare centres in the city of Ribeirao Preto SP. Children were aged between 6 and 12 years old. Mothers and children took part in individual face-to-face interviews. Mothers completed the following measures: (a) DSM-IV Structured Clinical Interview; (b) General Questionnaire; (c) Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; (d) Family Environment Resources Inventory; (e) Adverse Events Scale; (f) Chronic Adversity Scale; (g) Semi-structured interview to assess stress factors, positive parental practices, and social support. Children, in turn, completed the Ravens Colourful Progressive Matrices Scale and the School Performance Test. Scales were coded according to technical norms and interviews were transcribed and analysed in accord with previously defined codes. Data analysis was conducted using Fishers Exact Test, Students t- test, Bivariate Logistic Regression, and Pearson Correlation. Results revealed that, as compared to G2, G1 showed a higher frequency of childrens behavioural problems (x G1 = 15.12 and x G2 = 9.08), more adverse events (x G1 = 14.08 e x G2 = 8.38), greater frequency of chronic adversities (x G1 = 3.92 and x G2 = 2.22), more stress factors in general (x G1 = 29.63 and x G2 = 17.91), less resources in the family environment (x G1 = 57.76 and x G2 = 62.12), less positive parental practices concerning social sensitivity (x G1 = 70.00 and x G2 = 90.00), and generally less social support (x G1 = 33.19 and x G2 = 37.14). The frequency of behavioural problems in G1 was positively correlated with stressors concerning the children. Notably, both greater social support in general and support provided by the social network were correlated with fewer problem behaviours for the same group. Similarly, stressors were positively correlated with behavioural problems in G2. Finally, greater frequency of positive parental practices, in particular those reflecting sensitivity to others, were related to fewer behavioural problems in G2. These results point to the presence of multiple adversities in a family environment of maternal depression, which characterizes a context of cumulative risk. However, social support emerged as a protective factor for these families. These results can inform the design of intervention and prevention strategies in the context of maternal and infant mental health.

A população negra, principalmente a sua juventude, é a maior vítima de homicídios no Brasil. Na cidade de São Paulo o fenômeno se repete e revela uma concentração dos homicídios nos distritos mais vulneráveis socialmente. Nestes territórios vive a maioria da população negra, corroborando uma articulação perversa entre vulnerabilidade à morte e raça no espaço urbano da cidade. São Paulo tem suas origens na segregação socioespacial e nas políticas de exclusão do escravismo tardio. A maior vitimização por homicídios da população negra nos territórios mais vulneráveis da capital paulista não é um fato pontual, episódico, mas foi construído sistematicamente / The black people, especially its youth is the biggest victim of homicide in Brazil, in the city of São Paulo, the phenomenon is repeated. The concentration of homicides occurs in places with greater social vulnerability, in that places lives the majority of black people. There is a perverse link between vulnerability to death and race in the urban space of São Paulo city, which had been created in the urban segregation and the exclusion policies of the late slavery, the homicides in black people on the most vulnerable areas of São Paulo It isnt only an isolated fact, but was built systematically

A presente dissertação tem como objetivo investigar o trabalho do psicólogo no Centro de Referência de Assistência Social (CRAS). A Assistência Social como campo organizado de trabalho em uma política pública apoiada em um sistema único, o Sistema Único de Assistência Social (SUAS) se configurou desde sua instituição em 2004 como um dos principais postos de trabalho dos psicólogos inseridos em políticas públicas. O psicólogo compõe necessariamente as equipes ao lado dos assistentes sociais, em uma oferta de serviço multidisciplinar que visa o fortalecimento dos cidadãos como sujeito de direitos, através de um trabalho que favoreça o desenvolvimento da autonomia, o empoderamento e o protagonismo dos usuários da política pública, bem como o fortalecimento dos vínculos familiares e comunitários. O público-alvo do SUAS são as famílias, grupos, comunidades e indivíduos que estão com seus direitos violados ou em risco de serem violados, pessoas que vivenciam situação de vulnerabilidade social. Situado na Proteção Social Básica, o CRAS é considerado a porta de entrada do SUAS, atua na prevenção das situações de vulnerabilidade social e riscos sociais e sua principal oferta é o Serviço de Proteção e Atendimento Integral à Família (PAIF), tendo como prioridade de oferta de atendimento o trabalho com grupos. Partimos do pressuposto de que a especificidade do trabalho do psicólogo onde quer que esteja inserido é o trabalho com a subjetividade e, no nosso caso, com a intersubjetividade. Para a presente pesquisa, utilizamos como referencial teórico a psicanálise que compreende o sujeito do inconsciente como sujeito do grupo, cujos autores compreendem que a constituição do sujeito se dá a partir do vínculo e da intersubjetividade, tanto do ponto de vista da transmissão psíquica inter e transgeracional, quanto das diversas relações que estabelecemos ao longo da vida, onde somos constituídos mutuamente através das alianças inconscientes (Kaës) e do contrato narcísico (Aulagnier). Como metodologia, realizamos um grupo de acompanhamento familiar do PAIF, com duração de 14 encontros de uma hora e meia e a participação de 15 famílias, apoiados na técnica do grupo operativo (Pichon-Rivière). O grupo operativo é um dispositivo de trabalho psicossocial que considera o sujeito do vínculo integrado à sua realidade social e à produção grupal e tem potencial transformador através da centralidade na tarefa do grupo. Durante o processo grupal, observamos a relação entre as situações de violência vivenciadas pelas famílias em suas mais variadas formas, suas repetições, seus efeitos-afetos (medo, humilhação, vergonha, raiva, resignação) e a evasão escolar dos filhos. À medida que puderam criar um espaço psíquico compartilhado continente para elaboração psíquica dos emergentes grupais e reconhecimento de si como sujeito dos vínculos, puderam atribuir sentidos à condição de sujeito de direitos e superar alguns aspectos da situação de vulnerabilidade social que as trouxe ao CRAS. Assim, compreendemos que o trabalho do psicólogo no CRAS está relacionado com garantir o espaço de escuta, continência e elaboração psíquicas frente às questões sociais, onde a intersubjetividade e as produções subjetivas estejam legitimadas como parte fundamental do processo de fortalecimento do sujeito de direitos / About the psychic work in the center of social assistance reference between the subject of rights and the subject of bond The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the work of the psychologists in the Center of Social Assistance Reference (CRAS). Since its implementation in 2004, the Social Assistance, as an organized field of work in a public policy supported by a single system (the Single System of Social Assistance - SUAS) has become one of the main work posts for psychologists inserted in public policies. The psychologist composes necessarily the teams together with the social assistants, offering a multidisciplinary service that aims at strengthening citizens as a subject of rights, through a work that promotes the development of autonomy, the empowering and the importance of the users of the political policy, as well as the strengthening of the family and community attachment. The target public of the SUAS is: families, groups, communities and individuals that have had their rights violated or that are in risk of being violated, people who have experienced situations of social vulnerability. Situated in the Basic Social Protection, CRAS is considered the door to SUAS, acting to prevent situations of social vulnerability and social risk, and the main service offered is the Protection and Whole Support to Families (PAIF), whose priority is to offer support to groups. It is assumed that the nature of the work of the psychologist wherever he/she is acting is the subjectivity and, in our case, the intersubjectivity. For the present research, we used as a theoretical reference the psychoanalysis that understands the subject of unconsciousness as a subject of the group, whose authors understand that the constitution of the subject starts from the bond and the intersubjectivity, from the point of view of the inter and transgenerational psychic transmission as well as the many relations that are established throughout life, where we are mutually constituted through unconscious alliances (Kaës) and from narcissistic contract (Aulagnier). As a methodology, we formed a family support group in PAIF which lasted 14 sessions of one hour and a half each and with the participation of 15 families, based on the operative group techniques (Pichon-Rivière). The operative group is a psychosocial action plan that considers the bond subject integrated to his/her social reality and to his/her group production and has a transforming potential due to its central role in the group. During the group process, we observed the relation between the situations of violence experienced by the families in many different ways, its repetitions, its effects-affects (fear, humiliation, shame, anger, resignation) and the school dropouts of kids. As long as the families could create a shared psychic space that guarantees the psychic elaboration of the group emergent and the recognition of the self as bond subject, families could ascribe meaning to the condition of subjects of rights and overcome some aspects of the situation of social vulnerability that led them to CRAS. This way, we understand that the work of the psychologist in CRAS is related to guaranteeing a place for listening, continence and psychic elaboration regarding social matters, where the intersubjectivity and the subjective productions are legitimated as fundamental parts of the strengthening of the subject of rights