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Although a specific program called the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) has been generally recognized as the best-practice model that addresses the needs of the police officers in responding to mental health calls, many jurisdictions across the country have not only adopted the full CIT model but also have taken the liberty of adding new components and/or removing components of the original model in order to create a unique program that fits the needs of their individual community. The issue of differentiated adaptations of the original CIT model has created a controversy around best practice in the area of police response to individuals with mental health issues who are in crisis. Using an on-line survey and interview methods, this study examined a relationship between the degree of variation within specialized policing response models and their corresponding community characteristics. Previous research shows that the components of the original CIT model have positive influence on officers’ confidence in interacting with people with mental illness. Therefore, this study also hypothesized that a rating of an SPR police officers’ job satisfaction was likely to correlate with the degree to which an SPR program adhered to the original CIT model. The study found that mental health resources, extent of presence of special populations in a community, existence of SPR policies in law enforcement, mental health, and dispatch departments, and how much law enforcement and mental health administrators supported the program, all predicted the degree of total deviation of a program from the original CIT model. Population density, related to a distinction between rural and non-rural communities, did not predict the degree of deviation from the original CIT model. The study also found that the degree of deviation of a program from the original CIT model did not strongly predict the rating of SPR officers’ job satisfaction. The study discusses the possible reasons for the results as well as implications for stakeholders who are considering implementation of a Specialized Policing Response model in their communities. Limitations of the current study’s research design are also discussed.

The main aim of this thesis is to analyze how the general public and registered churches are informed about the Psychosocial intervention team of the Czech Republic. In addition, the thesis focuses on the analysis of available sources of information about psychosocial intervention (aid) and crisis intervention in emergency situations. The churches were asked by using interviews with their representatives. These were mainly personal interviews, telephone communications, and e-mail correspondence. The awareness of the general public was identified by using a questionnaire. The questionnaire was based on the general information about the Psychosocial Intervention Team of the Czech Republic and emergency situations, in the second part of the questionnaire the questions were whether the respondents met with this team and in what case it was. This thesis is the first one that deals with the awareness about the Czech Psychosocial Intervention Team. It can therefore be used as a basis for further research on this topic. It has been found that the general public has some awareness of the Psychosocial Intervention Team, but it is at a very low level and only one of the 105 respondents has personally met with this team. As far as the churches are concerned, the awareness was higher, but only a few churches closely cooperate with this team. It should be noted that it would be desirable to deepen the awareness about this team by general public and to ensure better cooperation between this team and churches.

O presente trabalho investiga o modo como um laboratório universitário construiu e efetuou Projetos de Atenção Psicológica clínica em instituição, no campo de Aconselhamento Psicológico. Para contextualizar esse laboratório e sua prática psicológica, parte-se de uma análise de aproximação fenomenológica existencial, na qual o pesquisador percorre o campo da constituição das ciências, a partir do século XVII até os dias atuais. Neste campo em particular, percorre-se a constituição do campo de Aconselhamento Psicológico, sua inserção em nível nacional e seus desdobramentos em uma universidade pública, como possibilidade de engendrar esses campos aos movimentos sócio-econômico-culturais. Desse modo, tais campos se revelam no interior dos assuntos humanos, passíveis de historicização, orientação de sentido e descoberta de significados. Tal análise visa a considerar uma pertinência da aplicação do conhecimento e seus estudos no coletivo humano, como assumidamente vinculados a um compromisso ético, rumo ao exercício de bem estar. Por essa mesma via, o laboratório é apresentado a partir de depoimentos e entrevistas com a coordenadora do laboratório e alguns de seus integrantes, construindo uma narrativa que percorre os caminhos trilhados pela equipe quando solicitados a intervir em instituições. Nessa narrativa surge a possibilidade de compreensão de uma metodologia interventiva para pesquisa e trabalho em instituições, que se faz presente no próprio caminho construído, com seus impasses, reflexões e limites. Fundamentando-se no fenômeno da aprendizagem significativa, estudado inicialmente por Eugene T. Gendlin (1926 -), os relatos compostos em uma narrativa revelam o atravessamento da proposta de intervenção construída com a formação de profissionais em Psicologia e com as reflexões da coordenadora. Tal fenômeno, conjugado com as idéias de Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) a respeito da narrativa, possibilita a construção de um registro singular de experiências coletivas e individualizadas. A partir desse trabalho, pode se consolidar a compreensão do campo de Aconselhamento Psicológico como espaço clínico de cuidado e atenção ao sujeito em instituição. As modalidades de prática psicológica, constituintes desse espaço clínico, efetivaram ações de cuidado ao desamparo e sofrimento, como ausência de sentido, criando vias de formação, atuação e pesquisa profissionais distintas do contexto de psicoterapia processual. Nesse sentido, tal campo, apresentado a partir do laboratório universitário, se aproximou da vertente da Psicologia Social Clínica como possibilidade de escuta do sujeito na instituição, afastando-se de uma perspectiva institucional. Por outro lado, o laboratório também encontrou pertinência para suas reflexões e prática em uma aproximação com o modo fenomenológico existencial, possibilitando a compreensão de um modo de subjetivação intimamente vinculado com os aspectos sociais, culturais e institucionais, além de uma temporalidade como ocorrência. Uma outra consideração possível é a conceitualização de uma atitude cartográfica como via para ações clínicas pertinentemente engendradas no contexto das instituições. Essa atitude cartográfica configura-se como possibilidade recíproca de conhecer e dar-se a conhecer, passando pela experiência e sendo por ela marcado. / This work intends to investigate a way by which a university laboratory constructed Clinical Psychological Attention in Institutions Projects, in the field of Counseling Psychology. In order to put into context this laboratory and its practice, it is made an existential phenomenological analysis, by which the researcher follows science constitutional field since the XVII century till our days. Particularly, it is discussed how Counseling Psychology field was insert in our national context and enhanced in a public university, as a possibility to embrace the social, economical and cultural movements. In this way, it is revealed as dealing in the interior of human affairs, historically oriented to discover meanings and sense. Such analysis considers the property of knowledge application and studies into the human collective, relied to an ethical commitment toward well being. By this trend, the laboratory is presented through interview with its coordinator and reports from some participants. A narrative is constructed to show how the laboratory staff reflects upon demands to institutions intervention. This mode made possible to comprehend an interventive methodology as well as for research and practice in institutions, presenting a proper constructed path, dilemmas, reflexions and limits. Based upon the meaningful learning phenomenon, by Eugene T. Gendlin, the narrative composition of reports reveals interfaces between a formative method for Psychology students and the proposed interventions in institutions by the coordinator’s reflexions. Such a phenomenon, along with Walter Benjamin’s ideas about narrative, allows a very singular register of individual and collective experience. This present work makes possible to establish a comprehension of Psychological Counseling as a clinical locus for attention and care toward the subject in institutions. Modalities of psychological practice, constituted in such clinical locus, were effective care actions to hold homelessness and suffering as human lack of sense, creating paths for distinctive professional activities and scientific research far beyond the usual psychotherapeutic process context. By those findings, the university laboratory may be approximate to the Social Clinical Psychology trend, as a possibility for listening the subject in institution, a different mode of practice from the institutional Psychology perspective. On the other hand, the laboratory has encountered a property for its reflexions and practice by the existential phenomenological optical, as a possibility to comprehend subjectivity modes related to social, cultural and institutional aspects, taking temporality as occurrence. Another possible consideration is the conceptualization of a cartographic attitude as a mean to appropriately clinical actions into the context of institutions. Such attitude configures itself as a possibility to mutually knowing and to be known between actors, as a way to pass through experience and been marked by that.

Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo o estudo de alguns aspectos metodológicos da Psicoterapia Breve Operacionalizada (PBO) em pacientes em situação de crise adaptativa por perda. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir de uma metodologia qualitativa clínica, e participaram deste estudo seis pacientes que procuraram a Clínica Psicológica Durval Marcondes IPUSP e que preencheram os requisitos pretendidos para o estudo. Instrumentos: Escala Diagnóstica Adaptativa Operacionalizada EDAO e Psicoterapia Breve Operacionalizada PBO. Observou-se que a PBO ofereceu contribuições importantes para a solução das crises. Quanto aos aspectos metodológicos, foi verificado que tanto as interpretações teorizadas como as intervenções suportivas se mostraram eficientes para a adoção de soluções mais adequadas. Analisando os resultados das entrevistas de acompanhamento nesta pesquisa, tem-se que a manutenção dos ganhos por meio da PBO foi observada em todos os casos atendidos, de diferentes formas, a saber: aceitação de perdas; evitação do deterioramento do nível adaptativo e enfrentamento de problemas buscando uma postura mais adequada / This research aims to study some methodological aspects of Operational Brief Psychotherapy (PBO) in patients in adaptative crisis by loss. The survey was conducted from a clinic qualitative methodology and six patients, who went to the Psychological Clinic Durval Marcondes IPUSP - and met the desired requirements for the study, participated in it. Research instruments: Operationalized Adaptive Diagnostic Scale - EDAO and Operational Brief Psychotherapy - PBO. It was observed that PBO has offered important contributions to the solution of the crisis. Regarding methodological aspects, it was verified that both theorized interpretations and supportive interventions were efficient to help pacients to choose more appropriate solutions. The results of follow-up interviews in this research shows that the maintenance of gains through PBO was found in all cases treated in different ways, namely: acceptance of loss, avoidance of deterioration in the adaptative level, the ability of facing problems with a proper posture

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-11-30T15:02:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Alvares Bittencourt_.pdf: 354620 bytes, checksum: 42685cd66ef9f8cbcec738eec89cf25d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-30T15:02:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Alvares Bittencourt_.pdf: 354620 bytes, checksum: 42685cd66ef9f8cbcec738eec89cf25d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-13 / Nenhuma / Esta dissertação nasce da constatação de que é necessário conjugar a tradição clínica com a investigação empírica para ampliar o entendimento da desorganização aguda vivenciada por pacientes com transtorno de personalidade borderline em tratamento psicoterápico de orientação psicanalítica e estabelecer diretrizes para o seu manejo pelo psicoterapeuta. É uma dissertação de mestrado organizada em dois artigos empíricos. O primeiro, em formato de ensaio, trata da aparente dissociação entre a prática clínica e a pesquisa empírica e discute as possibilidades de uma aproximação entre estes dois campos a partir da conjugação de métodos clínicos e empíricos para a compreensão do processo psicoterápico e das mudanças observadas na psicoterapia psicanalítica. O caso de uma paciente borderline é utilizado para ilustrar como instrumentos empíricos e anotações clínicas feitas pelo psicoterapeuta podem se complementar e oferecer subsídios para a compreensão do processo de mudança em psicoterapia. São feitas considerações sobre o potencial deste tipo de perspectiva contribuir para a diminuição da brecha existente entre pesquisa e prática clínica. O segundo artigo é um estudo empírico que buscou aprofundar e contribuir para o aumento do conhecimento dos aspectos subjacentes às crises borderline e o seu manejo pelo psicoterapeuta de orientação psicanalítica, visto que elas são esperadas, recorrentes, mas alvo de poucos estudos. O caso é de uma paciente borderline em psicoterapia psicanalítica há aproximadamente três anos. A análise se concentrou num período de aproximadamente três meses, perto do final do primeiro ano de tratamento, no qual houve uma desorganização aguda que culminou numa tentativa de suicídio da paciente, seguida por uma internação psiquiátrica e reorganização psíquica após a mesma. A psicoterapia não foi interrompida neste período, que compreendeu 12 sessões. Estas foram analisadas, em profundidade, por meio das anotações clínicas da terapeuta, de uma medida empírica do processo terapêutico, o Psychotherapy Process Q-set (PQS), e de instrumento de avaliação de sintomas. Os achados apontam para a recomendação da não interrupção da psicoterapia na vigência da crise borderline e para a importância da empatia, sensibilidade e flexibilidade dos terapeutas para adaptar suas técnicas às necessidades destes pacientes. De modo geral, a dissertação demostra a necessidade do envolvimento de psicoterapeutas com a leitura e co-construção do conhecimento empírico para auxiliá-los a nortear suas práticas, tornando-as mais efetivas. Pacientes borderline podem apresentar crises intensas, vivenciadas dentro do setting, o que constitui desafio técnico para terapeutas psicanalíticos. A adoção de perspectivas integradas de investigação, que contemplem métodos empíricos e a perspectiva clínica do psicoterapeuta, é fortemente recomendada. / This paper is born from the realization that it is necessary to combine the clinical tradition and empirical research to increase the understanding of acute disorganization experienced by patients with borderline personality disorder in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and establish guidelines for their management by the psychotherapist. It is a dissertation arranged on two empirical articles. The first, in assay format, deals with the apparent dissociation between clinical practice and empirical research and discusses the possibilities of a closer relationship between these two fields from the combination of clinical and empirical methods for understanding the psychotherapeutic process and observed changes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The case of a borderline patient is used to illustrate how empirical tools and clinical notes made by the psychotherapist can complement each other and offer subsidies for understanding the psychotherapy change process. Considerations about the potential of this kind of perspective contribute to reducing the gap between research and clinical practice. The second article is an empirical study that aimed to deepen and contribute to increase knowledge of the underlying aspects of the borderline crises and their management by the psychoanalytic psychotherapist, as they are expected, applicants, but subject to few studies. The case is a borderline patient in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for about three years. The analysis focused on a period of approximately three months near the end of the first year of treatment, in which there was an acute disorganization that culminated in an attempt to patient suicide, followed by a psychiatric hospitalization and psychological reorganization after. Psychotherapy was not interrupted during this period, which included 12 sessions. These were analyzed in depth through clinical notes from the therapist, an empirical measure of the therapeutic process, the Psychotherapy Process Q-Set (PQS), and symptom evaluation tool. The findings point to the recommendation to not interrupt the psychotherapy in the presence of borderline crisis and the importance of empathy, sensitivity and flexibility of therapists to adapt their techniques to the needs of these patients. Overall, the dissertation demonstrates the need for the involvement of psychotherapists with reading and co-construction of empirical knowledge to help them guide their practices, making them more effective. Borderline patients may present experienced intense crises inside the setting, which is technical challenge for psychoanalytic therapists. The adoption of integrated perspectives of research that include empirical and clinical perspective from the psychotherapist, is strongly recommended.

O presente trabalho investiga o modo como um laboratório universitário construiu e efetuou Projetos de Atenção Psicológica clínica em instituição, no campo de Aconselhamento Psicológico. Para contextualizar esse laboratório e sua prática psicológica, parte-se de uma análise de aproximação fenomenológica existencial, na qual o pesquisador percorre o campo da constituição das ciências, a partir do século XVII até os dias atuais. Neste campo em particular, percorre-se a constituição do campo de Aconselhamento Psicológico, sua inserção em nível nacional e seus desdobramentos em uma universidade pública, como possibilidade de engendrar esses campos aos movimentos sócio-econômico-culturais. Desse modo, tais campos se revelam no interior dos assuntos humanos, passíveis de historicização, orientação de sentido e descoberta de significados. Tal análise visa a considerar uma pertinência da aplicação do conhecimento e seus estudos no coletivo humano, como assumidamente vinculados a um compromisso ético, rumo ao exercício de bem estar. Por essa mesma via, o laboratório é apresentado a partir de depoimentos e entrevistas com a coordenadora do laboratório e alguns de seus integrantes, construindo uma narrativa que percorre os caminhos trilhados pela equipe quando solicitados a intervir em instituições. Nessa narrativa surge a possibilidade de compreensão de uma metodologia interventiva para pesquisa e trabalho em instituições, que se faz presente no próprio caminho construído, com seus impasses, reflexões e limites. Fundamentando-se no fenômeno da aprendizagem significativa, estudado inicialmente por Eugene T. Gendlin (1926 -), os relatos compostos em uma narrativa revelam o atravessamento da proposta de intervenção construída com a formação de profissionais em Psicologia e com as reflexões da coordenadora. Tal fenômeno, conjugado com as idéias de Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) a respeito da narrativa, possibilita a construção de um registro singular de experiências coletivas e individualizadas. A partir desse trabalho, pode se consolidar a compreensão do campo de Aconselhamento Psicológico como espaço clínico de cuidado e atenção ao sujeito em instituição. As modalidades de prática psicológica, constituintes desse espaço clínico, efetivaram ações de cuidado ao desamparo e sofrimento, como ausência de sentido, criando vias de formação, atuação e pesquisa profissionais distintas do contexto de psicoterapia processual. Nesse sentido, tal campo, apresentado a partir do laboratório universitário, se aproximou da vertente da Psicologia Social Clínica como possibilidade de escuta do sujeito na instituição, afastando-se de uma perspectiva institucional. Por outro lado, o laboratório também encontrou pertinência para suas reflexões e prática em uma aproximação com o modo fenomenológico existencial, possibilitando a compreensão de um modo de subjetivação intimamente vinculado com os aspectos sociais, culturais e institucionais, além de uma temporalidade como ocorrência. Uma outra consideração possível é a conceitualização de uma atitude cartográfica como via para ações clínicas pertinentemente engendradas no contexto das instituições. Essa atitude cartográfica configura-se como possibilidade recíproca de conhecer e dar-se a conhecer, passando pela experiência e sendo por ela marcado. / This work intends to investigate a way by which a university laboratory constructed Clinical Psychological Attention in Institutions Projects, in the field of Counseling Psychology. In order to put into context this laboratory and its practice, it is made an existential phenomenological analysis, by which the researcher follows science constitutional field since the XVII century till our days. Particularly, it is discussed how Counseling Psychology field was insert in our national context and enhanced in a public university, as a possibility to embrace the social, economical and cultural movements. In this way, it is revealed as dealing in the interior of human affairs, historically oriented to discover meanings and sense. Such analysis considers the property of knowledge application and studies into the human collective, relied to an ethical commitment toward well being. By this trend, the laboratory is presented through interview with its coordinator and reports from some participants. A narrative is constructed to show how the laboratory staff reflects upon demands to institutions intervention. This mode made possible to comprehend an interventive methodology as well as for research and practice in institutions, presenting a proper constructed path, dilemmas, reflexions and limits. Based upon the meaningful learning phenomenon, by Eugene T. Gendlin, the narrative composition of reports reveals interfaces between a formative method for Psychology students and the proposed interventions in institutions by the coordinator’s reflexions. Such a phenomenon, along with Walter Benjamin’s ideas about narrative, allows a very singular register of individual and collective experience. This present work makes possible to establish a comprehension of Psychological Counseling as a clinical locus for attention and care toward the subject in institutions. Modalities of psychological practice, constituted in such clinical locus, were effective care actions to hold homelessness and suffering as human lack of sense, creating paths for distinctive professional activities and scientific research far beyond the usual psychotherapeutic process context. By those findings, the university laboratory may be approximate to the Social Clinical Psychology trend, as a possibility for listening the subject in institution, a different mode of practice from the institutional Psychology perspective. On the other hand, the laboratory has encountered a property for its reflexions and practice by the existential phenomenological optical, as a possibility to comprehend subjectivity modes related to social, cultural and institutional aspects, taking temporality as occurrence. Another possible consideration is the conceptualization of a cartographic attitude as a mean to appropriately clinical actions into the context of institutions. Such attitude configures itself as a possibility to mutually knowing and to be known between actors, as a way to pass through experience and been marked by that.

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Critical Incident Stress (CIS) in emergency workers and in victims of crises is widely held to be the possible precursor to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) if left unattended. Indeed, the symptoms for CIS and PTSD overlap in all category areas. Today, the commonly used treatment for trauma in emergency workers is Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM). This system of interventions includes a debriefing session which facilitates people to fully remember the trauma events and their own reactions to it. CISM models were conceived and designed within and from a typically white, western viewpoint. However, one agency in Vancouver, First Nations Emergency Services Society (FNESS), provides CISM debriefing interventions and training to Native emergency workers and Native victims of crises. The purpose of this study was to document how Native participants perceived the CISM model as FNESS presented it and to understand whether the intervention was culturally meaningful for the First Nations participants in the CISM sessions. This study examined whether the mainstream CISM model, which is currently used by this agency, is culturally meaningful for populations of another culture receiving it. Narrative interviews were conducted with participants to determine their reactions to the session, their feelings regarding information presented, and their ability to make cultural meaning of the experience. Narrative analysis was used to determine themes across individuals. Theoretical implications of this research include addressing the gap in the literature of the subjective experiences of participants in CISM; no studies have used a purely qualitative methodology to study this topic. Also, this study looked at the important issue of the cross-cultural application of a mainstream intervention, particularly for a population with a history of complex traumas. Practical implications include providing information into the perceived effectiveness of the FNESS approach to a CISM framework and providing an opportunity for recipients' opinions to be heard.

Conceptions of community violence that circulate in American society are shaped by, and shape, the way that public health violence intervention programs are designed and implemented. As a conceptual point of departure for public health programming, community violence focuses on acutely violent events, where homicide and/or hospitalization are the potential outcomes. The violence experienced by poor people living in marginal neighborhoods is chronic and does not resemble this conception of violence on which public health intervention programs are based. The violence that is most pressing to these intended service recipients is driven by their immersion in poverty. As a result of this lack of conceptual correspondence, intervention programs are unable to achieve the intended goal of violence reduction. / Drawing on and adding to the literature from the anthropology of violence and the anthropology of public health, this thesis explores public health conceptions of community and domestic violence intervention as contrasted with the experience of structural violence for the individuals for whom intervention services are designed. The research that underwrites this project was conducted in an inner-city public hospital and focused on a clinically-driven, community-based youth violence intervention program. / Clinical and community violence intervention programs bring three groups together: clinical practitioners, community workers and youth service recipients. This study explores the heterogeneity of the world views of members of these groups and exposes the power imbalances inherent to clinical and community collaborations. The power differentials exist between the clinical, community and youth factions, as well as within each faction. This work shows how this unequal distribution of power---between and among these sub-groups---mirrors themes in American society and comes to influence internal program adjustment and negotiation. The process observed highlights how power politics, as well as incongruent perspectives on violence, play out initially in the implementation process and secondarily in the lives of the youth who were program participants. / This work, which has theoretical and practical implications for scholars working in the areas of poverty, violence, public health interventionism or adolescent programming, concludes with a summary of alternative strategies to approach violence prevention programming.