Risk behaviour amongst adolescents represents a major public health challenge in South Africa particularly when considering the statistics on sexually active youth, adolescent pregnancies, smoking, drinking and drug abuse amongst the youth. Although various reasons can be given to explain this phenomenon, the parent–adolescent relationship has proven to be a huge factor in the prevention of risk behaviour. However, even though the importance of such a relationship has been proven, risk behaviour amongst adolescents still persists. This study specifically looks at the dialogical parent–adolescent relationship and how adolescents who engage in risk behaviour are affected by the relationship and how it can prevent risk behaviour. The content of section A explains the orientation towards the research, the problem rationale and the goals and objectives of the study. The researcher followed a qualitative approach as she tried to obtain an understanding of adolescent risk behaviour and how the nature of the dialogical parent–adolescent relationship could prevent such risk behaviour. Semi–structured interviews were conducted with five girls and three boys who lived in Pretoria, as well as with their parents. The adolescents were between the ages of 14 and 17 and all engaged in risk behaviour. In section B a literature study is given with a brief outline of the methodology that was used. Specific focus falls on the findings of the study. Section C contains the summary, evaluation and conclusions of the overall study. This research was done in order to make recommendations to parents of adolescents who engage in risk behaviour as a possible way to prevent it. This study highlighted how unprepared and uninformed parents were in terms of their parental skills and the needs of their adolescent children. The study also highlighted the need of the adolescents to be validated, and the lack of understanding and warmth in the manner that their parents relate to them. Adolescents still need parental guidance and a sense of belonging. The very poor relationships that exist between parents and adolescents strengthened the researcher’s hypothesis that the adolescents get involved in a range of dubious activities and their parents’ ineffectiveness to intervene and assist their adolescents through these challenging times, may lead to risk behaviour. / Thesis (M.A. (Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.

Risk behaviour amongst adolescents represents a major public health challenge in South Africa particularly when considering the statistics on sexually active youth, adolescent pregnancies, smoking, drinking and drug abuse amongst the youth. Although various reasons can be given to explain this phenomenon, the parent–adolescent relationship has proven to be a huge factor in the prevention of risk behaviour. However, even though the importance of such a relationship has been proven, risk behaviour amongst adolescents still persists. This study specifically looks at the dialogical parent–adolescent relationship and how adolescents who engage in risk behaviour are affected by the relationship and how it can prevent risk behaviour. The content of section A explains the orientation towards the research, the problem rationale and the goals and objectives of the study. The researcher followed a qualitative approach as she tried to obtain an understanding of adolescent risk behaviour and how the nature of the dialogical parent–adolescent relationship could prevent such risk behaviour. Semi–structured interviews were conducted with five girls and three boys who lived in Pretoria, as well as with their parents. The adolescents were between the ages of 14 and 17 and all engaged in risk behaviour. In section B a literature study is given with a brief outline of the methodology that was used. Specific focus falls on the findings of the study. Section C contains the summary, evaluation and conclusions of the overall study. This research was done in order to make recommendations to parents of adolescents who engage in risk behaviour as a possible way to prevent it. This study highlighted how unprepared and uninformed parents were in terms of their parental skills and the needs of their adolescent children. The study also highlighted the need of the adolescents to be validated, and the lack of understanding and warmth in the manner that their parents relate to them. Adolescents still need parental guidance and a sense of belonging. The very poor relationships that exist between parents and adolescents strengthened the researcher’s hypothesis that the adolescents get involved in a range of dubious activities and their parents’ ineffectiveness to intervene and assist their adolescents through these challenging times, may lead to risk behaviour. / Thesis (M.A. (Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:20:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Merissa Vaz Sampaio Rosa Tamioso.pdf: 821962 bytes, checksum: e609cb84593574458dd8d87241da3c3a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-03-31 / The following work, as it focus the continuous and processual development of the human being in the psychotherapeutic setting, aims to understand the production of new senses in the person subjective configuration, from the dialogical relationship that is established between psychotherapist and client. Inherent in the human condition, the production of sense takes place in the relational symbolic space and in spite of its subjective and singular feature it is permeated by the individual s culture and history. Based on the subjectivity theory proposed by González Rey, categories like subject, production of sense and subjectivity (individual and social), compose the theoretical reference upon which the research is made. The principles of qualitative epistemology that guided all the steps of the investigation highlight the importance of the dialogical spaces in the production of knowledge. The study of two clinical cases results in a process of knowledge that reaffirms the psychotherapy as a legitimate social scene of scientific investigation about the human development, showing that the established relation helped the researched subjects to promote meaningful transformations in their relational spaces. / RESUMO Este trabalho, ao focalizar, no setting psicoterapêutico, o desenvolvimento contínuo e processual do ser humano, objetiva compreender a produção de novos sentidos na configuração subjetiva do sujeito, a partir da relação dialógica que se estabelece entre psicoterapeuta e cliente. Inerente à condição humana, a produção de sentido realiza-se num espaço simbólico relacional e, apesar de seu caráter subjetivo e singular, é perpassada pela cultura e a história do sujeito. Com base na teoria da subjetividade proposta por González Rey, categorias como sujeito, produção de sentido e subjetividade (individual e social), compõem o referencial teórico sobre o qual se constrói a pesquisa. Os princípios da epistemologia qualitativa, que nortearam todas as etapas da investigação, ressaltam a importância de espaços dialógicos na produção do conhecimento. O estudo de dois casos clínicos resulta em um processo de conhecimento que reafirma a psicoterapia como um legítimo cenário social de investigação científica sobre desenvolvimento humano, mostrando que a relação estabelecida auxiliou os sujeitos pesquisados a empreender transformações significativas em seus espaços relacionais.

The purpose of this study was to develop Gestalt guidelines for mine worker fathers living in Oranjemund in order to enhance a dialogical relationship with their children in middle childhood. The researcher made use of the first four stages of the Design and Development model of intervention research. These stages include problem analysis and project planning, information gathering and synthesis, design and the early development of the guidelines. For the purpose of this study, focus groups were conducted with father participants and semi-structured interviews were conduct with children participants. The research study was based on existential dialogue with the focus on four main themes, namely; commitment to dialogue, presence, inclusion and confirmation. Existing literature from Gestalt approach, middle childhood and culture was used together with functional elements of other existing parent child relationship and family programmes or models, to develop the guidelines. / Social Work / M. Diac (Play Therapy)

The purpose of this study was to develop Gestalt guidelines for mine worker fathers living in Oranjemund in order to enhance a dialogical relationship with their children in middle childhood. The researcher made use of the first four stages of the Design and Development model of intervention research. These stages include problem analysis and project planning, information gathering and synthesis, design and the early development of the guidelines. For the purpose of this study, focus groups were conducted with father participants and semi-structured interviews were conduct with children participants. The research study was based on existential dialogue with the focus on four main themes, namely; commitment to dialogue, presence, inclusion and confirmation. Existing literature from Gestalt approach, middle childhood and culture was used together with functional elements of other existing parent child relationship and family programmes or models, to develop the guidelines. / Social Work / M. Diac (Play Therapy)

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As forças constituem os discursos dos formadores e dos professores atuantes nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental, ciclo I, e explicam o movimento de adesão e de resistência desses sujeitos à imposição da implantação do Ler e Escrever como uma política educacional. A pesquisa de natureza etnográfica ancorou-se nos princípios da filosofia da linguagem, pensada por Bakhtin e Volochínov, e discutida por Medviédev e por autores contemporâneos estudiosos das obras do Círculo (de Bakhtin), e teve como participantes dez professores do ensino fundamental, ciclo I, de uma escola estadual do interior paulista, e três formadoras de uma diretoria de ensino. Algumas reuniões de formação na escola pesquisada, em momentos de Aulas de Trabalho Pedagógico Coletivo, foram observadas e gravadas em áudio e vídeo. Foram feitas também entrevistas com todas as professoras da escola que aceitaram a participar da pesquisa, com a professora coordenadora e com as professoras coordenadoras do Núcleo Pedagógico da diretoria de ensino. Além das observações e das entrevistas, constituíram a pesquisa: a) pautas das reuniões de formações na escola observada e b) guias de planejamento e orientações didáticas Ler e Escrever. Considerando o princípio da relação dialógica, a partir da premissa da alteridade, os enunciados foram compreendidos à luz da filosofia da linguagem. Foi possível compreender, a partir da resposta de professores e de formadores na implantação das ações em destaque do programa, que a força centrípeta, que quer dominar, e a força centrífuga, libertária, de sentidos contraditórios, dialogizam o próprio programa. Apesar da formação continuada de professores pelo programa e os guias didáticos Ler e Escrever demonstrarem ser uma ação anti-dialógica pela represália ao plurilinguismo e pela imposição e controle de uma linguagem única que desconsidera o professor como sujeito falante responsavelmente participante no mundo, o professor luta pela inalienabilidade da palavra, arrisca, rompe e se indigna, pela voz, pelo corpo e pelas atitudes, contra a força opressora e autoritária que quer apagar sua voz e paralisar seu ato. / This thesis presents results of the research that aimed to understand, through Bakhtinian senses of centripetal and centrifugal forces, the discourses that permeate teacher’s formation and the action of teaching guides of São Paulo’s state program Ler e Escrever (Read and Write). The forces constitute the discourses of trainers and teachers acting in the first years of elementary school, cycle I, and explain the movement of adhesion and resistance of these subjects to the implementation’s imposition of Ler e Escrever as an educational policy. The ethnographic nature research was anchored in the principles of language’s philosophy, thought by Bakhtin and Volochínov, and discussed by Medvedev and contemporaneous authors scholars of the Circle’s works (Bakhtin), having as participants ten elementary school teachers, cycle I, from a state school located in São Paulo’s countryside, and three trainers from an educational board of directors. Some formation meetings at the researched school, during Collective Pedagogical Work Classes, were observed and recorded in audio and video. Interviews were also conducted with all the teachers of the school who agreed to participate in the research, with the coordinator teacher and coordinators teachers of the Pedagogical Center of the educational board of directors. In addition to the observations and interviews, the research consisted of: a) guidelines of the training meetings in the observed school and b) planning guides and Ler e Escrever didactic guidelines. Considering the principle of the dialogical relationship, from the premise of otherness, the statements were understood by the light of language’s philosophy. Through the answer of teachers and trainers during the implementation of the actions highlighted in the program, it was possible to understand that the centripetal force, which wants to dominate, and the centrifugal force, libertarian, of contradictory directions, dialogue in the own program. In spite of the continued formation of teachers by the program and the Ler e Escrever didactic guides demonstrate to be an anti-dialogic action by the reprisal to the multilingualism and by the imposition and control of a unique language that disregards the teacher as a speaking subject responsibly participant in the world, the teacher fights for the inalienability of the word, risks, bursts out and outrages, through voice, body and by attitudes, against the oppressive and authoritarian force that wants to erase his voice and paralyze his act.