This research is based on a youth intervention organisation founded by the researcher in 1997. The organisation (Agape Copeland Train) is located in the Northern Cape. Youths’ contexts in the Northern Cape are fraught with psychological, social and relational problems, including violence, alcoholism, teenage pregnancies, depression, crime, poverty, and curtailed future prospects. An exploratory enquiry, informed by ecological and positive psychology, is undertaken. In particular, this research focuses on the (often neglected) perspectives of facilitators who work with youth. Exploration of how facilitators’ well-­‐being is impacted on whilst serving youth in this challenging context is undertaken. Interviews with facilitators yielded themes of positive transformation, including shifts in mindsets and positive affect. In addition, aspects of the organisation’s development, as relevant to the context of the research, are described and a model of youth facilitation This research is based on a youth intervention organisation founded by the researcher in 1997. The organisation (Agape Copeland Train) is located in the Northern Cape. Youths’ contexts in the Northern Cape are fraught with psychological, social and relational problems, including violence, alcoholism, teenage pregnancies, depression, crime, poverty, and curtailed future prospects. An exploratory enquiry, informed by ecological and positive psychology, is undertaken. In particular, this research focuses on the (often neglected) perspectives of facilitators who work with youth. Exploration of how facilitators’ well-­‐being is impacted on whilst serving youth in this challenging context is undertaken. Interviews with facilitators yielded themes of positive transformation, including shifts in mindsets and positive affect. In addition, aspects of the organisation’s development, as relevant to the context of the research, are described and a model of youth facilitation process, as developed by facilitators within the organisation, is presented. The researcher’s own experiences in the organisation (as director and as a facilitator) are reflected upon. Observations, incidents, and experiences are used as additional data sources. Facilitating vulnerable youth from an ecological systems perspective is an intricate, reflexive, complex and challenging process. / Psychology / MA (Clinical Psychology)

The aim of this study was to do group work with 10 girls staying in a shelter in order to contribute to their adjustment. Lewin's field theory and the General Systems Theory were utilized to ground the group work. The epistemological framework of the study was exploratory and involved an in depth analysis of the group experiences of the participants. Unstructured interviews were also conducted with the participants. Hermeneutics as a method of analysis was applied to analyse data. The following themes captured the experiences of the girls: trust versus mistrust, connection and disconnection, alienation and isolation, emotionally overwhelmed versus security, being labeled/stigmatized, security versus insecurity, and hope versus hopelessness. This study provides a better understanding of the life worlds of girls staying in a shelter. It could also contribute to a greater awareness of the experiences of abused girls who stay in a shelter. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:29:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Joao Carlos Caselli Messias.pdf: 1267623 bytes, checksum: 2ebfa2101deb5fc769f1f78c3ba30ceb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-04 / This research aimed to comprehend the experience of a team composed by college students towards the task of elaborating an academic project during one year and it is characterized as an exploratory qualitative study. Humanistic Psychology offered the theoretical reference more specifically through the Philosophy of the Implicit developed by Eugene T. Gendlin. During one year, the researcher participated on thirteen team meetings. Team members, as well as the researcher, wrote individual Meaning Versions at the end of every reunion in order to grasp their impressions about each stage of the process. Those reports were organized in a chart made of ninety-one Meaning Versions and the resulting psychological comprehension. The researcher narrated the group process from his own experience as a participant generating a report about the intersubjective intricacy. The method used by the researcher to make explicit the elements of his own subjectivity all the way through the process of interpretating the experience was Thinking at the Edge TAE, developed by Gendlin. This resource also made possible to illustrate how, from a psychological point of view, the creation of an experience meaning happens. It is understood that the process of this task centered team made possible the emergence of a group that shared a common meaning. Two types of leadership emerged during the process: one task centered and the other type focused on the development of a group meaning. Three different levels were identified regarding the manner how the six members organized themselves and contributed towards the task development. The research made it possible to comprehend the group as a collective organism endowed with its own identity. From this perspective, it was possible to understand some particularities of group dynamics as well the potential repercussion of this study for applications in various fields, especially professional environments. / Esta pesquisa objetivou compreender a experi?ncia de uma equipe formada por estudantes universit?rios em rela??o ? tarefa de elaborar um projeto acad?mico, ao longo de um ano letivo. O referencial te?rico foi a Psicologia Humanista, mais especificamente a Filosofia do Impl?cito, desenvolvida por Eugene T. Gendlin. Caracteriza-se como um estudo qualitativo de car?ter explorat?rio. Durante um ano o pesquisador participou de treze reuni?es realizadas pela equipe. O pesquisador e os membros da equipe redigiram vers?es de sentido individuais, ao t?rmino das reuni?es, para apreender as impress?es dos participantes a respeito de cada etapa do processo. Esses relatos foram organizados em um quadro geral contendo noventa e uma vers?es de sentido e a compreens?o psicol?gica decorrente. O pesquisador narrou o processo grupal a partir de sua pr?pria experi?ncia como participante da equipe, gerando um relato acerca da trama intersubjetiva. O m?todo adotado pelo pesquisador para explicitar os elementos de sua pr?pria subjetividade ao longo do processo de interpreta??o da experi?ncia vivida foi o Thinking at the Edge TAE, desenvolvido por Gendlin. Esse recurso tamb?m possibilitou ilustrar como acontece a elabora??o do significado de uma experi?ncia do ponto de vista psicol?gico. Concluiu-se que o processo desta equipe, centrada na tarefa, possibilitou a emerg?ncia de um grupo que partilhou um sentido comum. Desenvolveram-se duas formas de lideran?a ao longo deste processo, uma centrada na tarefa e outra centrada no desenvolvimento de um significado grupal. Foram identificadas tr?s camadas distintas na forma como os seis membros da equipe organizaram-se e contribu?ram para o desenvolvimento da tarefa. A pesquisa possibilitou uma compreens?o da equipe como um organismo coletivo, dotado de identidade pr?pria. A partir desta perspectiva, foi poss?vel compreender algumas peculiaridades da din?mica grupal e as poss?veis repercuss?es deste estudo para aplica??es em campos variados, com destaque para os ambientes profissionais.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:30:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Celia Maria Marcondes Ferraz Silva.pdf: 899850 bytes, checksum: 8bf9aec6a377cbb7b8ce5bddb05ec61c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-14 / The subject for the present project is to contribute for the history of the Social Psychology in Brazil showing that Silvia Tatiana Maurer Lane (1933-2006) has an important contribution for the theoretical propositions concerning the Brazilian social psychology that was adopted for other social psychologists, professors and social scientists. To work as a professor has a key influence for Silvia s thoughts and ideas. She has often been criticism of the psychology with American influence, as well as in relation to the classic methods of teaching in Brazil. The PUC-SP institution where she works for forty years provides her a freedom and an open environment that enhance her way. In order to study Silvia s publications and live had been used personal documents, books, interviews and biographies made by other authors. The personal documents found in the Núcleo de Estudos em História da Psicologia-NEHPSI give us an important contribution for our conclusions and show her strong image as a professor and scientist in Brazil and abroad. The analysis of Silvia s productions demonstrates a strong relationship among the socio historic environment and her ideas over the course of lifetime work. In order to analyze Silvia s thoughts and ideas has a key importance a non-edit text named My way wrote before her death with the intention to prepare a book with a collection of writings published or not, which ones was difficult to achieve. This text allows us to understand the structure given by her to her own thoughts. We discovered that the language psychology, the theoretical bases for a Brazilian social psychology, the community psychology, the studies concerning the process to become a group and the emotional mediation, represents subjects that have been present throughout the course of her life s generating researches, texts, courses and presentations. Time pass and new views and considerations have been added to these themes. The work was not finished before her death living space for other texts and studies in future / Nosso propósito ao elaborar esta tese é contribuir com o estudo da Psicologia Social no Brasil, mostrando que Silvia Tatiana Maurer Lane (1933-2006) teve importância relevante na formulação das bases teóricas de uma Psicologia Social Brasileira, adotada por psicólogos sociais, professores e pesquisadores. A atividade docente foi fundamental para a formação do pensamento da intelectual respeitada, tendo se desenvolvido por meio de uma postura crítica, permanente, à psicologia social de influência americana e aos métodos tradicionais de ensino. A PUC de São Paulo, instituição na qual trabalhou durante quarenta anos, proporcionou à Silvia um ambiente de liberdade intelectual que favoreceu o seu trajeto. Escolhemos para estudar a autora um caminho ainda não trilhado por outros pesquisadores que falaram a respeito da ilustre professora, conduzindo a nossa pesquisa, em especial, a partir dos documentos pessoais encontrados no acervo deixado na PUC de São Paulo sob a guarda do Núcleo de Estudos em História da Psicologia-NEHPSI, além de livros, entrevistas e biografias escritas por outros autores. A análise do percurso de Silvia nos mostrou conexões importantes entre o seu trabalho e o contexto sócio-histórico e revelaram o prestígio da professora no Brasil e no exterior. Para o estudo das ideias, tomamos por base um texto ainda não publicado, denominado: Caminhos percorridos , escrito pouco tempo antes da sua morte e cuja finalidade era preparar uma coletânea dos seus textos, publicados ou não, mas de difícil acesso. A leitura nos permitiu entender a estrutura dada por ela ao seu próprio pensamento. Constamos que a psicologia da linguagem, as bases teóricas para formulação de uma psicologia social brasileira, a psicologia comunitária, o processo grupal e a mediação emocional são temas que estão presentes ao longo de toda a obra, gerando pesquisas, textos, cursos e apresentações, recebendo ao longo do tempo, novos olhares e releituras que fizeram avançar a compreensão dos temas. A obra não se encerra com a sua morte, deixando espaço para novos estudos e textos a serem produzidos

The aim of this study was to do group work with 10 girls staying in a shelter in order to contribute to their adjustment. Lewin's field theory and the General Systems Theory were utilized to ground the group work. The epistemological framework of the study was exploratory and involved an in depth analysis of the group experiences of the participants. Unstructured interviews were also conducted with the participants. Hermeneutics as a method of analysis was applied to analyse data. The following themes captured the experiences of the girls: trust versus mistrust, connection and disconnection, alienation and isolation, emotionally overwhelmed versus security, being labeled/stigmatized, security versus insecurity, and hope versus hopelessness. This study provides a better understanding of the life worlds of girls staying in a shelter. It could also contribute to a greater awareness of the experiences of abused girls who stay in a shelter. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

Orientador: Sueli Terezinha Ferrero Martin / Resumo: A pesquisa buscou investigar as condições atuais do trabalho com grupos realizado nos Centros de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS), serviços estratégicos da política pública de atenção à Saúde Mental. No processo de reforma psiquiátrica brasileira, a transformação da rede assistencial e das práticas em saúde passou a considerar os grupos como um dos principais meios de trabalho dos profissionais em saúde mental. Os diferentes interesses e projetos políticos envolvidos neste processo se atualizam na dimensão particular da disputa entre o modelo biomédico e o modelo de atenção psicossocial, que propõem diferentes arranjos tecnológicos e distintas finalidades para o trabalho com grupos. A fim de apreender as tendências e contratendências desse tipo de atividade, partiu-se das concepções dos profissionais acerca do trabalho que realizam com grupos em suas relações com o processo de trabalho e com os modelos de atenção. Para tanto, conjugou-se a pesquisa teórica em referenciais do campo da Saúde Coletiva e da Reforma Psiquiátrica, com a pesquisa empírica em dois Centros de Atenção Psicossocial da cidade de Curitiba (PR). A análise reuniu dados de observação participante, questionários aplicados para todos os profissionais que realizavam grupos no momento inicial da pesquisa (trinta), três sessões de grupo focal com dez participantes e entrevistas semiestruturadas com sete participantes. Participaram da pesquisa profissionais de diferentes núcleos profissionais, incluindo enfermagem (téc... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the current conditions of the group work carried out at Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS), which are strategic services of Public Mental Health Policy. In the course of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform, the transformation of the assistance network and health practices began to consider groups as one of the primary work methods for mental health professionals. Different interests and political projects involved in this process are updated into the particular dimension of the dispute between a biomedical model and a psychosocial care model, which propose different technological arrangements and distinct goals for group work. In order to apprehend the tendencies and countertendencies for this kind of activity, we initially considered the professionals’ conceptions about their group work practice and their relations with the work process and health care models. Therefore, we combined theoretical research in the fields of Collective Health and Psychiatric Reform with the empirical research in two Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) of Curitiba City/PR. The analysis gathered data from participant observation, questionnaires applied to all professionals who were conducting group work at the beginning of the research (thirty), three focus group sessions with ten participants, and semi-structured interviews with seven participants. Professionals from different areas, including nursing (technical and university levels), psychology, social work and occupation... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

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Traditional management-leadership and organizational literature depicts the individual as conflated with their role and instructs them to handle their employees and the situations that arise daily and over the course of business cycles instrumentally and for the purposes of control and productivity. This more traditional and mainstream literature does not adequately address, if at all, the unconscious factors influencing people or the management situations in which they find themselves. Using a model based upon the theory of the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung and the relationship of consciousness to the unconscious, this dissertation looks at situational management cases and reveals the existence of the unconscious in the midst of our strongest claims to rationality. Present and active, the cases show the unconscious to be a significant factor in creating subjective meaning and ordering our world even in the most "rational" moments of our lives in public administration. They further describe how it is that the individual in the manager-leader role is implicated in and caused by the very situations they are attempting to manage and the way in which acknowledging and relating to the unconscious provides an additional resource for public managers. / Ph. D.

Den här uppsatsen handlar om facilitatorns roll och yrkeskunnande. En roll som är relativt ny och för de flesta fortfarande helt obekant. Facilitatorn anlitas för att underlätta för grupper att föra samtal och dialog, men också för att gemensamt reflektera. Viktiga förutsättningar för att hitta formerna för fruktbara samarbeten, vilket står högt på många organisationers agendor idag.   I uppsatsen redogör jag inledningsvis för den möteskultur som råder inom organisationer idag. En kultur där medarbetare och chefer avsätter mycket tid i möten som vare sig ger dem själva, organisationen eller samhället något av värde. Det är många gånger envägskommunikation eller förmedling av information. I en tidsanda som ställer höga krav på rationaliseringar och effektivseringar har det dessvärre också blivit så, att tiden för samtal och genuina dialoger succesivt har reducerats till förmån för ökad kommunikation i olika digitala kanaler, inte misnt e-mail och sociala medier. Jag vill hävda att vi människor behöver träffas och samtala för att nå en gemensam och fördjupad förståelse för varandra och våra olika sakfrågor. Vad händer på sikt om vi inte ges möjlighet till gemensam reflektion? Hur ska vi kunna samarbeta om vi inte lär känna varandra och de förutsättningar som råder?   I inledningen redogör jag även för delar av den kunskapsteori som finns kopplat till ämnesområdet yrkeskunnande och teknologi, men också för min mission – att återerövra samtalet som en viktig arbetsmetod. Uppsatsen är skriven i essäistisk stil och det empiriska materialet kommer från de texter jag själv har författat under masterutbildnignens två år då dialogseminariemetoden tillämpats, men också från den dialogseminarieserie som jag själv har genomfört med sex andra facilitatorskollegor. Tillsammans har vi börjat utforska vår gemensamma profession och det yrkeskunnande som vi representerar.   Facilitatorns yrkeskunnande är mångfacetterat och svårfångat, men handlar i mångt och mycket om att vara öppen för människors olikheter. Se dem som berikande. Vara krockfrämjande. Bejaka olika perspektiv och infallsvinklar på saker och ting. Inte vara rädd för att konfrontera. Facilitatorn jobbar med olika tempoväxlingar och har en mängd olika metoder och tekniker till sitt förfogande för att möta olika problemställningar. Planerat eller improviserat. Det finns tydliga analogier med teatern, men också med läkar- och läraryrket. Det handlar om att skapa spänningar och väcka känslor hos deltagarna. Och sedan ta hand om och förvalta de känslor som väckts. Som facilitator blir man aldrig fullärd. Alla grupper är olika och varje ny mötessituation bjuder på nya utmaningar.   För mig känns det som att resan mot bättre vetande precis har börjat. I mina texter kan jag skönja en utveckling över tid, men det finns otaliga gator kvar att utforska. Jag är fortsatt nyfiken och jag vet bestämt att jag vil fortsätta att fördjupa mina kunskaper om facilitatorns yrkeskunnande och gärna då med dialogseminariet som fortsatt forskningsmetod. / This thesis explores the role and skills of a professional facilitator. A facilitator is hired to facilitate meetings and other group processes trough dialogue, conversations and active participation, with the purpose of makig reflection and collaboration within and between organisations possible.