The aim of the research study was to explore resilience in refugee children, using a Gestalt approach to play therapy. The hypothesis, was that a Gestalt approach to play therapy could promote resilience in Refugee children. A literature review was conducted. This revealed that unaccompanied refugee children were unique because they need to deal with trauma, loss and change while having to adjust to living in a new country and many have to learn to speak a new language. The research method was a multiple case study and an intervention research model was used to implement the research. Schoeman's Working Model was used as the Gestalt play therapy approach. Attributes of resilient children were used to measure the results. The researcher concluded that play therapy with a Gestalt approach may promote resilience in refugee children because it increases the numbers of protective factors in a child's life. / Social Work / M. Diac. (Play Therapy)

The purpose of this study is to provide descriptions of conversations with survivors of suicide, including their relationships with the persons who committed suicide, the relationships that followed these deaths, their experiences of suicide, and the way that they made sense of these deaths. The epistemological framework of this dissertation is ecosystemic and social constructionist. This study involved in-depth interviews with three suicide survivors, exploring personal and professional domains. Thematic analysis was the method used to generate patterns of meaning. The researcher recounted the research participants' stories and punctuated emergent themes and patterns according to what she deemed important. Each story was contextualised, and included reflections of the researcher. Themes both common and unique to each participant story were highlighted and discussed. The information yielded from this study could have value to survivors of suicide and psychotherapists whose clients commit suicide. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

This thesis constitutes a narrative that explores an alternative meaning construction for the experience of loss. During the telling of this story, I consider the appropriateness of adopting the 'new paradigm' approach for this particular thesis, and the constructivist and social constructionist epistemological assumptions underlying such an approach. I delve into the use of 'self as researcher under this epistemological umbrella. This is followed by an exploration of 'chaos theory' and its application to social systems. And finally, I consider the usefulness of this theory in constructing meanings for loss experiences on various systemic levels within my own family system. / Psychology / M.A.(Clinical Psychology)

Até sua entrada no mercado de trabalho, a identidade da mulher foi construída somente através do casamento, de modo que ela faz ainda um grande investimento na vida afetiva e familiar. Em função disso, esta pesquisa objetivou investigar o processo de luto vivenciado pelas mulheres em decorrência do término de suas uniões amorosas, sejam elas oficiais ou consensuais. Para realização deste estudo, foram entrevistadas oito mulheres separadas que não haviam vivenciado a experiência de um novo casamento. A faixa etária das participantes variou entre 38 e 66 anos, sendo a média de idade de 49 anos. Elas pertenciam às camadas médias da população e residiam em duas grandes capitais: Recife e Rio de Janeiro. Todas as entrevistadas tinham filhos com os ex-parceiros. Com o seu consentimento, as entrevistas foram gravadas e transcritas. Considerando a Análise Temática, as respostas foram categorizadas por temas, formando categorias de análise. Os dados indicam que, independentemente de quem deixa e quem é deixado, podem surgir logo após a separação vários sentimentos: euforia, alívio, tranqüilidade, sensação de liberdade, atordoamento, medo, raiva, tristeza, sentimento, sentimento de abandono. Quanto aos sentimentos atuais relacionados à separação, algumas entrevistadas aceitaram o término do casamento. Por outro lado, alguns relatos apontaram para a dificuldade de elaborar a perda, não do parceiro propriamente dito, mas do casamento. A maioria das participantes atribuiu a vários fatores o término do casamento. Entre estes fatores, podemos citar: a infidelidade masculina; as diferenças de classe social, de educação e de interesses; e o fato de algumas entrevistadas terem exercido o papel de provedoras durante o casamento. Analisando como se deu o processo de reconstrução da identidade individual nas participantes, verificamos que a separação é uma oportunidade de estabelecer novos projetos existenciais e de recuperar aspectos de si mesmo. Quanto à relação com os ex-parceiros, o relato de uma das participantes confirmou a possibilidade de o vínculo amoroso transformar-se em amizade. Os demais relatos, porém, demonstraram que tal situação não corresponde freqüentemente à realidade. A maioria das participantes reconheceu que contribuiu de alguma forma para a separação. Esperamos que este trabalho acadêmico contribua para a investigação do luto feminino decorrente da separação amorosa, propiciando reflexões e sendo um reforço para bibliografia atual sobre o tema / Until women started growing on the job market her identity was built only throughout the marriage, increasing her investment in family and love life. Because of that, this research focused on investigating the process of grief lived by women when their love relationship end either by consensus or official. For this study eight divorced women that havent had experienced remarriage were interviewed. Their age range was between 38 and 66 with a medium age of 49 years old. They were from middle class and lived in two big capitals Recife and Rio de Janeiro. All the interviewed had kids with their ex partners. With their consent the interviews were recorded. Taking in consideration the Thematic Analysis, their responses were categorized in themes building the categories. Data indicates that independent of dumper or dumped, different feelings can appear after a separation: freedom, tranquility, rejection, fear, angry, sadness, etc. Some of the interviewed accepted the end of the marriage but on the other side, some pointed to the difficult dealing with the lost, not just of the partner but the marriage by itself. Most of the participants related the end of marriage to different facts, among them are the men infidelity, social class differences, education and interests and the fact that some of the interviewed were providers during the marriage. Analyzing how the individual identity reconstruction process happened among the participants was verified that separation was an opportunity to establish new projects and recover self aspects. As for the relationship with ex-partners, one of the participants confirmed the possibility of love relationship be transformed into friendship. All the others agree that this situation does not correspond to reality. We hope that this academic work contributes to the investigation of the feminine grief due to love separation, incentivizing reflections and reinforcing the actual bibliography about this subject

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:08:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_vanessa_gerosa.pdf: 454933 bytes, checksum: eeacdbc99f7636483584ab8d14d544e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-01 / Until women started growing on the job market her identity was built only throughout the marriage, increasing her investment in family and love life. Because of that, this research focused on investigating the process of grief lived by women when their love relationship end either by consensus or official. For this study eight divorced women that haven t had experienced remarriage were interviewed. Their age range was between 38 and 66 with a medium age of 49 years old. They were from middle class and lived in two big capitals Recife and Rio de Janeiro. All the interviewed had kids with their ex partners. With their consent the interviews were recorded. Taking in consideration the Thematic Analysis, their responses were categorized in themes building the categories. Data indicates that independent of dumper or dumped, different feelings can appear after a separation: freedom, tranquility, rejection, fear, angry, sadness, etc. Some of the interviewed accepted the end of the marriage but on the other side, some pointed to the difficult dealing with the lost, not just of the partner but the marriage by itself. Most of the participants related the end of marriage to different facts, among them are the men infidelity, social class differences, education and interests and the fact that some of the interviewed were providers during the marriage. Analyzing how the individual identity reconstruction process happened among the participants was verified that separation was an opportunity to establish new projects and recover self aspects. As for the relationship with ex-partners, one of the participants confirmed the possibility of love relationship be transformed into friendship. All the others agree that this situation does not correspond to reality. We hope that this academic work contributes to the investigation of the feminine grief due to love separation, incentivizing reflections and reinforcing the actual bibliography about this subject / Até sua entrada no mercado de trabalho, a identidade da mulher foi construída somente através do casamento, de modo que ela faz ainda um grande investimento na vida afetiva e familiar. Em função disso, esta pesquisa objetivou investigar o processo de luto vivenciado pelas mulheres em decorrência do término de suas uniões amorosas, sejam elas oficiais ou consensuais. Para realização deste estudo, foram entrevistadas oito mulheres separadas que não haviam vivenciado a experiência de um novo casamento. A faixa etária das participantes variou entre 38 e 66 anos, sendo a média de idade de 49 anos. Elas pertenciam às camadas médias da população e residiam em duas grandes capitais: Recife e Rio de Janeiro. Todas as entrevistadas tinham filhos com os ex-parceiros. Com o seu consentimento, as entrevistas foram gravadas e transcritas. Considerando a Análise Temática, as respostas foram categorizadas por temas, formando categorias de análise. Os dados indicam que, independentemente de quem deixa e quem é deixado, podem surgir logo após a separação vários sentimentos: euforia, alívio, tranqüilidade, sensação de liberdade, atordoamento, medo, raiva, tristeza, sentimento, sentimento de abandono. Quanto aos sentimentos atuais relacionados à separação, algumas entrevistadas aceitaram o término do casamento. Por outro lado, alguns relatos apontaram para a dificuldade de elaborar a perda, não do parceiro propriamente dito, mas do casamento. A maioria das participantes atribuiu a vários fatores o término do casamento. Entre estes fatores, podemos citar: a infidelidade masculina; as diferenças de classe social, de educação e de interesses; e o fato de algumas entrevistadas terem exercido o papel de provedoras durante o casamento. Analisando como se deu o processo de reconstrução da identidade individual nas participantes, verificamos que a separação é uma oportunidade de estabelecer novos projetos existenciais e de recuperar aspectos de si mesmo. Quanto à relação com os ex-parceiros, o relato de uma das participantes confirmou a possibilidade de o vínculo amoroso transformar-se em amizade. Os demais relatos, porém, demonstraram que tal situação não corresponde freqüentemente à realidade. A maioria das participantes reconheceu que contribuiu de alguma forma para a separação. Esperamos que este trabalho acadêmico contribua para a investigação do luto feminino decorrente da separação amorosa, propiciando reflexões e sendo um reforço para bibliografia atual sobre o tema

Submitted by Biblioteca Central (biblioteca@unicap.br) on 2017-11-06T17:29:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_vania_maria_ferreira_silva.pdf: 1427734 bytes, checksum: 90465c0e926f63e719843b8deb59d085 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-06T17:29:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_vania_maria_ferreira_silva.pdf: 1427734 bytes, checksum: 90465c0e926f63e719843b8deb59d085 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-01-05 / The present report has the objective to identify thoughts and feelings of people toward death, searching to understand how this crisis interferes in the adult religious identity. The essay aims to identify how crisis facing death interferes in the religious identity reconfiguration of researched adults, as well as, to find out if among those feelings there is a fear related to death and the after death situation. This research uses a qualitative approach of data, once, one does not intend to generalize results. It is used the phenomenological method from this perspective, to identify the meaning of feelings undergone by adults due to death crisis. We collect data from semi-structured interviews with two main questions for the proposed objectives. The sample is of twelve persons from 54 to 90 years old, that say to be Catholic Spirit, Evangelic, no defined Religion and some self-defined with new religious denominations, created at the moment of the interview. The qualitative analysis of experiences and representations is carried out with the data seeking to delimitate the interview content phenomenological description in meaning units, to confront them with based upon theories. The results of the analysis show that adults go through crisis situation when facing death, they tend to question their religious values, developing attitudes that are reflected in their religious identity reconfiguration: some of them withdrawing themselves or completely breaking the affective ties that link them to their religious institutions, others, differently, get closer and intensify ones relations with those institutions or religious groups. And others at home have a holy place, going from the inherited faith to an inner faith, that it is reflected in daily life, so, one can conclude that, an existential crisis happens, when facing death. / A presente dissertação tem como objetivo geral identificar pensamentos e sentimentos das pessoas ante a morte, buscando compreender como esta crise interfere na identidade religiosa do adulto. O trabalho visa identificar como a crise ante a morte interfere na reconfiguração da identidade religiosa dos adultos pesquisados bem como averiguar se dentre os sentimentos elencados surgem medos relacionados à morte e a situação pós-morte. Esta pesquisa usa a abordagem qualitativa dos dados, sobretudo por não se pretender generalizar resultados. A partir desta perspectiva, utiliza-se o método fenomenológico, com o propósito de identificar os significados dos sentimentos vividos pelos adultos, diante da crise ante a morte. Para alcançar os objetivos propostos, o instrumento da coleta de dados é a entrevista semi-estruturada, baseando-se em duas perguntas norteadoras. A amostra consta de doze sujeitos com idade entre cinqüenta e quatro e noventa anos que se declaram pertencendo à religião católica, espírita, evangélica, sem religião definida e alguns que se auto-atribuíram denominações religiosas novas, criadas no momento da própria entrevista. Com os dados em mãos, faz-se a análise qualitativa das vivências e representações, buscando delimitar e descrever fenomenologicamente o conteúdo das entrevistas em unidades de significados, confrontando-as com as teorias embasadoras. Os resultados das análises demonstram que os adultos que vivenciam uma situação de crise ante a morte, tendem a questionar os seus valores religiosos, desenvolvendo algumas atitudes que se refletem em um movimento de reconfiguração de suas identidades religiosas: uns retraindo-se, distanciando-se ou rompendo completamente com os laços afetivos que os ligam as instituições religiosas de origem, outros, de modo contrário, aproximam-se e intensificam as suas relações com suas instituições ou grupos religiosos. E ainda outros, afastando-se fazem do seu lar, um lugar sagrado e passam de um tipo de fé herdada, para um tipo de fé pessoal, íntima, que se reflete no seu cotidiano, donde se pode concluir que o confronto com a morte, ocasiona uma crise de natureza psicoespiritual.

The aim of this research was to uncover and understand the experiences, and the coping strategies employed by African teenagers in coming to terms with the death of a loved one, the support needs in relation to this, and the need to provide guidelines on how they would like to be supported by social workers. A qualitative research approach was employed, following an explorative, descriptive and contextual research design. The study was conducted in Cullinan near Pretoria in Gauteng Province. Data were collected, using structured interviews with a purposively selected sample of African teenagers who met the criteria for inclusion in the study. The data were analysed, according to the framework provided by Tesch to ensure the trustworthiness of the qualitative data was to be employed for the data verification. The findings included seven identified themes, the sub-themes and categories of which were supported by the extracts from the interview transcripts, and the literature reviewed for this research. The research report, together with the conclusions and recommendations, based on the conclusion, were drawn from the research- thereby, showing how the goals of the study were achieved. / Social Work / M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health))

In Gestalplaytherapy there is a need for guidelines with a pastoral perspective for the child that is experiencing loss. This research is undertaken to set Gestaltplaytherapeutic guidelines with a pastoral perspective for the therapeutic intervention of the primary school child who is experiencing loss due to the death of a loved one. The study consulted relevant literature and compared the literature study with experience acquired in practice. The impact of the loss that the child is experiencing has an influence on the child as a whole. The researcher has found that the Christian child's experience of loss due to the death of a loved one is influenced greatly by the child's spiritual experience. For this reason it is necessary that Gestaltplaytherapy includes a pastoral approach within the therapeutic setting when working with a child experiencing loss due to the death of a loved one. / In Gestaltspelterapie is daar 'n leemte aan riglyne vanuit 'n pastorale perspektief wat die kind wat verlies ervaar kan begelei. Hierdie navorsing het ten doel om Gestalspelterapeutiese riglyne met 'n pastorale perspektief daar te stel vir die hantering van die laerskoolkind wat verlies ervaar as gevolg van die dood van 'n geliefde. Die studie ondersoek die kind se geestelike belewing van verlies deur middel van navorsing in relevante literatuur en vergelyk dit met praktiese ervaring wat opgedoen is in die praktyk. Die impak van die verlies wat die laerskoolkind ervaar as gevolg van die dood van 'n geliefde raak sy totale menswees. Die navorser het waargeneem dat die Christenkind se ervaring en verwerking van die dood van 'n geliefde ook deur sy geestelike belewing beinvloed word. Daarom is dit nodig dat die kind wat verlies ervaar ook op die pastorale vlak binne die Gestaltspelterapeutiese opset hanteer word. / Social work / M. Diac. (Play Therapy)

This study was undertaken as a qualitative needs assessment of emotional support to the adolescent with a terminally ill parent. Five participants in their adolescent life phase (14 to 18 years) with a terminally ill parent, participated in the study. Individual unstructured interviews were conducted with each participant, in order to assess their need for emotional support. With the consent of the parents and adolescents, the interviews were video-recorded and transcribed. Eight recurring themes were selected from the case studies and verified with the existing literature. The result of the study is the assessment of the need for emotional support to the adolescent with a terminally ill parent. / Social Work / M. Diac (Play Therapy)(Social Work)

During the researcher's work with looked after children for the past four years, it became clear that adolescent placements were much more likely to break down than others. Although there is some literature about foster placement breakdowns, the researcher did not really get an answer as to the causes of adolescent placement breakdowns. This study therefore explores causal factors of adolescent placement breakdowns as seen by foster carers, adolescents and professionals. It is evident from this study that there are no easy answers. Although the adolescent, as much as any other child, craves to belong, to be listened to and be respected, it seems that it is not always possible for foster carers to put this into practice, given the challenging behaviour that adolescents often display. Recommendations are based on relevant literature and the empirical study, in the hope that it might be useful to those with an interest in this field. / Social Work / M.Diac. (Play Therapy)