Thesis advisor: Jacqueline V. Lerner / The current study examines the development of social skills in delinquent adolescents in the context of the care they receive in a residential treatment facility (RTF). Reviews of prevention and intervention programs for delinquency have provided support for parent training and child social skills training as the most promising approaches to treatment. However, for adolescents in an RTF, their primary parental figures have become the care workers with whom they are placed. Based on their caregiving behaviors, these workers could provide an environment that counteracts or exacerbates the effects of the residents' prior experiences. Therefore, three major factors that may influence the social skills outcomes of adjudicated youth will be examined: (1) the prior effect of family life, (2) the current effect of youth workers, and (3) the possible interaction between (1) and (2). Using a sample of 82 delinquent adolescents (aged 13-18 years old at entry) and 41 of their caregivers from a RTF, OLS regression models indicate that several factors at the individual level and in the treatment milieu are important to consider when addressing social skills development for delinquent youth. At the individual level, adolescents identified as early-onset delinquents entered treatment with lower social skills, but also experienced the greatest improvement in these skills while in treatment. In addition, older youth and youth from larger households entered treatment with higher levels of initial social skills on average. When considering the behaviors of care workers, two caregiving measures were surprisingly associated with positive social skills growth - caregiver psychological control and attributions of internality and controllability. The unexpected relationships between caregiving and positive development are discussed with an emphasis on the unique characteristics and context of the present sample. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology.

Este trabalho teve por objetivo investigar e discutir as imagens sociais atribuídas às instituições de acolhimento e aos jovens institucionalizados, a partir de dois estudos empíricos exploratórios. O estudo I investigou as imagens sociais atribuídas às instituições de acolhimento. Participaram da pesquisa 202 adultos selecionados por conveniência, com idades entre 16 e 69 anos (M=32,76, DP=11,67), sendo a maioria do sexo feminino (79,2%), solteiro (51%), com ensino médio (48%) ou curso superior (37,6%). Os participantes responderam a um questionário aberto utilizando até cinco palavras para descrever uma instituição de acolhimento. O estudo II investigou as imagens sociais atribuídas aos jovens em acolhimento institucional. Participaram 224 adultos selecionados por conveniência, com idades entre 18 e 71 anos (M=33,97, DP=11,42), sendo que 68,4% já tiveram contato com adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade e risco. Foi utilizado um questionário fechado, com 37 palavras para descrever os jovens típicos e em acolhimento, com itens em escala Likert. Os resultados do primeiro estudo indicam que as imagens sociais sobre as instituições de acolhimento, em geral, são positivas e que predominam as percepções relacionadas ao acolhimento/proteção e à organização. Os resultados do segundo estudo apontam que as palavras consideradas negativas foram significativamente mais associadas aos jovens em acolhimento institucional, indicando haver uma imagem social negativa desta população. Embora as mudanças legais e políticas referentes à proteção infantojuvenil venham contribuindo para a qualificação dos serviços de acolhimento, permanecem os estigmas que classificam os jovens inseridos nesse contexto. É importante que se faça uma reflexão social coletiva sobre essa realidade a fim de que se encontrem estratégias de modificação do imaginário social que ainda rotula e discrimina essa população. / This study aimed to investigate and discuss the social images associated to the residential care institutions and the young people in care through two exploratory empirical studies. The first study investigated the social images assigned to the residential care institutions. The participants were 202 adults selected by convenience, aged 16 to 69 years old (M=32.76, SD=11.67), mostly female (79.2%), single (51%), with high school (48%) or higher education (37.6%). The participants answered an open questionnaire using up to five words to describe a residential care institution. The second study investigated the social images assigned to young people in care. The participants were 224 adults selected by convenience, aged 18 to 71 years old (M=33.97, SD=11.42), 68.4% of them have already had contact with teenagers in vulnerability and risk situations. The instrument was a Likert scale questionnaire with 37 words used to describe young people in general and in care. The results of the first study indicated that social images are generally positive, prevailing perceptions related to care/protection and organization. The results of the second study indicated that the negative words were significantly more associated with young people in care, indicating that there is a negative social image related to this population. Although legal and political changes concerning children and youth protection have been contributing to the qualification of residential care institutions, the stigmas that classify young people inserted in this context remain. It is important to make a collective social reflection about this reality in order to find strategies to modify the social imaginary that still labels and discriminates this population.

Este trabalho teve por objetivo investigar e discutir as imagens sociais atribuídas às instituições de acolhimento e aos jovens institucionalizados, a partir de dois estudos empíricos exploratórios. O estudo I investigou as imagens sociais atribuídas às instituições de acolhimento. Participaram da pesquisa 202 adultos selecionados por conveniência, com idades entre 16 e 69 anos (M=32,76, DP=11,67), sendo a maioria do sexo feminino (79,2%), solteiro (51%), com ensino médio (48%) ou curso superior (37,6%). Os participantes responderam a um questionário aberto utilizando até cinco palavras para descrever uma instituição de acolhimento. O estudo II investigou as imagens sociais atribuídas aos jovens em acolhimento institucional. Participaram 224 adultos selecionados por conveniência, com idades entre 18 e 71 anos (M=33,97, DP=11,42), sendo que 68,4% já tiveram contato com adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade e risco. Foi utilizado um questionário fechado, com 37 palavras para descrever os jovens típicos e em acolhimento, com itens em escala Likert. Os resultados do primeiro estudo indicam que as imagens sociais sobre as instituições de acolhimento, em geral, são positivas e que predominam as percepções relacionadas ao acolhimento/proteção e à organização. Os resultados do segundo estudo apontam que as palavras consideradas negativas foram significativamente mais associadas aos jovens em acolhimento institucional, indicando haver uma imagem social negativa desta população. Embora as mudanças legais e políticas referentes à proteção infantojuvenil venham contribuindo para a qualificação dos serviços de acolhimento, permanecem os estigmas que classificam os jovens inseridos nesse contexto. É importante que se faça uma reflexão social coletiva sobre essa realidade a fim de que se encontrem estratégias de modificação do imaginário social que ainda rotula e discrimina essa população. / This study aimed to investigate and discuss the social images associated to the residential care institutions and the young people in care through two exploratory empirical studies. The first study investigated the social images assigned to the residential care institutions. The participants were 202 adults selected by convenience, aged 16 to 69 years old (M=32.76, SD=11.67), mostly female (79.2%), single (51%), with high school (48%) or higher education (37.6%). The participants answered an open questionnaire using up to five words to describe a residential care institution. The second study investigated the social images assigned to young people in care. The participants were 224 adults selected by convenience, aged 18 to 71 years old (M=33.97, SD=11.42), 68.4% of them have already had contact with teenagers in vulnerability and risk situations. The instrument was a Likert scale questionnaire with 37 words used to describe young people in general and in care. The results of the first study indicated that social images are generally positive, prevailing perceptions related to care/protection and organization. The results of the second study indicated that the negative words were significantly more associated with young people in care, indicating that there is a negative social image related to this population. Although legal and political changes concerning children and youth protection have been contributing to the qualification of residential care institutions, the stigmas that classify young people inserted in this context remain. It is important to make a collective social reflection about this reality in order to find strategies to modify the social imaginary that still labels and discriminates this population.

Este trabalho teve por objetivo investigar e discutir as imagens sociais atribuídas às instituições de acolhimento e aos jovens institucionalizados, a partir de dois estudos empíricos exploratórios. O estudo I investigou as imagens sociais atribuídas às instituições de acolhimento. Participaram da pesquisa 202 adultos selecionados por conveniência, com idades entre 16 e 69 anos (M=32,76, DP=11,67), sendo a maioria do sexo feminino (79,2%), solteiro (51%), com ensino médio (48%) ou curso superior (37,6%). Os participantes responderam a um questionário aberto utilizando até cinco palavras para descrever uma instituição de acolhimento. O estudo II investigou as imagens sociais atribuídas aos jovens em acolhimento institucional. Participaram 224 adultos selecionados por conveniência, com idades entre 18 e 71 anos (M=33,97, DP=11,42), sendo que 68,4% já tiveram contato com adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade e risco. Foi utilizado um questionário fechado, com 37 palavras para descrever os jovens típicos e em acolhimento, com itens em escala Likert. Os resultados do primeiro estudo indicam que as imagens sociais sobre as instituições de acolhimento, em geral, são positivas e que predominam as percepções relacionadas ao acolhimento/proteção e à organização. Os resultados do segundo estudo apontam que as palavras consideradas negativas foram significativamente mais associadas aos jovens em acolhimento institucional, indicando haver uma imagem social negativa desta população. Embora as mudanças legais e políticas referentes à proteção infantojuvenil venham contribuindo para a qualificação dos serviços de acolhimento, permanecem os estigmas que classificam os jovens inseridos nesse contexto. É importante que se faça uma reflexão social coletiva sobre essa realidade a fim de que se encontrem estratégias de modificação do imaginário social que ainda rotula e discrimina essa população. / This study aimed to investigate and discuss the social images associated to the residential care institutions and the young people in care through two exploratory empirical studies. The first study investigated the social images assigned to the residential care institutions. The participants were 202 adults selected by convenience, aged 16 to 69 years old (M=32.76, SD=11.67), mostly female (79.2%), single (51%), with high school (48%) or higher education (37.6%). The participants answered an open questionnaire using up to five words to describe a residential care institution. The second study investigated the social images assigned to young people in care. The participants were 224 adults selected by convenience, aged 18 to 71 years old (M=33.97, SD=11.42), 68.4% of them have already had contact with teenagers in vulnerability and risk situations. The instrument was a Likert scale questionnaire with 37 words used to describe young people in general and in care. The results of the first study indicated that social images are generally positive, prevailing perceptions related to care/protection and organization. The results of the second study indicated that the negative words were significantly more associated with young people in care, indicating that there is a negative social image related to this population. Although legal and political changes concerning children and youth protection have been contributing to the qualification of residential care institutions, the stigmas that classify young people inserted in this context remain. It is important to make a collective social reflection about this reality in order to find strategies to modify the social imaginary that still labels and discriminates this population.

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In Jordan, residential care institutions (RCIs) for children in conflict with the law are identified as various specialised state institutions which constitute a state formal response to youth crime, and specialise in taking care of children. This thesis examines the objectives of RCIs’ programmes for children in conflict with the law in Jordan, as they attempt to reduce offending by convicted children, and whether these objectives meet children’s needs, according to the view and experiences of children themselves (12-17 years). This study is based on qualitative methods, using data from individual and focus group interviews with institutional staff, and participant observation and individual interviews with children. Exploring the divergent claims made within childhood and youth crime theoretical perspectives, this thesis develops a nuanced understanding of institutions’ crime-reduction programmes by drawing upon key theoretical concepts from these frameworks: children as ‘socially becoming’ and ‘social beings’. RCIs provide four rehabilitative programmes to help reduce children’s problematic and offending behaviour; namely, a family guidance programme (FGP), a poverty reduction programme (PRP), an educational programme (EP) and a child behaviour modification programme (CBMP). To a large extent, these programmes tended to provide polices of crime prevention which focus on re-socialising children according to the normative and cultural system of behaviour in which children were generally perceived as incompetent social actors, and where their best interest was not always acknowledged. To a large extent, children’s own perspectives and experiences of institutional rehabilitative programmes revealed the institutional failure to treat their familial, economical, educational and behavioural problems. Overall, children thought such failure happened either because the institutional aims were not actually implemented, or because the methods of delivering the institutional programmes per se were ineffective. This finding reflects a contradictory picture between the RCIs’ objectives and their actual practices, reflecting the institutional departure from a set of theoretical ideas regarding the prevention of youth crime. Focus group discussion with key informant staff referred to a variety of obstacles that contribute to their inability to address children’s wider needs within the existing institutional aims. Parental refusal to participate in child abuse and supervisory neglect interventional sessions, short-term intervention for chronically abused children and institutional reliance on talking methods in promoting parental supervision over children’s behaviour were all issues hindering effective institutional intervention within the familial environment. The institutional failure to meet children’s educational and career training needs occurred because these programmes are scheduled at the same time. The seriousness of some children’s crimes and the inability of some families to accompany their children to school were other issues preventing children from attending school. The lack of staff motivation, along with staff’s interrelated roles, prevented child monitoring staff from fully carrying out the intended intervention of modifying children’s negative behaviours. Ultimately, the findings from this study indicate the inconsistency between RCIs’ principles of rehabilitating children in conflict with the law and their actual practices, including the lack of policies in place to meet the institutional objectives. This in turn meant that RCIs do not actually operate to rehabilitate children in order to reduce reoffending, but are largely punitive and operate to criminalise children and separate them from society.

Este trabalho, fundamentando-se no referencial psicanalítico, estuda o fenômeno transferencial a partir dos discursos de médicos que trabalham em um hospital e pronto-socorro públicos, na cidade de Porto Velho, Rondônia. Os sujeitos são dez médicos, de ambos os sexos, distribuídos entre sete especialidades, incluindo recém-formados e profissionais com mais de 40 anos de exercício da medicina. Foram realizadas duas entrevistas com cada sujeito e suas falas são apresentadas e analisadas a partir de fragmentos discursivos, extraídos do material obtido das transcrições. A análise dos enunciados discursivos teve por objetivo compreender como as manifestações transferenciais são percebidas pelos médicos. Por intermédio desses enunciados foi possível detectar que, embora os sujeitos falem a partir de uma posição de autoridade, em função do lugar que ocupam na rede institucional, seus discursos foram marcados também pelo medo, solidão e impotência frente às agruras do exercício médico. Tal posição de autoridade se revelou paradoxal, pois, ao mesmo tempo em que lhes oferece um status de figura admirada e imprescindível para a sociedade, também faz deles depositários de um imaginário de onipotência, levando-os a se defrontarem com situações difíceis de serem manuseadas, principalmente àquelas que partem das expectativas oriundas da clientela. Existe a consciência de que o fenômeno transferencial faz parte da relação com o paciente, como também o entendimento de que, em certos momentos, essas manifestações possuem um vínculo direto com o adoecer e com a reabilitação. Entretanto, os discursos apontaram para o despreparo dos entrevistados em lidar com tais investimentos, assim como com a ressonância dos mesmos sobre si próprios. / This work, based on the psychoanalytical reference, studies the transference from the speech of doctors who work in hospitals and public first-aid clinics in Porto Velho city: Rondônia state. They are ten doctors (both male and female ones), men and women distributed among seven specialities, including both just graduated ones and doctors who have been working for over 40 years in these areas. Two interviews with each doctor were made and their speeches are shown and analysed from discursive fragments on, taken from the material obtained by the transcriptions. The analysis of the discursive propositions aimed to realize how the manifestation of the transference are noticed by the doctors. Based on these propositions, it was possible to realise that, though the people speak in a position of authority, in function of the “where" they are in the institutional system, their speeches were also determined by fear, loneliness and impotence, face the displeasures of the medical duty. This position of authority was revealed as paradoxical, whereas it offers them the status of and admired figure and vital for the society and, at the same time, makes them consigners of an illusory of omnipotence, taking them to face some situations which are difficult to be handled, from the expectations derived from the clients. There is not just the sense of duty that the transference is part of the relationship with the patient, as the comprehension that, sometimes, these manifestations are closely linked to the “getting ill" and “getting better". However, the speeches lead to the disqualification of the doctors at dealing such cathexis, as well as the inner response of theirs over themselves.

Este trabalho, fundamentando-se no referencial psicanalítico, estuda o fenômeno transferencial a partir dos discursos de médicos que trabalham em um hospital e pronto-socorro públicos, na cidade de Porto Velho, Rondônia. Os sujeitos são dez médicos, de ambos os sexos, distribuídos entre sete especialidades, incluindo recém-formados e profissionais com mais de 40 anos de exercício da medicina. Foram realizadas duas entrevistas com cada sujeito e suas falas são apresentadas e analisadas a partir de fragmentos discursivos, extraídos do material obtido das transcrições. A análise dos enunciados discursivos teve por objetivo compreender como as manifestações transferenciais são percebidas pelos médicos. Por intermédio desses enunciados foi possível detectar que, embora os sujeitos falem a partir de uma posição de autoridade, em função do lugar que ocupam na rede institucional, seus discursos foram marcados também pelo medo, solidão e impotência frente às agruras do exercício médico. Tal posição de autoridade se revelou paradoxal, pois, ao mesmo tempo em que lhes oferece um status de figura admirada e imprescindível para a sociedade, também faz deles depositários de um imaginário de onipotência, levando-os a se defrontarem com situações difíceis de serem manuseadas, principalmente àquelas que partem das expectativas oriundas da clientela. Existe a consciência de que o fenômeno transferencial faz parte da relação com o paciente, como também o entendimento de que, em certos momentos, essas manifestações possuem um vínculo direto com o adoecer e com a reabilitação. Entretanto, os discursos apontaram para o despreparo dos entrevistados em lidar com tais investimentos, assim como com a ressonância dos mesmos sobre si próprios. / This work, based on the psychoanalytical reference, studies the transference from the speech of doctors who work in hospitals and public first-aid clinics in Porto Velho city: Rondônia state. They are ten doctors (both male and female ones), men and women distributed among seven specialities, including both just graduated ones and doctors who have been working for over 40 years in these areas. Two interviews with each doctor were made and their speeches are shown and analysed from discursive fragments on, taken from the material obtained by the transcriptions. The analysis of the discursive propositions aimed to realize how the manifestation of the transference are noticed by the doctors. Based on these propositions, it was possible to realise that, though the people speak in a position of authority, in function of the “where” they are in the institutional system, their speeches were also determined by fear, loneliness and impotence, face the displeasures of the medical duty. This position of authority was revealed as paradoxical, whereas it offers them the status of and admired figure and vital for the society and, at the same time, makes them consigners of an illusory of omnipotence, taking them to face some situations which are difficult to be handled, from the expectations derived from the clients. There is not just the sense of duty that the transference is part of the relationship with the patient, as the comprehension that, sometimes, these manifestations are closely linked to the “getting ill” and “getting better”. However, the speeches lead to the disqualification of the doctors at dealing such cathexis, as well as the inner response of theirs over themselves.

Partindo de uma abordagem da figura polêmica da loucura como domínio estratégico de inúmeras relações de poder que não majoritariamente orientadas por princípios restritivos, esta dissertação enfoca a produção do sujeito “usuário" em um NAPS (Núcleo de Atenção Psicossocial) – instituição pública de saúde mental vinculada ao movimento da Luta Antimanicomial. Para tanto, transcrições de entrevistas com os usuários foram analisadas segundo o método de análise institucional de discurso. Visou-se, com isso, ao estudo da constituição do sujeito no discurso – o que implica tanto o seu vínculo com a instituição quanto a interlocução que se configura com o entrevistador no ato mesmo da entrevista. Empreendendo uma analítica do discurso do usuário – em detrimento de classificações psiquiátricas ou psicopatológicas impostas aos sujeitos –, realizou-se o delineamento de singularidades por meio da positivação desses discursos. Por fim, confrontando as análises das entrevistas, buscou-se mapear as regularidades discursivas e as diversas correlações de força. Temas como violência, médicos, sexualidade, medicamentos e cotidiano institucional são abordados nesta pesquisa, sempre tendo por base o discurso dos usuários. / Starting with an approach of the controversial image of insanity as a controlling strategy of various power relationships, which are not mostly guided by restrictive principles, this dissertation focuses on the subject’s production, a user in a NAPS (Social and Psychological Attention Centre) – public institution of mental care, which is linked to the “Anti-Mental Hospital" fight. Therefore, transcriptions of users’ interviews were analyzed according to the institutional discourse analysis method. For the objective of studying the subject’s constitution in the discourse – which implies its relation to the institution and the conversation configured with the interviewer during the interview. Applying the user’s discourse analysis – in disregard of psychiatric or psychopathological categories imposed on the subjects – was made the outline of singularities through the assertiveness of those discourses. At last, comparing the interviews’ analyses, we intended to map discourse regularities and various power correlations. Topics like violence, medicals, sexuality, medicine and institutional daily life are always approached in this research, keeping the users’ discourse as support.

Partindo de uma abordagem da figura polêmica da loucura como domínio estratégico de inúmeras relações de poder que não majoritariamente orientadas por princípios restritivos, esta dissertação enfoca a produção do sujeito “usuário” em um NAPS (Núcleo de Atenção Psicossocial) – instituição pública de saúde mental vinculada ao movimento da Luta Antimanicomial. Para tanto, transcrições de entrevistas com os usuários foram analisadas segundo o método de análise institucional de discurso. Visou-se, com isso, ao estudo da constituição do sujeito no discurso – o que implica tanto o seu vínculo com a instituição quanto a interlocução que se configura com o entrevistador no ato mesmo da entrevista. Empreendendo uma analítica do discurso do usuário – em detrimento de classificações psiquiátricas ou psicopatológicas impostas aos sujeitos –, realizou-se o delineamento de singularidades por meio da positivação desses discursos. Por fim, confrontando as análises das entrevistas, buscou-se mapear as regularidades discursivas e as diversas correlações de força. Temas como violência, médicos, sexualidade, medicamentos e cotidiano institucional são abordados nesta pesquisa, sempre tendo por base o discurso dos usuários. / Starting with an approach of the controversial image of insanity as a controlling strategy of various power relationships, which are not mostly guided by restrictive principles, this dissertation focuses on the subject’s production, a user in a NAPS (Social and Psychological Attention Centre) – public institution of mental care, which is linked to the “Anti-Mental Hospital” fight. Therefore, transcriptions of users’ interviews were analyzed according to the institutional discourse analysis method. For the objective of studying the subject’s constitution in the discourse – which implies its relation to the institution and the conversation configured with the interviewer during the interview. Applying the user’s discourse analysis – in disregard of psychiatric or psychopathological categories imposed on the subjects – was made the outline of singularities through the assertiveness of those discourses. At last, comparing the interviews’ analyses, we intended to map discourse regularities and various power correlations. Topics like violence, medicals, sexuality, medicine and institutional daily life are always approached in this research, keeping the users’ discourse as support.