Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:22:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andre Reis Balsini.pdf: 23893629 bytes, checksum: 4d05b9e6a19aef62f762ae38fe54af92 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Our object of study will be the intermediate space between architecture and the city, the transitional space between inside and outside, private and public. Environments that combine characteristics of opposites means; potentially allowing an interpenetration between architecture and urban space. In our research, we should address of the possibilities and implications in the architecture design, thereof touches to their transitional elements. The study seeks to expand a conceptual field and proposes an interlocution with a series of authors which have looked into the thematic of transitional space and (or) near concepts, complementary, from which we intend to situate ourselves with the discussion concerning of binomials architecture-city, individual-collective, singular-plural, among others. To counteract the concepts investigated a reading of concrete architectural objects, we selected five referential buildings - of public character - in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and analyze how the interventions made from the architectural object could result in environments of assemblage, which to have integrated into the urban tissue, and have amplified the possibilities of public space for collective use. Thus, we presented in dissertation, initially, a diversity of approaches to the research object, in order to establish some fundamental considerations for the architecture design of the space of transition. Following, we discuss briefly the question of the project, from the perspective of his own ambivalence of propositive instrument. Completing the study, we explore the unfoldings of the thematic from object, listing five qualitative themes through which we oriented the discussions, in which projective and theoretical referentials were inserted. / Nosso objeto de estudo será o espaço intermediário entre a arquitetura e a cidade, o espaço de transição entre interior e exterior, privado e público. Ambientes que conjugam características de meios opostos; potencialmente, possibilitando uma interpenetração entre a arquitetura e o espaço urbano. Em nossa pesquisa, deveremos tratar das possibilidades e implicações, no projeto de arquitetura, daquilo que toca os seus elementos transicionais. O trabalho busca ampliar um campo conceitual e propõe uma interlocução com uma série de autores, que se debruçaram sobre a temática do espaço de transição e (ou) conceitos próximos, complementares, a partir dos quais, pretendemos nos situar na discussão acerca dos binômios arquitetura-cidade, individual-coletivo, singular-plural, entre outros. Para contrapor aos conceitos investigados uma leitura de objetos arquitetônicos concretos, selecionamos cinco edifícios referenciais de caráter público , situados nas cidades de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro, e analisamos de que forma as intervenções feitas a partir do objeto arquitetônico puderam resultar em ambientes de agenciamento, que se integraram ao tecido urbano e ampliaram as possibilidades de espaço público para o uso coletivo. Assim, apresentamos na dissertação, inicialmente, uma diversidade de enfoques para o objeto de pesquisa, de modo a estabelecer algumas considerações fundamentais para o projeto de arquitetura do espaço de transição. Na sequência, abordamos, concisamente, a questão do projeto, sob a perspectiva de sua própria ambivalência de instrumento propositivo. Completando o estudo, exploramos os desdobramentos da temática do objeto, elencando cinco temas qualitativos, por meio dos quais orientamos as discussões, em que os referenciais projetuais e teóricos foram inseridos.

Esta pesquisa trata do acolhimento de crianças em bibliotecas. A complexidade dos ambientes de informação organizada, a singularidade dos públicos infantis, a inadequação de práticas visando a recepção e iniciação de crianças em bibliotecas integram a problemática do estudo, que buscou sistematizar elementos capazes de orientar processos de acolhimento de crianças (não alfabetizadas) em dispositivos de informação e cultura. Com base no pressuposto de que a constituição de elos/vínculos com a biblioteca, compreendida como espaço transicional, é categoria essencial ao diálogo dos sujeitos com o patrimônio cultural registrado, o processo inicial de ingresso mostra-se questão primordial. O referencial teórico abarcou as noções de acolhimento em diferentes áreas de conhecimento; criança; objeto transicional, biblioteca, dispositivos, mediação cultural e a abordagem da Infoeducação. O estudo baseou-se no método qualitativo, a partir de observação participante e coleta de depoimentos de sujeitos implicados na pesquisa. O objeto empírico do estudo foi o Programa Biblioacolhe, implementado em biblioteca de um Centro Educacional Unificado (CEU) e desenvolvido em 2017, tendo em vista o atendimento de crianças da Educação Infantil. A pesquisa conclui sobre o caráter do acolhimento, como categoria essencial à construção do sentido de pertencimento dos sujeitos em relação à biblioteca, indicando tratar-se de noção ampla implicando diferentes dimensões, de ordem afetiva, cognitiva, cultural, institucional. Os resultados evidenciaram que o processo de inserção significativa e participativa dos sujeitos no dispositivo de informação e cultura é complexo, gradativo, implicando diferentes esferas mutuamente implicadas, em especial, a constituição de um quadro de atores comprometidos e de contextos preparados para a realização do processo de acolhimento. / This research relates children embracement in libraries, questioning the environment complexities of the organized information, the children\'s singularity and the inadequacy of practices that aims the reception and insertion of children in libraries. The study seeks to systematize elements capable of guiding embracement processes to non-literate children in culture and information devices. Based on the assumption that the construction of links/bonds with the library, seen as a transitional space, its an essential category to subject\'s dialogue with the cultural registered patrimony, the initial process of ingression its a major point. The theoretical research covers the notions of embracement in different knowledge areas: children; transitional object, library, devices, cultural mediation and the Infoeducational approach. The qualitative method was the base of the study, from participant observation and testimonies gathering of the subjects related to the research. The empirical object was the Programa Biblioacolhe, implemented on a library of a Unified Educational Center (Centro Educacional Unificado - CEU) and developed in 2017, aiming the reception of children of Child Education. The research concludes the nature of embracement as an essential category to the construct of the subject\'s belonging sense related to the library, indicating that it is a broad notion that implies different dimentions, of affective, cognitive and institutional orders. The results points that the process of insertion, both significative and participative, of the subjects in the informational and cultural device is complex, gradual and implies different circles mutually implicated, specially: the constitution of a board of committed subjects and contexts prepared to the achievement of the embracement process.

Leaders bring unconscious information into their personal and working relationships. Some of this unconscious material is communicated through language use, and it is argued that one of the bridges between the unconscious and the conscious is language use. It is postulated that insight is possible into leaders’ understanding, meaning-making and leadership experience by exploring their language use, as the vehicle through which they make sense of the world. Hence, the aim of this study was to explore by developing and describing a systems psychodynamic model of language use as manifestation of leadership anxiety dynamics, to refine this theoretical model, and to explore the utility value of the theoretical model. A qualitative and descriptive research method was selected towards reaching this aim. Hermeneutic phenomenology, using the systems psychodynamic perspective allowed for the description, analysis and interpretation of the experiences of participants. Data was collected through a purposive, convenient sample, in the form of three listening posts, which comprised systems psychodynamic practitioners, business leaders and post-modern discourse analysts. Data was analysed by means of critical discourse analysis and systems psychodynamically informed discourse analysis. Manifesting themes were the language of titles, as potential space, and the language of silence versus non-silence; anxiety and its triggers, anxiety and leadership response, and anxiety and language use; the sources of anxiety, language as unconscious defence and offence and towards a language of vulnerability. The findings indicated that leaders use both conscious and unconscious expressions of language simultaneously. Language use manifested as the carrier of conscious messages (between sender and receiver) as well as the unconscious role of language, to attack (accessing the dark side of language use) or defend against anxieties, and to cover leadership vulnerabilities. Language use as container, as well as transitional phenomenon (a potential space) is a carrier of anxieties. Language use thus has the potential to be used for its defensive, regressive and relational value. In a world of uncertainty and increasing attack on and by leadership, the findings further indicated that the defended leaders should be aware of the conscious and unconscious impact and outcome of language. Language use is useful as a lens to explore, diagnose and raise awareness, because the unconscious reveals itself through language as speech and image, and through the language of relations and relatedness and the language of action and omission. Since leaders operate in a colliquated space, both at individual and systemic level (i.e. as collisions), leadership anxiety could be elevated, resulting in the access of the dark side of language use. However, when these collisions occur, leadership anxiety could be reduced when the leader enters the reflective or potential space by accessing the relational value of language use. The utility value of the systems psychodynamic model was subsequently also confirmed. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / D. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

This qualitative study examines the current barriers of services to transition age youth (TAY) who are newly emancipated from foster care. Data collection was derived from eight in depth interviews with local administrators within San Bernardino County with experience with youth and services within the TAY population. Study themes focused on how professionals suggested to engage TAY, tactics to instilling hope, highlighting successful services, and providing professional insight on working with the unique population. Present day research emphasizes the importance of the emotional capacity of TAY, which is a key theme within the present study. As current rates of homelessness, the dependency of government assistance programs, and mental health services increase for the TAY population, the need for improved services is apparent. Study results indicated five distinct themes pertaining to youth impediments and the need for foster system adjustments, and include: unmet mental health needs, available housing facilities, mistrust from the youth, the integration from Peer and Family Assistant’s, and systemic barriers.

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research study on family stabilization is to identify whether this program is working while CalWORKs participants are achieving their educational goals. Family stabilization is a county program that assists those who need supportive services in domestic violence, mental health, substance abuse, and homelessness. The first phase was to assess the participant’s knowledge and understanding of the family stabilization program. The second phase involved a focus group, who could express their questions or concerns regarding the family stabilization program. The final stage was to review and interpret the information provided, in hopes to clarify the participants understanding of the family stabilization program is and the services that are available. Results of this study could not answer the proposed research question, Family Stabilization: Does it Work? There was a lack of significance regrading knowledge of the family stabilization program from the CalWORKs participants. This study does show that communication between the participants and the county offices needs improvement; especially on the availability of programs. The weakness pertained to the sample size and duration of the research project. I do find the research as creditable due to the personal interviews pertaining to their understanding of family stabilization. To completely understand how this research project was conducted and analyzed, readers need a fairly refined knowledge of social science research methods.

Research on how homeless individuals perceive shelters, housing programs, and their agents has been limited, especially in relation to the reasons for engaging in or avoiding programs. This phenomenological study explored the perspectives of chronically homeless individuals in Wake County, North Carolina, regarding shelters and housing programs, examining their reasons for using or not using shelters or public housing. Using Glidden's structuration theory as the framework, the research questions for this study were based on exploring the perceptions of homeless individuals use of public resources related to housing and shelters to better understand why some use, and perhaps more importantly, why some choose to not use these resources. Purposeful sampling was used to identify 12 chronically homeless men and women and data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Data were both deductively and inductively coded and analyzed using a thematic analysis procedure. This study found that the persistence of homelessness is a result of a combination of homeless individuals' perceptions of housing programs' structural failures including long waiting periods for access to housing, unnecessary bureaucratic entanglements, and what they perceived as inaction or apathy on the part of program staff in response to requests for assistance. These findings are consistent with structuration theory. The implications for positive social change include recommendations to policy makers to consider the views and perceptions of homeless people in designing programs, including ways to improve access to public resources that may ultimately lead to permanent housing for homeless individuals.

À partir de deux enquêtes au sein d’établissements pour personnes âgées dépendantes, une ethnographie de la relation soignant-soigné tente de décrypter la cinétique relationnelle durant l’acte de la toilette. Loin de l’évidence, le refus exprimé parfois violemment par des personnes atteintes de maladie d’Alzheimer, est ressenti par les équipes comme une offense à l’aide proposée. Pourtant ce geste quotidien de bien-être et de confort, par sa fonction de modelage et d’apprivoisement corporel devient un espace de communication sensible permettant de renouer un lien identitaire en cours d’amoindrissement. La présente recherche propose une analyse sur les formes de contractualisation relationnelle des intimes en situation de maladie et d’accompagnement. Dégageant les influences sécuritaires d’une organisation médico-sociale, le temps de la toilette devient un soin protégé relevant d’un espace transitionnel. L’étude particulière d’un soin de toilette permettra de comprendre les processus relationnels dans le temps et l’espace à partir du travail des émotions. L’intime s’intersubjective dans des présences jusqu’au bout de la vie, interrogeant des interactions de reconnaissances mutuelles en mouvement.La méthodologique adoptée traduit ce parcours aux frontières des intimes d’un sujet et d’une démarche dans un contexte de configuration gérontologique. / From two surveys in institutions for the elderly, an ethnography of the doctor-patient relationship attempts to decipher the relational dynamic during the act of personal hygiene for the patient. Not at all obvious, the sometimes violent refusal from people with Alzheimer's disease, is interpreted as offensive to the proposed care. Yet this daily gesture of care-giving and comfort by the creation of familiarity and trust becomes a moment of communication that can strengthen a weakening bond.This research presents an analysis of the types of relationships in the personal context of the disease and of accompaniment. Setting aside the safety imperatives of a medico-social organization, the moment of personal hygiene is a priviledged transistional act. This particular approach to care-giving in personal hygiene can, over time, identify the relational processes from an emotional perspective. The intimate inter-subjectivity lasting until the end of life creating a dialogue of mutual respect and acknowledgement.An appropriate methodology traces this journey to the beginnings of intimacy, a topic and an approach in a context of a gerontological structure.

Clinical supervision is integral to promoting the professional development of counselors-in-training and gatekeeping the counseling services provided by counselor trainees (Bernard & Goodyear, 2014). Despite the value of studying participants’ retrospective perceptions about or reflections upon supervision, the supervisory process in which supervision transpires is infrequently quantified and measured (Holloway, 1982; Holloway, 1987). As described by most developmental supervision models, clinical supervision is “a process with sequential and qualitatively distinct stages through which supervisors and trainees progress” (Littrell, Lee-Borden, & Lorenz, 1976, p. 134). In order to capture these stages and phenomena with observable and measurable units, the author used six states of interest to measure the supervision process, which exhibit the progressively complex nature of clinical supervision. The six states include: (a) social interfacing (non-skills phase), (b) reflecting on foundational competencies, (c) deepening case conceptualization, (d) processing the relational management, (e) overcoming personal and multicultural barriers, and (f) furthering professional development. These states underpin the codebook of this study and are used to conceptualize the supervision process. Although the interactions between the supervisor and supervisee are transient and difficult to grasp, supervisory interactions move from one state to another. Indeed, state-transitional dynamics of clinical supervision are subject to a constellation of factors that supervisors and supervisees initially bring in and constantly reinforce, such as supervisory styles, supervisee developmental levels, supervisory working alliance, and supervisee satisfaction with clinical supervision. By using Markov chain analysis, this study detects the overall transitional dynamics of supervisory dyads and investigates how transitional dynamics vary based on the aforementioned variables that manifest themselves as supervision dynamics unfold and closely interface with other supervision variables. Results of this study provide implications for clinical supervisors, counselor educators, and counselors-in-training.

Für den Umgang post-autoritärer Gesellschaften mit den Tätern von Menschenrechtsverletzungen der Vorgängerregime gibt es zahlreiche Möglichkeiten. Neben der legalen Strafverfolgung haben sich seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre vor allem Wahrheitskommissionen als Form gegenseitiger Versöhnung zwischen Tätern und Opfern etabliert. Die vorliegende Studie gibt aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Politikfeldforschung eine Antwort auf die Frage, welche politischen Faktoren der Wahrheitskommissionen in Uruguay, Panama und Ghana zu einer Verzögerung bei den Aufarbeitungsprozessen nach der Transition führen. Dazu werden aus der Theorie von Transitional Justice Hypothesen zur Machtverteilung, dem Ausmaß der Menschenrechtsverletzungen und den zivil-militärischen Reformen für verspätete Wahrheitskommissionen abgeleitet, welche zur Plausibilisierung der Verzögerung beitragen. Im empirisch-analytischen Teil der Arbeit wird in der Untersuchungs- und Kontrollgruppe deutlich, dass im Vergleich zu transitionsnahen Wahrheitskommissionen ein niedrigeres Niveau an Menschenrechtsverletzungen den politischen Druck für die Aufarbeitung hemmt und die Täter als demokratisch gewählte Machthaber nach der Transition kein Interesse an der Wahrheit haben (Ghana und Panama) bzw. mit den neuen Machthabern paktierten (Uruguay). Zudem zeigt die Studie, dass zivil-militärische Reformen keinen Einfluss auf die Aufarbeitung der Wahrheit haben, wie in der Literatur argumentiert wird. Auch wird angezweifelt, dass sich die politische Machtverteilung bei der Einsetzung von Wahrheitskommissionen im Gleichgewicht befindet. / For dealing with former human rights violations post-conflict societies have several choices. Besides criminal prosecutions truth commissions have been set up since the mid 1970 to find a way for reconciliation between perpetrators and victims. This paper focuses on the analysis of truth commissions with a significant time span to the transitional period in a comparative manner and asks for the causal mechanisms linked to it. To explain the time lack hypotheses are tested on the balance of power, civil-military reforms and the degree of human rights violations. The analyses for the truth commissions in Uruguay, Ghana and Panama indicate that a lower degree of human rights violations and the elections of political leaders and parties closely linked to the authoritarian era foreclose the establishment process. These results are controlled by the analysis of truth commissions in Argentina, South Africa and Haiti that were directly set up after the transition. Further it is argued that civil-military reforms have no influence on the establishment of truth commissions and that the balance of power is not levelled as is argued in the literature.

<p>Since the 1980&rsquo / s, many dictatorships around the world have been replaced by new democracies. These old dictatorships were notorious for their human rights abuses. Many people were killed and tortured / and many others were disappeared. When the new governments came into power, they had to confront these injustices that were perpetrated under the predecessor regime. This was necessary to create a culture of human rights / promote a respect for the law and access to justice. Many confronted these injustices in different ways, some granted amnesty, some prosecuted and others instituted truth commissions. This research paper focuses on truth commissions. The research focuses particularly on the study of the South African Truth Commission. The mandate of the South African Truth Commission is analysed and the investigation into whether the commission served the purpose for which it had been established is discussed.</p>