In a time when domestic violence has led to an increasing number of incidents, continuing to disproportionately affect women, the education and social intervention project “Women and Mothers of Courage” (Monteiro, 2023), through a psychosocial approach (both individual and group) methodologically guided by participatory action research, has brought a new perspective, a renewed outlook, and new hope to the lives...
In times of rapid social transformations, education will have to adapt and respond to new challenges, in the right direction to safeguard the rights of all people. This process requires that intervention in the school context values participatory, cooperative, reflective and socio-critical learning, which aims to promote the development of the school, students and communities, as well as contributing to the gro...
Due to multiple crises, conflicts and political, social, economic, among other changes, many people flee the countries where they are to seek protection in another country. Arriving at international borders, they are faced with various barriers and limits, when faced with the right to leave a country, but not to enter third countries, even to ask for protection. Because of the difficulty in managing migratory m...
The Participatory Action Research (PAR) project “Moving Forward, Facing Life's Challenges”, developed with a group of women benefiting from the Social Integration Income (SII), allowed them to develop their self-esteem, expand their network of relationships, as well as enhancing personal competencies and interests for knowledge development, using collaborative and participatory strategies. The project had an im...
A investigação sobre as pessoas com deficiência é relativamente escassa em Portugal, tal como acontece noutros países (Dessen & Silva 2000). A maior parte das vezes tende a ser feita numa perspectiva etiológica, na procura da origem da perturbação (nomeadamente genética) ou sindromática, ligada à caracterização geral de cada grupo e às intervenções a ele destinadas. Estas abordagens não dão completamente conta ...
É decorrente das competências percetivas e relacionais da mãe e do bebé, e da sua dança relacional, que o comportamento de vinculação se vai gradualmente desenvolvendo; e é da qualidade desta dança relacional que dependerá, a posteriori, o solo individual e a articulação de dois desenvolvimentos interligados, mas independentes. Ora, no caso das mães gemelares, estas têm de estabelecer relações individuais com d...
Due to the process of deinstitutionalization, mental health care is not centralized in psychiatric hospitals, which will soon cease to exist in accordance with the guidelines of the National Mental Health Plan - NMHP (2007-2016), to be developed in the community. In addition to clinical care, rather than treating symptomatology, it is necessary to change some attitudes and representations so that the person wit...
The object of this study is Sociodrama as a training method within two subjects in the Social Education degree. Using a qualitative investigation, the intention was to understand how this method contributed, over two academic years, to promote the personal, social and professional development of students. In the four groups that were studied it was shown that the Sociodrama method enables openness to multiple p...