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Driving for Success in Family Reunification: Professionals' Views on Intervention

Family reunification is a complex process and is consensually considered the best solution for children in care, as soon as the family has changed the dysfunctional patterns that prevent child safety and well-being. Intervention throughout the entire process is crucial to the success of family reunification. This study aimed to explore and understand child protection professionals’ views on factors influencing ...

Life writings: an autobiographical creation experience in childhood

As a narrative psychology founding concept, individuals have an innate capacity to organize their own knowledge and experience, giving them personal meanings. We equip ourselves with this narrative capacity from the beginning of life, through traditions of telling and interpreting stories, and we continue to acquire new resources, communicating our subjectivity and shaping our being within a culture (Brune...

Traumatic experiences in chronic illness: Reports of adolescents with scoliosis...

The experience of chronic illness is a stressful life event that can lead to a set of traumatic experiences with intense and long-lasting psychosocial effects still poorly understood. Expressive writing is particularly powerful in disclosing the in-depth meaning of human experiences, also creating opportunities for insight and reorganization of traumatic experiences. The present study analyzed the traumatic exp...

Children in residential care: Thematic content of their life narratives

Narrative is the way humans are privileged to organize their lives (Bruner, 2002), giving meaning to an otherwise chaotic experience (Gonçalves, Korman & Angus, 2000). Between late childhood and early adolescence, the importance of building meaning for their life history arises in order to build personal coherence (Pasupathi, Mansour & Brubaker, 2007). Children living in residential care see in this task the ad...

Crianças em acolhimento residencial : conteúdo temático das suas narrativas de ...

Resumo: A narrativa constitui uma unidade semântica em forma de história que permite ao ser humano dar sentido à sua experiência. A investigação na área não tem sido conclusiva quanto à capacidade das crianças que vivenciaram maus-tratos integrarem estas experiências nas suas narrativas de vida. Alguns investigadores defendem que os maus-tratos afetam a capacidade mnésica das crianças, dificultando a recordação...

A construção narrativa da identidade em jovens adotados: O caso Beno

A adolescência é o momento em que surge a necessidade de construção de uma identidade que permita à pessoa uma relação produtiva com o mundo (Erikson, 1968; Habermas & Bluck, 2000; McAdams, 2001). McAdams refere-se ao processo de construção da identidade como o de desenvolvimento de um sentido de unidade e de propósito diante das demandas do mundo e da sociedade, no qual os jovens organizam sua história de vida...

Suicídio de um paciente : a experiência de médicos e psicólogos portugueses

RESUMO - Objetivo: Descrever o impacto do suicídio de um paciente em profissionais de saúde portugueses (psicólogos, psiquiatras e médicos de medicina geral). Método: Foi usado um questionário de autorresposta sobre características, experiência e impacto do suicídio de um paciente. Resultados: Duzentos e quarenta e dois profissionais responderam ao questionário e 64 tiveram, pelo menos, um paciente que se suici...

Terapia narrativa da ansiedade: guião terapêutico para crianças e adolescentes

Autobiographical narratives in Williams Syndrome: structural, process and conte...

Williams syndrome (WS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, with an intriguing cognitive phenotype. Previous studies found support for an atypical profile of fictional narrative production in WS (Gonçalves et al. The British Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 56(111), 89-109, 2010). This study aimed at testing if the same profile is observed when individuals with WS tell autobiographical narratives. Using a ne...

Cognitive functioning in Williams syndrome: a study in Portuguese and Spanish p...

Williams Syndrome (WS) is a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a submicroscopic deletion on chromosome 7 q11.23. This is a systemic disorder in which cardiac problems and mental retardation are the key phenotypic symptoms. Although displaying a general cognitive impairment, they are most often described as exhibiting a peak and valley profile, with relative sparing of language and face processing abi...