A aplicação da terapia comunitária na intervenção com adolescentes: novas estratêgias de prevenção e promoção.

Cristina Zago, Flávia; Cláudia Pinto Bredariol, Ana; Paulo de Mesquita, Danielisson

Given adolescents' vulnerability facing transformations and resistances, the group work used by Occupational Therapy through techniques and dynamics favors expression, anxiety control and biopsychosocial maturity in intervention. Currently, one strategy used with teenagers is Community Therapy (CT), because it provides a welcoming environment where all are equal and can share their sufferings, anxieties and affinities. Thus, this study examined the effectiveness of group activities used in occupational therapy as warm up strategies in Community Therapy circles. Eleven teenagers aged 12 to 14 years old participated in the research. The study was carried out in a social institution that aims to support children and youth in the municipality of Uberaba, Minas Gerais state. Video and photo images and handwritten records were used as data collection instruments during the application of the 12 strategies, divided into three categories: competition, cooperation, and self-knowledge/self-esteem, applied for warming up the CT circles. Data were analyzed and presented through the use of a chart for better visualization and understanding of the adolescents' behavior during the warm up CT circles. The results obtained showed dispute, unrest, lack of attention and sociability; behaviors that are inherent to adolescence due to the several changes, emotional alterations and search for identity that these subjects experience. Based on the survey results, it was possible observe that the behaviors have triggered direct-indirect relationship with the strategies used as facilitators in the discussion development regarding the issues addressed in the CT circles.

BRAZIL; BEHAVIOR modification; COMPETITION (Psychology); COOPERATIVENESS; GROUP psychotherapy; RESEARCH methodology; OCCUPATIONAL therapy; SELF-perception; TEENAGERS' conduct of life; VIDEO recording; AFFINITY groups; SOCIAL support

Cadernos de Terapia Ocupacional da UFSCar, 2013, Vol 21, Issue 2, p361

0104-4931

Academic Journal

10.4322/cto.2013.037