Reflexões sobre o potencial terapêutico dos encontros com crianças e adolescentes em situação de rua no centro da cidade de São Paulo

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ID5840612
AuthorsFernanda Quirino Ramos (corresponding author)
Year2011
Publication date2011-05-25
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/d.47.2011.tde-06102011-151650
OpenAlexW2166630268
LanguagePT
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Based on the experiences of the educators from Projeto Quixote, this work intends to investigate whether there is a therapeutic potential in the meeting with street children and teenagers in downtown São Paulo.In order to answer such a question the phenomenologicalclinical method was used.The phenomenological method was used in the understanding of the inter-subjective area present in the meetings between educators and children, followed by clinical-theoretical considerations on the basis of Donald Winnicott's concept of creativity together with the clinical-ontological perspective of Gilberto Safra.The procedures used to collecting the data were: the analysis of a field work diary and the analysis of the institutional reports dealing with inter-subjective experiences.The considerations about the meetings with these boys and girls are at the same time a portrait and a testimony on their daily way of living in downtown streets.We noticed that these children and teenagers try to interrupt the cycles of abandonment and violence experienced in their original environment and the arrival in the streets seems to indicate their hope in finding significant relations from which they may establish a personal and significant relation with life itself.We discussed reliability, corporeity, playing and the therapeutic accompaniment of the children's insertion into the institutions of protection.The discussions reveal that the educators contribute essentially in offering other ways of relating by means of their presence and availability, which in the health context is therapeutic.The educator, being someone capable of considering each person accompanied in his/her singularity, and his/her fundamental ethical necessities, helps these children's constitution as being and feeling real, enabling them to establish a personal relationship with the world.We conclude that there are possibilities to establish a therapeutic potential in the meetings with these children and teenagers that wander about the streets of the city.However the positive results depend not only on the children's possibility of approaching and interacting, but also on the professional's hospitality.In this way, an alliance may happen and establish a therapeutic potential; potential as the possibility to recognize the value of the meeting intensity given by the therapeutics of the educators'intervention and care

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