O processo de desafiliação vivido no seio familiar e a representação social da adolescente em situação de rua: em busca da prevenção

• Autor(a) principal: Carinhanha, Joana Iabrudi
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11137
• topic: Adolescents in street situation; FamilyHealth; Family Relations; Women´s Health; Gender and Health; Health Vulnerability; Social Problems; Social Representations; Public Health Nursing; Adolescente em situação de rua; Saúde da família; Relações familiares; Saúde da mulher; Gênero e saúde; Vulnerabilidade em saúde; Problemas sociais; Representações sociais; Enfermagem em saúde pública; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

The purpose of this study was to understand the phenomenon of homeless adolescent girls via the social representations theory. We also aimed to investigate the interconnection of relationships, conflict, knowledge and values that compose and transform daily family practices that can either lead one to be estranged from family or help prevent disaffiliation. The main objective was to analyze the disaffiliation process experienced within the family and the possibility of preventing this situation based on the social representations of homeless adolescent girls as held by adolescent girls themselves. This was a qualitative study, in which 21 adolescents with a history of living on the street were contacted at a municipal shelter. The data were gathered through a semi-structured interview and analyzed using thematic categorical content analysis with the help of NVivo software. The results showed that the social representation of the homeless adolescent girls as held by the interviewees consists of a circuit containing the traditional image of the deprived and abandoned minor who makes use of coping mechanisms often considered deviant, coupled with the image of delinquency and criminality. Nonetheless, the established relationships, values and logic that make this way of living possible draw a positive picture of these adolescents based on attributes such as strength, joy, intelligence, affection, sagacity/skillfulness/ability to learn. This represents a rupture (although partial) with the traditional representation of women as the fragile and submissive sex. In turn, the disaffiliation is gradually constituted by several factors that sever family bonds on the one hand, and by the approximation and socialization with the street on the other. The latter is strongly influenced by social representations of homeless adolescent girls (due to familiarity with practices related to this way of life, but mainly because of positive attributes regarding the ideas of freedom, strength, fun, ease and coping). In order to work with these adolescent girls and their families, it is essential to be familiar with and value their trajectory, beliefs and representations. In addition, professionals must also understand the framework of practices and relationships permeating these families, considering their historical and cultural context. Public policies directed at families must consider how to provide professionals with the necessary tools so that they can act based on these parameters.