Medicalization of behavior problems in school: teachers’ perspectives

• Autor(a) principal: Leonardo, Nilza Sanches Tessaro
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Suzuki, Mariana Akemi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fractal : Revista de Psicologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/5095
• topic: medicalization; behavior problems; Cultural-Historical Psychology; medicalização; problemas de comportamento; Psicologia Histórico-Cultural; Psicologia do ensino e da aprendizagem

This study aims to investigate the effects of the process of medicalization of students who exhibit behaviors deemed inappropriate by school staff. Participants were ten teachers from three public schools in a city in the state of Paraná. For data collection we used a semistructured interview guide. The data were processed using content analysis and the results showed that the participants understand that medicated student can focus more, do the activities in the classroom, and starting to produce satisfactorily. However, they also questions the consequences of the process of medicalization for childhood, since they students become listless and not relate to other colleagues as they did before. We conclude that the social practice of medicalization of behavior problems of students in the school becomes a social control practice, since it is sought ideological goals with this action.