Terapia comunitária integrativa como caminho de transformação pessoal em idosas

• Autor(a) principal: Guerra, Nayanne Ingrid Farias Mota
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/19368
• topic: Saúde mental; Envelhecimento; Sofrimento mental; Mental health; Aging; Mental suffering; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

The increase in the elderly population is a phenomenon all over the world. The global demographic transition shows that the proportion of elderly people aged 80 years and older has been increasing considerably, which has had important implications, especially in the area of health due to the greater frequency of comorbidities and greater functional decline. In this way, the mental health of this group happens to be considered of great risk, since they are inserted in processes of great changes in the lifestyle, in the self-perception and in the confrontation of stress factors, besides the existence of the polypharmacotherapy, as a result of the basic diseases, inherent in the senile phase, and of the affection of depressive symptoms coming from the sufferings to which they are affected throughout their lives. In the case of elderly women, this risk increases, adding to the factors mentioned above, they still experience more frequently, feelings of abandonment with the departure of their children, situations of violence and low self-esteem. Thus, it is necessary to work on the preventive character and the health promotion of these elderly women, and it is with this understanding that integrative community therapy can prove to be an important tool of care in the biopsychosocial sphere, in order to generate in these individuals the necessary personal transformation to face suffering and prevent possible health problems. This study aims to identify the contributions of integrative community therapy in coping with the mental suffering of elderly women. Analyze from the perspective of these elderly women, the TCI as a way of personal transformation. The methodological course was guided by the Bardin content analysis method. The results of the research pointed to the great contributions of integrative community therapy, especially with regard to coping and alleviating suffering, and consequently in the personal transformation of the elderly, through the improvement of self-esteem, empowerment and the attainment of resilience. It is concluded that TCI is a strong ally in coping with the sufferings, as well as it has great importance in the preventive character of the aggravations to the mental health of the elderly, being a very effective tool in obtaining the resilience and empowerment from the personal transformation.