Efeitos da mediação judicial na cooperação de casais em separação e na saúde mental dos filhos menores de idade

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Carolina Viana de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/22767
• topic: mediação; cooperação; saúde mental; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The existence of family conflict significantly increases the risk of developing emotional and behavioral problems in children and, in particular, ample evidence documents that divorce processes characterized by high conflict significantly impact the well-being of children, sometimes on a lasting basis. In this sense, promoting greater cooperation in couples with higher levels of conflict (such as mediation cases) may help prevent emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents. Therefore, the objectives of the research were to verify the effects of judicial mediation on verifying its effects on cooperation of separating or separated couples and mental health indicators of children and adolescents. This research had as hypothesis if there would be gains of cooperation by carrying out pre-judicial judicial mediation processes in separated (or in separation/divorcing) couples with children and / or adolescents (measured by the Implicit Association Test - IAT before and after each session of mediation in the period studied), as well as whether mediation could be a protective mechanism of mental health of these children (measured by Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire- SDQ- before each mediation session). The method also had application of a sociodemographic questionnaire for control. The research had variable number of participants in the following phases: A) Session 1: SDQ response parents and mothers - N = 36 children; sociodemographic questionnaire N = 46 (parents and mothers); Pre and post IAT session 1- N = 5; B) Session 2: SDQ response parents and mothers - N = 2 children; Pre and post-session TAI 2 - N = 2. Due to the low number of responses to SDQ in mediation session 2, it was not possible to perform differences test. There was no significance for differences in IAT pre and post session 1 of mediation, as well as there were no significant differences between parent’s and mother’s comparative responses on their children in SDQ questionnaire. In a case study, one of the evaluated couples had improvements: 1) in cooperation of the woman who persisted in the second session of mediation; 2) in the child's mental health indicators (according to the father's view), with improvements between the first and second sessions, and maternal mental health indicators remained adequate in both sessions. The results are preliminary but encouraging to new studies to understand the effects of judicial mediation on the level of cooperation (and consequent reduction of conflict) of couples in the process of divorce and the mental health of their minor children.