DEFICIÊNCIA CONGÊNITA E AUTISMO SECUNDÁRIO: UM RISCO PSICOLÓGICO

A constatação de comportamentos autísticos em crianças que apresentam deficiênciascongênitas sugere a importância de que se considere as vicissitudes de desenvolvimento aque estão expostas estas crianças desde o seu nascimento,O ser humano recém-nascido necessita neste momento evolutivo para cumprir a finalidadede seu desenvolvimento - constituição do sujeito psicológico -, de um outro ser humanoque possa estabelecer com ele uma relação específica, a maternagem.São discutidas as peculiaridades de vinculação mãe-bebê com deficiêneia congênita etrês possibilidades de vínculo são esquematizadas:a) mãe-fantasma do bebê desejado-bebê deficiente;b) mãe-deficiência-bebê desejado;c) mãe-bebê deficiente

A importância da intervenção precoce com pais de bebês que nascem com alguma deficiência

O presente trabalho, à luz da teoria de Winnicott, que elucida a importânciado ambiente e da relação interpessoal para a constituição de um ser humanosaudável, pretende apresentar uma proposta de intervenção para trabalharcom os pais de bebês que nascem com alguma deficiência. É no apontar adois que se confirma a realidade, que se vê nos olhos do outro o seu próprioolhar. Para tanto, o primeiro cuidador, instrumentalizado com informaçõese orientações poderá propiciar meios para que esse bebê se desenvolvaplenamente. Respeitando as suas iniciativas espontâneas e originais, seumodo de se expressar, e sendo contingente em retorno, proporcionará aessa criança um sentido de aceitação e de compreensão de suas expressões,inserindo-a adequadamente no meio circundante.The present article, using Winnicott’s theory as a background, whichelucidates the importance of the environment and of social relationsto constitute a healthy human being, intends to present an interventionproposal with parents of a newborn deficient baby. It is by pointing atreality two by two that one sees in the eyes of the other his own eyes. Inspite of this, the first caregiver, instructed with information and orientations,will be able to offer conditions for this deficient baby to develop himselfcompletely. It is by respecting the spontaneous and original initiatives ofthe baby, his own way of expressing himself, and by being contingent inreturn, that this child will be able to acknowledge a sense of acceptanceand comprehension of his own expressions, positioning him adequately into the environment

Experience of spouses of women with breast cancer: an integrative literature review

Objective: To gather, to characterize, to analyze, to synthesize and to integrate primary studies that addressed the experiences of spouses / husbands / partners of women with breast cancer, presenting the current state of knowledge. Method: Integrative literature review carried out in the databases of VHL, PubMed, CINHAL e SciELO. Results: The sample consisted of eight studies published between 2000-2012, which pointed to the experiences of the involvement and the care of the husbands towards their ill wives. Conclusion: This study highlights the need for attention and assistance to those spouses, as well as guidance and education to exercise the care the same way as the health staff has done with women. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of further studies in order to deepen the knowledge on this topic, and thus, improve the care with better scientific basis

Predictive modelling of soils’ hydraulic conductivity using artificial neural network and multiple linear regression

As a result of heterogeneity nature of soils and variation in its hydraulic conductivity over several orders of magnitude for various soil types from fine-grained to coarse-grained soils, predictive methods to estimate hydraulic conductivity of soils from properties considered more easily obtainable have now been given an appropriate consideration. This study evaluates the performance of artificial neural network (ANN) being one of the popular computational intelligence techniques in predicting hydraulic conductivity of wide range of soil types and compared with the traditional multiple linear regression (MLR). ANN and MLR models were developed using six input variables. Results revealed that only three input variables were statistically significant in MLR model development. Performance evaluations of the developed models using determination coefficient and mean square error show that the prediction capability of ANN is far better than MLR. In addition, comparative study with available existing models shows that the developed ANN and MLR in this study performed relatively better