A relação mãe/criança com deficiência: sentimentos e experiências The relation mother/child with disabilities: feelings and experiences

O presente estudo investiga os sentimentos e as experiências de pais e mães de crianças com deficiência. Surge das motivações em compreender o cotidiano dos pais e mães de crianças com deficiência integrante do Projeto de Psicomotricidade Relacional da UNIVATES. De corte qualitativo, trata-se de um estudo etnográfico. Os instrumentos utilizados para a coleta de informações são: entrevistas, diários de campo e análise documental. A temática aborda os seguintes aspectos teóricos: a relação primária, a relação do profissional da saúde e a relação social da criança com necessidades especiais. O processo de coleta de informações permitiu organizar as seguintes categorias: a) sentimentos manifestos no nascimento de um filho com deficiência; b) comportamento dos profissionais da área da saúde no ato de dar a notícia aos pais; c) necessidades dos pais e mães na relação com os demais familiares e a sociedade e sentimentos e e) necessidades envolvidas na perspectiva de educar uma criança com deficiência. Conclui-se que os pais e mães das crianças com necessidades especiais reavaliam seus conceitos iniciais, aprendem a valorizar as potencialidades da criança e requisitam contínuos reforços em suas estimas pessoais que os auxiliam no processo educativo de seus filhos.<br>The present study aims at investigating the feelings and experiences of parents of children with disabilities. It was motivated by the idea of understanding the daily life of the parents of children that take part in the Relational Psychomotricity Project at UNIVATES. The protagonists of the study are the parents integrated in the project. The instruments used for data collection in this ethnographic qualitative study were interviews, field reports and analysis of documents. The study approached the following theoretical aspects: the primary relation, the medical relation and the social relation of the child with disability. The information is organized into the following categories, a) the feelings of the parents on occasion of the birth of a child with disability, b) the behavior of the medical staff when telling the fact to the parents, c) the needs of the parents in regard to their relations with their relatives and society, d) the feelings and needs with respect to educating a child with disability. The article concludes that the parents of children with disability re-evaluate their initial concepts, learn to value the potentialities of the child and require continuing reinforcement of their self-esteem for helping them in the educational process of their children

Callous-unemotional traits as a cross-disorders construct

Item does not contain fulltextPURPOSE: Callous-unemotional (CU) traits are currently viewed as the defining signs and symptoms of juvenile psychopathy. It is unclear, however, whether CU traits have validity only in the context of conduct disorder (CD) as proposed by Frick and Moffitt (A proposal to the DSM-V childhood disorders and the ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders work groups to include a specifier to the diagnosis of conduct disorder based on the presence of callous-unemotional traits, American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, 2010), or also outside CD, either in combination with other forms of psychopathology or as a stand-alone construct. METHODS: The current review systematically studied the existent literature on CU traits in juveniles to examine their validity inside and outside CD according to the framework regarding the validity of a psychiatric diagnosis provided by Robins and Guze (Am J Psychiatry 126:983-987, 1970). RESULTS: Inside youth with conduct problems, and CD specifically, it seems that CU traits meet the Robins and Guze criteria. As many of the reviewed studies included youth with ODD and ADHD as well, there are indications the same might be true for ODD and ADHD, although probably to a lesser extent. In other disorders, CU traits may be present as well, but their role is not firmly established. As stand-alone construct, data are lacking or are scarce on all of the above-mentioned criteria. CONCLUSIONS: CU traits are a useful specifier in CD, and possibly also in disruptive behaviour disorders (DBDs) more generally. High CU traits outside DBDs exist but it is as yet unknown if there is a clinical need for defining CU traits as a stand-alone construct