Cortes autoprovocados em adolescentes e os seus efeitos sobre a equipe escolar : a (in)visibilidade do sofrimento e o silenciamento do sujeito

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Paula Cristina Barbosa de Carvalho Tavares
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Brasil; FAF - DEPARTAMENTO DE PSICOLOGIA; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Psicanálise; Cortes autoprovocados; Adolescência; Educação; Psicologia - Teses; Psicanálise - Teses; Ferimentos e lesões - Aspectos psicológicos - Teses; Adolescência - Teses; Educação - Teses
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/77646

The increase in self-inflicted cuts among young people has become a public health issue. In the context of schools, the presence of adolescents who self-harm within the institution has caused significant distress among educators, who often feel unprepared to handle these cases. Considering the approval of Federal Law 13.935/2019, which mandates the presence of psychology professionals in the basic education system, it is essential to problematize the role of the psychologist in this field, particularly in relation to the contemporary challenges faced within the school environment. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the predominant discourses in school institutions regarding the phenomenon of self-inflicted cuts among adolescents and their effects on the interventions carried out with these students. For this investigation, interviews were conducted with professionals from three public schools in Belo Horizonte. Listening to the professionals revealed, on one hand, the presence of discourses that consider self-injurious acts in adolescents as fads or imitative behaviors aimed at attracting other people’s attention. As an effect of these discourses, educators often avoid addressing the topic with adolescents, leading to the silencing of the subject and the invisibilization of their suffering. On the other hand, it was noted the presence of some discourses that consider self inflicted cuts as expressions of suffering that cannot be conveyed thorough words. As a result of these discourses, school staff promote spaces for listening to the adolescents and their families, engage in case discussions, and make referrals to the healthcare system. This research posits that the psychologist guided by psychoanalysis can listen and intervene in reductionist, rigid, and exclusionary institutional discourses, facilitating some displacement that not only reaches adolescents who self-harm but also supports school staff, who may be so distressed that they inadvertently silence these manifestations.