Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: BRUNO REIS BERNARDO COBUCCI

Subjectivity, community and education: paths Alternatives in mental health care for adolescents

Adolescence. Suffering. Education. Subjectivity. Community

This work emerges from concerns about the significant growth in the subjective suffering of adolescents in Brazil, as well as the individualistic, pathologizing and medicalizing tendency in the care given to this public. It also considers the recent nature of public policies dedicated to adolescent mental health care based on the paradigm of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform, as well as the shortcomings and weaknesses that this network is currently experiencing. In this context, the aim is to understand the subjective configuration of the processes of subjective suffering of adolescents who take part in the activities of a non-governmental community organization located in the Federal District, in order to build alternative educational paths oriented towards subjective development. González Rey's Theory of Subjectivity, from a cultural-historical perspective, will be used to support the theoretical explanation of these processes. Based on the links between subjectivity, mental health and the community, the possibility of actions at community level, in spaces outside the public mental health apparatus, as possibly powerful resources for fostering the development of adolescents, is problematized. To this end, links are made with the theoretical contribution of Latin American Community Social Psychology. Finally, using the constructiveinterpretive method, based on Qualitative Epistemology, both also developed by González Rey, an in-depth case study of an adolescent aged between 12 and 18 will be carried out, with the aim of building a theoretical model that will enable the research objectives to be met.