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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 takes into account 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 limitations and weaknesses that this network is currently experiencing. In this context, the aim is to understand the social and individual subjective configurations of the subjective suffering processes of adolescents who take part in the activities of a nongovernmental community organization located in the Federal District, in order to build alternative educational paths aimed at subjective development. The Theory of Subjectivity from a cultural-historical perspective, by González Rey, will be used to support the theoretical explanation of these processes. Based on the links between subjectivity, mental health and the community, we problematize the possibilities of actions at a community level, in spaces outside the public mental health apparatus, as possibly powerful resources for fostering the development of adolescents. To this end, links are made with the theoretical contribution of Latin American Community Social Psychology. Finally, using Constructive-Interpretive Methodology, based on Qualitative Epistemology, an in-depth case study of an adolescent between the ages of 12 and 18 will be carried out, with the aim of building a theoretical model that will enable the research objectives to be met.