Vulnerable Children and Youth in Brazil : Innovative Approaches from the Psychology of Social Development

285 Pages·2017·4.079 MB·English

by  Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio, Silvia Helena Koller (eds.)

Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio 
Silvia Helena Koller Editors
Vulnerable
Children and
Youth in Brazil
Innovative Approaches from the
Psychology of Social Development
Vulnerable Children and Youth in Brazil
Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio
Silvia Helena Koller
Editors
Vulnerable Children
and Youth in Brazil
Innovative Approaches from the Psychology
of Social Development
Editors
Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio Silvia Helena Koller
Psychology Institute Psychology Institute
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Optentia Research Focus Area
North-West University
Vanderbijlpark, South Africa
ISBN 978-3-319-65032-6 ISBN 978-3-319-65033-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-65033-3
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Contents
1 Studying Human Development in Situations of Vulnerability
in Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio and Silvia Helena Koller
Part I Contexts of Violence
2 Intrafamily Violence: A Study on Vulnerability and Resilience . . . . . . 9
Alessandra Marques Cecconello and Silvia Helena Koller
3 Methodological Aspects of Research on Violence Against
Adolescents in Brazilian Public Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Jaqueline Portella Giordani, Naiana Dapieve Patias,
Doralúcia Gil da Silva, and Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio
4 Theoretical-Methodological Aspects of Research
on Violence in Adolescent Dating Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Jeane Lessinger Borges and Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio
5 Research on the Disclosure of Sexual Violence:
Ethical and Methodological Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Samara Silva dos Santos, Andressa Sauzem Mayer,
and Suélem Lopes Silva
6 An Integrative Conceptual Model for Enhanced Understanding
of the Dynamics of Sexual Violence Against Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Jean Von Hohendorff, Debra Nelson-Gardell,
Luísa Fernanda Habigzang, and Silvia Helena Koller
7 Discussion on Prejudice and Empathy in Children
and Adolescents in Situations of Social Vulnerability:
Proposition of Interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
André Verzoni and Carolina Saraiva de Macedo Lisboa
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Part II Risk and Protective Factors
8 Protective Factors for the Development of Adolescents
with DM1: An Interface Between Positive Psychology
and Health Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Luciana Cassarino-Perez, Juliana Prytula Greco-Soares,
and Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio
9 Youth Positive Development Through Sport: Strategies
from Social Project Coaches in Brazil and Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Maurício Pinto Marques, Luciano Alencastro,
and Rodrigo de Vargas Araújo
10 Emerging Adulthood in Brazil: Socioeconomic Influences
and Methodological Issues in the Study of Young Adults . . . . . . . . . 141
Luciana Dutra-Thomé and Anderson Siqueira Pereira
Part III Vulnerability in Mother-Infant Relations
11 Longitudinal Adolescent Mother-Infant Interactions:
How Do They Happen Within Vulnerable Backgrounds? . . . . . . . . . 157
Eva Diniz and Silvia Helena Koller
12 Ensuring the Rights of Birthmothers to Place Their Children
for Adoption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Aline Cardoso Siqueira, Daniele Dalla Porta,
Marina Peripolli Antoniazzi, and Suane Pastoriza Faraj
Part IV Institutional Care
13 Children’s Perceptions of the Relational and Educational
Practices at Shelter Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Eliane Lima Piske, Angela Adriane Schmidt Bersch,
and Maria Angela Mattar Yunes
14 The Use of Visual Methods and Reflexive Interviews
in the Research with Children Living in Foster Care . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Alex Sandro Gomes Pessoa, Jaqueline Knupp Medeiros,
Débora Belizário da Fonseca, and Linda Lienbeberg
15 Social Images of Children in Care, Their Families,
and Residential Care Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Bruna Wendt, Jana Gonçalves Zappe, Juliano Beck Scott,
Aline Cardoso Siqueira, and Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio
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Part V Conflicts with the Law
16 The Applicability of Hidden Resilience in the Lives
of Adolescents Involved in Drug Trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Alex Sandro Gomes Pessoa, Renata Maria Coimbra,
Amity Noltemeyer, and Dorothy Bottrell
17 Systematization of Recording in Field Diary: A Case
of a Research in Brazilian Juvenile Detention Centers . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Vinicius Coscioni
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Contributors
Marina Peripolli Antoniazziis currently a master’s student in the Postgraduate

Psychology Program at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). She is a
specialist in psychoanalytic intervention in the clinic with children and adolescents
of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She is a psychologist,
who graduated from the Franciscan University Center (UNIFRA). Her areas of
interest are in psychoanalysis, adoption, maternity, childhood, and parenting.
Ângela Adriane Schmidt Berschholds a PhD and MS in environmental education

from the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG). She graduated in physical edu-
cation at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL). She develops and coordinates
the Relational Psychomotricity Extension and Training of Social Educators of the
Extension Program in the Reference Center in Support of Families (CRAF-FURG).
She has experience in education, physical education, environmental education, and
resilience. She teaches courses and conducts research in the teaching and learning
methodologies, teaching didactics, relational psychomotricity, personal training
through the corporal way, bioecology of human development, methodology of higher
education research, and pedagogical practice and teacher training.
Jeane Lessinger Borgesholds a psychology master’s degree and is currently a psy-

chology doctoral student at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS),
Porto Alegre, Brazil. She is a member of the Center of Studies and Research on
Adolescence (UFRGS). Her research interests include vulnerable adolescents, dat-
ing teen violence, stalking, and family violence.
Dorothy Bottrell, EdDis a senior lecturer in the College of Arts and Education,

Victoria University, Melbourne. Dorothy teaches in undergraduate and postgraduate
courses in teacher education. She researches young people’s resilience in conditions
of social disadvantage, including theoretical and qualitative work on social theory
and political ecology of resilience, identity work, the role of community networks,
educational and youth services, and interrelationship of responsibility and resil-
ience. Her research is published in international journals, and her books include
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Schools, Communities and Social Inclusion (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), A Political
Ecology of Youth and Crime (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and Participatory Research
with Children and Young People (SAGE, 2015).
Luciana Cassarino-Perezholds a master of science in psychology and has experi-

ence, spanning over 5 years, in evaluation and research. She is currently a PhD
fellow at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in south of Brazil. Much
of her recent work is in the fields of positive and health psychology, focusing mainly
in protective factors for vulnerable child and adolescent development.
Alessandra Marques Cecconello is a psychologist with a master’s degree and PhD

in developmental psychology from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil. She is a professor at the University Center UNICNEC since 2003. She also
works in the public health area, in a psychosocial care center, following children
and adolescents and their families and developing therapeutic activities and health
prevention and promotion in her area of training and expertise – development in risk
situations.
Renata Maria Coimbra, PhD is an associate professor at the Education Department

and Graduate Program in Education at Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil.
She teaches developmental psychology and carries out researches on the fields of
resilience, protective factors, and at-risk development, such as sexual violence,
child work, and disability issues. She is currently pursuing her third postdoctoral
research in the field of social communication/cinema at the Federal University of
Minas Gerais about female prostitution and sexual exploitation and producing a
documentary entitled “Unheard Voices.”
Vinicius Coscioniis a psychologist and holds a master of science in psychology

from Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES). His master’s thesis investi-
gated the purpose of life and interpersonal relationships of adolescents in conflict
with the law. Nowadays he is a doctoral student at the Universidade Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul and researches about the same theme. His main areas of interest are
adolescents in conflict with the law, development in situations of vulnerability, and
bioecological theory of human development.
Débora Belizário da Fonseca is an undergraduate student of psychology at the

University of Western São Paulo.
Doralúcia Gil da Silva is a psychologist with master’s degree in psychology and

is a PhD candidate by the Postgraduate Program in Psychology of the Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She works as a psychologist in the Pediatric
Unit of the School Hospital at the Federal University of Pelotas, in the south of
Brazil. Doralúcia has some published papers about the psychologist practice with
adolescents and children. She is mainly interested in child, adolescence, psycho-
logical assessment, clinical psychology, health psychology, and positive
psychology.
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Luciano Alencastrois a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidade Federal do Rio

Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He graduated in psychology from UFRGS and obtained his
master’s degree and PhD in psychology from the same university. He has experi-
ence in the fields of cognitive psychology and clinical psychology, primarily investi-
gating the following areas: autobiographical memory, cognitive styles, cognitive
processes in depression, narrative analysis, and narrative psychology.
Carolina Saraiva de Macedo Lisboais a psychologist with a PhD and master’s

degree in developmental psychology from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
do Sul, Brazil. Carolina is currently a professor at the Postgraduate Program in
Psychology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).
Carolina Lisboa coordinates the research group “Interpersonal Relations and
Violence (RIVI): Clinical, Social, Educational and Virtual Contexts.” She is a certi-
fied cognitive therapist by the Brazilian Federation of Cognitive Therapies, having
experience in the areas of clinical psychology, developmental psychology, and
school and educational psychology. Carolina Lisboa researches themes like bully-
ing and cyberbullying, social development, and social cognitions and is also inter-
ested in the development and evaluation of cognitive-behavioral interventions to
actual demands related to violence, prejudice, and school climate.
Rodrigo de Vargas Araújois a psychologist and former athlete. He graduated in

2015 at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. He has been working on the
theme of psychology and sports in a postgraduate group since 2013. He was a
lecturer on the “Introductory Course in Sport Psychology” at UNISINOS.
Débora Dalbosco Dell’Agliois full professor of psychology at the Universidade

Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where she coordinates the Center for Studies
and Research in Adolescence, guiding master’s and doctoral students. Her research
focuses on broad questions of human development, acting on the following topics:
adolescence, institutionalization, coping, sexual abuse, support network, well-
being, resilience, personal risk, violence exposition, and contextual variables. Dr.
Dell’Aglio is a researcher at the Brazilian Center for Scientific and Technological
Review, and she has received funding from Brazilian agencies.
Eva  Dinizis a developmental psychologist. Currently, she is a postdoctoral

researcher in the Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social (CIS-IUL) at ISCTE-IUL.
Her main focus of research is related to investigating the influence of psychosocial
aspects on human development. More recently, she is also interested in investigating
psychosocial aspects related to (in)equality of access of health care and clinical
outcomes. She performed her graduate studies in psychology at the Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
Samara Silva dos Santosis adjunct professor of psychology at the Postgraduate

Program in Psychology of the Department of Psychology at the Federal University
of Santa Maria. Currently, she develops research on the training and performance of