COUV ACTES - Psychologie communautaire

Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse PracticesDiscussionAs can be seen by the initial analysis developed until this point, there are different experiences of interventionwith children and adolescents at risk, and they are perceived in different ways by the families. Generally, theseinterventions work with strategies of approaching, believing it is important to have time for a process to buildrelations, and that the construction of life projects, together with children and family, are relevant.Families tend to underline the relevance of actual steps to reach the social re-insertion of the family into society:adaptation of children at school, or social activity during the day, drug treatment, to reinsert the child into a homeenvironment (shelter, or other family members, as aunt or grandmother), groups to generate wages. But families,as the work process goes on, perceive more subjective and interpersonal aspects of intervention, as how theyexpress affection, limits and how they communicate into the family. All this elements go to the direction ofempowering family’s abilities of taking care of their children.Data show predominantly a positive perception about the Program, and can contribute to the evaluation processof the strategies used, as well as to its improvement. However, families did not point out relevant elementsrelated with reinsertion in the community, and this deserves careful analysis. This study is still undergoing furtheranalysis, seeking to make comparisons with the results of the evaluation of the same program by the socialworkers and by the children, among other possibilities.ReferencesBardin, L. (1979). Análise de Conteúdo. (L. A. Reto & A. Pinheiro, Trads.) Lisboa: Edições 70. (Trabalho originalpublicado em 1977)PMPA - Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre (2006). Projeto Ação Rua. Porto Alegre: FASCUchimura, K.Y. & Bosi, M.LM (2002), “Qualidade e subjetividade na avaliação de programas e serviços emsaúde”. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 18, 6: 1561-1569.178