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This systematic review aimed to identify scientific publications about psychologist's performance in the socio-educational context, from 2007 to 2018. Searches were carried out in the LILACS, PEPSIC and SCIELO databases, by using the descriptors "psychology" or "intervention" combined with "adolescent in conflict with the law", "infractional act" or "socio-educative measure". 242 papers were accessed and their abstracts were read to identify those that approached the subject, remaining 22 articles for the final review. Through the thematic content analysis of the materials, we created four categories: 1) Psychology techniques applied to the demands of socio-education; 2) Listening as the main tool; 3) Working with groups and 4) Art and Sports as dimensions of interest for psychology. Considering the data that were analyzed, it is understood that the psychologist's performance must essentially contribute to build new possibilities in adolescent's lives, respecting their singularities and understanding the peculiarities of their stories. It was also possible to observe that the existence of barriers to the development of effective socio-educational practices calls on the psychologist to expand the repertoire of practices that were traditionally consolidated, which demands to create devices that make sense for these adolescents, considering their contexts and the history of their lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents results from a qualitative phenomenological research that aimed to understand the experience of professionals who care for women in situation of violence in a Social Assistance Specialized Reference Center (CREAS). After individual dialogical encounters with two psychologists and four social workers, the researcher wrote a comprehensive narrative and a synthesis narrative containing the following significant elements of the experience as a whole: (1) the participants realize that some professionals that are part of the women's care network repeat prejudiced attitudes that contribute to the patients' victimization; (2) the participants do not see themselves as protagonists in the institution's decision making, which leads to feelings of frustration and powerlessness; (3) they develop empathic attitudes and identify with the stories lived by the patients and (4) they seek to assist the women, they feel lonely because of the lack of effective action by the women's care network; still, they value their own work. There is a need for interdisciplinary studies that integrate information about the experience of professionals, patients and authors of violence, in institutions of the care network for women in situation of violence -- in order to help overcome the problems pointed out and improve public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to evaluate, through theoretical and scientific papers, the benefits that Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) can provide to children who have some neurodevelopmental impairment. The benefits of human-animal contact has been known since antiquity, but studies around this area are starting to grow only currently. Therefore, we performed a critical review of the literature by analyzing the data collected using content analysis. The results showed the potential benefit of this type of intervention to children with social, cognitive and physical disabilities. The most commonly used animals were dogs and horses for treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities. Thus, there are possibility for psychologists and other professionals of health areas use or referee this kind of intervention to their patients. Still, we can conclude that there is a lack to more empirical studies using AAT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This conceptual study aims to narrate and describe the definitions of psychology facing theoretical and operational aspects. Based on the current scenario where there are disparate considerations on the concept of psychological science and the definition of human behavior, this paper will address to solve this condition regarding four different ways: academia, literature, free market and Neuropsychology. Then, Neuropsychology is presented as a way to resolve this ambiguous situation. Finally, this study claims that the criterion that should be used to evaluate if a particular area of knowledge, or a discipline, is part of psychological science lies in evidences, but never in rhetorical or imagery appeal. This work fosters not only the critical thinking, but also effective actions on the psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on searching some of the strategies used in knowledge production based on the challenges and opportunities created by the Actor-Network Theory (ART) in the area of psychology research. As a starter, we have used a survey conducted by us, in which we cast a special look at the field of social projects such as the action territories that render materiality to the so-called Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Two aspects have proved to be quite rich: the idea of the Promising Misunderstanding (DESPRET, 1999) and the Mapping Controversies (Latour, 2005). We have concluded that the methodological an ontological power of these concepts that, on one hand, multiply voices and versions and on the other hand recognize provisionality, partiality and incompleteness of any updated diagnosis, it also compromises the researcher with what he/she "brings to exisencet" in the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss some questions worked in the end-of-course monograph "Eu sou uma obra de arte, o museu é um mundo", which involved Helio Oiticica artistic proposal and the aproach of his work with an alternative way of thinking psychology: Actor-Network Theory (ANT). So we have a work which unites psychology and artes and discuss practices in psychology. Thus to support this discussion we work making a mess in the way of think and do psychology with the aport of ANT's authors dialoguing with Helio Oiticica. This discussion includes a lot of actors and compose a politic proposal different of dominating logic in psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers of recent history use different information sources to rebuild the past. Through oral history methodology, they can even produce the documents they will analyze. This paper presents three studies in which the authors applied the oral history methodology to three different subjects: 1) the acknowledgement of one Brazilian psychologist's importance, 2) the perception of the work accomplished by employees in childhood education institutions and 3) the reframing of a Holocaust survivor's experience by his descendants. Focusing on people in their own social and cultural contexts, each work produced a historical writing that valorizes different aspects of culture and interpersonal relationships and recognizes that each person is the subject of a historical process. These studies point to the capability of the oral history methodology to valorize the memory of the interviewed people and also as a way to create documents that may help to build the present and future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The School Psychology Emergency Practices differs from others School Psychology practices, is more than type of psychology service and should have more institutional visibility. This paper reflects on these references from both the practice of the author and the currently literature in school psychology. To this purpose, we use as reference the concept of Extended Clinic and its relation with Psychology Emergency Service area. We discuss the opportunity of the school psychologist has, among other things, to be able to listen and to welcome spontaneously anyone in the school community seeking for support in case of emergency. In so doing, the author reflects on the condition of psychological emergency service as service and as a type of treatment at school, and school psychology as an area of expertise inserted in this complex environment different of views and perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]