Research Project

Research Projects

 

The research group includes the research projects (“umbrella projects”) of the teachers who are part of it.  Within these broad projects are articulated the different subprojects of Scientific Initiation, IC-MS, TCC., as well as the research projects of the master’s students.

There are four research projects, linked to teachers, according to the following:

1. A) Psychology and Human Rights: Health and Education – Working the integral training of the citizen allied to the promotion and protection of health and quality of life.         It aims to research issues related to identity formation, the search for self-knowledge, the promotion of human rights, with the main focus being the child, adolescent and young people. uIts focus on the investigation and evaluation of stressful aspects and situations that harm psychosocial development, the lives of children, adolescents and young people. It proposes innovative interventional and preventive practices with these individuals, in different contexts, from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating the areas of Health Psychology, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, DevelopmentAl Psychology and Socio-Educational Policies. Teacher in charge:Dr. Daisy Inocencia Margarida de Lemos
2. B) Development, Symbolic Function and Inclusion Based on interdisciplinary research, seeks to study human development, complex cognitive systems and different human languages. The objective is to verify whether symbolic and playful language can be instruments in the development of concentration, cognition and self-knowledge of the individual. It seeks to develop research that produces significant results for the practice of health and education professionals. It integrates the areas of Health Psychology, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Development and Socio-Educational Policies. Teacher in charge: Luana Carramillo Going
3. C) Child in foster care and the child in the family: relationships between diagnostic understanding from a psychological perspective.

It aims to analyze the perception of children in sheltering situations about coexistence in this institutional space, from qualitative analysis from the psychoanalytic perspective. It aims to survey indicators that support the construction of public policies in the context of childhood, considering that these contexts are historically marked by neglect and abandonment, far from the needs of child biopsychosocial development. Teacher in charge: Dr. Hilda Rosa Chaplain Avoglia

1. D) Psychoanalytic Considerations of Mental Health and Quality of Life Aims to develop research in the areas of Preventive and/or Curative Psychology, with emphasis on new practices in current public policies, in the field of mental health, quality of life and promotion of human and social development. Teacher in charge: Hélio Alves