Albert Camus and Damien Hirst: Always looking on the absurd side of life

The aim of this text is to consider the notions of life and art, revealed in Camus’s texts, mainly The Myth of Sisyphus (published in French in 1942) and The Rebel (1951), and extrapolate them to the present state of contemporary art by analysing a few artworks by Damien Hirst, the richest living artist, a modern Sisyphus in the self-awareness he manifests towards the incongruity of his work. Always looking on the absurd side of life dwells on the inevitability of life and art, accepting the fact, according to Camus’s words, that: the impossible remains impossible. Instead of denying the meaningless and finding some form of redemption, both French writer and British artist have embraced this potential and have used the absurd as a form of conveying meaning to their art. Hirst’s artworks that will be referred in this text include the series: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991); Mother and Child Divided (1993); For the Love of God (2007) and For Heaven’s Sake (2008).

Projeto de intervenção em adolescentes com ansiedade em contexto de ambulatório

A adolescência é uma fase de transição, pautada de inúmeras alterações físicas, mentais e sociais. Diversos fatores influenciam a construção da identidade, podendo provocar reações de ansiedades. Estas podem transtornar o percurso do jovem, impedindo-o de tomar decisões eficazes, adequadas e benéficas. É importante saber identificar sintomas e controlá-los nos momentos em que podem ser prejudiciais. Para promover um desenvolvimento salutar, dotar os adolescentes de instrumentos que os ajudem a gerir a ansiedade, pode ser uma resposta. Este relatório descreve um percurso em ensino clínico, numa unidade de pedopsiquiatria, onde foram implementadas intervenções de enfermagem a adolescentes que apresentaram sinais e/ou sintomas de ansiedade. Visou trabalhar atitudes como, assertividade, autoconhecimento e capacidade de reflexão, e fornecer ferramentas como, técnicas de relaxamento e atividade física, demonstrando que é possível controlar a ansiedade e consequentemente apresentar comportamentos mais adequados e vantajosos; ABSTRACT: INTERVENTION PROJECT IN ADOLESCENTS WITH ANXIETY IN OUTPATIENT CONTEXT Adolescence is a transitional stage, guided with several physical, mental and social changes. The construction of identity is influenced by several factors which can cause anxiety reactions. These can cause disorders on their path, preventing it from taking effective, appropriate and beneficial decisions. It is important to identify symptoms and control them at moments that can be harmful. The answer may be, promote a healthy development by providing to adolescents tools to help them manage anxiety. This report describes a path in a clinical training, in a child and adolescent’s psychiatry unit, where nursing interventions were implemented to adolescents who present signs and/or symptoms of anxiety. It aimed to work attitudes such as assertiveness, self-awareness and reflection, and provide them tools as relaxation techniques and physical activity, showing that it is possible to control anxiety and consequently, obtain a more appropriate and beneficial behavior.

Life Design Counseling Group Intervention With Portuguese Adolescents

This article examines the process and outcome of a life design counseling group intervention with students in Grades 9 and 12. First, we applied a quasi-experimental methodology to analyze the intervention’s effectiveness in promoting career certainty, career decision-making, self-efficacy, and career adaptability in a sample of 236 students. Second, focus groups comprising 33 participants were conducted, examining participants’ perceptions of the intervention process and outcome. Our findings showed that the intervention had a significant effect on both career certainty and career self-efficacy, but it had no effect on career adaptability. Our results also showed that My Career Story (MCS) had a stronger effect on Grade 12 students. Focus group participants reported on the usefulness of MCS, as well as on its benefits, which include increased information as well as a sense of direction, self-discovery, connection, and increased self-awareness. Grade 9 participants expressed more difficulties in narrating self-experience than Grade 12 participants did. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.