Caring for organ donors: the intensive care unit physicians' view

This study examined the meanings that the intensive care unit (ICU) physicians attribute to their practice when caring for brain-dead organ donors. It is a phenomenological study, a qualitative method that searches for describing and understanding the experiences lived. Data were collected through recorded individual interviews made with 10 ICU physicians who work in a university hospital in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. Three categories emerged from data: (1) providing care for brain-dead organ donors; (2) relating to donors and their families; and (3) the ethical concerns and self-awareness of the physicians. There is consensus as to-many aspects: demand of technical qualification and excellence in practice; need of investing in technology of organ transplant; and donors seen as human beings and holders of human rights. Participants understand that family participation is decisive in the donation process, although interactions between the family members and the physicians are difficult because of the sensitive nature of the situation. The physicians often felt ill-prepared to openly discuss the topic of brain death and organ donation. Educational programs for physicians and family members may assist with this difficult process.

Desafios e missão do intelectual público

Dans cet article qui se propose de rendre hommage à Carlos Estevam Martins, chercheur en sciences sociales, on examine le rôle de l'intellectuel dans le monde actuel. on part du présupposé qu'on assiste à une métamorphose, due à la forte tendance à l'hyperspécialisation, qui éloigne les intellectuels du vrai débat sur les idées et l'intérêt civique. Paradoxalement, cette même métamorphose exige la présence active de l'intellectuel en tant que personnage apte à produire du sens et des synthèses, pouvant ainsi aider la communauté politique à trouver des formes plus évoluées de conscience de soi.

Produção de cuidado em oficinas de geração de trabalho e renda na saúde mental

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Avaliação da capacidade funcional associado à qualidade de vida em idosos da Estãncia Turística de Avaré, São Paulo, Brasil

Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva - FMB

A educação física e a tomada de consciência da ação motora da criança

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Manual intermitente: notas sobre a poética ficcional de José Saramago

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Modalizações da gaucherie em autores brasileiros e portugueses contemporâneos

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

Avaliação do programa de medicina anti-estresse em mulheres com câncer de colo uterino submetidas à radioterapia

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Formação inicial de professores e educação de jovens e adultos: possibilidades da extensão universitária

The present work aimed at investigating the possibilities and limits of academic extension programs as an environment for initial teacher learning and training. It also focused on investigating the main difficulties identified by Pedagogy and Social Science students about this initial training regarding its use in actual teaching activities. It focused on undergraduate students’ perceptions concerning their involvement in an academic extension project which enabled them to interact with students as teachers in a Youth and Adult Education program, during a whole academic year. Semi-structured interviews were done with nine participants. The content of these interviews was analyzed and divided into four thematic categories. The results show that, for these students, what makes this kind of project unique is the possibility of acting in real situations, under supervision, which provided a moment for reflection. Focusing on supervision, the students point out that this resource is not usually there in traditional internship situations – and that they consider it an important and necessary aspect. It was also indicated the relevance of practice, self-awareness and teaching activity experiences. In conclusion, it was perceived that academic extension programs must be more intensively appreciated, given the coordinating role it can play between investigative and didactic activities, both key to initial training.

Role-playing como estratégia facilitadora da análise funcional em contexto clínico

In behavioral therapy several techniques are used, among them the role-playing and functional analysis. Role-playing is feasible to model relevant behaviors while functional analysis is used for diagnostic evaluation and to produce self-knowledge. However, some clinical problems have characteristics that hinder the creation of self-knowledge, without which the client may not develop the modeling of alternative repertoires. This study aims to illustrate the combination of role-playing and functional analysis as a procedure to facilitate the development of self-awareness in clients with deficits in discrimination of functional relations and interpersonal difficulties. A session was selected from a total of 12 group meetings. The main result was the increase of self-revelations and discrimination of functional relationships by customers. It is concluded that the role-playing can be an environment to teach the client to describe functional relations and produce self-knowledge when facing interpersonal problems and difficulties on the discrimination of the actual contingencies in place.

Lei natural e lei civil em J-J Rousseau

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)