A visão do ensino técnico-profissional português : evolução histórica das medidas e rupturas

Hermeneuticamente, e na perspectiva histórico-educativa, o texto aborda a evolução do ensino técnico-profissional em Portugal desde o fim do século 18. Analisa as medidas e decisões legislativas que visavam implementar o ensino profissional. Todo o percurso do ensino profissional caracterizou-se por uma série de avanços e recuos, ligados à evolução política do país. Ao seu início promissor, com Marquês de Pombal, seguiu-se um forte impulso no século 19, mas posto em xeque durante as convulsões liberais e a 1ª República. No Estado Novo, foi destinado às classes desfavorecidas, o que conduziu à sua estigmatização.

Modeling the impact of social discrimination on the physical and mental health of portuguese gay, lesbian and bisexual people

Background: Despite growing acceptance of same-sex sexuality in Portugal, identity development of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals is still restricted by negative societal attitudes, which maintain the experience of stigmatization and discrimination. The purpose of this study is to document the frequency of discriminatory events experienced by sexual minorities and their association with indicators of physical and mental health in Portugal. Methods: A total of 610 LGB participants completed an online survey (mean age = 34.48, SD = 11.54). Most participants were single and self-identified as gay (73.8%). The survey included five categories of survey items: demographic information, social support, physical health, mental health, and discrimination experiences. Results: Physical and mental health results revealed that bisexual people were more likely to report higher levels of psychological distress than gay men. Overall, between one-fifth and one-fourth of the participants in this sample frequently felt the need to hide their sexual orientation to prevent discrimination experiences across the different settings. Regarding actual discrimination experiences, close to 20% reported having suffered from verbal abuse, followed by close to 10% who suffered from written threats, harassment, and physical threats. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis was performed to assess the effects of anticipated and actual discrimination on mental health. Possible confounding variables were added in the first block – age, sexual orientation, being in a relationship, body mass index, and HIV status. Anticipated and actual discrimination experiences were added in the second block. The first block of the analysis explained 6% of the overall variance, while the second block – discrimination experiences – explained an additional 17%. Conclusion: Portuguese culture and stigma/discrimination create discriminatory experiences which impact LGB people’s health. Unless policies are changed to allow for the acceptance of LGB people, they will continue to experience violence and discrimination as a result of homophobia.

HIV Disclosure: Parental dilemma in informing HIV infected Children about their HIV Status in Malawi

Background Increasingly many perinatally HIV-infected children are surviving through adolescence and adulthood as a result of improvements in the management of paediatric HIV infection, particularly the increased use of combination therapy. It is usually the parents or guardians of these children who are faced with the task of informing the child living with HIV about his or her positive status. However, many parents—particularly biological parents —find this disclosure process difficult to initiate, and this study explored some of the difficulties that these parents encounter. Objective This study set out to explore potential factors that challenge parents and guardians when informing their perinatally HIV-infected child about the child’s HIV status. Design This was a qualitative narrative study that employed in-depth interviews with parents or guardians of children perinatally infected with HIV. A total of 20 parents and guardians of children who attend the outpatient HIV clinic at the Baylor College of Medicine-Abbott Fund Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence (COE) in Lilongwe, Malawi were interviewed. Of these, 14 were biological parents and six were guardians. Results Guardians and parents expressed uneasiness and apprehension with the disclosure conversation, whether or not they had already told their child that he or she had HIV. Participants who had not told their children recounted that they had contemplated starting the conversation but could not gather enough courage to follow through with those thoughts. They cited the fear of robbing their child of the happiness of living without the knowledge of being positive, fear of making their own status known to more people, and fear of confrontation or creating enmity with their child as impediments to disclosing their child’s positive HIV status to him or her. Conclusions It is apparent that guardians—more particularly biological parents—of children perinatally infected by HIV find it difficult to inform their children about their children’s HIV status. From this disempowered position, parents dread the disclosure of a positive HIV status to a child as a psychosocial process that has the potential to disturb a family’s previously established equilibrium with threats of stigmatization, marginalization, and parent-child conflict. This calls for strategies that could support parents to make disclosure to the child less challenging.

“Barnabé e sua aventura”: um projeto de educação para a saúde em disfonia infantil

"Os nódulos vocais, associados etiologicamente a um comportamento disfuncional de mau uso e abuso vocal, são os principais responsáveis pela disfonia crônica em crianças de ambos os gêneros. A disfonia infantil pode influenciar a sedimentação das relações sociais da criança disfônica e conduzir a processos de estigmatização e constrangimento por parte de seus pares. O presente instrumento de Educação para a Saúde tem como principal objetivo consciencializar a criança disfônica para o uso correto da sua voz, diminuindo o impacto biopsicossocial inerente à patologia vocal. Este instrumento, destinado essencialmente a crianças de ambos os sexos entre os sete e os nove anos de idade, e simultaneamente aos seus pais e professores/educadores de infância, consiste num livro de literatura infantil que aborda a problemática da voz e da patologia nodular infantil, tendo sido concretizado em dois formatos: impresso em formato A5 e em formato digital, com narração áudio incluída. O instrumento elaborado, ideal para a população-alvo pré-definida, consiste num excelente veículo de consciencialização da importância da voz e da promoção de hábitos vocais salutogênicos, podendo ser usado em diversos contextos de vida da criança (terapêutico, familiar e escolar)."

Além de dois existem mais : estudo antropológico sobre poliamor em Brasília/DF

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Departamento de Antropologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, 2016.

Casas para um planeta pequeno

Dissertação de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.

Internação compulsória e o respeito à autonomia da população em situação de rua usuária de álcool e outras drogas sob o olhar da equipe do consultório na rua do Plano Piloto DF

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Bioética, 2016.

Biografía de una Champeta. Producción, Difusión y Distribución de la Música de Picó, en Barranquilla Caribe de Colombia

Desde los años 80’s, en los barrios populares de Cartagena y Barranquilla se ha venido desarrollando un fenómeno musical denominado champeta. Este tipo de música es descendiente de bailes populares conocidos en la tradición regional como casetas o verbenas, en los cuales el eje central son grandes amplificadores de sonido denominados picós y datan aproximadamente del decenio de 1950 del siglo XX . El presente trabajo se inscribe en los estudios sociales de la música en los que se analiza los procesos de creación, difusión y distribución por los que atraviesa una canción de champeta en la ciudad de Barranquilla, Caribe de Colombia. Teniendo en cuenta que dichos procesos responden a una lógica de circulación musical alternativa enmarcada en un contexto en el que la música champeta es marginada y estigmatizada por las élites costeñas y nacionales a través de varios mecanismos discursivos, legales y mediáticos, generando unas formas de circulación musical propias que colindan entre lo informal/ilegal.