PRAZER E SOFRIMENTO NO TRABALHO DO ENFERMEIRO HOSPITALAR

Pesquisa qualitativa que tem como objetivos: identificar indicadores que geram prazer e sofrimento nos enfermeiros dentro do ambiente hospitalar, analisar quais são os sentimentos vivenciados por estes profissionais e verificar quais são os principais mecanismos de defesa utilizados. O estudo contou com a participação de oito enfermeiros de diferentes setores hospitalares, em dois hospitais da região central de São Paulo. A coleta de dados ocorreu entre Novembro de 2010 e Fevereiro de 2011, realizada por meio da técnica de entrevista semidirigida com temas norteadores, cujo conteúdo foi registrado por meio de um gravador de voz e transcrito posteriormente. Para análise dos dados foi utilizada a técnica de análise de conteúdo com o respaldo teórico das contribuições da Psicodinâmica do Trabalho e Psicologia Institucional. Das entrevistas foram desveladas cinco categorias analíticas: o prazer no trabalho do enfermeiro, o sofrimento no trabalho do enfermeiro, os sentimentos negativos, os sentimentos positivos, e os sentimentos ambivalentes. Estas categorias agregaram as subcategorias: trabalho gratificante, trabalho estressante, amizade, raiva, dor, medo, inferioridade, frustração, tristeza, culpa e apego. As subcategorias por sua vez, desdobraram-se em indicadores temáticos que expressaram os mais diversos fatores que produzem prazer e sofrimento no trabalho dos enfermeiros, bem como a ambigüidade de sentimentos vivenciados por estes profissionais. Sentimentos que variaram de um momento para o outro, sendo que, aquilo que causava dificuldades no atendimento da necessidade de ajudar e sentir-se útil, implicou em sofrimento, o que facilitou ou tornou viável as necessidades, constituíram em prazer no trabalho. Mecanismos de defesa foram utilizados pelos enfermeiros com o intuito de protegê-los, no entanto, ocultavam da consciência a causa implícita do sofrimento. Os resultados possibilitaram ampliar o universo de conhecimento da Psicodinâmica do Trabalho e Psicologia Institucional na área da enfermagem, demonstrando os processos psíquicos e sociais que circundam os significados de trabalho para o ser humano, encontrando possíveis soluções para elaboração e superação do sofrimento, e melhorando a saúde psíquica dos enfermeiros em seu cotidiano dinâmico de trabalho.

Development of the Positive Emotions Program for Schizophrenia (PEPS): an intervention to improve pleasure and motivation in schizophrenia

Objectives: The efficacy of drug-based treatments and psychological interventions on the primary negative symptoms of schizophrenia remains limited. Recent literature has distinguished negative symptoms associated with a diminished capacity to experience, from those associated with a limited capacity for expression. The positive emotions program for schizophrenia (PEPS) is a new method that specifically aims to reduce the syndrome of a diminished capacity to experience. Methods: The intervention's vital ingredients were identified through a literature review of emotion in schizophrenia and positive psychology. The program has been beta-tested on various groups of health-care professionals. Results: A detailed description of the final version of PEPS is presented here. The French version of the program is freely downloadable. Conclusion: PEPS is a specific, short, easy to use, group-based intervention to improve pleasure, and motivation in schizophrenia. It was built considering a recovery-oriented approach to schizophrenia.

The pain and pleasure of being what one is: Viewpoints of health professionals and patients about being overweight/obese

The objective of this article is to discuss the meanings that health professionals and patients in treatment attribute to obesity. The research consisted of a qualitative survey in health, based on in-depth interviews with patients and professionals at an out-patient clinic at the University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. Here, we discuss the concept of obesity, the meanings of diagnoses, the singularities involved in managing treatment, and the process of becoming ill, all in the light of the anthropology of health that has a sociocultural orientation. Obesity is usually seen by the professionals as a risk-factor disease. For patients, the incorporation of this rationality is procedural and is mixed in with other meanings attributed to being overweight/obese that have been gradually developed throughout life. A patient's autonomy in choosing to be fat, or obese, and to adhere to treatment, is defined as a process that requires support in order to come to joint proposals in caring for these problems.

Pleasure, pain and procrastination:reflections on the experience of doing memory-work research

The focus of this article is the process of doing memory-work research. We tell the story of our experience of what it was like to use this approach. We were enthused to work collectively on a "discovery" project to explore a method with which we were unfamiliar. We hoped to build working relationships based on mutual respect and the desire to focus on methodology and its place in our psychological understanding. The empirical activities highlighted methodological and experiential challenges, which tested our adherence to the social constructionist premise of Haug's original description of memory work. Combined with practical difficulties of living across Europe, writing and analyzing the memories became contentious. We found ourselves having to address a number of tensions emanating from the work and our approach to it. We discuss some of these tensions alongside examples that illustrate the research process and the ways we negotiated the collective nature of the memory-work approach. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

Motivação intrinseca e o estado mental flow em corredores de rua

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Emotion in organizations: A neglected topic in I/O psychology, But with a bright future

In this chapter we present a review of some of the main threads of research on the role played by emotion and affect in organizations. In this respect, we refute the notion that organizations are totally rational., where the role of emotion is something that can be discounted or 'managed' out of existence.