Contributo para a compreensão do conceito de família pelos técnicos de acolhimento residencial

Abstract

The number of children in residential care reveals itself, yet today, quite significant. Due to this fact and to the scarcity of national studies it becomes pertinent to investigate how psychologist understand families they work with. Thus, this study intends to understand the perceptions of residential care psychologists about the families with whom they work, the role they play in the context of residential care, and the perspective they have about their work. Based on the qualitative methodology, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 5 psychologists who work in residential care homes, housing children up to 12 years old, located in the district of Porto, the methodology used for data analysis was bases on the semi-inductive theory. The main results highlight the attribution of mainly negative characteristics to characterize the families; the main facilitators and obstacles identified by psychologists at the time of intervention with the families; and the importance of external and internal teams as facilitators in performing function in the context of residential care.

Date of Award	19 Jul 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Mariana Negrão (Supervisor)