Família Retalhos
: estudo de caso sobre a estrutura relacional de uma família multiproblemática

  • Guillermo Moreno Barrero (Student)

Student thesis: Master's Thesis

Abstract

This instrumental case study falls within the qualitative research with families multiproblemáticas. The nine participants are members of a family system, the couple, four children, her maternal grandfather, a psychologist at home where the children live and the investigator himself. The objective of this research was to understand the relational structure of a family from four instruments, participant observation, semistructured interviews, genograms and Double Moon Research results show that the relational structure of this family are characterized by different types of border and mostly accentuating the intrapsychic, individual, generational, intrasistémicas and temporal boundaries diffuse and mostly family, intersistémicas and space the main themes that have appeared related boundaries are strong psychological presence of absent figures, the low differentiation of emotional states and the cuts produced between them, and the isolation of parentification daughters, the cut with the origins and the consequent illusion of self-generation of parents. We can also speak of a dilution in social services and an experience petrified time. These results tell us that the Patchwork Family is living an experience of detachment and isolation, marked by a transmission trigenerational cutting with the origins and difficulty in projecting the future.
Date of AwardSept 2012
Original languagePortuguese
Awarding Institution
  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa
SupervisorArmanda Gonçalves (Supervisor)

Keywords

  • Case study
  • Multiproblematic families
  • Relational structure
  • Boundaries and systemic psychology

Designation

  • Mestrado em Psicologia da Família

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