Topic of the thesis: Exploration of the subjectivities of child and adolescent psychiatric impatients: proposals through listening to voices
Abstract: This project consists in carrying out an exhaustive and critical analysis of the main phenomena that contribute to the construction of the subjectivities of children and adolescents hospitalized by psychiatric causes in mental health intensive care units.
In general, the intervention strategies of the hospital system are based on standardized measures crystallized in biomedical logic. Numerous theoretical developments point out that the biomedical model would be related to immediate and functional responses to placate clinical symptomatology, disregarding the patient's narrative in decision making, and losing sight of multidimensional factors. Furthermore, there are few practical and critical analyses based on the discourse of children and adolescent patients of psychiatric specialties suffering from acute psychiatric disorders.
Using a qualitative methodology, the present project aims to understand the subjective experience of children and adolescents hospitalized in psychiatric intensive care units of the public health system, as well as that of the main actors involved. This requires a socio-critical analysis of phenomena related to psychiatric practices and the psychiatric institution.
The project will start from the consideration of children and adolescents as active and critical subjects, playing a participatory role that makes them the key to implementing improvements in mental health and psychiatric approach in the public health system, through the recovery of their voices and their first-person experience.
Research interests: Child and adolescent psychiatrization, child and adolescent subjectivity, child and adolescent participation, deinstitutionalization
Graduated from: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile (BA)
Degrees obtained: BA in Psychology
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