Luta e resistência: dimensões para a promoção de saúde Mbya Guarani

Sousa, Flaviana; González, Ramiro; Guimarães, Danilo Silva

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“…Nevertheless, the understanding of health beyond the physical and biological aspects has not achieved full respect for the indigenous cosmo-visions, in all their depth and extent. In this sense, caution should be exercised when using the term mental health when dealing with issues related to indigenous health (Sousa, Gonzalez & Guimarães, 2020). The ontological assumptions of the people being cared for are not necessarily the same as those of the health professionals, considering that modern sciences unfold against the backdrop of the assumptions of a naturalistic ontology.…”

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Challenges and concerns in assisting indigenous people with suicide attempts

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There has been an alarming rise in suicide attempts among indigenous people in Brazil leading to national concerns about the provision of psychosocial care and professional support. In this study, we make an attempt to understand the perspectives of professionals in assisting indigenous people from a specific group, the Iny, and identify the specific challenges of addressing issues through the mental health care system, related specifically to suicide prevention. Using a qualitative approach with participant observation and semi-structured interviews, the research included indigenous and their families assisted by three public institutions, and the professionals that work in the public psychosocial assistance. For this paper we examined the tensions, conflicts and challenges of the health care professionals at one of these institutions, a Psychosocial Care Center in the state of Goiás/Brazil. For the analysis of data, a sociocultural protocol was built to identify dialogical tensions between the different thematic-fields of mental health care. The findings reveal that the theme of suicide was an important concern in the daily work with the community, but there were significant issues related to the assumptions, methodology and meaning of care between the professionals and the community on account of which the objective of the programme to address suicide attempts had not been effective or successful. The discussion of the results raises several critical questions about possible contributions of dialogical cultural psychology in the context of indigenous health, and also has important implications for the global issue of well-being of indigenous people.

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“…SCC is the psychological frame grounding the construction of an indigenous psychology in Brazil (Achatz & Guimarães, 2018;Bertholdo & Guimarães, 2018;Gonzalez and Guimarães, 2020;Guimarães, 2011Guimarães, , 2016Guimarães, , 2020aGuimarães, , 2020bGuimarães et al, 2019;Lima et al, 2019;Macena and Guimarães, 2016;Sousa et al, 2020). From this approach, we consider that the richness of traditional cultures can be found in the cultural conceptions and practices of daily life.…”

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The role of the Ifá in the construction of the person in relation to death: Psychology’s interface with ideas from the Adjatado of Dogbo, in Benin

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According to the Adjatado systems of knowledge, the Ifá is a mediator between the world of the living and of the dead and this mediation depends on the funerary rites. Ifá is a word used to refer to the science of divination, the son of God, among other names. It is present from a person’s birth to death. The paper discusses the Ifá’s relation with the cultural processes of the construction of the Adjatado person, assuming its significant role in the lives of the Adjatado people in sustaining personal experience. After discussing selected cultural perspectives, about the meaning of Ifá for the Adjatado people, we propose a dialogue on the construction of the person in relation to death in the framework of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism in psychology, in which death can be discussed from a philosophical perspective, articulated to the phenomenology of temporality, tradition, and alterity (cf. Simão, 2005; 2010; Simão, Guimarães & Valsiner, 2015), nevertheless, the subject of death has not yet been much explored. We argue that the dialogue here proposed enables an understanding of how the meanings that the Adjatado confer to the experience of death is related to processes that involve the cultivation of the person in the culture, addressing further developments concerning dialogues between diverse cultural understandings on psychological processes.

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Luta e resistência: dimensões para a promoção de saúde Mbya Guarani

Cited by 9 publications

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Challenges and concerns in assisting indigenous people with suicide attempts

Challenges and concerns in assisting indigenous people with suicide attempts

The role of the Ifá in the construction of the person in relation to death: Psychology’s interface with ideas from the Adjatado of Dogbo, in Benin

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