O projeto de vida "retorno à família biológica" de crianças institucionalizadas: contributos para a análise e intervenção
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O presente trabalho de investigação incide sobre a intervenção da equipa técnica profissional do CAT- Casa das Cores, na implementação do projeto de vida de retorno da criança à família biológica.
Este estudo segue uma metodologia qualitativa, estudo de caso de caráter descritivo e exploratório. Para a recolha da informação empírica utilizou-se a técnica de entrevista e análise de conteúdo dos processos referentes às quatro crianças que tiveram o retorno à família desde a abertura do CAT já referido.
Conclui-se que, o principal motivo da institucionalização destas crianças foi a negligência grave, a nível escolar, educacional e habitacional, embora estas famílias não tenham chegado a colocar os menores em situação de perigo de vida. No entanto, o principal fator sociofamiliar agravante da situação irregular das crianças e que culminou na institucionalização foram os níveis económico e habitacional.
Em suma, os fatores que levaram a equipa técnica profissional do CAT a elaborar e a implementar o projeto de vida de retorno da criança à família biológica foram a capacitação das famílias para minimizarem os fatores de risco que inicialmente colocaram as crianças em situação de risco, através da potencialização das suas competências parentais, nomeadamente na capacidade de avaliarem as necessidades apresentadas pelas crianças, reconhecendo-as e efetuando as modificações necessárias de forma a dar uma resposta adequada às questões que se apresentassem, tanto a nível individual como sociofamiliar. Assim, como as famílias em estudo conseguiram sustentar e estabilizar as condições de segurança e proporcionar às crianças um contexto protetor e promotor de um desenvolvimento adequado, visou-se a reintegração da criança na família.
This research work focuses on the intervention of the technical and professional team of the Casa da Cores (CAT) in the implementation of the life project of returning children to their biological families. This study follows a quantitative, descriptive and exploratory case study methodology. The techniques used to collect the empirical information were interviews and content analysis of the cases concerning the four children that were returned to their families since the opening of CAT. It was concluded that the main reason for the institutionalisation of these children was the serious negligence at school, educational and housing levels, although these families have never placed the minors’ lives at risk. However, the housing and economic levels were the main aggravating family and social factors for the irregularities of the children’s situation and which led to their institutionalisation. In sum, the factors that led the technical and professional team of the CAT to elaborate and implement the life project of returning children to their biological families was to enable the families to minimize the risk factors which initially placed the children at risk by improving parental competencies, notably their ability to assess the children’s needs, acknowledging them and adapting themselves in order to answer the issues adequately, both at individual, family and social levels. Therefore, as those families managed to stabilize and support the safety conditions of the children and to provide them with a caring and protective environment promoting an adequate development, they were reintegrated back into their families.
This research work focuses on the intervention of the technical and professional team of the Casa da Cores (CAT) in the implementation of the life project of returning children to their biological families. This study follows a quantitative, descriptive and exploratory case study methodology. The techniques used to collect the empirical information were interviews and content analysis of the cases concerning the four children that were returned to their families since the opening of CAT. It was concluded that the main reason for the institutionalisation of these children was the serious negligence at school, educational and housing levels, although these families have never placed the minors’ lives at risk. However, the housing and economic levels were the main aggravating family and social factors for the irregularities of the children’s situation and which led to their institutionalisation. In sum, the factors that led the technical and professional team of the CAT to elaborate and implement the life project of returning children to their biological families was to enable the families to minimize the risk factors which initially placed the children at risk by improving parental competencies, notably their ability to assess the children’s needs, acknowledging them and adapting themselves in order to answer the issues adequately, both at individual, family and social levels. Therefore, as those families managed to stabilize and support the safety conditions of the children and to provide them with a caring and protective environment promoting an adequate development, they were reintegrated back into their families.
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Orientação: Marlene Braz Rodrigues
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SERVIÇO SOCIAL, CRIANÇAS INSTITUCIONALIZADAS, FAMÍLIA, COMPETÊNCIAS PARENTAIS, SOCIAL WORK, INSTITUTIONALISED CHILDREN, FAMILY, PARENTING SKILLS, MESTRADO EM SERVIÇO SOCIAL E POLÍTICA SOCIAL