Experiment(ação), cri(atividade) e prática clínica com crianças em gestalt-terapia

Abstract

Clinical practice with children and adolescents based on Gestalt therapy has been gaining strength in contemporary times. This form of action has generated the opening of several training and/or improvement courses for a growing demand. In this work perspective, a field of action that involves peculiarities and singularities that differ from the more common practice with adults stands out, since access to the child's reality is given in a playful way for a diagnostic understanding. There is a predominance of ludic language to the detriment of the child's verbal language, which, in many cases, is still in full development (AGUIAR, 2014). The graduation in Psychology requires, in the end, a choice and direction of practical activities for the formation of a psychologist. This internship report brings the activities developed in the Psychology Service of the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), this service started its activities in 2011 and offers free psychological care to the community, works in the clinic-school modality and has as its target audience people in situations of social vulnerability. The internship in question started its activities in June 2017 and ended in March 2018. This report goes through the details of the activities developed in the supervised internships I and II of the Psychology course, first pointing out the theoretical reference with the definition of Gestalt -therapy with children, the conception of children, perspectives on human development, the role of the family, healthy and unhealthy functioning, diagnosis and intervention in Gestalt-therapy, the creative process in Gestalt-therapy, case study description and theoretical discussion of the case. In the annexes, recreational activities carried out in the psychotherapeutic process, such as drawings and texts, can be seen. As reported so far, the present work aims to demonstrate the activities carried out by the Psychology intern and the theoretically fundamental interventions by Gestalt therapy.