As representações do psicólogo na socioeducação: o saber ingênuo de adolescentes em internação provisória e em cumprimento de medidas socioeducativas no DEGASE

Abstract

Based on the Social Representation Theory, this study had as its primary objective to identifiy the representations that teenagers in temporary internment and complying with socio-educational measures of internment and teenagers in semi-liberty, have of the Psychologist who works in the General Department of Socio-Educational Action of the State of Rio de Janeiro (DEGASE). To that end, this work presents the results obtained through a quantitative and qualitative research, by the analysis of results obtained through free association from a word inducer, and by discourse analysis. In this sense, the present study also reflects on the role of the psychologist working on socio-education from the adolescents’ theoretical foundations and knowledge about the work of this professional. The research involved the participation of 102 adolescents in the socio-educational system and the results reveal that the Social Representation of the Psychologist is of a professional who helps, answers, talks, who relieves the adolescents’ distress during the period of stay in DEGASE and who the adolescents recognize by name