Medicalização da infância e políticas sociais: processos de submissão e resistência na produção da economia da diferença
Medicalization is a social issue impacting different aspects of daily life. One of its most noticeable dimensions is the prevalence among children, especially regarding behavior control and its pathologization. Preliminary data collection conducted by the author, which motivated the present study...
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| Resumo: | Medicalization is a social issue impacting different aspects of daily life. One of its most
noticeable dimensions is the prevalence among children, especially regarding behavior control
and its pathologization. Preliminary data collection conducted by the author, which motivated
the present study, identified an increase of 100% in the number of children enrolled at public
schools in a municipality in the interior of Paraíba who were diagnosed as mentally ill
between 2010 and 2014. Moreover, an increase of 400% in the access to the Continued Cash
Benefit Program for people between the ages of 4 and 17 was verified. This thesis aimed at
analyzing the relationship between the phenomenon of rapid increase in the number of
children diagnosed as mentally ill, the pathologization of children and the access to social
policies in this context. The study is based on dialectical materialism so as to analyze the
historical and political processes which fostered the emergence and development of these
issues. The methodology included document and field research. In the first stage, current
legislation and official reports on the local reality and the structure of social policies in the
fields of health, education and social welfare were analyzed. In the second stage, five semistructured
interviews were conducted with the parents or guardians of the children diagnosed
with mental disability living in the municipality focused on in this study. A total of nine visits
to institutions which assist the population regarding the policies considered in this study were
carried out and the observations recorded in a field diary. The collected material was
categorized and analyzed considering the theoretical framework in order tounder pin the
discussions and conclusions of this doctoral thesis. Conclusions indicate that the complex
relationships between the diagnoses of mental disability, the pathologization of children and
social policies are shaped within a network of financial and political values which we named
as Difference Economy. The importance of the Continued Cash Benefit Program to the
survival of many families was also verified, as well as the need for critical reflections on the
policies and their implications in keeping a socially unequal model and the current social
order. |
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