Vínculos afetivos na instituição: um estudo sobre a percepção de crianças abrigadas acerca da família e do abrigo.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to understand how the child institutionalized through the design of family history (DF-E), see the family. From this axis, they investigated the affective bonds established by these children about their caregivers and other children, were analyzed through drawings and stories, the possible metaphors originating from the early separation of the family group home, also were investigated family ties represented in the drawings. Participated in this study 10 children aged between 05 and 07 years and had had no contact with the family of origin, housed in an institution located in the city of Joao Pessoa, PB. The method used was qualitative, using as a tool for data collection technique Test Design Family with Stories (DF-E). The results revealed representations of an idealized family, as an attempt to alleviate the suffering caused by family breakdown and violence suffered. We realized that given the high turnover of staff of the institution, the children end up taking care of each other, which is finding a way to alleviate the grief and anguish of family separation. In trying to rebuild a family, many experiences become frustrated, reliving the violence of rejection, abandonment, and increasing the resistance and retraction of the child to new opportunities for family reconstruction. Also observed in the reporting of stories of children, some adults shelter become affective support them, to represent them as an attachment figure, which conveys affection and security. Analysis of drawings and stories narrated allowed us to see how the lives of children who participated in the research intertwines and blends, creating a mosaic of movements with different backgrounds, different subjectivities in a variety of time and space that will outlining their bonds.