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A figura humana: Comparação entre crianças saudáveis e crianças com cancro
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É sabido que a taxa populacional com cancro tem vindo a aumentar mediante a
passagem dos tempos, porém a cada dia que passa, dão-se avanços tecnológicos e
medicinais para o combate e erradicação desta doença que não escolhe idades, géneros
ou etnias.
O cancro infantil é a doença mais mortífera entre as crianças, mas é também
nesta área que existem as melhores e mais completas técnicas de combate e terapias que
fazem com que, actualmente, a maior parte destes cancros não sejam fatais.
Podemos afirmar que este é um processo marcante que deixará sequelas físicas e
psicológicas desde o diagnóstico inicial até ao desenlace da doença. As sequelas serão
sentidas maioritariamente não só apenas pela criança mas também pela sua família mais
próxima.
Partindo do principio que o desenho expressa a personalidade emotiva do seu
autor (Di Leo, 1983), utilizámos o Teste do Desenho da Figura Humana de Goodenough
como instrumento para aceder a este tipo de informação. Para tal, efectuámos um estudo
quantitativo no qual comparámos 6 desenhos da figura humana de crianças saudáveis
com 6 desenhos da figura humana de crianças com cancro.
Contrariamente ao que era esperado, os resultados que obtemos revelaram-nos
de um modo geral, que as crianças com cancro investiram mais na execução do seu
desenho comparativamente com as crianças saudáveis, não demonstrando á partida uma
auto-imagem danificada.
It is known that cancer ratings are increasing in worldwide populations, however, everyday new medical and technological approaches are developed to eradicate this particular disease that doesn’t chooses ages, genders or ethnies. Pediatric cancer is the deadliest disease among children, but is also in this area that we can find the most developed and advanced techniques in therapies and ways to fight back this disease. Thanks to these advances, most of childhood cancers aren’t fatal anymore. No doubt that this is a powerful and remarkable situation that will leave in the child physical and psychological sequellae from the early diagnosis until the end of the process, whichever might the consequences be. These sequellae will be felt not only by the child, but also by her closest family. Assuming that children’s drawings express the emotional personality of its author (Di Leo, 1983), we used Goodenough’s Draw a Man Test as an instrument to access to this sort of information. In order to do so, we realized a quantitative study in which we compared 6 drawings of the human figure of healthy children with 6 drawings of the human figure of children with cancer. Oppositely to what we thought that we would find, the results we observed, revealed in general, that the children with cancer have invested more in the execution of their task comparably to the healthy children, not demonstrating, at this point, a damaged self image.
It is known that cancer ratings are increasing in worldwide populations, however, everyday new medical and technological approaches are developed to eradicate this particular disease that doesn’t chooses ages, genders or ethnies. Pediatric cancer is the deadliest disease among children, but is also in this area that we can find the most developed and advanced techniques in therapies and ways to fight back this disease. Thanks to these advances, most of childhood cancers aren’t fatal anymore. No doubt that this is a powerful and remarkable situation that will leave in the child physical and psychological sequellae from the early diagnosis until the end of the process, whichever might the consequences be. These sequellae will be felt not only by the child, but also by her closest family. Assuming that children’s drawings express the emotional personality of its author (Di Leo, 1983), we used Goodenough’s Draw a Man Test as an instrument to access to this sort of information. In order to do so, we realized a quantitative study in which we compared 6 drawings of the human figure of healthy children with 6 drawings of the human figure of children with cancer. Oppositely to what we thought that we would find, the results we observed, revealed in general, that the children with cancer have invested more in the execution of their task comparably to the healthy children, not demonstrating, at this point, a damaged self image.
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Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada ao Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada para obtenção de grau de Mestre na especialidade de Psicologia Clínica.
Keywords
Cancro infantil Projecção Desenho infantil Teste da figura humana de Goodenough Child cancer Projection Children’s drawings Goodenough’s human figure test