JESUS, L.C. Religious and spiritual coping among nursing professionals who work in emergency units. 2011. 83p. Dissertation (MA) – Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 2011. Researches published in the area of spiritual/religious coping (SRC) still not addressed this issue related to nursing professionals who are submitted to different stress factors arising not only from their work practice, but also from their everyday life outside the workplace. This study aimed to verify if nursing staff (assistants, technicians and nurses) uses the spiritual/religious coping to deal with the stress factors experienced both at work and in private life. It is a cross-sectional, descriptive, and quantitative study in which all nurses of the Emergency Unit of the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto Medical School were invited to participate, obtaining a sample of 126 participants who were given an envelope containing a free consent form, the General Questionnaire, and the Spiritual Religious Coping Scale (SRCOPE Scale), which were completely filled out by the participants out of the workplace and then returned to the researcher. The results showed that the SRC average was 3.66, the positive SRC average was 3.11, the negative SRC average was 1.78, and that women make more use of positive spiritual/religious coping than men. Regarding the situation of stress mentioned by the participants, it was found that the majority reported having experienced a stressful situation in the family setting (61.1%); 25.4% reported having experienced a stressful situation in the workplace; 2.4% reported having experienced stressful situations in both environments; and 10.3% reported not having experienced any stressful situation during the period of the study. Only 0.8% of the participants did not answer the questions. The results obtained through the index of the SRC Scale were expected in view of the religiosity of the Brazilian people, especially the religiosity of Brazilian women, however, it was not seen the impact of the use of spiritual/religious coping for the health of this professional category, which warrants further studies, particularly with respect to the impact of the use of negative dimension of the SRC, which, although it was rarely used by the participants in this study, it is an important information that can affect the health of those who make its use, leaving it to future researchers in this area also investigate possible ways to work to achieve the promotion of the spiritual dimension of nursing professionals.

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Universidade de são paulo escola de enfermagem de ribeirão preto

In recent years, a number of cultural theorists have made important contributions to the study of the body’s surface. Despite their importance, however, none of these contributions provides us with a systematic framework for understanding why the body’s surface — its skin — matters to the extent that it does. In this article, I seek to provide such a framework and, in doing so, to shed light on why the skin and the self seem to share a special and sometimes strained relationship. To this end, I will present a critical introduction to the work of two contemporary Anglo-American psychoanalysts: Esther Bick and Thomas Ogden. Throughout this introduction, I will show how both Bick and Ogden — despite the fact that they are almost completely unknown outside clinical circles — offer up a host of conceptual tools that could prove useful to cultural theorists interested in making sense of the relationship between the skin and the self.

Skin and the Self: Cultural Theory and Anglo-American Psychoanalysis

This research examines the lives of individual children and adults of diverse ages and ethnicities, who suffer common and uncommon abandonment. The study employs a naturalistic “inquiry from the inside” approach and involves intensive participant observation on the part of the researcher. This allows a form of research to emerge that is longitudinal and dialogical. It includes the collection and analysis of the life histories of participants and allows for comparisons and shared experiences. The depth of involvement of the researcher in the participants’ lives, together with analysis of their experiences, combine to form a unique methodological model, generating a deeper and more nuanced understanding than commonly available of how the abandoned person views their world, while moving toward relational connection. Analysis of the life histories, field notes, observations and interviews, in concert with ethnographic field data, yield a progressive pattern of trust and development of relationship. In this process, the language, stages and steps of a non-clinical model of intervention emerges within the life experiences of the individual participants. The resulting paradigm applies most directly to individuals challenged by abandonment, and to their family structure, with the potential application for social agencies (governmental and nongovernmental) and institutional models of care. The research offers two contributions to the field of study addressing the lived experience of formerly abandoned children and their families including: (1) extended understanding of the phenomenon of attachment through a holistic and dynamic approach to the attachment process, involving life history and ethnographic examination and (2) a coherent model of intervention revealing the development from abandonment to relational connection. This includes responses of the participant to availability and empathy, and reveals a progression from survival through vulnerability and trust, to authenticity and relational connection.

Attachment and abandonment: a study of factors contributing to or hindering the development of trust and functional family behaviour

Aim
This article aims to explore spiritual care in the neonatal care environment in addition to highlighting the importance of spiritual leadership of a health team in that context.

Background
Neonatal care is an ethically demanding and stressful area of practice. Babies and families require spiritual needs to be recognized in the context of holistic care. Literature around spiritual leadership is explored to nurture workplace spirituality.

Evaluation
Analysis of a range of sources provides a theoretical reflection on spiritual leadership and spiritual care in neonatal care settings.

Key issues
The literature identifies that the carers should consider carefully on how care given may affect the infant and family. Themes relating to the baby's and family's spiritual needs and those of the staff in this area are identified. Spiritual leadership by the manager will provide support to the staff and help spiritual need to be met in this area of practice.

Conclusion
Spiritual needs should be acknowledged within neonatal care whether these are of babies, families or the team itself.

Implications for nursing management
Managers have responsibility to ensure that spiritual care is carried out for babies and their families and to care for the team as spiritual leaders.

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Spiritual leadership and spiritual care in neonatology

Results and Conclusion. Paired t-test showed significant changes in scores of maternal-fetal attachment (t=6.91. p<.001) and self-efficacy related to childbirth (t=10.19, p<.001). Taegyo opens the possibility of integrating Western ideas with Korean traditional health behavior. Incorporation of Taegyo into existing prenatal classes is recommended.

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Effect of Taegyo-focused prenatal education on maternal-fetal attachment and self-efficacy related to childbirth.

Bettelheim, Bruno. A psicanalise dos contos de fadas. Trad. de Arlene Caetano, Rio de Janeiro, Paz e Terra, 1978. 363p.

A psicanálise dos contos de fadas

Tustin, Frances. Autismo e psicose infantil. Trad. de Isabel Casson. Rio de Janeiro, Imago ed. 1975,208 p.

Autismo e psicose infantil

Meltzer, D. et alii. Explorations in autism - a psychoanalytical study. The Roland Harris Educational Trust, London, Clunie Press, 1975. 250p.

Explorations in autism: a psychoanalytical study

Verny, Thomas & Kelly, J. The secret life of the unborn child. New York, Dell, 1982. 253 p.

The secret life of the unborn child

Grinberg, Leon. A supervisao psicanalitica - teoria e pratica. Trad. Castanon Guimaraes, Julio. lmago, Rio de Janeiro, 1975, 140 p.

Elisa Dias Velloso

Papers

A psicanálise dos contos de fadas

Autismo e psicose infantil

Explorations in autism: a psychoanalytical study

The secret life of the unborn child

A supervisão psicanalitica: teoria e prática