A TÉCNICA DE AUTOAPRESENTAÇÃO DO PSICODRAMA NO AUXÍLIO DE DIAGNÓSTICO DE DEPRESSÃO EM IDOSOS.

Abstract

There is evidence that there is an increase in cases depression and its consequences in the elderly. Depression will be installing on individual without that for it to be perceived. It is the result of biochemical alte-rations (serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine) that bring significant physical and psychological changes from day to day lives. Depression can occur at any stage of human development, with clinical presentation and different courses, but with a group of core symptoms (psychological inhibition, narrowing the experiential field, interests and moral suffering) depending on the personality of the person the symptoms recur, It is of various types, such as mood episodes, depressive disorders, bipolar disorders. In the elderly, depressive symptoms often are related to age, such as physical fatigue, lack of initiative, poor social interactions. Therefore, it becomes necessary to develop further studies with this population. The objective of this thesis was to assess and describe the use of self-presentation technique of psychodrama as an aid in the diagnosis of depression in the elderly. To achieve this goal, the study sought to appropriate the theoretical ark-bouço and self-presentation technique of psychodrama, emphasizing the creation of therapeutic vin-century researcher - participants split into several categories. This paper presents the design of case-control with 232 elderly members of the Univer-sity Open for Elderly (UNATI), the Catholic University of Goiás, of both sexes and aged between 55 and 85 years. The group of cases, participated individuals with high scores on the Hamilton instrument, with symptoms of depressed mood, and in the control group, the sample matched to the first group, with individuals whose rates were low and therefore not compatible with humor depressant. The results showed that the selfpresentation technique is an ally of psychotherapists - psychodramatists professionals, with assistance necessary to the diagnosis, because it is a technique that takes the individual to realize his psychodynamic and reassess their diseased social roles.