Violência em adolescentes : avaliação de um programa de intervenção da psicologia positiva na cidade de Goiânia

Abstract

Positive Psychology, in recent years, has been studied and structured through instruments and interventions with various audiences and contexts (children, adolescents and adults), with the purpose of promoting health, well-being, quality of life and happiness. Studies and news reports present data that demonstrate the need for such interventions in the school environment, where adolescents spend most of their time and who have experienced situations of violence. This study was the result and conclusion of the Master's degree course in Psychology, held in the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program of the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, in the research line Health: Processes, Evaluation and Intervention. This work aimed to make a literature review of what has been produced about interventions based on positive psychology for adolescents, and evaluate an intervention program for such audience. This research originated from the need for material on the subject and also from the validation of intervention programs for the adolescent population in the school context. To fulfill the objective, the dissertation was organized in two chapters, the first one entitled “Positive Psychology Intervention in Adolescents: Systematic Literature Review”, which aims to raise, in the literature of the last twenty years, articles related to adolescence, the psychological intervention and positive psychology, with the intention of verifying what is being produced on the subject. In the second chapter, “Positive Psychological Intervention: An Efficacy Study”, we seek to evaluate an intervention program for adolescents based on positive psychology. Through the results found, it is possible to foster discussion on the theme, as well as contribute to more programs and actions aimed at health promotion and prevention of violence by adolescents, considering the specificities experienced by them in this stage of development. human