Depressão juvenil através do olhar dos professores da rede pública

Abstract

Depression is a serious public health problem, causing changes in all dimensions of the individual, and with increasing incidence in the juvenile phase. In addition, is marked by changes and physical transformations and intense emotional, typical of the adolescents who, if not diagnosed and treated properly, it evolves in a serious and pernicious way. The school, where adolescents spend most of their day, may be the most appropriate place for this inquiry, because it is where personal, affective and social relationships solidify. With a human and systematized culture, teachers in a harmonious relationship with their students have the possibility of identifying depression in the school environment. The present dissertation aims to investigate how high school teachers in the public education network identify the depressive symptoms of their students and the way they conduct such situations. It is a study of a phenomenological and qualitative approach. The study was conducted in the city of Imperatriz, Maranhão, having as participants of the research, teachers from public network and basic education, who teach to adolescents between 10 and 19 years of age. According to recommendations of the resolution 466/2012, the present study was submitted to the ethics committee from the Plataforma Brasil, being approved with opinion number: 2,121,648. It was identified that despite of the theoretical limitation on the subject, teachers know how to recognize the symptomatology suggestive of depression in the school environment, however, they lose themselves by the way they lead such situations. Students manifest themselves mainly through isolation, sadness, disruption of affective and social relationships and significant decrease in school performance.