Dissertação
Acolhimento institucional de crianças e adolescentes: desafios e práticas dos educadores sociais
Fecha
2023-05-31Autor
Rolim, Danusa Scremin
Institución
Resumen
Institutional care for children and adolescents is a measure of temporary and exceptional
removal from the family, applied when other alternatives are exhausted and while the factors
that motivated the removal are reversed. The social educator is the professional who works in
shelter institutions that serve these children and adolescents. In reception, he must be prepared
to deal with the specificities of the young people served and with the demands of the
institutions, as well as to develop his work guided by the legislation that protects the rights of
children and adolescents, the ECA. This master's thesis research aimed to understand what
care is like, the challenges and difficulties that social educators — figures present daily in the
lives of children and adolescents — find in their practice and what is their perception of the
adolescents living in institutional care. To achieve the proposed objectives, a descriptive,
exploratory research was carried out. Data collection took place through a semi-structured
interview that was applied individually to nine social educators in the state of Rio Grande do
Sul-BR. The interviews were carried out in person and through the Google Meet digital
platform, from August to October 2022. The survey results emphasize the importance of
offering adequate emotional, social and educational support to adolescents in foster care,
including positive experiences that guarantee the protection of fundamental rights and meet
their physical, social and emotional needs. Social educators point to violence and involvement
with crime as points that make it difficult to meet the emotional needs of adolescents, making
it necessary to take special care with these young people. Given these data, the importance of
the social educator professionals involved in this care being prepared and trained to act in this
context, so that they can positively impact the reality of these children and adolescents
residing in shelter institutions.