https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/5171 2026-10-11T16:34:55Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/50571 Title: “Cultivou, regou e floresceu”: experiências de familiares no contexto dos cuidados paliativos domiciliares Abstract: This dissertation comprises two studies on palliative care involving different populations and methodological designs. Study 1 aimed to establish connections between Winnicottian psychoanalytic theory and the practice of palliative care. It consists of an experience report based on follow-up home visits to a patient receiving palliative care. Through home-based palliative care, the patient and their family were provided with a space and time in which suffering could be communicated, both verbally and nonverbally, and actively addressed. Study 2 aimed to understand the emotional experiences of family caregivers of children receiving home-based palliative care. This qualitative study included 12 participants: nine mothers, two grandmothers, and one great-grandmother. Data were collected individually in the participants’ homes using the Thematic Drawing-And-Story Procedure and an interactive narrative specifically developed for the purposes of this study. The data were analyzed through a psychoanalytic interpretive approach aimed at identifying fields of meaning. Four fields of meaning were identified, and the following titles were assigned to them: “The word became a better place when you arrived”, “One bird alone doesn’t make a summer”; “I never learned to say goodbye”; and “Who could make that love die?” These fields refer, respectively, to motherhood, the transience of life, peer support, and the transformations and continuities associated with grief. It is concluded that family caregivers of children receiving home-based palliative care undergo intense emotional experiences and therefore require care and support from both healthcare professionals and their peers. 2026-09-11T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/50550 Title: (Des)caminhos de estudantes negros, cotistas e trabalhadores: vivências no curso de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Abstract: This study aims to understand the experiences of Black affirmative-action students in the Psychology program at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) who reconciled undergraduate studies with paid employment at some point in their academic trajectory. Grounded in the assumptions of Historical-Cultural Psychology and the critical perspective of School and Educational Psychology, the study adopts a qualitative approach, carried out through semi-structured interviews and data analysis using Thematic Analysis. The results were organized into three axes: the meaning of university access through quota policies and the sense of belonging built among peers; the impacts of double shifts on academic performance, health, and retention; and the ethnic-racial conflicts experienced on campus, including the scarcity of Black faculty, the erasure of Afro-diasporic theoretical frameworks from the curriculum, and situations of institutional racism. The data indicate that, although affirmative action policies broaden access to higher education, the conditions for retention remain marked by material and symbolic inequalities that the university structure has yet to address in a systematic way. It is concluded that the democratization of higher education requires reforms that go beyond admission, articulating economic support, institutional racial literacy, and a critical review of the Eurocentric frameworks that still predominate in Psychology training in Brazil. 2026-09-29T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/50528 Title: O papel da retrodica e da profundidade na memória operacional visual Abstract: Visual working memory (VWM) has been predominantly studied using two-dimensional stimuli, overlooking the three-dimensional nature of the visual environment. This study investigated the role of stereoscopic depth (anaglyphs) and of the retro-cue on VWM performance, across two complementary experiments (N=25 each), using ideograms and irregular polygons as stimuli. In Experiment 1, depth was applied to the stimuli themselves; in Experiment 2, exclusively to the retro-cue, with the stimuli remaining two-dimensional. Accuracy, reaction time, sensitivity (d'), and criterion (c) were analyzed through repeated-measures ANOVA. In Experiment 1, depth in the stimuli benefited accuracy symmetrically, both in front of and behind the reference plane, and increased discriminative sensitivity more markedly when disparity was crossed; the two-dimensional condition produced the poorest performance on both measures. In Experiment 2, the benefit of the valid retro-cue generalized to accuracy, reaction time, sensitivity, and criterion; depth applied to the retro-cue itself specifically sped up reaction time — slowest precisely in the fully two-dimensional condition —, without reliably affecting accuracy or sensitivity. These findings suggest that depth serves distinct functions depending on the point in the cognitive chain at which it is introduced: as an object property, it enriches and individuates the memory trace; as a cue property, it amplifies the attentional salience of selection — contributing a context-dependent answer to the object-based versus space-based memory debate. 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/50512 Title: Responsabilização e recursos no trabalho acadêmico: condições para a saúde mental e a permanência de mulheres em áreas STEM Abstract: In the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), adverse working conditions intersect with gender inequalities that restrict women’s access to recognition, opportunities, and the resources necessary for career retention. Nevertheless, research on gender inequalities in STEM and psychological distress in academia has developed largely in parallel, and their intersection remains underexplored, particularly in Latin America. Organized as a collection of two articles, the first article of this dissertation investigated factors associated with psychological distress and strategies to address them through a scoping review guided by the JBI and PRISMA-ScR, with searches conducted across eight databases between 2015 and 2025, resulting in 23 studies. The review identified structural and career-related factors and relational and intersectional factors, as well as a scarcity of intervention evaluations. The second article investigated how gender inequalities and working conditions are associated with mental health and career retention through an instrumental mixed-methods case study, predominantly qualitative, conducted with 13 women faculty members in STEM at a Brazilian public university. Data were generated through questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and post-interview records and analyzed using descriptive statistics and Reflexive Thematic Analysis, informed by Gendered Organizations Theory, Social Role Theory, and Conservation of Resources Theory, with intersectionality serving as an analytical lens. The study indicated that work organization, recognition and belonging dynamics, and unequal resource distribution contribute to psychological strain, while responsibility for coping with this strain is individualized, and these findings informed the development of a multilevel shared responsibility framework. The findings indicate that the mental health and career retention of women academics in STEM are shaped by the conditions under which academic work is organized, while responsibility for sustaining mental health and retention remains individualized, reinforcing the need for organizational transformation and shared responsibility among different actors within the university context. 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z