https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/18973 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:02:53 GMT 2026-09-15T15:02:53Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49929 Title: Tecendo redes de resiliência: dinâmicas econômicas, migração e bem-estar no empreendedorismo de mulheres brasileiras no Reino Unido Abstract: This study investigated how migratory trajectories and labour market conditions shape Brazilian women's entry into entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom, and how professional identity reconstruction, resilience, and psychosocial well-being are experienced along these trajectories. A qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive design was adopted, guided by an intersectional perspective. The research involved 13 Brazilian women residing in the United Kingdom and engaged in their own businesses or self-employment. Remote semi-structured interviews were conducted and examined through categorical thematic analysis. The corpus of participants' accounts yielded eight thematic categories: structural barriers and adaptation; motivation and business opportunity; business management and professional conduct; entrepreneurial learning and financial planning; unequal recognition; psychological impact and psychosocial well-being; community relations and support; and coping, boundaries, and the redefinition of success. The findings show that geographical mobility did not enable professional continuity. Language proficiency, the recognition of qualifications, local experience, caregiving responsibilities, and access to networks altered the value and the feasibility of applying previously acquired professional resources. From an intersectional perspective, the study revealed how the articulations between gender, race, class, nationality, and family arrangements asymmetrically condition the barriers experienced, access to capital, and labor market entry strategy. Entrepreneurship emerged from a combination of constraints, financial necessity, the pursuit of autonomy, prior experience, and the identification of market demands, thereby transcending the rigid divide between necessity and opportunity. Business activity fostered autonomy, recognition, and identity reconstruction, but it also produced insecurity, overload, and loneliness. It is concluded that resilience plays a fundamental role in the process of reconstructing professional identity in another country and should be understood as a dynamic, relational process of resource mobilization, rather than as an individual trait evidenced solely by business survival. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49929 2026-08-26T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49313 Title: Entre dois mundos - uma psicologia em construção: relato de vida e proposta curricular para a formação em psicologia na Guiné-Bissau Abstract: This dissertation focuses on the author's academic and professional journey in the field of Psychology—spanning two vastly different cultural contexts, Brazil and Guinea-Bissau—and presents a proposed curriculum for psychology training in Guinea-Bissau. The narrative is rooted in personal experiences marked by structural, emotional, and academic challenges, given the scarcity of resources and opportunities in Guinea-Bissau, particularly within the mental health sector. The author describes key aspects of her training, including her academic path, undergraduate internships, and the experience of grief as a pivotal moment that sparked her interest in Psychology. Special emphasis is placed on the role of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT); this approach, encountered during her training, influenced a shift in her research focus toward cognitive processes. The general objective of this research is to analyze the author's personal, academic, and professional journey in Psychology through an experiential account, with the aim of developing a curriculum proposal for psychology training in Guinea-Bissau. Thus, the study seeks to bridge individual experience with the structural needs of the Guinean context, thereby contributing to the development of the field within the country. The methodology adopted in this dissertation is a qualitative approach grounded in an experience-based account involving critical reflection, linked to a comparative international analysis of psychology curricula. This methodological choice is justified by the nature of the study, which aims not merely to describe a personal, academic, and professional journey, but to understand how this trajectory—shaped between Guinea-Bissau and Brazil—allows for a critical examination of the challenges facing psychology education in a country that currently lacks a higher education program in the field. In this sense, the experience-based account serves as a starting point for generating situated knowledge, enabling the integration of lived experience, sociocultural context, professional training, and theoretical analysis. The chapters present the author's educational journey from Guinea-Bissau to the start of her master's studies in Brazil, while also contextualizing the challenges facing the mental health sector in Guinea-Bissau, a landscape marked by a severe shortage of human, institutional, and material resources. This work also addresses the difficulties surrounding undergraduate programs—specifically in psychology—in Guinea-Bissau and the development of a curriculum proposal for psychology training in the country. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49313 2026-07-31T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48796 Title: Corpos Dissidentes e Produção de Subjetividades: cartografia da estigmatização e resistência de jovens trans no interior de Minas Gerais Abstract: This dissertation aims to analyze the processes of stigmatization experienced by LGBTQIA+ individuals, with an emphasis on gender dissidence, based on the narratives of young people undergoing gender transition. It seeks to understand how these processes shape the production of subjectivities throughout the life course. The study is grounded in the assumption that stigmatization is not limited to isolated events but constitutes a continuous process articulated through power dispositive that regulate bodies and modes of existence. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of Foucault, Goffman, and Butler, the research adopts a qualitative approach guided by the cartographic method, using semi-structured interviews conducted through a triggering question. Data were produced in a Reference Center for Comprehensive Trans-Specific Healthcare, a setting that constitutes a privileged field for listening to experiences related to stigmatization and gender dissidence. The findings reveal that stigmatization operates transversally across different contexts, including family, school, work, and public institutions, through processes of invisibilization, silencing, violence, and denial of rights. These dynamics produce significant effects on the (re)production of subjectivities. At the same time, participants’ narratives highlight strategies of resistance and (re)existence through which individuals construct singular ways of living that challenge cisheteronormative norms. The study concludes that stigmatization functions as a central dispositive in the production of inequalities, while also constituting a field of dispute in which resistance and possibilities for social transformation emerge. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48796 2026-06-26T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48792 Title: A Dinâmica dos Relacionamentos Amorosos sob a Perspectiva da Gestalt-terapia Abstract: The present study aims to unveil the perceptions and meanings constructed by individuals regarding their long-term romantic relationships, understood as romantic-conjugal experiences, analyzing how these experiences are configured within the relational field in light of Gestalt therapy. This is a qualitative study with a phenomenological orientation, conducted with eighteen adult participants who were individually interviewed between March and April 2025 through online meetings. As an inclusion criterion, the experience of long-term conjugal relationships was considered, either in stable unions or marriages, ongoing or ended. The interviews were fully transcribed and analyzed according to phenomenological principles, enabling the construction of five categories: (a) quality of contact, differentiation, and relational regulation; (b) extended family field, parenthood, and transgenerational inheritances; (c) conflict management and attempts to sustain the bond; (d) asymmetries, violence, and disorganization of the relational field; and (e) rupture and processes of reorganization of the experience of self in conjugality. The results indicate that conjugality is configured as a dynamic relational field, marked by continuous negotiations, patterns of interaction, division of roles, and modes of regulating everyday tensions. The quality of the bond was associated with the possibility of dialogical contact, recognition of otherness, and negotiation of differences, whereas the maintenance of suffering was related to dynamics of rigidity, asymmetry, and restriction of contact. Conflict management emerged as a central element in the sustaining or deterioration of the relationship, with the conflict itself not being determinant, but rather the ways in which it is regulated within the relational field. The findings also reveal the presence of asymmetries, especially in the division of responsibilities and in the everyday mental load, affecting the experience of recognition and partnership. The sustaining or rupture of the bond was shown to be associated with multiple field conditions, including affective, familial, and sociocultural factors. As a contribution, the study broadens the understanding of conjugality from the perspective of Gestalt therapy by describing it as a relational process in constant transformation, traversed by movements of approximation, differentiation, and reorganization over time. Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48792 2026-05-29T00:00:00Z