A concepção dos gestores escolares em relação à depressão infantil: um estudo comparativo em escolas de Santa Maria - RS

Abstract

Depression in the childhood has been described since the beginning of the century XX. However, it was, only starting from the decade of 60, that the investigations began to be systematized. In the last years, the infantile depression has been object of studies in several countries in an including way and, since then, your presence was confirmed in the field of infantile psychopathologic. Among the symptoms that deserve prominence, the low self-esteem, the sadness, can be mentioned the frustration, the fears and the low school revenue, could be associated somatic symptoms as migraine, vomits and diarrhea, besides delinquents conducts. Some authors describe the difficulties of standardization of criteria diagnoses, as well as the variability of the population studied in the age group in study, for the difficulty that the child has of your expression suffering, and those difficulties can be the responsible for the disparity in the found epidemic indexes, but nor for that you/he/she is possible to deny the occurrence of the disease in child. Leaving of the exposed the present work is resulted of the project of research of conclusion of the course of Specialization in Educational Administration of Santa Maria's Federal University. Has as objective investigates the managers' conception in relation to the infantile depression in different school systems: public (state and municipal) and matter. The theoretical referential of the research to pass by authors that approach aspects on depression, infantile depression and school administration as: Del Porto (2000), Cruvinel (2003), Brunet and Brunet (1994), Bordignon (2001) and Libâneo (2001), respectively. Starting from the bibliographical research, he/she took place he/she researches of field, in which the instruments used in the collection of data they were glimpsed and questionnaires. With the accomplishment of the research school managers were close to clear school, that most of the interviewees doesn't notice that the infantile depression is part of the school reality and, consequently, the knowledge on the subject is restricted.