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MONTEIRO, Janine Kieling et al. Reflections on psychological counseling to unemployed individuals. Aletheia [online]. 2008, n.27, pp. 233-242. ISSN 1413-0394.

This paper presents some reflections on psychological counselling sessions with unemployed individuals. This research has been enabled because of a partnership between Unisinos and FGTAS/SINE-São Leopoldo which began in 2003. The authors argue that Labor Psychology and Clinic Psychology might come together as an important aggregation of two different branches of psychology that takes into consideration, in a comprehensive fashion, the needs and representations of the total self, one who suffers from his/her job or with the lack thereof. Unemployement is many times the origin of experiences of loneliness, contempt and dispair as the complaints of the patients in the data attest. Through reflections on the patients' discourse during counselling sessions, the authors try to present psychotherapy as a possible tool of support to the existential experiences that are brought about by unemployment.

Palavras-chave : Unemployment; Psychological attendance; Clinical psychology.

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