Abstract

PALMA, Priscila de Camargo  and  NEUFELD, Carmem Beatriz. Cognitive-behavioral intervention in socio-educational group: An experience report. Rev. bras.ter. cogn. [online]. 2011, vol.7, n.1, pp. 55-61. ISSN 1808-5687.

This essay proposes an experience in intervention with socio-educators of a Socio-education Center in the State of Paraná. Such centers are institutions responsible for sheltering and making come to pass educative means of adolescents who have committed any infringement act. Socio-education aims to offer a human and educative environment, allowing the accomplishment of the means in proper conditions for educative action with focus on the full educative process for the citizen social participation, and stimulating the adolescent to the construction of a new life Project based on ethic and moral values. The leading staff sees interns not as trustworthy, thus, members of this team feel superior. The intern group sees the leading staff as condescending, making interns feel inferior and guilty, causing communication distortions between the two groups. Group work has counted with the participation of ten socio-educators, in a cognitive-behavioral view; group interventions enable a space for learning how to join others, enclosing a range of possibilities for problem solving. The process involved teaching socio-educators to identify specific shortages in social or behavioral, communication-related abilities, targeting to improve the probability of obtaining positive reactions from others, leading to other positive consequences.

Keywords : cognitive-behavioral approach; socio-education; group therapy.

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