Analysis of primary care articulators practice focusing on the communication process

• Grant number: 13/10593-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: November 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Social Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Carla Guanaes Lorenzi
• Grantee: Giovanna Cabral Doricci
• Supervisor: Sheila McNamee
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of New Hampshire (UNH), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/17264-8 - Meanings constructed by Primary Care Articulators about their professional practice, BP.MS

Abstract

This abroad Internship Project is part of the Master's study titled: "Meanings constructed by Primary Care Articulators about their Professional Practice" which has been conducted in the FFCLRP-USP graduate program and has been financially supported by FAPESP. This study aims to understand and analyze the meanings constructed by the articulators about their professional practice. Based on scientific literature, and later reinforced by the information obtained in the interviews already conducted, it has been identified that one of the main work tools of these professionals is the practice of communication. In this sense, for the initial analysis of the corpus, the need for further theoretical study emerges, being such exploration directed to the understanding of the process of human communication in the Social Constructionist perspective in Psychology, which is the theoretical and methodological approach adopted as a tool for analyzing the meaning-making processes identified in the interviews. Thus, in order to assist the analysis and also provide support to the discussion concerning the articulators' practice and the communication process, we propose this internship, to be held in Department of Communication - University of New Hampshire, USA, under Professor. Sheila McNamee's supervision, one of the main references in this area. (AU)