Case study of the implications of the Deficit Discourse and involuntary and compulsory hospitalization of drug users

• Grant number: 17/05171-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: August 28, 2017
• End date: December 24, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Clarissa Mendonca Corradi Webster
• Grantee: Cristiana Nelise de Paula Araujo
• 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: 15/22929-7 - Construction of meanings within the drug addiction users family about involuntary or compulsory hospitalization, BP.MS

Abstract

Social constructionist authors pointed an increase of the Deficit Discourse in mental health field, which emphasizes the subject's failures, and the need of reflection about health care practices supported by this discourse. Thus, we propose with this scientific internship, which aims to present and discuss a case study, giving visibility to the implications of the Deficit Discourse in the seek process for involuntary and compulsory hospitalization of drug users. For this, a semi-structured interview was conducted with a mother who had requested 23 involuntary and five compulsory hospitalizations for her drug user son and it was also elaborated field notes. The corpus will be analyzed through the social constructinionist epistemology, seeking to identify the Deficit Discourse, its effects and to problematize them. In this way, we believe that this internship can contribute substantially to the development of the reflection on the discourses that sustain forced hospitalizations, especially because Prof. McNamee is one of the leading scholars of social constructionism and the Deficit Discourse. To assist in the analysis of the data it will have supervised meetings, it will be made two courses entitled "Communication, Identity, and Addiction" and "Social Construction" and access to pertinent literature provided by the University of New Hampshire.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CRISTIANA NELISE DE PAULA ARAUJO; SHEILA MCNAMEE; CLARISSA MENDONÇA CORRADI-WEBSTER. Implicações do discurso do déficit nas conversas de uma mãe que solicita tratamento forçado. Psicologia USP, v. 34, 2023-03-10. (17/05171-9, 15/22929-7)

ARAUJO, C. N. P.; CORRADI-WEBSTER, CLARISSA MENDONCA. Meanings constructed by family members about coerced treatment for alcohol and drug use in Brazil. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG POLICY, v. 99, JAN 2022. (17/05171-9, 15/22929-7)