Graduated in Psychology at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). Holds a Master's degree in Health Sciences at the Nursing Graduate Program at UFSCar, with a research internship at the University of Victoria (UVic), Canada, and funding from CAPES and FAPESP during the master's program. Currently doing a jointly-supervised (cotutelle) PhD student in the Nursing Graduate Program at UFSCar and the Social Dimensions of Health program at the University of Victoria, Canada. During her PhD, she received funding from FAPESP and is currently supported by CAPES.Luiza has been studying the topic of suicidal behavior in adolescence since 2019, when she began her research as a FAPESP-funded undergraduate research fellow, and has currently 12 published papers in the field of child and youth mental health. In her doctoral research, she applies Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy and arts- and applied-theater-based methodologies to elevate the experiences of adolescents with the mental health system and suicide prevention, while rethinking how our society responds to suicide.She is a member of the Research, Teaching, and Study Group on Primary Health Care in Schools (PROASE), the Health and Family Research Group at UFSCar, and the Critical Suicide Studies International Network. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Suicidal behavior is a complex phenomenon that has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, health professionals, sociologists and artists for centuries. When we talk about adolescence and youth, suicide is the second cause of death in the world among young people aged 10 to 24 years, and in Brazil, considering the same age group, it is the fourth cause. There is a growing wa…
The adolescence comprehension must go beyond universalizing and crystallized conceptions, considering that it depends on the historical moment, culture and life history of the subjects. Today's western adolescence, a phenomenon that has been increasingly receiving attention is the non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). NSSI is defined as the deliberate self-inflicted destruction of the body or …
The understanding of adolescence must go beyond universalizing and crystallized conceptions, related to the historical moment, the culture and the adolescents ‘life history. In contemporary western adolescence, a phenomenon that has been recurring and received increasing attention is self-injury. Self-injury can be defined as a deliberate injury that results in the direct destruction or a…
Practices regarding suicidal behavior prevention in adolescence must be contextualized, built together with adolescents and their families and value the knowledge and strengths of communities and those who have their own experiences with these behaviors. Given the understanding that there is not a simple and single way of preventing those behaviors, and the importance of looking from a cr…
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