Recognition and mental health in the activity of public safety

Authors

  • Thiele da Costa Muller Castro UFRGS
  • Álvaro Roberto Crespo Merlo UFRGS

Keywords:

acknowledgmen, worker’s health, mental health, psychodynamics at work, Municipal Guard.

Abstract

This study aims to research about the mental health in the work, the center of attention is the worker’s acknowledgmen. The research field as the Guard Hall of Porto Alegre – GMP, more specifically the Special Motorized Reverse – GEM. The subjects, municipal guards, are workers who have the activity of urban safety. The methodology for the research was the psychodynamics at work which aims, through listening and speaking, to know about the organization of work and the effectiveness of the strategies, analyzing the speech and listening to the suffering. This study was possible to appreciate the objective and the subjective aspects of the daily work of these city police oficcers and strategies that they create to keep themselves as normal sufferers.

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Author Biographies

Thiele da Costa Muller Castro, UFRGS

MBA em Gestão de RH pela ESAB, Mestre em Psicologia Social e Institucional pela UFRGS, Residente em Saúde Básica Coletiva pela Escola de Saúde Pública.

Álvaro Roberto Crespo Merlo, UFRGS

Médico do trabalho, doutor em sociologia pela Université Paris 7, docente da Faculdade de Medicina, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social e Institucional e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Epidemiologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul e professor médico-assistente do Ambulatório de Doenças do Trabalho/Serviço de Medicina Ocupacional do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre.

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Published

2012-02-28

How to Cite

Muller Castro, T. da C., & Crespo Merlo, Álvaro R. (2012). Recognition and mental health in the activity of public safety. Psico, 42(4). Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistapsico/article/view/6921

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Vol. 42 No. 4 (2011)

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