Avaliação de Famílias Ribeirinhas: Uma Proposta Adaptada ao Contexto

• Main Authors: Simone Souza da Costa Silva, Thamyris Maués dos Santos, Fernando Augusto Ramos Pontes, Julia Sursis Nobre Ferro Bucher-Maluschke
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia 2011-12-01
• Series: Gerais
• Subjects: Families; Family Evaluation; Riverside People; Context
• Online Access: http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/gerais/index.php/gerais/article/view/117/171

The objective of this paper is to present the methodological procedures for the production of the StructuredSituations of Investigation (SSI), a tool for family evaluation adapted to the Amazon’s riverside people’s context,which used elements from the riverside people’s culture in the construction of tasks presented to focal families. Inaddition to that, some of the data gathered with this instrument will be presented, revealing its power to generateinformation which makes sense within the investigated context. Currently, the researches intended to investigate thehuman development and the families within a context lack instruments adapted to the investigation environment.In this sense, it is essential to build tools which, based on contextual characteristics, allow the participants to revealvalid information.