Práticas psicológicas relacionadas à garantia do direito à adoção, convivência familiar e comunitária

Abstract

This work aims to understand, in a qualitative perspective, the practices of psychology in the Childhood and Youth Court in relation to adoption as a guarantee of the right to family and community life. We choose, as a theoretical-methodological framework, the Discursive Practices and Sense Productions, based on the Social Constructionism movement, which considers language as a social action. To this end, a review of the dialogic literature and an analysis of the policy of the National Plan for the Promotion, Protection and Defense of the Right of Children and Adolescents to Family and Community Living were carried out. In all, eighteen articles were selected from the Scientific Electronic Library Online database and from the Coordination for the Improvement of Highet Education Personnel, most of which were published in psychology journals. The research results make it possible to understand that psychological practices are sometimes presented in a position of “what should be”, sometimes in a position of “what is possible to do”. The narrative line in relation to the landmarks of laws, decrees and projects corroborate the questioning of adoption as a right to family and community coexistence since the reception rates are still high. Most studies around adoption bring up adoptive parentage as last resort. And one of the most frequent motivations of the suitors for this option is infertility, which generates fantasies and myths. Another aspect highlighted is the diversity of family arrangements and homoparenthood, a subject loaded with prejudice, with Psychology having an important commitment against discrimination. The issue of adoption the practices of psychology professionals inserted in the Brazilian judicial system concerning the right to family and community coexistence, according to the principle of the best interest of the child and adolescent.