Relation between the Concepts of Health, Disease and Death:
Using Drawings in Data Collection
Keywords:
Health, disease and death concept, Patient-health professional relation, Affective/cognitive developmentAbstract
Despite the fact that most research on children's concepts of health, disease and death concentrates in the relation
between conceptualization and level of the child's cognitive development it also points unanimously, to the influence of factors
related to the child's life history in the development of the content of these concepts (Natapoff, 1978; Perrin & Gerrity, 1981;
Speece & Brent, 1984). Another point of agreement among researchers in lhe area regards the influence of these concepts on
the interaction between health professionals and individuals and between patients, their families and health professionals (Eiser,
1982). In the attempt not to restrict our study to purely verbal data, Werner and Kaplan's (1984) proposition was used, according
to which the drawing is understood to be symbolic activity, and 852 drawings were collected from subjects in three distinct age
ranges: 6-7; 9-10 and 14-15 years. The analysis of the drawings obtained confirms the adequacy of the use of drawings in the
study of the concepts concerned. Resources such as the choice of colors, the characteristics of traces and subtle details such as
the format of the mouth, suggest - as Le Barre and Manod (1965) have pointed out, that drawings may be considered to be
actual non-verbal language between adult and child.
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explanations of physical causality. Child Development, 42,
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conceptions of life and death. Merril Palmer Quaterly, 33,
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38, 181-186.
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families. Em C. Eiscr (Org.), Social Psychology and Behavioral
Medicine. New York: Wiley.
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Em M.G.G. Gimenes (Org.), Anais do II Encontro Brasileiro
de Psico-oncologia (pp. 26-28). Brasília: Organizador.
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Forgas (Org.), Social Cognition (pp. 1-26). New York: Academic
Press.
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between the development of concept of death and overall
cognitive development. Omega, 16 (3), 193-198.
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Genetic Psychology, 134, 141-153.
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Paulo: EDUSP.
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Sexual behavior in the human female, Philadelphia: Saunders.
Koochcr, G.P. (1974). Conversations with children about death:
Clinical considerations in research. Journal of Clinical Child
Psychology, 3, 19-21.
Kovacs, M.J. (1987). O medo da morte, uma abordagem multidimensional.
Boletim de Psicologia, 37 (87), 46-48.
Lc Barre, H. & Monod, M. (1965). Experience du dessin libre dans
une communauté d'enfants. Revue de Neuropsychiatrie Infantile,
13 (1,,2), 133-137.
Ley, D. & Cybriwsky, R. (1974). Urban graffitis territorial markers.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 64, 491-
505.
Lucca, N. & Pacheco, A.M. (1986). Children's graffiti: Visual
comunication from a development perspective. The Journal of
Genetic Psycliology, 147,465-479.
Luquct, G.H. (1967). Le dessin infantil. Neuchatcl: Delachaux et
Niestlé.
Nagy, M. (1948). The child's theories concerning death. Journal of
Genetic Psychology, 73, 3-27.
Natapoff, J.N. (1978). Children's views of health: A developmental
study. American Journal of Public Health, 68, 995-1000.
Orbach, I., Gross, Y., Glaubman, H. & Bcrman, D. (1985). Children's
perception of death in humans and animals as a function
of age, anxiety and cognitive ability. Journal of Child Psychology
and Psychiatry, 26,453-463.
Perrin, E.C. & Gcrrity, P. S. (1981). There's a demon in your belly:
Children's understanding of illness. Pediatrics, 67, 841-849.
Rashkis, S.R. (1965). Child's understanding of health. Archives of
General psychiatry, 12, 10-27.
Rudin, L.A. & Harless, M.D. (1970). Graffiti and building use: The
1968 election. Psychological Reports, 27, 517-518.
Sakharov, L.S. (1990). Methods for investigating concepts. Soviet
Psychology, 28 (4), 35-66.
Schildcr, P. & Wechsler, O. (1934). The attitude of children towards
death. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 45, 406-451.
Speecc, M.W. & Brent, S.B. (1984). Children's understanding of
death: A review of three components of a death concept. Child
Development, 55, 1671 -1686.
Spinetta, J.J., Riglcr, D. & Karon, M. (1974). Personal space as a
measure of a dying child's sense of isolation. Journal of Consulting
and Clinical Psychology, 42, 751 -756.
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Social analysis of graffiti. Journal of American Folklore, 85,
356-366.
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Brasileiros de Psicologia, 31 (4), 9-34.
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terminal e a intervenção terapêutica do psicólogo. Arquivos
Brasileiros de Psicologia, 32, 418-422.
Vinh-Bang. (1966). La méthode clinique et la recherche en psychologic
dc Г enfant. Em Psychologic et Épistémologie
Génétiques (pp. 67-81). Paris: Dunod
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Martins Fontes.
Wacchter, E.H. (1971). Children's awareness of fatal illness.
American Journal of Nursing, 71, 1168-1171.
Wciningcr, O. (1979). Young children's concept of dying and dead.
Psychological Reports, 44, 395-407.
Werner, H. & Kaplan, B. (1984). Symbol formation. New York:
Wiley.
Widlochcr, D. (1965). Etude du dessin d'enfant commc mode dc
communication. L'higiene Mentale, 5, 165-169.
Wright, B. A. (1983). Physical disability - A psychosocial approach.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers .
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Fáverouisa, M. H., & Ramalho Salim, C. M. (2012). Relation between the Concepts of Health, Disease and Death:: Using Drawings in Data Collection. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 11(3), 181–191. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17250
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