Educação em valores e promoção da saúde: um estudo quantitativo sobre o uso de técnicas psicoterapêuticas com recurso à imaginação

The unstructured families have been increasing and, consequently, also the school failure in young adolescents from these families. These present more and more psychological disorders of difficult control. In this study we highlight the loss of quality of life of these young people and risk deportments. This essentially quantitative research allowed perform an intervention in the school through relaxation techniques applied by Simões (2003, 2013) and associated to the contents of positive psychology and used by Neto and Marujo (2004, 2011). These include guided meditation techniques already applied in the health area. From research about the representation of teachers and the role of parents in the school (Faria; Pedro, 1995), and later on the representation of parents on teachers’ identity (Faria; Tavares, 2011), It can be concluded that both have specific roles and an important mission in the educational process. Following these studies, we questioned the interest of parents and teachers (educational stakeholders) about which values they consider most important to develop in school with their children and that may be directly associated with their deportments. For this purpose, we applied an appreciative survey (from the scope of positive psychology), as used by Marujo; Neto; Caetano e Rivero (2007), which allowed us to determine the most important values to be applied to young people, more balanced deportments and better learning. The calculated values seem directly associated with the forces of character designated by Seligman & Peterson (2004) in the scope of positive psychology. This auscultation of the opinion of the educational agents allowed the realization of the “base-line” for the construction of the visual analogue scale that measured the evolution of the students throughout the intervention. The results point to significant differences, over time, in the groups where the intervention was performed