Manuela Cruz⁽¹⁾, Ana Sanfins⁽²⁾, Bárbara Lemos⁽²⁾, Dora Maltez⁽²⁾, Elsa Félix⁽³⁾

Summary: The subject of this work, made in the Centro de Estudos Psicobiográficos of the Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, with the colaboration of the Grupo Português de Psiquiatria Consiliar/Ligação e Psicossomática, is depression in the cycles of life. The is an investigation protocol designed for the adolescentology field, which allows the determinator of the psychological, social and health profile of the portuguese adolescent. From the multiple scales and questionnaires, the authors sort out the biographical events, corporality and depression.The object of this exploratory study is to find out the correlation between these aspects and depression. The most important biographical events are often accountable for the crisis of adolescence. The corporal transformations may be experienced with displeasure, difficulting the body unit and giving occasion to depression.The results of this exploratory work were only presentated in percentage and, because our representativa sample is very smali, only tendences were found.

Key-words: Adolescence, Biography, Corporality, Depression

*Trabalho apresentado no XIV Encontro do Grupo Português de Psiquiatria Consiliar/Ligação e Psicossomática, Encontro de Outono, Outubro de 1998.
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias em Lisboa.
(1)Docente da Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, responsável no CEP do projecto da adolescentologia
Correspondência: Manuela Cruz, Calçada da Estrela, 128, 1º 1200 Lisboa
(2) Aluna 5º ano da área de Clínica da Universidade Lusófona
(3) Aluna 5º ano da área de Educacional da Universidade Lusófona

Depression in Adulthood

Celeste de Carvalho⁽¹⁾, Luísa Gonçalves⁽²⁾

Summary: The authors of the present document intend to relate the depression with the Biography and the pathologies, to help defining the comorbility of depression.

Key-words: Depression; Adult; Somatoformes disturbances; Biographic- method

(1) Psicóloga Clínica: membro do CEP (Centro de Estudos Psicobiográfcos) e docente na ULHT (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias)
(2) Aluna do curso de Psicologia da ULHT

Depression - some aspects of psycholinguistics

 A. Barbedo de Oliveira⁽¹⁾

Summary: Related to a Semantic Study concerning some expressions of the Psychiatric Glossary, the author emphasizes the results of his investigation (around the connotative meaning of the concepts "Life, Death, Past, Future, Self, World"), in order to draw up a psycholinguistic model of Depression.

Key-words: Depression; Psycholinguistics; Semantic Differetial

(1) Assistente Graduado de Psiquiatria do Hospital do Conde de Ferreira - Porto

Psychiatric Support of Pregnant and Lactent Women - CL Psychiatry Service from the Hospital Sobral Cid to Maternidade Bissaya Barreto

Ilda Murta⁽¹⁾; Célia Franco⁽¹⁾; Pitorra Monteiro⁽²⁾

Summary: The consultation of pregnant and lactant women with psychopathology is a delicate situation and usually brings uncertainty between Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Family Doctors. ln January 1995, a group of doctors began to attend to psychiatric urgent calls in the Obstetric Service of Bissaya Barreto Maternity.
Since October 1997, the connection with Bissaya Barreto Maternity was restructured, giving place to a weekly consultation integrated in the Social Risk Consultation of the Early lntervention Unit. At present, this consultation is made by two psychiatrists of Sobral Cid Hospital. The number of cases seen has increased and the pathology is very diversified.
When we concluded a year of work together, we made a revision of the observed cases, in order to reflect about our experience. As we have recorded the cases only since January 1998, we present the results abtained in this ten months.

Key-words: Pregnancy; Mternity C/L, Consultation

(1)Assistente Hospitalar de Psiquiatria do Hospital Sobral Cid
(2) Assistente Hospitalar de Obstetrícia da Maternidade Bissaya Barreto

Psychological impact of the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

Oriando J. P. Von Doellinger⁽¹⁾

Summary: ln recent years, many articles were published on the subject of the reactions to breast cancer and its treatment.
This review summarises the results of some of those papers and gives some clues to establish the role of the mental health professional, either with the medical team or with the patients.

Key-words: Breast cancer; Mastectomy; Chemotherapy; Radiotherapy; Psychological Response

*Trabalho apresentado em reunião do Seriço de Internamento Feminino do Depârtamento, a 7.10.97
(1) Interno Complementar de Psiquiatria do Departamento de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental do Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia

Psychological Consultation for Terminal Ill Patients

Piedade Vieitas^(l), Rogério Pastor-Fernandes^(l), Joana Soares^(l), Susana Correia⁽²⁾

Summary: ln this paper, the authors go into the basic issues of death and dying, the way we face them as well as the particular form the terminally ill cancer patient lives them. Palliative care and some aspects of the "taking care of" philosophy are also discussed.
Other issues are also dealt with such as the way a patient may face death, and illiness as a stress-producing cause. The psychological state of the terminaily iii patient is described as an explosion of emotions, specially fear, and the fear of death in particular. Communication, anguish and depression are other issues under dicussion. The coping mechanisms and the forms and models of psychological intervention are briefly presented.

Key-words: Psychological consultation; Cancer; Terminally ill patient;  Psychoterapies; Coping

*Trabalho apresentado nas 1 JORNADAS DE PSICOLOGIA CLINICA do ISCS-N, Porto, 5 e 6 de junho de 1997.
(1) Psicólogo(a) Clínico(a). Assistente Universitário(a) - Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde-Norte.
(2) Psicóloga Clínica.

Auditive Disorder and Behaviour in Classroom - a pioneer study

João Luís de Freitas^(l), Isabel Neves⁽²⁾, Correia Ferronha⁽³⁾

Summary: ln the last years the scientific community has been establishing a more effective early deafness diagnosis. However, the knowledge of the psychological development of deaf children remains poor. Literature documents a series of psychopathological problems in this group. Beginning with the hypothesis that increased attention given to the sign language in Portugal in the last years could alter the above documented situation, the authors study, in a classroom behaviour setting, a deaf children population from a special school. ln this way, they pretend to make a first approach to an eventual psychopathological state. This study also constitutes an experience of liaison psychiatry in an unusual setting: the school and the classroom.

Key-words: Deafness; Psychology; Psychopathology; Auditive reabilitation

1) Médico Psiquiatra, Hospital Conde de Ferreira, Porto
(2) Professora do Ensino Básico, CESE em Deficiência Auditiva, APECDA, Porto
(3) Chefe de Serviço do Departamento de Pedopsiquiatria do Hospital de Crianças Maria Pia, Porto