Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The present essay consists in an analysis of imagery representations of suicide prevention on the Yellow September Campaign website, with the main goal of demosrating how this Campaign is essential for the mental health and well-being improvement of Brazilian individuals. The inquiry had as a methodology the research classified as descriptive and qualitative, focused in Brazil. The enphasized problematic comprehends the usage of the Gestalt approach and its basic concepts. Five images of the website Campaign were analyzed with the purpose of noticing how Gestalt, specially through its concept of background figure, contributes so that the perception of the images are used by individuals and professionals, in the sense that, through awareness and phenomenology, allow the resignification of the individuals’ lives, being perceived and discussed in the data analysis, that the images come to break taboos of debate about the theme, bringing light to the issue, through the individual’s awarness, the caring about the previous diagnosis and with the effective participation of the therapist, as much as with ideas of life appreciation and mainly a care about the human beings, concluding at last, that it is possible an individual awareness of how to do and what to do in the present moment, that is, here and now, through choices that this individual can have a better well-being and mental health as a being in the world, this way bringing more positive results for the Yellow September Campaign, through a reading of Gestalt Therapy.
Source: Clinics Biopsychosocial
DOI: 10.54727/cbps.2.2.51
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4405704008