Almanac of Emotions for children and adolescents in times of pandemic

ABSTRACT

The pandemic context has brought health problems, that actualize, in the subjectivity of children and adolescents in a situation of illness, a suffering that is difficult to address, but that needs to be expressed and elaborated, in favor of the flow of treatment. The Almanac of Emotions emerged from the concern of two psychologists to offer their patients – in a pediatric ward of a Hematological Center in the State of Rio de Janeiro – means of access to the symbolic expression. The desired objective was to give space for expression to the affections that children and adolescents bring to the context of treatment. Through free symbolic manifestations, we believe it is possible to represent what is happening in the subjectivity of these subjects, in relation to the following themes: pandemic, life, world, humanity, their own feelings, the treatment they undergo in the hospital, and the current changes from the pandemic. In this way, through the ‘Almanaque das Emoções’ tool, we seek to collect subjective material of children and adolescents during the context of the pandemic in hospitalization, favoring the recognition and management of children’s emotions. The analysis of the material, through the psychoanalytic approach, has favored a greater proximity to the child’s subjectivity, enabling the reception.

KEYWORDS
Emotions; Child; Adolescent; Disease; Pandemics