Brincando de brincar: a importância do lúdico, caracterizado pelo trabalho de palhaços doutores, no auxílio ao tratamento de crianças hospitalizadas

Abstract

Currently, many studies are devoted to understanding the ludic and play, as key factors to human development. When approached in the hospital context, they gain function as therapeutic instrument, insofar as they aid in the development of feelings and thoughts through expressed behaviors, as well as in the drafting of a new experience. Facing this context, this paper aims to examine the importance of the ludic, represented by the work of clowns doctors, in the aid of the treatment of hospitalized children. For this, the research was based in the method of Processing Symbolic Archetypical in the light of Analytical Psychology. Through observations on the performance of the groups of clowns “Rainbow Operation” in the hospital context, through drawings with hospitalized children and also, from semi-structured interviews with family members, a member of the psychology team and two clowns members of the participant group, it was possible to verify very positive consequences arising from the work of the clown in a health institution. Feelings of joy and relief and proactivity were detected both by children and their families as well as professionals working in the hospital context