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This article is to present the conception of environment in the work of Winnicott, its repercussion about the comprehension of the child emotional development and about the performance of the therapist with psychoanalytic orientation. From this study we could observe that besides the interpretation the therapist can have more resource during his performance: the therapy handling. This article is the result of a bibliographic study of the winnicottian theory, from the texts of own Winnicott and the other authors that discuss on his theory. We have concluded that the comprehension of the environment shown, offers the therapist one more resource to provide an environment sufficiently good during his clinical performance [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors provide the first translation into Portuguese of Charles Darwin's article "A Biographical Sketch of an Infant," published in the journal Mind in July of 1877. Using notes from observations of the development of his children, especially his oldest son William Erasmus (Doddy), Darwin uses his naturalistic approach to describe and study "human puppies," providing the first behavioral indicators of emotions such as anger and fear, curiosity and moral sense. He also notes the play and pleasure involved in these activities, along with the ability to imitate and the earliest indicators of what we refer to today as "theory of the mind." Darwin raises questions about the capabilities of babies, how they learn and how they communicate and generate hypotheses about possible meanings of certain behaviors. These issues are still critical to the study of human development. This shows that he was also a pioneer in the study of babies and young children at a time when the capacity of babies was underestimated and ignored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The physical and emotional interactions established between ancestors and descendants have been reexamined in psychological science due to recent contributions offered by Evolutionary Psychology. This article reviews classic and contemporary theories of distinct philosophical backgrounds, which have tried to explain the factors implied in the genesis, development and function of the early interactions between children and their parents. A review of papers from distinct areas regarding attachment behavior and parental behavior, in its normal and pathogenic dynamics in the species homo, is presented. The psychopathology of the child's tie to the mother and its disruption through separation, deprivation and bereavement, especially puerperal depression, are analyzed, as well as the role that the paternal care assumes in this context, in order to provide the human infant with an ideal environment for optimal growth both psychologically and physiologically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to identify and to demonstrate the importance of Physical Education classes in the affective-social, cognitive and motor aspects development, to a child with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This disorder is characterized to reach 2 to 5% of the students and happens together, intensive and persistent form: the attention deficit, the impulsiveness and the hiperactivity, causing a significant impact in the family and social conviviality of the child, in the school performance, in the emotional development and self-esteem. The metodology used was the analisys of the proper theorical referencial for this paper. Due the difficultivity of this child with ADHD for develop with and at same time of his colleagues, because of its own characteristics of this disorder, it is the Physical Education teacher responsability, in his classes, to mediate and to participate in the global development of this child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]