Listening Devices for Adolescents Deprived of Liberty and Socio-Educational Agents

Abstract

This study aimed to show a triangular intervention method in socio-education. Three methodological devices were implemented: a psychological call for individual listening, one for a speech group with adolescents and an intervention in Psychodynamics of Work with socio-educational agents. Listening to adolescents pointed out how violence appears in the relationship between them and adults, between them and peers and in the institutional space. On the other hand, listening to the agents made it possible to situate how violence permeates work situations. The expanded clinic, in the institutional context, allowed a glimpse of the place of violence in the inter-subjective relational dynamics, its psychic impacts and the risks to the subjects' mental health.