PRUDENCIATTI, S. M.; TAVANO, L. D’A.; NEME, C. M. B. O Desenhos-Estórias na atenção psicológica a crianças na fase pré-cirúrgica [The Drawing-and-Story Procedure on psychological care for children in pre-surgical state]. Bol. Acad. Paulista de Psicologia, São Paulo (SP), v. 33, n. 85, p. 276-291, dez. 2013.
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The hospitalization process generates stress and, for a child who has already experienced, a surgery can suffer from threatening, anxiety and distress. This search examines the experiences of children indicated for different craniofacial surgery which in many cases require more than esthetic or reconstructive surgery. It is quantitative and qualitative study, descriptive and comparative. The sample is intentional and it is made up of ten children, five boys and five girls in the pre-surgical Hospital for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies HRAC-USP, Bauru-SP. As a tool for data collection, the design-themed story and data are used from subsequent surveys developed by Walter Trinca. The results indicate that the design-themed story is suitable for the identification of the kid’s childhood experiences in helping to deal with the stressful situation. Some of the children reveal their feelings of anxiety and fear and manifest other defenses such as denial. In all cases it identifies emotional states of concern such as anxiety and fear, or also denial of those feelings. It was concluded by the need of creating more favorable conditions in order to identify and address childhood experiences compared to surgery in a hospital environment, proposing the design themed story technique that reveals those experiences. It emphasizes the relevance of psychological intervention in the hospital environment, considering childhood fantasies and feelings that generate or intensify emotional states of anxiety, fear and distress at a pre-surgical level.