Three dimensions of care for adolescents who live in shelters: listening, hosting and accompanying

Abstract

Objective: This article reflects on the practice of alternative residential care through three concepts: listening, hosting and accompanying. These three verbs concentrate traits and attributes of care, which were decanted from listening to adolescents who lived in a protection residence. This dialogue with adolescents was framed in a previous investigation, which instilled the interest in delving into the practice in protection institutions. It is through this route that a theoreticaljourney with psychoanalysis is proposed, to give an account of an idea of care rooted in the word and guided by ethics. Method: To guide the writing work, formalization was used as a method of transmission and theorization, which structures care through the three proposed dimensions. Results: The work with institutionalized adolescents continues to challenge the creation and implementation of public policies, therefore, if these are not  properly adjusted or designed for those who receive them, they risk the unfinished reproduction of horror and trauma.