[A different view on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: a didactic resource on mental functioning]. / Um olhar diferente sobre a branca de neve e os sete anões--um recurso didático sobre o funcionamento mental.

In this study we emphasize the personality characteristics, trying to amplify the mental functioning matter facing the richness of a work based on a tale. We aim to worth the mental functioning of each dwarf as a personality involved on na emotional drama, exploded by the jealousy of the stepmother about the youth and beauty teen-age stepdaughter. On the other hand, we expect this theme can be used as didatic resource about the mental functioning, serving as a practical, simple and dynamic guide for the professor in classroom, as for Psychiatric Nursing as for Medicine ones, specializing on Psychiatry, in their initial learning phase.

[Social representations in nursing: commentaries on theses and dissertations]. / Representações sociais em enfermagem: comentários sobre teses e dissertações.

The starting point of this work consists on a revision of thesis and dissertations developed by nurses aiming to check how the social representation was used as a theoretical referential on these researches. Through a systematic reading of these works some points were dettached, as thematic, main result as and reflections proposed in order to atain professional practice nursing. It was ascertained from the analysed work that this theoretical referential is used by nurses, and that some studies developed introduce significative results from these professionals.