"The setting of goals and ways to achieve them is a possibility that the human species acquired with the development of language. Planning and executing, however, are different behaviors, as are the circumstances that favor or prevent them. Getting into graduate school in Brazil is still surrounded by uncertainties, including those regarding the future job market. In addition, the tasks required throughout the course present challenges for most students. Resilience, a necessary characteristic for overcoming adversity, can be investigated through different factors that favor decision-making and maintaining persistence towards the achievement of goals. In addition, self-knowledge mediates the development of these factors. Based on these fundamentals, we aimed to identify the impacts of storytelling videos, accompanied by reflection scripts, on the self-knowledge of students in graduate courses in Belém, in northern Brazil. For that, six videos, six reflection scripts and an on-line interview were prepared by the research group, in addition to an invitation to participate and a participant consent form. The videos were stored on the YouTube platform, and the other materials were made available through Google Forms. The social network WhatsApp was used to forward our invitation, the consent form and the links that allowed access to data collection instruments. Among students who underwent the initial procedures, ten went through all the steps and became participants in this research. The responses made it possible to relate the participants contact with the characters of the stories told in the videos to reflections on the need to pay more attention to themselves, in the sense of self-care and towards positive changes. It is also worth highlighting the recognition of the importance of social exchanges in effecting these changes. Although with different emphases, the results point to the occurrence of advances in the participants’ self-knowledge, with practical consequences in 90% of cases. We conclude that, in the COVID-19 pandemic situation, internet-mediated research can achieve goals beyond data collection, generating positive effects on participants lives."

Thisstudy presents a group intervention with mothers of children fromsix to twelveyears old in a situation of socialvulnerability. Weaimed to encouragethe participants to identifythe parenting style they adoptand alternatives for action, totest changes in behavior between group meetings and toevaluate the results of their efforts. Thefieldresearch describedcorresponds to one of the focus groups created in2018 in the contextofan action research implemented at the University ofAmazônia(UNAMA), Belém, located in northern Brazil. We selected five participants who were present in atleast 60% of the ten weekly meetings. Verbal exchanges in meetings and individual interviews supported the formation of analysis categories corresponding to three parenting styles: authoritative or democratic, authoritarian,and permissive. The Social Skills Rating System -Brazilian version (SSRS)and a secondindividual interview were applied attheend of the meetings. We have verified changes towardsthe adoption of an authoritative parenting style, whichgenerated positive impacts onfamily relationships. Social skills led to developments in the behavior ofchildren at school, indicating that it is a way to overcome the situation of social vulnerability in which they find themselves.