[Significance of sex education in the parents-adolescents relationship]. / O significado da educação sexual na relação pais/adolescentes.

This study had as reference the phenomenological sociology of Alfred Schütz. This author had as purpose understanding parents and adolescents' behavior towards sexual education. The phenomenological interview, used to gather data from parents and youngsters, allowed the understanding of the types: "parents who educate adolescents for sexual life" and "adolescents who are educated for sexual life". The comparative analyses of these two types showed the need of implementing a dialog about sexual life among parents and teenagers enabling the youngster to have a satisfying and safe sexual initiation. The comprehensive social action theory by Schütz was presented, in this study, as an educational health strategy. According to the author, there is a need of considering the person's inner existential preoccupations in order to understand his/her social behavior towards sexual matters.

[Utilization of the knowledge of communication by graduate nursing students]. / Utilização dos conhecimentos sobre comunicação por alunos de graduação em enfermagem.

This descriptive study had as main purpose to identify therapeutic communication strategies used by Nursing students from the Nursing School of UFMG and the Nursing School of UFJF, during their practice. The method used for data collection consisted of observation on the interaction between students and inpatients and of interviews with the students. The results showed that although 90% of the students said they learned about communication, they had difficulties to practice in the field what they learned as theoretical knowledge.