Helio Alkmim studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Minas Gerais, currently the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and graduated in 1952. He specialized in neurology and psychiatry between 1953 and 1958, at the Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (USA).
After returning to Brazil, in 1958, he became the headmaster of the third section of the Raul Soares Institute, a psychiatric hospital in the city of Belo Horizonte. At the same time, he started a project with the psychologist Helena Wladimirna Antipoff, aiming at offering humanized psychiatric care at the Pestalozzi Society of Minas Gerais and at the institution Fazenda do Rosário (Rosario Farm), in Ibirité. The aim was to build a psychiatric clinic on the premises of Fazenda do Rosário that would offer patients comprehensive, preventive care supported by a multidisciplinary team. In 1960, he started providing specialized care to children and young people, at both Sociedade Pestalozzi and Fazenda do...
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Alkmim, H. D. (1974). Onde estão os bem-dotados? [Where are the gifted ones?]. Sociedade Pestalozzi do Brasil, 41, 40–41.
Alkmim, H. D. (1980). Projeto da clínica rural de psiquiatria infanto-juvenil [Rural clinic project for children and youth psychiatry]. Sociedade Pestalozzi do Brasil, 53/54, 43–49.
Alkmim, H. D. (1981). A família do excepcional no conceito e na obra de Helena Antipoff [The family of the exceptional in the concept and work of Helena Antipoff]. Sociedade Pestalozzi do Brasil, 56, 23–32.
Alkmim, H. D. (1982). Helena Antipoff e seu conceito ecológico [Helena Antipoff and her ecological concept Closing bracket missing. Boletim do Centro de Documentação e Pesquisa Helena Antipoff, 2, 73–80.
Alkmim, H. D. (1984). O que é a ADAV? What is ADAV? In Z. C. Guenther et al. (Eds.), Dez anos em prol do bem-dotado [Ten years in favor of the gifted ones] (pp. 17–20). Imprensa Oficial.
Alkmim, H. D. (1988a). A Escola Ativa ensaiada na educação dos bem-dotados [The Active School rehearsed in the education of the gifted ones]. Boletim do Centro de Documentação e Pesquisa Helena Antipoff, 8, 35–38.
Alkmim, H. D. (1997). Educação integral [Comprehensive education]. Boletim do Centro de Documentação e Pesquisa Helena Antipoff, 13, 48–53.
Alkmim, H. D. (2000). Aviolência nos jovens [Violence among youth]. Boletim do Centro de Documentação e Pesquisa Helena Antipoff, 14, 30–36.
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Lourenço, E., Turci, D.A. (2023). Alkmim, Hélio Durães. In: Jacó-Vilela, A.M., Klappenbach, H., Ardila, R. (eds) The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56781-1_340
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