2026-06-162026-06-162022-02-08RICARDO, Laiany Gleice dos Santos. Círculos de leitura e saúde mental na universidade: o caso do clube do livro conexões. Orientadora: Eliane Miranda Costa. Co-Orientadora: Amanda Gabriella Borges Magalhães. 2022. 46 f. Trabalho de Curso (Licenciatura em Pedagogia) – Faculdade de Educação e Ciências Humanas, Campus Universitário de Breves, Universidade Federal do Pará, Breves, 2022. Disponível em: https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/9616. Acesso em:.https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/9616Considering the importance of interventions to promote mental health in higher education, this exploratory research aimed to describe the experience of participants in the Connections Book Club, implemented as a strategy to promote student mental health in the context of withdrawal from classroom lectures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through semi-structured interviews conducted with six Club participants, we sought to understand how the book circle experience impacted participants' academic/work life and personal well-being in this context. The interviewees pointed to the Reading Club as an important support in their personal and academic/professional lives in the pandemic context. Through the club, the interviewees reported having experienced a relationship with reading that was different from the academic one, marked by the absence of the feeling of obligation, by reading works in their entirety, and by the possibility of sharing their impressions with other readers, broadening points of view about the same work. The participants emphasized the importance of the connection of the works chosen with their lived context, which enabled the discussion of relevant themes for personal and academic development, as well as reflections on the pandemic context. It can be said that the book club proved to be a powerful tool for promoting student mental health in that it allowed experiences of meeting, bonding, dialogue about issues related to the lives of participants and the experience of belonging and welcoming in the context of suspension of classes and away from classroom activities.Acesso AbertoPromoção à saúde mentalUniversidadeLeituraMental health promotionUniversityReadingCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::TOPICOS ESPECIFICOS DE EDUCACAOTrabalho de Curso - Graduação - Monografia