O cuidado em saúde mental na perspectiva dos profissionais dos Centros de Atenção Psicossocial

Abstract

In the field of mental health care has been reoriented towards the hospital - centred model to the extra-hospital care model from the Psychiatric Reform, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Movement and the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. In this context, the CAPS assumed the role of service substitutive Authorising care network in mental health. However, in many of these units, this role has not yet been incorporated. Faced with the need to better understand the dynamics of work that leads to mental health care, originated this research. The objectives of this study were to understand the dynamics of mental health care; understand the links with the network of attention to the construction of mental health care and meet the design of care in mental health professionals interviewed. The methodological approach was descriptive and analytical qualitative research conducted with professionals working in mental health in three CAPS-I and a CAPS-II Health Region Pedreiras - MA. Data collection involved semi - structured interviews and focus groups. There was lack of resources, inadequate professional assistance associated with the work process fragmentation and not joint Network and difficult access to services. Conclusion: There was an outpatient, fragmented care emphasis, formed by multidisciplinary teams with little multidisciplinary, and a service that does not articulate the Care Network Health There is great personal investment of most professionals, however, little understanding of the purpose CAPS and how this fits into the network.