Percepções acerca da rede de atenção psicossocial de um município brasileiro

Abstract

Mental health service workers and management appear as actors in the construction of the Psychosocial Care Network, bringing as a challenge to understand how the professionals of the Network services understand and critically reflect the context of social and political changes experienced. From that point on, one can contribute to facing the challenges and strengthening it. The objective of this study is to understand the Psychosocial Care Network from the perspective of Mental Health workers. For this, an exploratory descriptive qualitative research was carried out, in the year 2021, in a Psychosocial Care Unit and in a Psychosocial Care Center for alcohol and other drugs in a city in Rio Grande do Sul. Thirty mental health workers were interviewed through a semi-structured interview. Workers should have been in the referral service for at least six months. Data were analyzed using Minayo's Thematic Analysis Operative Proposal. The city's Psychosocial Care Network is under construction and is evaluated as fragile, as well as Public Policies and municipal management. The speeches point to the invisibility and stigma historically associated with Mental Health. It is noteworthy that the insertion of the Multiprofessional Residency in Health appeared as an aspect that favors the communication and articulation of the network.