O psicólogo no trabalho de equipe na atenção primária em saúde: perspectivas e desafios

Abstract

This is an article of reflection which aims to discuss some challenges and contributions of the professional psychologist on teamwork in primary health care. Based on the author's experience and studies that served as subsidies reflection, it realizes that teamwork is essential to the production of primary health care field, placed as a challenge since its formation process at the graduate level. It seems that a paradigm shift is needed in this process, requiring a link between specific knowledge of Psychology and collective health. The presence of a psychologist in primary care teams made up of importance, because through the knowledge related to their professional core he may help in understanding the dynamics of the operation of his own team, besides helping in the production of propositions that exceed the traditional clinic methods, such as the extended clinic, reference or matrix teams and singular therapeutic projects. Through participation in teams of primary health care, whose stance be guided in horizontal relationships and dialogical exchange, the psychologist contributes to the production of creative actions, possibly effective, provided that all seek to produce a new knowledge/making, whose ultimate goal is the being who is the subject of team work. In this proposition there will be use of all knowledge, respecting and, at the same time, transcending the specificity of each professional core, and as a result, leading on to a new challenge: the production of a new transdisciplinary making/knowledge.