Promovendo a educação ambiental através de oficinas terapêuticas com pessoas portadoras de sofrimento psíquico no município de Bom Retiro do Sul/RS

Abstract

This work consists of actions of environmental education carried out with the Mental Health Group through therapeutic workshops, together with the Department of Health and Basic Health Unit of the municipality of Bom Retiro do Sul, where the human body clock was built and a medicinal garden with elaboration of a folder on the project and also distribution of informative materials on the subject medicinal plants. The work was carried out with the Mental Health Group, made up of men and women aged 30 to 70, mostly women, people suffering from psychic suffering and / or people using alcohol and other drugs, and the number of participants varied according to function withdrawals, hospitalization cases and suicide cases. The Municipality of Bom Retiro do Sul also collaborated with its Secretariats (Health, Agriculture, Environment and Works), Emater / RS-Ascar and the community. It was concluded that through work such as this with the Mental Health Group and actions with families and communities of rescue, identification and use of medicinal plants, the knowledge of traditional peoples is valued. In addition, it is important to cultivate and preserve the species, conserving what exists in nature to treat and assist people in curing the major diseases that affect the local population. Through the clock of the human body and medicinal garden it is possible to stimulate the education and health promotion with the knowledge about our own body, where the group and frequenters of this space can effect the correct identification and use of the medicinal plants.