O cuidado em saúde mental na atenção básica durante a pandemia Covid-19: relato de experiência de uma assistente social

Abstract

The present study is about a report of practical experiences in the primary health care system –PHC, during the pandemic of COVID -19. The practical experiences were done by residents of the integrated multiprofessional residence in mental health of the public health system of the Federal University of Santa Maria. The objective of this article is to present reflexions about the trajectory of the psychiatric reform until the psychosocial rehabilitation, understanding the importance of the mental health in the territory amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting the repercussions in the routine of the families of the users that were attended by the EAP – Walter Aita and, lastly, discourse about the practice of the social worker in the basic attention regarding the politics of mental health, articulated with the multidisciplinary work. The reflexions were based upon questions that appeared during the attendance and experiences in a Basic Unity of Health, located in Santa Maria, in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul. The methodological procedures consist in the use of the following instruments: bibliographic review; field journal and access to the medical records. To analyse the data, the Critical Dialetic Method of Karl Marx was used, which offers a dynamic reading and more complex of the situations of the bourgeois society. Therefore, the final considerations of this study will be explained, searching for an articulation of the general meaning of this professional experience as a social worker in a Basic Unity of Health.