Reinserção social: um desafio para o avanço da reforma psiquiátrica

Abstract

The purpose of this abstract is to know the health professionals understanding about actions in health mental area, in perspective of social reintegration of drugs and alcohol users in “São José Family Strategic Unity”, situated in the municipality of Santa Maria, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This research is characterised by the qualitative, descriptive and exploratory approach, and it was conducted with health professionals (community health agents and others professionals of the Unity). The data was collected by the focus group, recorded in 2011, and were analysed from the thematic content. This way, the social reintegration emerged with the respective sub-categories (knowledge as the factor of health professional capacity, exclusion, social reintegration of the individual, social integration and production with labour as source of psychosocial rehabilitation). The results have shown that the professionals have little understanding about necessary strategic actions to social reintegration of these individuals, as well they think they’re not sufficiently able to address the issue in the community nucleus.Therefore, we conclude that there is a need of proposing further clarifications, so that the expression “social reintegration” can be linked to daily routines and professionals actions as intervention strategy to social rehabilitation of drugs and alcohol users.