Caminhos antimanicomiais: atuação do serviço social na saúde mental em tempos antidemocráticos

Abstract

The present work of completion of course aims to understand and analyze the intervention of social services in the mental health scope, inserted in a psychosocial hospital unit, as well as to perceive the historical processes of mental health policy. This is an experience report based on a bibliographic review and the critical dialectical method, based on the experience of the curricular internship field of the undergraduate course in Social Work, carried out in a psychosocial hospitalization hospital unit; bringing the importance of the insertion of the social worker within the group of family members, articulating together with other professionals, a dynamic that leads to the democratization of information. The results pointed out with this work are the importance of expanding this discussion within the Social Work, contributing to research in this area and the need to strengthen the performance of social workers in the face of operational groups in health with a view to articulating the ethical political assumptions of the profession with the guidelines of psychiatric reform, in search of the defense of mental health policy.