Serviço social e saúde mental: o trabalho do assistente social frente aos processos de desinstitucionalização e efetivação de direitos

Abstract

This study aims to present the work of the social worker in the process of deinstitutionalization and effectiveness of rights, considering the current mental health policy, based on the curricular internship process developed at the Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS) II Prado Veppo. The study is divided into three chapters. In the first, social policies will be presented, based on a brief history of their emergence in Brazil and in the world. In this item, the social question will also be approached as object of study of the social worker, as well as the forms of intervention in its most varied expressions and its aggravation from the neoliberal offensives. Chapter two aims to present the socio-historical transformations that mental health experienced during the years prior to the project of Psychiatric Reform and Antimanicomial Struggle. It also highlights the role of social worker practices, bringing a retrospective of the profession in Brazil and focusing on its political orientation and its theoretical-methodological matrix, as well as to which mechanisms are used to consolidate mental health policy and ensure the rights of users of this policy. The third and final chapter deals with the experience of the internship and the intervention project “Building knowledge on mental health”, detailing its objectives, justification and activities that were proposed throughout the intervention process. In this way, it is sought the strengthening of mental health through an integral attendance, which aims at the autonomy and the development of the citizenship of those affected by serious and persistent mental disorders.