“O rap é compromisso”: arte e serviço social como estratégia para a saúde mental da juventude

Abstract

Faced with the metamorphoses of capitalist dynamics and their expressions of the Social Question, we will try to describe how Social Work should be instrumented with alternatives and dialogical tools with the universe of the mental health users. Art is an expression of reality that has enormous potential to serve as an instrument of action and reflection with young mental health users, and the Rap Music, a genre of Hip Hop culture, can be the mediating link for us to discuss and propose social rights, public policies and rights to the urban areas. With a direct and politicized language that Rap has built, it also serves as a narrator and conscious projector of subjective issues that, as a result of the material structure of society, afflicts young people that seek ways of escaping like alcohol and other drugs. Faced with these elements that surrounded the universe of the field of study, we will discuss, from the youth, art and Rap categories, the process of compulsory curricular traineeship that allowed the construction of audiovisual workshops on rap music with the hospitalized youngsters in the Psychiatric Unit of the Casa de Saúde Hospital Center, in Santa Maria - RS. Keywords: Mental Health; Art; Youth; Rap Music.