Grupo de convivência de adolescentes no Santa Maria Acolhe: um relato de experiência da atuação profissional de uma terapeuta ocupacional residente na ênfase em saúde mental

Abstract

This report sought to understand the experience of an adolescents’ coexistence group, facilitated by an occupational therapist resident in the emphasis on mental health in the Multiprofessional Residency Program at the Federal University of Santa Maria. It has as a general objective to understand the performance and contribution of the occupational therapy in an adolescents’ coexistence group at Santa Maria Acolhe, located in Santa Maria city, RS, considering the mental health crisis situation of users assisted in the group. And it brings as specific objective to report the experience of an occupational therapist in an adolescents’ coexistence group at Santa Maria Acolhe. The work presents a brief contextualization of what is the mental health crisis and passes by the change of paradigms and modes of mental health care. It characterizes the service of insertion of the involved professional, the Santa Maria Acolhe, and how it is placed in the mental health network in Santa Maria county, as well as the emergence of the service, how it was structured, the composition of the service and its operation mode. The experience came from the entrance in the Multiprofessional Residency Program at the Federal University of Santa Maria in the second practical field of action in 2022. The methodology used was the experience report as from the meetings of the group and the participation of the occupational therapist in the space, besides searching for theoretical support in several authors and bibliographic references. The final considerations of this material provoke and lead us to reflections and demonstrate the importance of the group and the collective spaces for mental health care, through the use of light technology strategies. Important spaces for the youth and for the period and experience of the mental health crisis, besides the guidance and effectiveness of encouraged and initiated practices as from the psychiatric reform.