Percursos e cuidado: o acompanhamento do usuário no território no período pós-internação psiquiátrica

Abstract

This article discusses the route of the residents of the psychiatric unit of the university hospital located in a city of the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, aiming to consolidate the practice of Therapeutic Accompaniment (TA) as mental health care tool. In seeking to define the inclusion of users in territorial devices in psychiatric post-hospitalization period. Therefore, there was a case study with two users this inpatient unit, whose justification is given from the development of practices that contribute to the therapeutic monitoring of these subjects in extra-hospital environment, taking as its premise the longitudinal care. For this, he described the process of TA and its implications to the biopsychosocial context of the users involved in the study, whose purpose was the description of cases, aiming to unveil the longitudinal care strategies used by the subjects. The results show that the TA was a device that provided through the host of qualified hearing, the bond built between professionals and users, the possibility to observe the tensions caused by the insertion of subjects in the territory, and from the actions taken with mediation of this device it was possible to ensure that users prosseguissem being assisted by the local health system.