A compreensão dos usuários da rede de saúde mental da infância e adolescência de Santa Maria sobre o processo de internação hospitalar e medicalização da vida

Abstract

The discussion about the growing process of medicalization of childhood and adolescence is presented as a central point in the search for a classification of what is beyond the normal pattern imposed by modernity. This fact demonstrates the creation of a society in which the individual and the population are understood and managed through medicine. On the other hand, even with the psychiatric reform and the implementation of mental health policy that brings the Psychosocial Care Centers- CAPS, as substitute devices to the asylum model, psychiatric hospitalization is still perceived as a high-priority therapeutic resource in relation to child psychiatry and in the context of hospital inpatient units, the medicalization process is considered the mainstay of treatment. This research aimed to understand the perception of the subjects and / or family members, followed at a Psychosocial Care Center for Children and Adolescents (APSi) who visited the psychiatric hospital process regarding hospitalization and medicalization process. This is a qualitative study using the hermeneutic methodology as theoretical and as a tool for gathering information, individual interviews with the subjects using the Network Attention childhood Psychosocial and adolescence in a city in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. the results show that the hospital is the main therapeutic resource for the local reality, medicalization is a constant in the lives of users, which raises many questions about the need to use and it may result in their lives, another important point it is the lack of knowledge of the user in relation to the Mental health Network of childhood and adolescence and fragmentation of health practices.