Social inclusion practices: challenge for mental health services. / As práticas de inclusão social: o desafio para os serviços de saúde mental.

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2006

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Psychosocial Attention Centers (CAPS) are considered strategic devices for the change of assistance model concerning mental health. They present proposals that involve concepts of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, aiming to promote social inclusion for people who have experienced psychological suffering. In this context, the research theme involves social inclusion actions that aim to understand how social inclusion practices for this population occur, and also to contribute to the evaluation of this service, as it is considered an important advance in the process of Brazilian Psychiatric Reform. The object of the study is social representations of the citizens on social inclusion practices performed by the substitutive services concerning mental health, in the scope of Brazilian Public Health System (SUS). Based on this situation, the study aims to: 1) identify actions developed at CAPS which, according to the team of mental health workers, may aim for the social inclusion of people with severe and persistent mental disturbances; 2) analyze the conception of social inclusion expressed through workers’ social representation; 3) understand the difficulties and possibilities in order to promote social inclusion for the users of mental health services;4) understand the theoretical-practical basis that supports inclusion actions. The guiding concepts of this study are Psychosocial Rehabilitation and De-institutionalization, according to the perspective of Italian Democratic Psychiatry, since these concepts present proposals that support social inclusion practices. The data was collected from semi-structured interviews with the employees who compose the work team at CAPS in the city of Sao Carlos. The data have been submitted to discourse analysis in order to make it possible to recognize the following empirical categories: representations of inclusion and social exclusion processes, social inclusion practice, and the assistance model. The analysis of these categories was done by the Social Representation optics, a method that, supported by common sense, favors the analysis of some limits and potentialities of social inclusion actions, beginning from the professionals’ perception. In this way, it was possible to understand the conceptions of social inclusion related to the ideology of social normality. The families of the users are considered important characters in the inclusion process, but they are also responsible for the lack of adhesion to the treatment offered by the service. Work is considered an important dimension for the inclusion; however, professionals do not consider themselves as agents of this process. Some practices reflect the ideas present in the concept of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. In this sense, the concepts concerning social inclusion practices are not very clear and are often contradictory. Based on these results, this study suggests the necessity of more clarity concerning the institutional project of CAPS.

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assistance model psychosocial rehabilitation modelo assistencial inclusão social mental health services social inclusion reabilitação psicossocial serviços de saúde mental

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