Mental health and phonoaudiology: an interdisciplinary experience in a school-clinic

Abstract

Currently Mental Health assistance is marked by heterogeneity in treatment choices according to each institution or professionalattitude. In Brazil these services were helped by the accomplishments of the Psychiatric Reform movement. However, not allservices were able to adhere to these conquests. To think about a clinic that can dialogue with the Reform, listening subjects must bea priority. In this sense, from a demand of the school-clinic of the course of Phonoaudiology of the University Center Sao Camilo, webegan an interdisciplinary work in Mental Health, privileging this experience in the training of students as therapists. Besides examiningthe construction of the professional role, we choose interdisciplinarity as our starting point for developing this work. Based on theseassumptions, the interdisciplinary team does not rely on the idea of knowledge complementation but rather in a clinical constructionthat recognizes the limits of each discourse, creating thus a possible integration of them. This work promoted an enrichment of theclinic, promoting results that more contribute to growth. Families more involved and engaged in the treatment of their children, andchildren leaving a condition of impaired people to reappear as subjects not only subjected by language or the other, but rather usingand constructing their own language.