Práticas educativas no cuidado integral à saúde mental na Atenção Básica

Abstract

This study aims to highlight ways and obstacles of educational practices in comprehensive mental health care in Primary Healthcare (PHC), based on an experience of a community meeting group. It is a qualitative study with a descriptive approach, characterizing itself as a systematization of experience, in which we use participant observation and reports produced in field diaries. We detail the “Playing with the Mind” group and its educational practices, emphasizing significant attitudes and procedures at the beginning of construction, as well as challenges and opportunities in the mobilization of support networks for its development. We could verify that the educational practices in the PHC set possibilities for the development and consolidation of Psychosocial Care Network. The educational work guided by the Freirean perspective of Popular Education offered creative and daring horizons for integral care in mental health. There were difficulties, such as the lack of matrix support and the team's fragile theoretical and technical input regarding the collective and community educational practices in PHC. But it is possible to value approaches in mental health that recognize the dynamics of people's lives, their complexities and struggles, as well as their territorial processes, including the dimensions of politics, sociability and popular culture.