O Centro de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS) e a reinvenção do lugar de cuidado na saúde mental: contribuições e perspectivas para o Serviço Social

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Camila Ávila de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/17767
• topic: Serviço Social e saúde mental; CAPS; Centro de Atenção Psicossocial; Estudo de caso; Reforma Psiquiátrica; Social Service and mental health; Case study; Psychiatrical Reform; Social Service; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This master s essay has as object the intervention of the social assistant in the mental health area, more specifically in the Centro de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS), with the objective of investigating the professional routine of social assistants in this gear, in the context of health and critical renovation of Brazilian social security movements. As a result of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform Movement, CAPS is configured as a new occupational space for social assistants and other professionals who compose the mental health team, what demands studies and researches able to problematize the technical work that is there developed, the team-work challenges and the specificities of the social service contribution, in the perspective of its professional ethical-political project. We used as our methodology the qualitative research with the case study strategy to analyze the professional routine of a social assistant who works at a CAPS in the city of Campinas. It was observed that the social assistant preserves her professional identity in the transit between field and center , but is constantly tensioned by tendencies of professional knowledge homogenization for mental health application. It was concluded that the social service can contribute to the advance of a Psychiatric Reform, specially with interventions in the scope which ensures rights to users, composing, with other professionals, the fight for SUS defense and the common mental health policy