Práticas de terapia ocupacional na rede de saúde mental da criança e do adolescente

• Autor(a) principal: Katia Maria Penido Bueno
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Simone Costa de Almeida, Mariana Moreira Sales, Mariana Ferreira Salgado
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/76713
• topic: Terapia Ocupacional; Saúde mental; Crianças; Adolescentes; Terapia ocupacional; Saúde mental; Crianças; Adolescentes

Introduction: The network of mental healthcare for children and adolescents has expanded in recent years, becoming a significant space for occupational therapists’ actions. Objective: To characterize the practices of occupational therapists in the children’s mental healthcare network in Belo Horizonte, identifying actions and approaches. Method: Qualitative, exploratory-descriptive study carried out with occupational therapists in the care network. The data collection took place trough semi-structured interviews and resource for their prossessing was thematic content analysis. Results: Occupational therapists are present in the three devices of assistance network: nine in Complementary Teams; five in the CAPSi; four in the Art of Health Program. In the Complementary Teams, we identified three perspectives: the psychotherapeutic approach, the developmental/enabler approach and the perspective one, based on the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation. In CAPSi, the similarity of the team members’ actions stands out, without specifying practices based on the professional nuclei, with affects, with tensions, the professional identity. In the Art of Health Program, occupational therapists, coordinators of this service, exercise the management function. Conclusion: The occupational therapists participate and contribute to the consolidation of proposals and the municipality’s assistance network. There are no homogeneous practices. Such actions depend on the characteristics and scope of the service and the specificities of the professional’s insertion. On the other hand, we identified the convergence of practices and approaches, making it possible to outline the professional’s actions in the field.