Health Managers' Social Representations on Competences, Work, and Mental Health

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Leonardo Alexandrino de
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Bianco, Mônica de Fatima, Moraes, Thiago Drumond, Alves, Roberta Belizário
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/15745
• topic: Professional competence; Mental health; Occupational health; Health education; Health management; Competencia profesional; Salud mental; Salud Laboral; Educación en salud; Gestión en salud; Competência profissional; Saúde mental; Saúde do trabalhador; Educação em saúde; Gestão em saúde

This research aims to analyze the social representations of workers in management positions regarding the competencies to address Work-Related Mental Health (WRMH), and how these representations can contribute to or hinder the development of these professional competencies among primary healthcare workers in this field. This is a qualitative, analytic-descriptive research. Nine semi-structured interviews were carried out, with occupants of management, coordination, or technical responsibility positions. The interviews were analyzed using thematic content analysis. The results show to different representations about competencies and SMRT among the interviewees, the use of active methodologies for the development of competencies, and limitations to the development and mobilization of competencies in WRMH due to the representations of the managers and the absence of work process transformations. The absence of the WRMH theme in the ongoing devices and work processes potentiates the difficulties in this area. These results indicate the need for actions that favor the understanding of health processes broadly, the perception of WRMH as a collective responsibility, the delinking of the notion of competencies exclusively to individual attributes and the development of protocols and instruments for investigating the causal link between mental health and work.