Enfermagem

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Promotion of Mental Health – Technologies for Care: emotional involvement, rteception, co-responsibility and autonomy

Maria Salete Bessa Jorge 1
Diego Muniz Pinto 2
Paulo Henrique Dias Quinderé 2
Antonio Germane Alves Pinto 3
Fernando Sérgio Pereira de Sousa 2
Cinthia Mendonça Cavalcante 2

1
Programa de PósGraduação em Saúde
Coletiva, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade
Estadual do Ceará. Av.
Paranjana, 1700, Itaperi.
60740-000 Fortaleza CE. [e-mail] 2
Departamento de
Enfermagem, Universidade
Estadual do Ceará.
3
Universidade Regional do
Cariri.

Abstract Healthcare relations serve as efficient devices for the promotion of mental health and the development of comprehensive practices. This study seeks to analyze the measures that make mental healthcare possible in the daily operations of a Psychosocial Healthcare Center (CAPS). It is qualitative research adopting a critical and reflexive approach conducted in CAPS in the municipality of Sobral in the State of Ceará. Complying with regulations, the study was submitted for analysis by the Committee for Ethics in Research adhering to norms for research involving human beings. For data gathering, conducted between May and July 2008, semi-structured and systematic observation interview techniques were used. The research subjects involved 20 people, distributed into three groups: group I (mental health workers-8); group II (users-7) and group
III (relatives of users-5). The material was organized and analyzed using principles of critical hermeneutics. According to the results, in the daily operations of CAPS, the relations of care and its devices (reception, emotional involvement, coresponsibility and autonomy) make the transversal adaptation of psychosocial practices possible. The dialogues were derived from meetings of mental health workers, users and relatives in their quest for healthcare solutions.
Key words Mental health, Promotion of health,