O papel dos Centros de Atenção Psicossocial e das oficinas terapêuticas no âmbito da Reforma Psiquiátrica Brasileira: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The Psychosocial Care Centers are emblematic services of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform and should offer the population various treatment devices, such as therapeutic workshops. The present study aimed to identify the conceptions of psychologists who coordinate therapeutic workshops in a CAPS regarding the role of this type of health service and of this treatment device within the scope of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform. It is a case study, in which the six psychologists (as) coordinators of therapeutic workshops in a CAPS of a city in the interior of Minas Gerais participated. The data collection was done from semi-structured interviews, and the corpus was submitted to content analysis. The results reveal that, for the participants, the CAPS should promote the autonomy and the social reintegration of the users, whereas the therapeutic workshops would have more diversified objectives, but would be directed to certain users to the detriment of others from their respective diagnoses. In addition, structural, institutional and relational problems were identified as barriers to the implementation of the Psychiatric Reform. On the other hand, advances in the field of mental health were valued, and the very existence of the CAPS was qualified as an important achievement of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform.