Open AccessSAÚDE MENTAL E ECONOMIA SOLIDÁRIA: A EXPERIÊNCIA DE USUÁRIOS E TRABALHADORES DE UM CAPS II
Author(s) -
Ioneide de Oliveira Campos,
Yasmim Bezerra Magalhâes,
Pamela Kikuchi,
Pedro Jabur,
Fabíola Pereira Rebouças,
Girlene Marques Pinheiro
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cadernos de terapia ocupacional da ufscar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2238-2860
pISSN - 0104-4931
DOI - 10.4322/0104-4931.ctore0523
Subject(s) - mental health , solidarity economy , solidarity , context (archaeology) , empowerment , sociology , psychosocial , mental distress , psychological intervention , autonomy , inclusion (mineral) , psychology , public relations , political science , economic growth , nursing , medicine , gender studies , geography , economics , politics , psychotherapist , archaeology , law
This work is within the context of discussions on mental health and solidarity economy. It is an account\udof the experience lived at the Tabatinga II Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS) in the Federal District, Brazil, where\udprojects designed to generate employment and income in the mental health area reaffirm their ability, as tools for social inclusion, to incorporate the principles and values of solidarity economy aiming at the empowerment and autonomy of citizens in mental distress. This work intended to support and encourage reflections on the possibilities for social inclusion arising from the generation of jobs and income through collective and cooperative actions developed and elaborated with the participation of users, family members, and workers of this service. Emphasis on\udparticipatory methodology guided the development of the experience, and the proposition of triggering actions on mental health and solidarity economy at different times, under the coordination of the performing team, afforded, concurrently, the realization of two actions/interventions: a group activity designed to service users and their relatives who gathered to learn and reflect on collective work and supportive venture; and three monthly training sessions, from August to December 2013, on cooperativism, solidarity economy, and mental health addressed to the professionals of that CAPS. At the end of these interventions, it was possible to observe that the involvement\udof people under mental distress in these projects contributes to overcome their current state of subordination and weakness. It is worth mentioning that, in general, the development of these actions favored reflections on the world of collective work and aggregated methodological knowledge on solidarity ventures