Do hospício ao Centro de Atenção Psicossocial de Alagoinhas/ Bahia: um estudo das representações sociais de familiares

Abstract

This research makes an analysis of representations of the reorientation of the assistencial model in a Psychosocial Attention Center (CAPS), from the perspective of family members. The problem is marked as follows: How relatives of users of a Psychosocial Attention Center, graduates of psychiatric hospitalization, represent the reorientation of care model of mental health treatment? The work has as reference the Theory of Social Representations as a conceptual framework that allows to understand the tools that operacionalize the communication from knowledge and beliefs of the social imaginary, enabling an analysis on the process of construction of the meanings of the asylum and psychosocial models presented by the families. Thus, the present study aims to understand the social representations of the relatives of patients of psychiatric hospitalizations, graduates who attend the CAPS, on the process of reorientation of mental health assistence model of the municipality of Alagoinhas, Bahia. This is a qualitative study, descriptive-exploratory character, from a combination of methodological strategies, using documentary research by consulting the files of user records of that CAPS III, with a history of Psychiatric hospitalizations in the old Annex from same municipality, as well as unstructured interview with seven family members accompanying such users since the days of hospitalization, in order to understand the meanings they attach to the process of reorientation of care model. The results indicate that participants recognize the psychosocial model as a facilitator of access for families of patients, in addition to be a promoter of citizenship and to guarantee the right for full care and humanized, opposed to the asilarmanicomial model.