Pesquisa de avaliação em serviços de saúde mental: uma proposta ético-estético-política

Abstract

The mental health attention in Brazil, historically marked by asylum practices, is undergoing intense changes since the 80 years, with the proposal of replacing the hospitalar model by a network of alternative services. However, to facilitate the deployment of a network really effective, we need to invest in the evaluation of what is already being done to support decision-making on future initiatives. On these assumptions, we present an evaluative study based on the sociopoetic approach that, by using the method of groupresearcher, considers the self-management character and the subjective dimension of the involved actors. To display the potential of this approach in evaluative research, we describe the steps of the group-researcher method and exemplify with a research developed in a Psychosocial Center of Fortaleza city.